J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

If, like me, you’ve spent the better part of your adult life following the career of Bob Dylan, you’ve already imagined the story. Minnesota kid drops out of college, hitchhikes all the way to New ...

Asking Bob Dylan how he makes an album is a bit like asking anyone how they know how to walk – they didn't one day, then they learned and now they simply do. "We just take a song; I play it and ...

Some artists thrived in the '80s — Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, etc. Others, arguably, did not. Even the most devoted of Bob Dylan fans don't typically point to the '80s as his best decade of ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

When you’re going to jump into the catalog of Bob Dylan, it’s hard to know where to start. He has so many famous songs, great songs, necessary songs, and songs that impart wisdom and magic. Sometimes ...

In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in his ...

Bob Dylan is known for his long, meandering, narratively rich songs spanning decades, eras, and several political movements. While many of his compositions are from fabricated perspectives or seen ...

Forget the number of roads a man must walk down before you call him a man, and don’t even get me started on how many times must the cannonballs fly before they’re forever banned. You know what’s ...

Bob Dylan fans are beginning to speculate that the singer-songwriter might have lost track of one of his great compositions – as he's penned hundreds during his illustrious career. Dylan’s extensive ...

Bob Dylan is getting some company in 2025 for the annual summer tribute concert series of his music in Door County. The music of renowned singers/songwriters Bob Dylan and John Prine is being ...

Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in 'A Complete Unknown' (photo: Searchlight Pictures). Timothée Chalamet stars as Bob Dylan in the forthcoming biopic A Complete Unknown and also does his own singing in ...