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Eric - Paint it Blue(s) with a Cajun accent.

Eric Clapton - I Still Do

Slowhand - Eric Clapton to you - has hinted that this may be a kind of goodbye album, but no one ever believes that kind of thing. Whatever the case, a cover of Paul Brady’s I Will Be There is a highlight.

Music Reviews • 25 May 16

Music icon Bob Dylan among the headliners at the new US festival Desert Trip

Macca and Dylan confirmed for new US mega festival

Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney and The Rolling Stones have been confirmed to play The Desert Trip, a new mega music festival from the organisers of Coachella this October.

Entertainment • 04 May 16

Bob Dylan's Album expected to fetch $12,000

Rare Bob Dylan Album to fetch $12,000

One of rock's rarest records - a test pressing of Bob Dylan's Blood on The Tracks - has gone on sale in Los Angeles and is expected to fetch upwards of $12,000.

Entertainment • 02 Jul 15

Willlie Nelson and Merle Haggard in performance

Watch! Willie and Merle‘s ode to pal Johnny Cash

Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard’s latest duet album Django and Jimmie is released tomorrow, June 2. Bobby Bare joins the two veterans on the album for a homage to the Man in Black, entitled Missing Ol’ Johnny Cash.

Entertainment • 03 Jun 15

Watch: Bob Dylan performs on Letterman show

Bob Dylan performed on The Late Show with David Letterman for the first time in 22 years last night becoming the final ever guest on the long-running chat show. Watch his performance here.

Entertainment • 21 May 15

Bob Dylan: the voices of The Clancy Brothers moved Dylan profoundly and exerted a huge influence on the performer. A new book broadens out evidence for the Irish thread.

Book on Bob Dylan's Celtic influences published

In Love And Theft? - Bob Dylan's Celtic Odyssey Irish author Jackie Hayden explores the impact of the music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England on the work of Bob Dylan.

Entertainment • 21 Apr 15

Dylan announces 19-date European tour this summer

Bob Dylan’s European tour commences on June 20 in Mainz, Germany. He will also perform in Slovenia, Austria, Italy, Spain, France and Switzerland before finishing dates in Germany on July 16 for the Stimmen Festival in Lörrach.

Entertainment • 08 Apr 15

Watch: Bob Dylan goes film noir in new video

It's a case of cross, double cross and triple cross in the new film noir style promo for Bob Dylan's new single, The Night We Called it a Day. Watch a hard-boiled, gun-toting Bob here.

Entertainment • 04 Mar 15

Bob Dylan knocks Ed Sheeran off top of charts

Bob Dylan has knocked Ed Sheeran off the top of the Irish album chart with Shadows in The Night, his new album of songs made famous by Frank Sinatra. Check out the new top ten albums and singles here.

Entertainment • 07 Feb 15

Dylan gives away new album to seniors

73-year-old Bob Dylan is giving away his latest album, Shadows in the Night for free to 50,000 senior citizens.

Entertainment • 30 Jan 15

Listen: Bob Dylan sings Frank Sinatra

Bob Dylan has unveiled his cover of Stay With Me from his forthcoming album of Frank Sinatra songs, Shadows in The Night. Have a listen here.

Entertainment • 22 Jan 15

Watch: Bob Dylan plays gig for just one man

Footage has been posted online of Bob Dylan playing a gig to just one audience member at Philadelphia's Academy of Music last month.

Entertainment • 17 Dec 14

Bob's love for Sinatra was revealed in his autobiography, Chronicles, first published ten years ago this year.

Dylan "could hear everything" in Sinatra's voice

"I could hear everything in his voice – death, God, the universe – everything," Bob Dylan declared of Ol' Blue Eyes in his autobiography Chronicles, as he prepares to release the Sinatra album.

Entertainment • 12 Dec 14

Bob Dylan announces new studio album

Bob Dylan releases a studio album entitled Shadows in The Night on January 30.

Entertainment • 11 Dec 14

Dylan’s Basement Tapes Complete out November 4

The Basement Tapes Complete: The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, a six-disc set from Sony Legacy compiles “every salvageable recording” from Dylan’s 1967 sessions with The Band.

Entertainment • 27 Aug 14

His back pages: The young Dylan's 1967 lyrics have been recorded by a new generation

Unrecorded Dylan lyrics set to music

Marcus Mumford and Elvis Costello are among the musicians who have recorded a set of previously unheard Bob Dylan lyrics from 1967 for a new of album entitled Lost on the River: The New Basement Tapes Vol 1.

Entertainment • 16 Jul 14

New morning for those forgotten Dylan acetates

Previously unheard Bob Dylan songs found in NY

A record collector has found 149 unknown Bob Dylan acetate discs which the musician used during the making of the Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait and New Morning albums.

Entertainment • 02 Jul 14

Bob Dylan will soon be releasing his 36th studio album

Bob Dylan to release new album this year

Bob Dylan will release a brand new album later this year. It will be the 72-year-old's 36th studio release and the first since 2012's Tempest.

Entertainment • 14 May 14

Bob Dylan: new book on the anoraks. Anyone for cherry pie?

New book looks at the Dylan fanatics

The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob is a new book by author David Kinney which looks at the lifelong fanatics "who’d rather live Bob Dylan’s lives than their own."

Entertainment • 06 May 14

Dylan's original Rolling Stone lyrics for auction

Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics to Like a Rolling Stone are going up for auction.

Entertainment • 01 May 14

Bob Dylan's 1965 guitar sold for nearly $1 million

Bob Dylan's sunburst Fender Statocaster has become the most expensive guitar to ever be auctioned having received a bid just short of $1 million.

Entertainment • 07 Dec 13

Bob Dylan being sued for alleged racism

Bob Dylan is being sued by a Croatian community group for alleged racism for comments he made in an interview with the French edition of Rolling Stone magazine

Entertainment • 02 Dec 13

Dylan awarded France's highest honour

Bob Dylan was awarded the Order of the Legion of Honour, which was established by Napoleon to recognise individuals who have served France in various ways, at a low-key ceremony in Paris yesterday

Entertainment • 14 Nov 13

New Bob Dylan paintings to go on exhibit

Twelve new portraits painted by Bob Dylan are to be exhibited by London's National Portrait Gallery at the end of this month.

Entertainment • 07 Aug 13

Portrait of the artist as a changing man

Bob Dylan to release further bootleg recordings

Columbia Records continue to mine Bob Dylan’s never-ending source material with the release of the latest instalment in the acclaimed Bootleg series this August.

Entertainment • 17 Jul 13

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