Bob Dylan: Last News

Just hours after he was removed from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors, Rolling Stone co-founder Jann Wenner issued an apology for saying he chose interviews with a pantheon of white male musicians who he dubs the “philosophers of rock” because Black and female musicians were not “articulate at that level.”

NEW YORK — Jann Wenner, who founded Rolling Stone magazine and was a co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, has been removed from the hall’s board of directors after making comments that were seen as denigrating Black and female musicians.“Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the hall said Saturday, a day after Wenner’s comments were published in a New York Times interview.A representative for Wenner, 77, did not immediately respond for a comment.Wenner created a firestorm doing publicity for his new book “The Masters,” which features interviews with musicians Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, Pete Townshend and U2’s Bono — all white and male.Asked why he didn’t interview women or Black musicians, Wenner responded: “It’s not that they’re inarticulate, although, go have a deep conversation with Grace Slick or Janis Joplin. Please, be my guest.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music A day after the publication of a New York Times interview in which Rolling Stone magazine founder Jann Wenner said that Black and female musicians “didn’t articulate at the level” of the white musicians featured in his new book of interviews, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced that he has been removed from its board of directors. “Jann Wenner has been removed from the Board of Directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” a terse statement from a rep reads in full; contacted by Variety, a rep for the Hall had no further comment. Wenner is a co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which was launched in 1987, and had served as its chairman until 2020.

Controversial interview remarks by Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner have led to his removal from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation board of directors.

Rolling Stone and co-founder of the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, has said female and black artists aren’t “intellectual enough” to be interviewed for his new book, The Masters.Within the book, Wenner asks questions of seven “philosophers of rock”, notably all white men – Bono, Bob Dylan, the late Jerry Garcia, Mick Jagger, the late John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Pete Townshend.In the introduction of the book, Wenner writes that women and artists of colour were not in his zeitgeist. He faced questions about this in an interview with David Marchese of The New York Times, and argued it wasn’t a “deliberate selection”.“It was kind of intuitive over the years; it just fell together that way. The people had to meet a couple criteria, but it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them.

Blur, R.E.M., Garbage, Idlewild and more are set to reissue albums from the 1990s for next month’s National Album Day.As announced earlier this year, National Album Day will take place on October 14 and feature a special spotlight on the ’90s.Other artists set to reissue records on the day include Fatboy Slim, Bob Dylan, Wu-Tang Clan, Jeff Buckley and more.This year marks the sixth edition of the event – which originally launched in 2018 – and seeks to shine a light upon the artists and albums that defined the 1990s.

Bob Dylan is still freewheeling.The folk icon just announced 15 additional tour dates as part of his ongoing ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour’ celebrating his 2020 album of the same name.That includes a few stops in both New York and New Jersey.First, the “Like A Rolling Stone” singer will roll into Rochester, NY’s West Herr Auditorium Theatre on Oct. 24.After that, he’s set to swing into Schenectady, NY’s Proctors Theatre on Oct.

USA Today about how the book came about, McConaughey said: “This book came to me in a dream. It was like a folk-song ditty.

A post shared by Charlie Robison (@charlie.robison)His 2001 album “Step Right Up” produced his only Top 40 country song, “I Want You Bad.”Robison served as a judge on the USA Network’s “Nashville Star,” a reality TV show where contestants live together while vying for a recording contract in the country music industry.“High Life,” his final album released in 2013, included a cover version of Bob Dylan’s “When I Paint My Masterpiece.”In January 2018, Robison’s team shared an update on his health following a medical procedure on his throat.“From that surgery he has been dealing with some complications during this routine recovery,” they wrote on Instagram.“Charlie is continuing to heal and is working with is doctors daily to resolve the issues he is having and get back out on the road. WE appreciate all of the fans, venues and promoters for their patience and support during this time.

The album Jimmy Buffett completed before the “Margaritaville” singer’s death on Sept. 1 will be released on the Sun label November 3, with three songs “Bubbles Up,” “My Gummie Just Kicked In” and “Like My Dog” available to hear now.

Todd Haynes’ biopic “I’m Not There” famously featured several actors in the role of Bob Dylan, each embodying the artist in one era of his varied musical career. The idea, of course, was to acknowledge Dylan’s shapeshifting nature as well as the fact that his work can mean different things to different people — some may find one actor’s interpretation more convincing and accurate than that of another.

If you’ve ever seen a Bob Dylan or ’60s folk doc or Martin Scorsese’s “No Direction Home,” you’ll know that Joan Baez has a complicated relationship with fame and Dylan. In many ways, she seemed disappointed that Dylan left the socio-political movement they started in the 1960s with their folk protest songs, and on another level, she may still seem peeved that Dylan soaked up the spotlight, leaving her and many others from that scene off in the dust (the way their romantic relationship ended, poorly, probably didn’t help).

