In Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, James Mangold uses Dylan's mentors Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Johnny Cash to signpost ...
The title of the biopic “A Complete Unknown” comes from a line in “Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan’s masterwork and a song ...
How far can a biography stray from accepted reality before it ascends to the realm of mythos? That’s the core struggle at the ...
Bob Dylan has always had a fraught relationship with the world of progressive social change. He wrote some of the most ...
Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.
Baez was only 18 when she made her debut on a national stage appearing at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island, ...
There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place ...
Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...
Edward Norton as Pete Seeger in "A Complete Unknown." (Searchlight Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection) ...
In advance of her appearance at Tradfest in Dublin,  Peggy Seeger recalls aspects of her incredible life in music ...
Leonard Peltier has his life sentence commuted by President Biden during one of his last acts in the White House.