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 →
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 →
Colin Randall writes: before Bill Taylor and I met and became friends as well as journalistic confreres, we were both fans of Bob Dylan. Had I caught the famed 1966 tour on which he 'went electric', I might have been... Read more →
Colin Randall writes: Salut! Live’s editors - Andrew Curry, Bill Taylor and I - are all Dylan fans to one degree or another. So are and have been lots of other artists and countless among them have dipped gratefully for... Read more →
It’s Dylan’s fortnight. The movie ‘A Complete Unknown’, about his early years—from Greenwich Village to going electric at the Newport Folk Festival—opens in the UK on Friday, and next week is the 50th anniversary of the release of his masterpiece... Read more →
