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Folk, Play Like Your Favorite Guitarists

Video Lesson: Discover the Secrets Behind Bob Dylan’s Inventive Acoustic Guitar Work

bob dylan seated in front of a microphone playing harmonica and acoustic guitar

Bob Dylan's great acoustic guitar playing is often overlooked. Here we showcase his deceptive chord moves, his fluency with standard and non-standard tunings, and his knack for constant reinvention.

Adam Levy
June 13, 2022

Folk, Sing and Play

Tips to Play ‘Tangled Up in Blue,’ Bob Dylan’s Apparently Unfinished Masterpiece

Bob Dylan holds a guitar in a promotional photo from Columbia Records

Here are tips for playing Bob Dylan's "Tangled up in Blue," as arranged on The Bootleg Series, Vol. 14 in an intimate and intense version with just guitar, harmonica and bass.

Adam Perlmutter
January 23, 2022

Country, Bluegrass, Americana, Sing and Play

Señor: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings’ Take on a Bob Dylan Classic

While the guitar playing is superlative throughout all ten of the album’s tracks, the duo’s work on Bob Dylan’s “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)” truly stands out.

Nick Millevoi
September 19, 2020

What They Play

Bob Dylan’s Acoustic Guitars

bob dylan playing harmonica and guitar next to a microphone

Throughout his career Bob Dylan has played a lot of acoustic guitars, mostly Gibsons and Martins, with some exceptions. Here, we take a close look at the guitars of Bob Dylan.

Joey Lusterman
April 5, 2020

Auction

Bob Dylan Couldn’t Have It. But You Can.

OK, he’s got the Presidential Medal of Freedom, ten Grammy Awards, a Golden Globe, an Oscar, a special Pulitzer, and the Nobel Prize for Literature. But when Bob Dylan saw a photo of the “photonegative” Martin HD-28V owned by Acoustic…

David Lusterman
March 5, 2020

Sing and Play

Acoustic Classic: Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash’s take on “Just a Closer Walk with Thee”

“Just a Closer Walk with Thee” finds Dylan and Cash—incidentally, with rockabilly legend Carl Perkins on the electric guitar—putting a country spin on a New Orleans funeral standard.

Adam Perlmutter
January 17, 2020

Play Like Your Favorite Guitarists

How to Play Acoustic Bob Dylan: the Secrets Behind 10 of His Greatest Songs

Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album cover

Learn some of Bob Dylan’s deceptive chord moves, his fluency with standard and non-standard tunings, and his knack for constant reinvention with music examples drawn from his early work.

Adam Levy
October 13, 2016

Jumbo

Review: Gibson’s Bob Dylan SJ-200 Player’s Edition is an Absolute Treat for Dylan Fans

Gibson Bob Dylan SJ-200 Player's Edition

The vintage-inspired guitar boasts an outstanding voice.

Adam Perlmutter
February 20, 2015
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Album Reviews

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Offers Surprisingly Fresh and Original Takes on Classic Dylan Tunes on ‘Dirt Does Dylan’

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band founders Jeff Hanna and Jimmie Fadden used to play Dylan tunes together in high school, now the band has released a tribute album, Dirt Does Dylan.

Blair Jackson
November 15, 2022

What They Play

Jakob Dylan Uses His Trusty Gibson J-45 to Bring His Movie-like Songs to Life on the Wallflowers’ ‘Exit Wounds’

Jakob Dylan sitting in backseat of a car

Jakob Dylan's new album with the Wallflowers, Exit Wounds, was written the help of his longest-serving songwriting partner, a mid-1960s Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar.

James Rotondi
November 23, 2021