Bob Dylan

A singer and guitarist plays inside a recording studio.

Jazz

Curtis Stigers strums a few favorites in the KNKX studios

Paige Hansen

Singer Curtis Stigers returned to KNKX for his fourth studio session and checked out our new Studio X in Seattle.

In this 1963 file photo, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan perform at the Newport Jazz Festival in Newport, R.I. Two years later, on the night of July 25, 1965, Dylan strode onto a stage at the Newport Folk Festival, plugged in an electric guitar and gave the music world a shock. Fifty years later, its considered one of the most important events in rock history, the high-voltage moment when Dylan broke from folk and helped show his fellow musicians the poetic possibilities of rock.

March 22: A Tacoma dock strike and Bob Dylan goes electric

Nick Morrison

On this day, the British Empire passed the 1765 Stamp Act and a formative strike began on the Tacoma docks in 1886. In 1965, Bob Dylan released a new album, shocking his folk fans with an electric sound.

Bob Dylan, seen performing in 2012, told the Swedish Academy that he had "pre-existing commitments."

Bob Dylan Won't Be Picking Up His Nobel Prize In Person

Rebecca Hersher

The musician won the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. He told the committee in charge of the award ceremony that he had "pre-existing commitments" and was unable to accept the prize in person.

Bob Dylan's new compilation, <em>The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12</em>, is out now.

Arts & Culture

The Day Dylan Got It Right

Don Gonyea

"Like a Rolling Stone" is a classic today, but it flummoxed a young Bob Dylan in the studio. Newly released outtakes reveal where the song started and how it dramatically transformed.