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Dylan live – It’s Not Dark Yet

One of Dylan’s most poignant songs about life, love lost and despair in a recent live performance

Bob Dylan Not Dark Yet

Bob Dylan Not Dark Yet

“Not Dark Yet” is one of the finest Bob Dylan songs from his late period masterpiece “Time Out of Mind”.

A fan posted this rare concert video. The world-weariness Dylan wrote about in the atmospheric Daniel Lanois 1997 production seems even more poignant with Dylan’s current singing voice.

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Bob Dylan gets Presidential Medal of Freedom

Famed artists who sang ‘don’t follow leaders’ will accept the highest civilian honor from President Obama, the leader of the free world

"Don't follow leaders, watch your parking meters" - Bob Dylan 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'

The US White House announced that singer songwriter, writer, and actor Bob Dylan will receive the the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

To followers of the iconic leader of baby boomer counter culture, the award has some irony. But then we were all younger then, we’re older than that now. Continue reading