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As Dylan performed a two-week run at Gerde's Folk City in 1961 in New York's Greenwich Village, he began gathering songs to include on an album. Ultimately, only two songs would be penned by Dylan. The bulk of the album consisted of traditional, blues, and country tunes. When Hammond and Dylan entered Columbia's 7th Avenue Studio in November 1961, many songs were recorded in one take. Dylan resisted requests for second attempts, telling Hammond he couldn't see himself singing the same song twice. Let's take a look at the story behind one of those songs, "Baby, Let...

By 1961, Joan Baez, the dark-haired waif who had captured the spotlight at the first Newport Folk Festival just two years earlier, was folk music's virginal superstar, leading the coffeehouse culture of a new American generation. And an unknown, unwashed, Woody Guthrie—worshiping kid from the Minnesota suburbs named Bob Dylan had just arrived in Greenwich Village. In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, Positively 4th Street, DAVID HAJDU recalls the prickly beginnings of the Baez-Dylan relationship, the strange symbiosis between her voice and his music, and the triumphant, magi...

Bob Dylan, American folksinger who moved from folk to rock music in the 1960s, infusing the lyrics of rock and roll with the intellectualism of classic literature and poetry. Dylan wrote more than 500 songs recorded by more than 2,000 artists. Learn more about his life, his artistry, and his accolades.

Revisit the recording of “Morning Dew” made by the pre-Allman Brothers Band group The 31st Of February.

In April, the Violent Femmes' self-titled debut album turned 40 years old. Who could've guessed in 1983 that this record would remain not only beloved nearly a half-century later, but relevant to every generation along the way?