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Other than a couple of home-made YouTube and Soundcloud versions, there seem to be no recorded cover versions of Dylan's heavy-han...

Well, Bob Dylan's song, "Wagon Wheel" has hit #1 of the country charts, via Hootie (a.k.a. Darius Rucker ). It's been ...

For Record Store Day 2013, Columbia put out a Bob Dylan single with an unreleased demo of "Wigwam" on the A side and a previou...

"Renaldo and Clara, to me, wasn't long enough." Bob Dylan Bob Dylan is an artist of such power and presence that ...

When I did a post that invoked Bob Dylan, as a brief aside, in my post about music and politics (see HERE )*,  I received an avalanche o...

Metacritic's aggregation of reviews of Bob Dylan's more recent albums: Love & Theft = 93% Modern Times = 89% Together T...

WARNING: This is seventies humour via National Lampoon. While I'm not sure there's a coherent enough statement to be properly of...

Listening to the new box set, from Billy Bragg & Wilco, Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions got me thinking about what are the ...

Gittin' Started Back in 2001, Ketch Secor, of string-band revivalists Old Crow Medicine Show , took an unreleased fragment from Bob...

Bubba Flower came to fame as part of sixties-psych-pop band, The Avant-Garde . While his partner in The Avant-Garde, Chuck Woolery , we...

Reno's pop-punk-rockabilly cats, Cobra Skulls go down to the basement cuz there's something down there - and it turns out it...

Jimmy Cliff is one of the greatest artists ever to come from Jamaica (where the competition for that honour is murderous) and hearing hi...

This multi- volume series features artists covering Bob Dylan songs. All of the tracks are record...

Anyone whose visited MRML before knows that I maintain a fanatic devotion to both the works of Bob Dylan and the musical archives of the B...

Artwork by rufy While there may be greater fans of The Band in the world than me, I do know an historical find when I see one. While this b...

As someone who once compiled a bootleg collection of Billy Bragg doing Bob Dylan covers (see HERE ) I was excited to see this collection Bri...

Until I came across an actual copy of the above-pictured L.P. last week, I had no idea that seventies sideman-to-the-stars, Rob Stoner had ...

The Secret Policeman's (Other) Ball concert, featuring the old and the then-new guard of British rock (and comedy), was one of a series...

Chief amongst the virtues of Jack White was his reverence for so much of the best that had gone before him. And chief amongst his revered el...

Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sure inspired some unforgettable protest anthems. From The English Beat's " Stand D...