Tag: Bob Dylan
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A chorus line of Colorado cultural pathmakers
The Colorado 150, Part 5 of 6: Meet everyone from Roseanne to Kent Haruf to Bob Dylan to Harry Tuft to the Colorado Springs actor whose hard, real life inspired one of the iconic roles in musical theater history Put simply: No Kelly Bishop, no Sheila in “A Chorus Line.” Imagine one of the most…
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The Denver Gazette’s top 30 greatest living American songwriters
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Here’s our unsolicited response to the New York Times’ list of the 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters, and we have a place for Billy Joel Two years ago, as we celebrated the life of a wife and mother who died too young, a mourner read – not even sang – the lyrics to Billy Joel’s “She’s Got…
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So long Honky-Tonk: Denver Stockyard Saloon has its last dance
National Western Stock Show patrons will be searching for a new honky-tonk come next January. Due to a lost lease, the storied Denver Stockyard Saloon’s last dance coincided this past weekend with the culmination of Denver’s 2025 Stock Show season. The century-old frame of the old wooden Livestock Exchange building shook Friday night as people…
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Bob Dylan has written 600 songs. These are his 10 best. | Vince Bzdek
My family and I have been revisiting “Highway 61 Revisited” and lots of other Bob Dylan music in anticipation of James Mangold’s new biopic, “A Complete Unknown,” which opened on Christmas. “Highway 61 Revisited” features the great groundbreaking rant of a song, “Like a Rolling Stone,” from which the movie’s title and climactic moment are…
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Let’s admit it: We boomers are a bunch of Peter Pans who refuse to grow old | Vince Bzdek
I’m staring down a 64th birthday this month, and, according to Paul McCartney’s “When I’m Sixty-Four,” that means I’ll be mending fuses, knitting sweaters, and weeding the garden from here on out. Yeah, not happening. Rather than going gently into that good night, my baby boomer brothers and sisters and I are going out kicking…
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Iconic Denver Folklore Center sold to employee
The iconic Denver Folklore Center, which has sold instruments to and nurtured the local acoustic music community since 1962, was sold Thursday to 38-year-old Ian Dehmel of Aurora. That’s according to seller Saul Rosenthal, who purchased the Folklore Center in 2016 with business partner Claude Brachfeld upon the retirement of the legendary founder Harry Tuft…
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Weekend things to do in Denver and beyond
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save By Linda Navarro The Denver Gazette FRIDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY DAILY THROUGH MARCH 13 Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save More information Denver police investigate fatal shooting in North Capitol neighborhood The Denver Police Department is investigating a fatal shooting…