Latest Bob Dylan News
![](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/183f1fd8667a42439bc2ec5aef6ba394/preview/preview.jpg?s=640x)
Singer, songwriter, provocateur and politician Kinky Friedman dead at 79
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Singer, songwriter, satirist and novelist Kinky Friedman, who led the alt-country band Texas Jewboys, toured with Bob Dylan, sang with Willie Nelson, and dabbled in politics with campaigns for Texas governor and other statewide offices, has died. Friedman, 79,...
![](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/6a69a1bd34754c2385b8952594e0c307/preview/preview.jpg?s=640x)
Meet Will Butler, the singer-songwriter who makes Broadway's 'Stereophonic' rock
NEW YORK (AP) — The assignment was daunting: Write a song for an onstage moment of transcendence. Make it kind of funny and exciting and for a five-piece band. Write it so it justifies an audience sitting in their seats for two hours before they hear it. And, oh, it must plausibly be a rock hit...
![](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/320cd16fc90d451ca62091b7590d64b4/preview/preview.jpg?s=640x)
Françoise Hardy, French singing legend and pop icon, dies at 80
PARIS (AP) — Françoise Hardy, a French singing legend and pop icon since the 1960s, has died. She was 80. Her son, musician Thomas Dutronc, announced her death on social media, sharing a poignant photo of himself as a child with his mother. Hardy had lymphatic cancer since 2004...
![](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/dd941381ee924c50942ba3dda4928f5a/preview/preview.jpg?s=640x)
Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 19-25
Celebrity birthdays for the week of May 19-25: May 19: TV personality David Hartman is 89. Actor James Fox is 85. Actor Nancy Kwan is 85. Musician Pete Townshend is 79. Singer-actor-model Grace Jones is 73. Drummer Phil Rudd AC/DC is 70. Actor Steven Ford is 68. Actor Toni Lewis...
![](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/aec8c468423d4fae8134497e457f4aac/preview/preview.jpg?s=640x)
Musician T Bone Burnett is trading his dystopian sensibilities for some warm-hearted acoustic music
NEW YORK (AP) — At an age when many contemporaries contemplate retirement, musician T Bone Burnett has made big changes in his life and art. Burnett, most celebrated for his production acumen, uprooted from Los Angeles to move to Nashville and recorded a warm-hearted disc of his...
![](https://hosted.ap.org/profiles/verticals/themes/ap_hosted/images/loader.gif)