Bob Dylan s celebrates his 81st birthday on Tuesday. When he snagged the Nobel Prize for Literature a few years ago, I pulled out all the stops by posting a big set of my favorite covers of his songs. I don t have any stops left to pull, but I m adding a few covers this morning in honor of his birthday this week. In my estimation Dylan is first and foremost a
A talk by Mike Short at the AWL London Forum on 8 December, 2005 The implication of the initial question is that Bob Dylan was a committed, full-time member of the early 60s movement that we will call ‘folk protest’; and then later on he sold out, abandoning his left-wing principles in the name of making different types of music – more personal songs, a rock and roll style.