By Andrew Perry, eMusic ContributorTo celebrate the new Iggy & The Stooges album Ready To Die, we invited guitarist James Williamson to rifle through eMusic's catalog and talk us through some of his favorite albums. You can read about… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorBob Dylan has announced his most ambitious summer tour in quite some time. Set to start on June 26th in West Palm Beach, FL, and wind down on August 4th in Mountain View, CA, the… more »
By eMusic Members, eMusic ContributorWe asked, you answered. And the results were as varied and eclectic as we've come to expect from eMusic members. Here are the results of our Member Poll for the Best Albums of 2012, along… more »
By Andrew Parks, eMusic ContributorWith eMusic's Bob Dylan flash sale winding down later today, now seems like a good time to point out that the iconic singer hasn't stopped working on the second and third installments of his Chronicles… more »
By eMusic Editorial Staff, eMusic ContributorThat Bob Dylan continues to inspire, overwhelm, baffle and thrill 35 records into his career is just one of the things that sets him apart from nearly all of his classic rock peers. Say what you will about Dylan: he's never been one to play to expectations. In honor of that long-running iconoclasm, we've put the entire Bob Dylan catalog on sale for just $0.49 per track through September 17. Think you already know all there is to know about Bob? Dive into our list of The 10 Best Underrated Bob Dylan Songs, compiled by Douglas Wolk, and prepare to have your preconceptions confounded yet again. more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorHalf a century into his career, Bob Dylan's amassed a gigantic catalogue of original material. He's released a string of greatest-hits albums, and his touring repertoire is well over 100 songs. But he's also got… more »
By Andy Beta, eMusic ContributorEight minutes to detail love's dissolution on "Ballad in Plain D"; 11 minutes to itemize a parade of inconsolable icons on "Desolation Row"; 11 on a Song of Solomon ode to his wife on "Sad… more »
By Peter Blackstock, eMusic ContributorWoody Guthrie isn't just important for his own music, but for the voices he inspired. In this list, Woody's disciples pay him back by covering some of his best-loved songs. more »
By Laura Leebove, Deputy EditorDon't care about college basketball? The Village Voice's Sound of the City blog has a different March Madness tournament for you to follow: a contest to find the quintessential New York City musician. Like the… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor"Singer/songwriter" has gradually come to be applied to nearly everyone who both writes and performs songs, especially if they happen to play guitar and are billed under their own names rather than as members of… more »
By Dan Hyman, eMusic ContributorIs it the song or the singer? Hunker down with a Bob Dylan song -- or 50 -- and where's the debate? Brilliant songs are open books; singers can be replaceable. It's hardly shocking then,… more »
By Arye Dworken, eMusic ContributorOf all the sacrifices a Jew has to make in this very Christian country, one of them is being subjected to the month long immersion in Christmas songs. If osmosis took place through music, I'd… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorIf you're scratching your head at the idea of this legendarily iconoclastic Jewish-turned-fundamentalist-Christian-turned-who-knows-what songwriter (with one of the unloveliest singing voices around) recording a Christmas album, look at it this way: Dylan loves the dusty… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorRecorded in a single night, in front of a handful of friends, Dylan's last solo acoustic album for nearly 30 years showed off the melodic leaps forward his songwriting had taken. (The Byrds later covered… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorThe title isn't quite ironic, it's just disapproving. 65-year-old Dylan is settled comfortably into his latest persona, a slim, slick, slightly disreputable old rake who "can't go to Paradise no more/I killed a man back… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorReleased to tie in with Martin Scorsese's documentary about the early years of Dylan's career--everything up to his 1966 tour — this collection of live performances and alternate takes from the same era doesn't add… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorBack on top of his game after Blood on the Tracks became a hit, Dylan made a very different kind of record. Co-written with theatrical director Jacques Levy, Desire is a series of dramatic scenarios… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic ContributorThe 20-year-old kid who recorded Dylan's first album was promising as anything — a favorite on the coffeehouse folk circuit, with fleet fingers, an agile if rough-hewn young voice that could navigate a thousand songs… more »
By Douglas Wolk, eMusic Contributor"Like a Rolling Stone" was Dylan's commercial breakthrough, a #2 hit that blazed twice as long as anything else on the radio. The rest of his sixth album is wall-to-wall classics, too, with jet-propelled Bob… more »
By Holly George-Warren, eMusic ContributorThe accordion is usually associated with lilting polkas and rousing Western balladry, but on Dylan's dark landscape, the squeezebox played by Los Lobos' David Hildago keeps things cloudy. Sounding like he just smoked 10 cartons… more »
By Holly George-Warren, eMusic ContributorThe energy onstage nearly matched the enthusiasm of the crowd, who'd been waiting seven years for the live return of Dylan and the Band. Even from the nosebleed seats of America's arenas (including a teenaged… more »
By Holly George-Warren, eMusic ContributorListening to Bob Dylan's evolution as a young songwriter is a moving experience. Unguarded moments with spoken asides and spare accompaniment make you feel like you're one of those lucky few seated in Gerde's Folk… more »
By John Morthland, eMusic ContributorThey're the beneficiaries of a rather unlikely tribute album and a primary inspiration and/or influence for numerous contemporary string bands, from the high-profile Carolina Chocolate Drops to Geoff Muldaur's one-off collaborators the Texas Sheiks. No… more »
By Melissa Maerz, eMusic ContributorRemember the days when record labels still believed that middle-aged dudes could form successful rock bands? These guys do. Bolstered by his big comeback with 1988's Cloud Nine, George Harrison invited Tom Petty, Roy Orbison,… more »
