Sometimes you can point to a single, humble work of art — it may be a song, a movie, a book or a work of visual art — and find in it a key to an entire zeitgeist. You would assume, in such cases, that ...

Bob Dylan has a slew of masterfully written original songs, but don't count out these three fine folk covers he released.

A good cover will sound like the original, but as Bob Dylan came to find when first listening to the Byrds’ version of “Tambourine Man,” a great cover will transform a song into something entirely ...