Bob Dylan and his band will embark on a European Tour in Spring 2009.

Visit our Live and In Person! page for the itinerary, with more dates to be announced.

Illustrator Paul Rogers has created a book inspired by Bob Dylan's lyrics to "Forever Young", with gorgeous art that evokes Greenwich Village in the sixties.

Here's how Publishers Weekly describes Forever Young:

In the book, Rogers shows a boy in a baseball cap listening to a folksinger playing guitar in front of the legendary Gerde's Folk City--a mecca in NYC during the early 1960s. The singer gives his guitar to the boy, as if passing a torch to a younger generation. As the boy practices to Woody Guthrie records and performs free in the park, he also becomes involved in music-related activities such as a "Stop The War" rally in Washington D.C. The book ends with the now-grown young man passing his guitar on to a girl and, in effect, keeping the folk music ideals "forever young."

Scattered throughout his "sets" are numerous references to other Dylan songs, from the "big brass bed" of "Lay Lady Lay" seen in a window on MacDougal Street, to a sign behind a bus stop reading "The circus is in town," a line from "Desolation Row." "My interest was also to see how much Dylan I could work into the text without being obnoxious," says Rogers. "I definitely wanted to keep the story simpler for younger and general readers, but I also wanted to attract and interest Dylan fans, too--perhaps the parents who would be reading the book to their children. I realized that I could present a crowd that would work as a crowd and also as a group of interesting people from the era, like the "Stop The War" march that features Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Hank Williams and John Lennon--all of whom influenced Dylan."

"Forever Young" (Simon & Schuster) is available at bookstores everywhere. Purchase at amazon.com

Paul Rogers' blog, with many illustrations from the book.

Christian Science Monitor feature

Publisher's Weekly interview

The New York Times enjoyed the newly published Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript, with photographs by Barry Feinstein and text by Bob Dylan:

Another book with a strange, scarred, resonating old soul is Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric: The Lost Manuscript { Amazon.com } (Simon & Schuster, $30), with text by Bob Dylan and photographs by Barry Feinstein. This book is made up of 23 of Mr. Dylan's cosmic prose poems, written in the 1960s, inspired by a series of Mr. Feinstein's moody black-and-white photographs of movie stars, casting couches and back lots. As Luc Sante writes in his introduction, "Although the photographs were made for a variety of assignments and in a number of different contexts, they have a remarkable consistency and a clearly identifiable theme: the passing of old Hollywood." Mr. Feinstein's pictures, reminiscent of both Robert Frank's and Diane Arbus's, are impossible to turn away from. And Mr. Dylan's poems? Well, they aren't totally unreadable. But they will not send you rushing back for a critical reconsideration of "Tarantula."

Read a fascinating review from the International Herald-Tribune by Charles McGrath.