Simon was a high school baseball star. He wrote the song “He Was My Brother” about the death of Andrew Goodman, a college classmate and civil rights worker who was murdered in Mississippi in 1964.

In 2008, illustrator Paul Rogers turned Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young” into a picture book. It’s a vivid portrait of Dylan’s anthem. But it also highlights the intended audience for his song: children.

Seeger was shaped by the 1930s, Baez by the 1960s, and both, like Dylan, had a moment of decision that defined their ...

"Homeward Bound," "California Dreamin'" and the Abbey Road medley are nearly 60 years old, but their magic holds up.

Guitar great Jeff Beck’s “Blow By Blow” and Tommy Bolin’s “Teaser” are favorites of several of our respondents. Other ...

In the '60s, booking music acts in the South was a dicey affair due to horrific Jim Crow-era laws discriminating against ...

As many critics and moviegoers gush over the new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, Greg Linksman shrugs. He has already ...

Lovers of music on “SNL” have other chances to celebrate. NBC has scheduled “SNL50: The Homecoming Concert” for Friday night.

Before their 1999 co-headlining tour, Bob Dylan and Paul Simon met at Simon’s New York apartment to brainstorm duet ideas. They played folk songs on acoustic guitars, enjoying the raw, simple sound.

Paul McCartney, for example ... Interestingly, when elaborating on his list, Simon included John Lennon and Bob Dylan within his “second tier” of greats, nodding to perhaps a more optimistic tendency ...

Frank Sinatra was the odds-on favorite to be the big winner at the inaugural Grammy Awards in 1959, but — perhaps as an early indicator that things wouldn’t always go to plan at the Grammys ...

Today in 1961, Bob Dylan met Woody Guthrie at Greystone Park Psychiatric ... Dixon was a major influence on The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Yardbirds and Led Zeppelin. 1998 - Paul Simon's musical "The ...