Happy Birthday, Bob!
By Tom Teicholz at 24 May, 2011, 12:03 pm
Bob Dylan That Hibbing, Minn., native who was born Robert Allen Zimmerman but has been known as Bob Dylan since he first started performing in New York’s Greenwich Village some 50 years ago — and who has lived in Los Angeles probably longer than anywhere else — turns 70 on May 24. Like most Dylan-related […]
Read More >>FREEWHEELIN’ RECOMMEND: SUZE ROTOLO MEMOIR OF DYLAN DAYS
By Tom Teicholz at 31 July, 2008, 12:07 pm
Suze Rotolo who was the girl on the cover of Bob Dylan’s second album “Freewheelin’” has written a memoir of her times. She was interviewed for the Dylan documentary “No Direction Home”and made such an impression as an intelligent forthright sensitive person who stayed true to herself, but whose impact on Dylan was undeniable, that […]
Read More >>More Dylanalia
By Tom Teicholz at 13 February, 2008, 2:59 pm
Since posting about Dylan covering other people’s songs, I stumbled into a bunch of others on MOG — www.mog.com , a music blog site. (By the way in my last post I said Wolftrap was in Maryland; turns out it’s in Virginia — which speaks volumes about what condition my condition must have been in […]
Read More >>Covers Dylan has performed
By Tom Teicholz at 11 February, 2008, 11:00 am
Although much has been made of the fact that Dylan’s work has been covered– Dylan himself has covered a great many songs, beginning with the covers he did early in his career. One of my favorites early on was Dylan’s cover on his first album of Eric von Scmidt’s “Baby let me follow you down.” […]
Read More >>DYLAN DU JOUR
By Tom Teicholz at 7 February, 2008, 10:34 pm
For today’s Dylan du jour item, in honor of the opening of the Skirball exhibit today, “Bob Dylan’s American Journey, 1956-1966” I would like to tell you about one of my favorite artifacts in the show. It’s a typed letter to Joan Baez’s mother that Dylan wrote as if from Joan Baez, and got Joan […]
Read More >>DYLAN WEEK AT TOMMYWOOD
By Tom Teicholz at 6 February, 2008, 3:08 pm
Last night I went to the opening of the Dylan exhibit at the Skirball. Let me say this –I’ve now been twice and I still haven’t had the time to look at everything I want to as deeply as I’d like. My Tommywood column on the exhibit will appear in the Jewish Journal of Los […]
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