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

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.

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

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

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.

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

From the November/December 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Nick Millevoi Amidst the global pandemic, many musicians have been sp... Read More...

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 whe... Read More...

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

From the March/April 2020 issue of Acoustic Guitar | By Adam Perlmutter In February of 1969, Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash spent a coup... Read More...

Throwback Thursday: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings Play Bob Dylan’s “Billy”

The 1973 Sam Peckinpah western Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid is one of those films that is more famous for its soundtrack album than for the movie itself. Th... Read More...

Throwback Thursday: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez Sing “Blowin’ in the Wind” in 1976

Chances are that by now someone—or maybe 10 people—have said to you, “You’ve gotta see Martin Scorsese’s Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue concert documentary on... Read More...

Throwback Thursday: Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash Sing ‘Girl from the North Country,’ 1969

Next week (April 8) marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album. At the time, the album was viewed as yet another new direc... Read More...

Flashback Friday: Joan Baez and Bob Dylan Perform ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ and ‘I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine’ in 1976

Was there a more talked-about love affair of the '60s than the brief, tumultuous flame of Joan Baez and Bob Dylan? A PBS American Masters biography of Joa... Read More...