The Moondoggies –“You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”

This song’s easily singable country chorus inspired many covers, from The Byrds in 1968 to Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova in 2007 for the Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There. It’s fairly impossible to even find the original song on YouTube. This one by Seattle folk rockers The Moondoggies has [...]

Barbara Covers Kid Cudi’s “Pursuit of Happiness”

While this song has been pursued by more popular artists like Lissie, whose cover earned praise from Kid Cudi himself on his official website, let’s not forget the lesser known artists’ take on the alt hip hop hit. Electro pop California trio Barbara laces the electronic vibes on the [...]

Music and literature are just two different ways of telling stories. So it makes sense that many musicians have translated books into song, from Bob Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” which retells Abraham’s moral dilemma over killing his son in Genesis, to Death Cab for Cutie’s “Meet Me on the Equinox,” which recounts Bella’s lip-biting dilemma [...]

Bob Dylan turned 70 yesterday. As this timeline shows, the man has been pretty busy over the last seven decades.
1941-1951: Robert Allen Zimmerman is born at St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota on May 24, 1941. He is raised there until age six when his father Abram is stricken with polio and the family moves [...]

The rolling stone will finally hit the far east, as Bob Dylan has been approved to play his first ever concert in China. The country’s Ministry of Culture has granted Dylan permission to play in Beijing this year, sometime between March 30 and April 12. Dylan also applied to play in Shanghai, although that application [...]

Add one more to the list of reasons why I feel bad for people living in China. Don’t get me wrong; this is not me saying that China sucks or that the people suck. Mostly just their government sucks (cut to this article being banned on Chinese computers.) The latest reason: Folk icon Bob Dylan [...]

Not only can music bring people from different backgrounds together, but those from different generations as well…the best way to come together may be over music.

Growing up with a father that has good taste, I was exposed to many incredible musical samplings throughout my childhood. From Sam Cooke to Cat Stevens, I can thank my dad for whetting my musical pallet. Until recently, one of these childhood memories had been almost forgotten. Last week digging deep into my musical collection for some much needed inspiration, I played “Like a Rolling Stone,” in an attempt to fuel some creative writing juices…and that was just the beginning. This classic tune could not help but follow by the Jester’s entire collection of folksy, bluesy, jazzy, rock and roll. Until that moment, I had forgotten how much I love Bob Dylan.