Live
Palladium, London, 19/10/2022
Nick Dent-Robinson finds Bob Dylan on fine form at an intimate show at the London Palladium on the opening night of his ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ tour.
O2, London, 25/4/2009
Ben Howarth watches Bob Dylan at his latest London date play a beautiful and against-the-odds sensitive set against the vast backdrop and surroundings of the O2 Arena
Wembley Arena, London, 15/4/2007
At the Wembley Arena in London, Ben Howarth watches Bob Dylan play with excellent effect a by now typically random and unpeedictable set
Bournemouth International Centre, Bournemouth, 28/
At his second Bob Dylan show in the spcae of a year, Benjamin Howarth watches the veteran rock blast through a crowd-pleasing, but fiery set at the Bournemouth International Centre
Brixton Carling Academy, London, 21/11/2005
At a gig at the Brixton Academy in London, Ben Howarth watches Bob Dylan play a passionate set which, far from sticking to nostalgia, reveals several real surprises
Wembley Arena, London, 15/11/2003
Stopping off to play a date at London Wembley Arena on his Never Ending Tour, Ben Howarth watches Bob Dylan prove himself to be, regardless of what he already achieved, far from anostalgia act. but "an artist that is still challenging himself" now
Albums
Slow Train Coming (2003)
"Genuinely challenging", but sometimes ignored and often misunderstood, Ben Howarth argues the case for Bob Dylan's 1979 Christian album 'Slow Train Coming' as one of the great Dylan albums
Features
Bob Dylan 1962 to 1970 : Every Album, Every Song (2024)
For her 'Raging Pages' column, Lisa Torem gives ‘Bob Dylan 1962 to 1970 : Every Album, Every Song’, Opher Goodwin’s new book on Dylan’s studio work high marks.
61 Highways Revisited: The Albums Of Bob Dylan (2018)
In her 'Raging Pages' book column Lisa Torem finds that Chicago author Bob Shiel with is new book, '61 Highways Revisited — The Albums of Bob Dylan’, does everything Dylan by way of smart, comprehensive reviews and a double-CD of related renditions in which he strums and sings.
Chronicles : Volume One (2005)
Ever enigmatic, the first volume of Bob Dylan's autobiography provokes as many questions as it provides answers. Ben Howarth finds 'Chronicles : Volume One' nevertheless to be an electrifying read
Reviews
Fallen Angels (2016)
Fabulous thirty-seventh album from Bob Dylan, which is his second album in succession to cover songs from the 1940s and 1950s originally recorded by Frank Sinatra
Together Through Life (2009)
Comfortable-sounding, but lyrically unimaginative and ultimately forgettable latest album from Bob Dylan
Modern Times (2006)
Fantastic, deservedly-acclaimed latest album from Bob Dylan, which, following 1997's 'Time Out of Mind' and 2001's 'Love and Theft', brings to a conclusion the perfect trilogy
No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (A Martin Scorsese Picture) (2005)
Magical double compilation, released to coincide with Martin Scorsese's recent documentary of the same name, which compiles togther 28 officially previously unreleased Bob Dylan tracks from the era 1961 to 1966
Live 1964 : Concert At Philharmonic Hall (2004)
Historically important recording of 1964 concert, which finds the young Bob Dylan on the point of change and sees him both looking back to his folk-purist past as well as well as to the future
Related
Interviews
Bob Shiel
Interview
Bob Shiel talks to Lisa Torem in a wide-ranging discussion of his entertaining and well-researched book documenting 61 Bob Dylan albums.
David Rothman
Interview
American journalist David Rothman's political debut novel, 'The Solomon Scandals', has been thirty years in the writing. He chats to Lisa Torem about the influence of Bob Dylan on it
Profiles
Bruce Pollock
Bob Dylan FAQ
In a new addition to Backbeat Book’s 'FAQ' series Bruce Pollock makes sense of the life and times of Nobel Prize winner and true legend Bob Dylan.
Joel Gilbert
Interview
Filmmaker Joel Gilbert has made three documentary films about Bob Dylan, and has also written a book about and has his own tribute band dedicated to the iconic singer-songwriter. Lisa Torem speaks to him about his latest film, 'Dylan Revealed'
DVD-Maria Muldaur
Live In Concert
Lisa Torem watches New York-based singer Maria Muldaur play an enthusiastic set of largely Bob Dylan covers plus a few of her own hits in her new live concert DVD
Live
Electric 50 Bob Dylan at the Free Trade Hall Judas Redux
Academy 3, Manchester, 17/5/2016
Nicky Crewe enjoys a fantastic charity fundraising concert at Manchester Academy which celebrates the 50th anniversary of Bob Dylan’s infamous Judas Free Trade Hall concert in which he first played an electric set in the UK in 1966
Ottawa Bluesfest
Ottawa, 4/7/2007/10/7/2007
In the first week of Ottawa's Annual Bluesfest, Andrew Carver sees performances from acts as diverse as Van Morrison, Bob Dylan, Radio Birdman, Femi Kuti, Toumani Diabete and the White Stripes...
Albums
Bob Dylan and The Band
The Basement Tapes
In our 'Re : View' section, in which our writers look back at albums on the past, new Pennyblackmusic writer Jeff Thiessen examines Bob Dylan and The Band's sprawling 1975 album, 'The Basement Tapes', and finds, underneath all its seeming looseness, a surprising sense of structure and deliberateness
Features
Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll
October 2012
Ben Howarth in 'Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll' looks at critical reaction towards Bob Dylan in recent years
Soundtrack of Our Lives
Baptism, Dylan and A Musical Education
In 'Soundtrack of Our Lives' series, in which our writers write about the personal impact of music on their lives, r. fisher writes of his Baptist upbringing and how a lifelong passion for music was sparked after hearing Bob Dylan's 'Blowin' in the Wind' at summer camp