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 →
Updated Jan 2025. Colin Randall writes: I am reposting this edition of the short series on instrumental music in order to present a change of heart. I now agree with my friend Bill Taylor who, in his Comment on the... 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 →
Colin Randall writes: there was a time when De Dannan were never far from whatever I used to listen to music. Frankie Gavin’s band moved - effortlessly for fans, whatever tensions or career choices may have been at play -... Read more →
Andrew Curry writes: At the end of each year, Reinhard Zierke, who runs the essential folk site Mainly Norfolk, publishes his list of the best records of the year. Each year, he chooses five record, of which four are ordered... Read more →
