Andrew Curry writes: It’s Burns Night tonight when Scots worldwide, and others, celebrate the birthday of Scotland’s greatest poet, who will turn 265 today. And this gives Salut! Live the chance to celebrate the singer and songwriter Dougie MacLean, who... Read more →
Colin Randall writes: of the three Salut! Live contributors who have been posting items relating to Bob Dylan to coincide with the arrival of A Complete Unknown in UK cinemas, I was last to see the movie and the least... Read more →
Bill Taylor writes: Bob Dylan, at 83, may be feeling intimations of mortality with the news that Garth Hudson, last surviving member of The Band, and keyboard player on the 1966 world tour where Dylan went electric, has died. He... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Blood on the Tracks this week, we’re running a three part series about the record. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 is here. Today: the songs. Dylan’s... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Blood on the Tracks this week, we’re running a three part series about the record. Part 1 is here. Today is about ‘managing the melancholy’. There’s a clear... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: It is 50 years since Blood on the Tracks was released—perhaps Dylan’s most complete record. On Salut! Live this week, we’re running a long article in three parts to mark the anniversary. Now that Blood on the... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: Over at our Facebook group, the first Album of the Month in our new Facebook series is Joan Baez’s Diamonds & Rust, released in 1975. It’s a fine album, of course, but the reason for choosing it... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: A Complete Unknown is not the first time that Hollywood has wandered into the world of the early-60s folk scene in New York’s Greenwich Village. The Coen brothers’s film Inside Llewyn Davis, released in 2013, is a... Read more →
