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Bob Dylan’s conservative anthems
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Bob Dylan’s conservative anthems

Bob Dylan’s classic album “Bringing It All Back Home,” celebrating its 56th birthday on March 22, should become an anthem for a generation of conservatives who find themselves preserving things so radically counter-cultural they seem altogether new.  Millennials will know Dylan for “Make you Feel My Love,” a song beautifully covered by Adele. Country music...

The music of the ’60s: Cohen and Dylan drive
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The music of the ’60s: Cohen and Dylan drive

There are a few conversations that music junkies would kill to overhear, and here’s one of them: Dylan and Cohen on a California road trip, reminiscing about the golden days of ’60s rock ’n’ roll. Several weeks before his death in 2016, Leonard Cohen replayed his memory of the conversation for the New Yorker. In...

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature is right and noble
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Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize in Literature is right and noble

  Bob Dylan just won a Nobel Prize in literature. It’s exactly the kind of lifetime achievement award such an endlessly inventive and prolific artist as Dylan deserves. Of course, everyone is mad about it. In The New York Times, Anna North laments that the selection committee passed over “writers who have made significant innovations...