Two Days in 1961: Dylan's Debut Begins a Lege...

On September 2nd, 1995, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, transformed into the epicenter of the rock and roll universe as the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum officially threw open its doors. This wasn't just a ribbon-cutting ceremony with polite applause and finger sandwiches. O ...  Show more

Well, get ready to salsa into the history books, because September 1st marks the birthday of one of the most electrifying voices to ever cross over from Latin music into mainstream American pop: Gloria Estefan, born on this day in 1957 in Havana, Cuba. Gloria's family fled Cuba f ...  Show more

On June 19th, Bob Dylan released his 39th album, Rough and Rowdy Ways -- his first full length album of original songs in nearly a decade. Throughout his career, Dylan has followed moments of silence with something wholly new. In the mid-sixties, after a motorcycle accident broug ...  Show more

Joan Baez was the undisputed queen of folk in the early ‘60s when she began sharing the stage with her new boyfriend, a Woody Guthrie-worshipping up-and-comer from Duluth who went by Bob Dylan. Thanks in no small part to Baez’s early support, Dylan quickly ascended to the height ...  Show more

How Dylan went to Nashville to make one of the greatest albums ever – Daryl Sanders, author of a new book on the album, and guitarist Wayne Moss join host Brian Hiatt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

Elijah Wald’s 2015 book, “Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties,” traces the events that led up to Bob Dylan’s memorable performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. The book is about Dylan, but also about the folk movement, youth c ...