Richard Hawley has announced plans for a collection of his greatest hits and deep cuts.‘Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley’ is the Sheffield singer-songwriter’s first compilation featuring 36 songs from across his entire back catalogue along with a re-recording of ‘Not The Only Road’ (originally titled ‘The Only Road’ from his 2003 album ‘Lowedges’), which he recently re-recorded for The Full Monty TV series, which you can listen to below.It also includes his 2019 cover of Bob Dylan’s ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’ which was recorded for the finale of season five of Peaky Blinders.The collection will be released on October 20 as a 2CD set, a 2LP colour vinyl collection housed in a gatefold sleeve, digital download and on streaming platforms. You can pre-order/pre-save it here.Curated by Hawley and long-term collaborator Colin Elliot, the collection spans cuts from 2001 mini-album ‘Richard Hawley’, his official debut ‘Late Night Final’ (2001), ‘Lowedges’ (2003), ‘Coles Corner’ (2005), ‘Lady’s Bridge’ (2007), ‘Truelove’s Gutter’ (2009), ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’ (2012), ‘Hollow Meadows’ (2015) and his 2019 album ‘Further’. You can view the full tracklisting for ‘Now Then: The Very Best Of Richard Hawley’ on various formats below.CD 11. ‘Open Up Your Door’2. ‘Midnight Train’3. ‘Tonight The Streets Are Ours’4. ‘Coles Corner’5. ‘Ballad Of A Thin Man’6. ‘Baby, You’re My Light’7. ‘She Brings The Sunlight’8. ‘Not The Only Road’9. ‘Which Way’10. ‘My Little Treasures’11. ‘Naked In Pitsmoor’12. ‘Standing At The Sky’s Edge’13. ‘Long Black Train’14. ‘Heart Of Oak’15. ‘You Don’t Miss Your Water (Till Your River Runs Dry)’16. ‘The Ocean’CD 21. ‘Don’t Stare At The Sun’2. ‘I Still Want You’3. ‘Off My Mind’4. ‘For Your Lover Give Some

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Following the auction in 2022 of a new version of “Blowin’ in the Wind” that sold to a bidder for $1.8 million, three more re-recordings Bob Dylan has made of his classic songs with producer T Bone Burnett are also now being put up for sale via Christie’s: “A Simple Twist of Fate,” “Masters of War” and “Gotta Serve Somebody.” But this time, the purchase of the unique discs containing the songs will happen via a private sale, rather than a public auction. As with “Blowin’ in the Wind,” the three songs being offered to prospective buyers of means as one-of-a-kind Iconic discs come from a recording session Dylan did in 2021 with Burnett.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music In a rare move apparently themed for Labor Day, Bad Boy Records founder Sean “Diddy” Combs has “decided to reassign his Bad Boy publishing rights back to all Bad Boy artists and writers who helped build Bad Boy into the powerhouse it is today,” a source close to the situation confirmed to Variety on Monday. The artists in question include the Notorious B.I.G.’s estate, Faith Evans, Ma$e, the Lox, 112 and “many more” unspecified creators.

Garbage‘s frontwoman Shirley Manson has explained why bands shouldn’t worry about placing on festival line-ups over time.Manson recently shared a photo on social media of 1998’s Reading Festival lineup, in which Garbage were headlining on the same day that New Order were performing. She explained how daunting it was to see that her band was playing above some of their idols.The singer reflected on the events of the day 25 years ago in the photo’s caption, which read: “25 years ago.

Bob Dylan supposedly once gave Post Malone his unused lyrics to use in a song that never got completed according to producer Michael Cash.Speaking to Rolling Stone, Cash revealed that he had come up with the idea for a project during the COVID-19 pandemic that would have seen rappers form songs based on recently uncovered and unused lyrics from Bob Dylan.Cash said the project would have been his own spin of the 2014 Bob Dylan-tribute record ‘Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes’, in which artists like Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford, and Rhiannon Giddens recorded songs featuring unused Dylan lyrics.Cash’s version of the project, which would have been called ‘The Attic MP3s’, ultimately never came to fruition, but would ideally have featured performances from Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole and Post Malone.While the project never got released, Cash told Rolling Stone that some progress had been made as Dylan’s team green-lit Malone’s involvement in the record and that they had sent him lyrics to work with.Cash claims he corresponded with Jeff Rosen, Dylan’s longtime representative, and that after weeks of not hearing back, he got a text at “two o’clock in the morning”.

Workin’ On a World, released earlier this year. “The world I took for granted, was crashing to the ground,” she sings in the defiantly upbeat title track.

There’s a lost Post Malone and Bob Dylan collaboration!

Bob Dylan Center has launched a new yearly songwriter fellowship in partnership with Universal Music Publishing Group.Announced Wednesday (August 23), the fellowship will see two recipients awarded annually with a $40,000 (£31,784) project stipend, along with public engagement and presentation opportunities, time in the Bob Dylan Archive, mentorship, studio time at Leon Russell’s historic Church Studio in Tulsa, a roundtrip airfare and more.The review panel includes American rapper Nas along with musicians and songwriters including Juliette Armanet, Patty Griffin, John Mellencamp and Carla Morrison, along with a BDC and UMPG executives.A post shared by Bob Dylan Center (@bobdylancenter)“The Bob Dylan Center Songwriter Fellowship is core to our mission of educating, motivating and inspiring visitors to engage their own capacity as creators, and we cannot wait to hear the entries from undiscovered talent around the world,” said Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins in a statement.“We are grateful to continue our partnership with UMPG—the world’s leading music publisher is already such a great supporter of the BDC—and we know that this panel of extraordinary songwriters will select deserving Fellows for our inaugural year.”Applications are now open for the 2024 fellowship until October 18, 2023.

Bob Dylan is still on the road.Dylan, 82, just announced 17 new concert dates as part of his ongoing ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour’ in support of his 2020 album with the same name.He’ll cap the quick run of gigs with shows at Rochester, NY’s Rochester Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 24 and Schenectady, NY’s Proctors Theatre on Monday, Oct.