Elizabeth Nelson

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  • December 25, 2024
    Bob Dylan loves movies—his songwriting is filled with cinematic references ranging from Gregory Peck to Sophia Loren to Titanic—but it’s not always clear that...
  • November 22, 2024
    There are many categories of Bob Dylan songs: historical biographies and spiritual devotionals, oddball shaggy-dog stories, love songs and cranky breakup numbers. All of these are...
  • April 16, 2024
    It’s a shopworn cliché that the Masters doesn’t really start until the back nine on Sunday. But clichés get shopworn for a reason—they tend to be...
  • January 15, 2024
    [Scene 1: West Village, New York City, 1975. A legendary songwriter, mid-30s, is surveying the neighborhood where he cut his teeth a decade before. A violinist, younger and without...