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Trouble No More

“Trouble No More: A Musical Film” combines previously unreleased performance footage from Bob Dylan’s 1980 tour with new material written by Luc Sante and performed by Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon.

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The Other Side of the Mirror: Director Interview

The Other Side of the Mirror

The Other Side of the Mirror: Director Interview

The Other Side of the Mirror

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How Bob Dylan Rebelled Against the Rebels

If I had to distill Bob Dylan’s “message” to a single sentence, it would be this: Think for yourself. His songs could be characterized as an instructional manual in critical thinking, except he’d cringe at the idea that he is anybody’s teacher, let alone their savior, as he was once called. His songs question authority, confront institutional thinking with skepticism, mock the all-knowing. They punch up, in the voice of a poet who sounds like a dirt farmer.

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The Rosetta Stone of the Folk Revival

By the time Bob Dylan first arrived at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, folk songs had been peppering the pop charts for years. The Kingston Trio’s “Tom Dooley,” a 19th Century murder-ballad-turned-into-a-sing-along, went No. 1 in 1958. Peter, Paul & Mary had a Top 10 single with Pete Seeger’s “If I had a Hammer” in ’62. And Trini Lopez took a souped-up version of Seeger’s “If I Had a Hammer” to No. 3 in 1963.

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The Gospel According to Bob Dylan

In 1978, Bob Dylan was a mess. His divorce from Sara Lowndes had been finalized, followed by a bitter custody battle. His four-hour film “Renaldo & Clara,” shot during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour, had opened (and quickly closed) to savage reviews, and the “Street Legal” album didn’t fare much better. The big band — heavy on horns and background singers — that he had taken on the road for an outing often dubbed “the alimony tour” was being dismissed as a tacky sell-out. 

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Folk Hero Goes Rogue

Bob Dylan transforms at Newport in 1965
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How Bob Dylan Rebelled Against the Rebels

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The Rosetta Stone of the Folk Revival

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Dylan and His Reinvention at Newport, Song by Song

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The Songs That Inspired and Defined the '60s Folk Movement

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