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Q. Is it my imagination or are we seeing more positive stories and pictures about old people? I am 74, female and certainly don't feel old.

It's a safe bet that Bob Dylan will never go the "play-a-record-in-its-entirety" route on his never-ending tour.

"If it's never new and it doesn't get old," the singer tells his audience, "it's a folk song." Llewyn Davis has just finished performing the traditional blues number "Hang Me, Oh Hang Me" for a sparse crowd at the Gaslight CafA© in New York City's Greenwich Village in early 1961.

In the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez, this film examines her history as a recording artist and performer as well as her unwavering journey as the conscience of a generation.

Here's an in-depth look at the life of influential singer-songwriter and 10-time Grammy Award winner Bob Dylan .

As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

A few days ago I got an e-mail from Robbie Fulks letting me know about the next installment of his ever-changing, always inventive and entertaining weekly Hideout residency on Mondays , which is now into its fourth year.

Singer Bob Dylan was made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, joining the ranks of leading writers, composers and artists in the prestigious 115-year-old group.

Before his band's summer megatour with Bob Dylan and Wilco, the My Morning Jacket frontman is hitting the road to promote his first solo album, With Cold Specks.

Long time friends and collaborators, Anais Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer will be performing "Child Ballads" - an album they recorded together.

Bob Dylan is widely regarded as one of the greatest songwriters of the past century.

Whether you began on an electric or an acoustic guitar, there's no doubt the latter will eventually find its way into your hands at some point.

Collins, who has sang with Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, and Randy Newman, plays Belfast's Waterfront Hall on June 17th and Dublin's Pavilion Theatre on June 18th.

As Leonard Cohen says in "Anthem," Ring the bells that still can ring/Forget your perfect offering/There is a crack, a crack in everything/That's how the light gets in .

'The professionalisation of politics has created the gaping hole into which Nigel Farage has been only too happy to jump.' Photograph: Olivia Harris/Reuters What will the average Westminster politician think when he or she sees this fascinating, potentially watershed poll, and begins to digest what might happen if it represents not a blip, but the ... (more)

Today we celebrate the 67th birthday of Donovan Leitch. Poet, mystic, balladeer, and once considered the Sacred Isles' answer to Bob Dylan, he's still crafting some of the most beautiful songs in the world! This Scottish singer-songwriter called simply by his first name, Donovan came to fame in early 1965 with his hits "Catch the Wind," "Colours," ... (more)

Bob Dylan songs from the 1960s are prominently featured in trailers for the Coen brothers' film, "Inside Llewyn Davis" and the Stephen King television series, "Under The Dome." "Inside Llewyn Davis," loosely based on Dave Van Ronk's posthumously published memoir "The Mayor of MacDougal Street," includes a reportedly unreleased 1963 version of ... (more)

Bob Dylan "knew what he was doing" from the very start of his career, according to the man who played a key role in the singer's musical education.

MADRID: Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke on Thursday won one of Spain's highest honours, the Prince of Asturias prize for arts, with the panel hailing him as one of leading figures in European contemporary cinema.

Now it looks like the Petty/Dylan package is headed back to SPAC again this year but with a different Dylan.