Bob Dylan's controversial performance at the Newport Folk Festival turned him into a villain overnight, but his shocking switch to electric guitar was the catalyst for breaking genre boundaries in ...

What could possibly justify another Bob Dylan biography? The American troubadour has been endlessly chronicled in books and film. Now Princeton professor and Dylan fanboy Sean Wilentz wants his say.

In a 1996 interview conducted by Morrissey over tea and cigarettes, Joni Mitchell mentioned that Bob Dylan had told her he could no longer write songs. Asked about a particular composition, he replied ...

“If I had to pick one person responsible for the establishment of the Newport Folk Festival in 1959,” said the festival founder George Weing, “it would be Odetta.” After hearing her album Odetta Sings ...