A new, intimate album will include 13 previously unheard songs, written, performed and recorded by Woody himself in a “home studio” that eerily foreshadows TikTok. Among the songs is a rewrite of “This Land Is Your Land.”
We live in an era in which, from the White House on down, meanness has become normalized, become normalized. Music can provide an antidote, reminding us of who we can be, as anyone listening to Tim Sheard’s Solidarity Songs will discover.
The film, A Complete Unknown, accurately portrays Dylan's two sides—a brilliant creative genius as a songwriter/poet and a narcissist who used and discarded people on behalf of his ambition. It tells a good story, but certainly not all the stories.
The spirit that bound us together so powerfully so many decades ago is still in our in our culture, in our hearts and in our DNA. In the era of the animosities of our time, it’s something that’s so restorative, so confirmational. No, we're not gone.
Today, this classic folk song is usually sung as a popular pro-America anthem by Americans of every background. But it was written to have a radical edge that hollered for the country to make its bounty available to rich and poor alike.
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Written and recorded in 1962 for Bob Dylan's second studio album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, the song famously prophecies dark days. See also the Dylan bio-pic A Complete Unknown.
Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown, by James Mangold. Co-starring Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro. Only in theaters Christmas Day. #ACompleteUnknown
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Barbara Dane (May 12, 1927 – October 20, 2024) was a powerhouse blues/jazz/folk singer whose unbending principles earned her a 5-inch thick FBI file. A 2023 documentary directed by Maureen Gosling, featuring Bonnie Raitt, Jane Fonda, The Chambers Brothers, Louis Armstong.
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