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Charlie McCoy, Al Kooper and David Bromberg reveal all about the recording sessions for Dylan's Self Portrait album

A revelatory London show, reviewed (at last…)

The house where Bob Dylan and The Band recorded The Basement Tapes in 1967 is available to rent as a holiday home. The coral-colored house...

Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Kurt Vile and John Lydon are all in the new issue of Uncut, dated October 2015 and out on August...

Paul McCartney, Keith Richards and Kurt Vile are all in the new issue

He recently debuted a new song at the Newport Folk Festival

“People were like, ‘What kind of music is this? Where in the world did this come from?’” Almost 50 years ago, The Band released...

On the morning of July 29, 1966 Bob Dylan became distracted while out riding his Triumph motorbike. Writing about the incident later in Chronicles Volume 1, Dylan rather gnomically recalled, “I had been in a motorcycle accident and I’d been hurt, but I recovered.” Of course, there is more to Dylan’s accident than that. After a period of retreat and convalescence at his Woodstock home, he began recording songs with his touring band, Robbie Robertson, Garth Hudson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel and Levon Helm.

I suspect I wasn’t the only one who, last night, came out of the World Cup rabbit hole to discover that Gerry Goffin had died. As has become a slightly weird but nonetheless heartfelt tradition – a public display of mourning and taste, I suppose – I posted a favourite song onto Twitter: the Byrds’ version of “Goin’ Back”.

Swamp-pop goes Woodstock: Louisiana legend's rarely heard '72 masterpiece with The Band...