It’s telling that two of the older pieces in the setlist were a pair of then-new songs tacked onto the singer's 1971 release Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Vol. II to grease sales.

Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, 1971 With its simple, evocative tale of a prisoner yearning for freedom, this rock hymn was part of a conscious effort by Dylan to move away from the sprawling ...

Don’t look back, keep going. “When I Paint My Masterpiece” first appeared on 1971’s Greatest Hits Vol. II, so it sat in some pretty good company.

Now that James Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown, is out, it’s appropriate to look back at the singer’s best albums. Of course, most know Dylan for his early folk work. As the ...

In 1961, 19-year-old Robert Allen Zimmerman dropped out of college in his native Minnesota, made a pilgrimage to New York City to meet his folk music idol Woody Guthrie, and decided to become, in ...