More Blood, More Tracks is a six CD box set of every surviving recording from the 1974 Blood on the Tracks sessions, four in New York, two in Minnesota. First of all, before listening to it, put aside the fact that […]
Harold Lepidus is the author of FRIENDS AND OTHER STRANGERS: BOB DYLAN EXAMINED (Bennion Kearney, out February 2017.) Lepidus is also a columnist for Blasting News. From 2009 until 2016, his Examiner.com columns (Bob Dylan and Performing Arts) were viewed over 3 million times. His articles have been linked to posts in Rolling Stone, npr.com, Uncut, American Songwriter, and others, and his review of a 2014 Bob Dylan concert was posted to Dylan's official site. Lepidus was the line-editor for Seth Rogovoy’s “Bob Dylan: Prophet, Mystic, Poet†book (Scribner), and handled the PR for the premiere for the indie documentary, "Tom Rush: No Regrets." Lepidus has interviewed, among others, Roger McGuinn, Dom Flemons, Harvey Brooks, John Sebastian, Carolyn Hester, and Robyn Hitchcock. He also worked for more than 20 years in indie music retail. Lepidus has a M.A. in Video Production from Emerson College, and a B.A. in Journalism from Northeastern University.
The following quote appears in David Kinney’s “The Dylanologists: Adventures in the Land of Bob†(Simon & Schuster, 2014): “Of the dozens of Dylan Internet sites … Expecting Rain … and the examiner.com Bob Dylan blog by Harold Lepidus are the best places for up-to-the-minute Dylan news.â€
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More Blood, More Tracks is a six CD box set of every surviving recording from the 1974 Blood on the Tracks sessions, four in New York, two in Minnesota. First of all, before listening to it, put aside the fact that […]
Neil Young’s solo concert at Boston’s Boch Center mined his past to comment on the present Last night, Neil Young’s “Solo 2018” tour brought him back to Boston’s Boch (Wang) Center for the 13th time. Young first appeared there in […]
Neil Young’s solo concert at Boston’s Boch Center mined his past to comment on the present Last night, Neil Young’s “Solo 2018” tour brought him back toBoston’s Boch (Wang) Center for the 13th time. Young first appeared there in 1971 […]
To celebrate Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan’s appearance at Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival on July 29, Sony Music Japan is releasing “Rare Performances From The Copyright Collection,” a 2CD set of (mostly) limited released recordings from 1962 to 1966. A limited […]
Friedman on SiriusXM’s Beatles’ channel, Baldwin on Howard Stern, reveal new information about Bob Dylan If you’ve been listening to SiriusXM lately, you may have heard some interesting news about Bob Dylan. On the satellite station’s Fab Fourum program, broadcast […]
Note: This article was orignally posted on examiner.com on November 18, 2014. Since that website no longer exists, I’m reposting it here. Copyright 2014 by Harold Lepidus. Reposted by permission. On Thursday afternoon, I was fortunate enough to attend musician […]
Even for an artist as consistently productive and aesthetically satisfying as psychedelic folk troubadour Robyn Hitchcock has been over the past four decades, 2017 was an especially rewarding year. For those paying attention, Hitchcock is seemingly everywhere – in concert, […]
Dylan and Petty got each other’s mojo back through writing, recording, and touring Tom Petty was more than just a Heartbreaker. He didn’t act like a superstar, although he certainly was qualified to do so. Under the radar, Tom Petty […]
There’s something happening with these outdoor summer festivals. Something good. The Green River Festival in Greenfield, Massachusetts, is an annual Western Massachusetts summer weekend affair, featuring dozens of bands loosely categorized as Americana, on four stages spread out over the […]
Maybe it was the death of Chuck Berry. Maybe it was the Nobel prize. Maybe it was the current change in the political climate in this country. Whatever the reason, Bob Dylan brought a special surprise guest when he played […]
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