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The New Issue of Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan’s America

4/29/09, 8:25 am EST

Photograph by Sam Jones

It’s a land of Walt Whitman and Chuck Berry, of border towns and murder ballads — and America’s greatest songwriter may be the last man living there. For the new issue of Rolling Stone on newsstands today, historian and professor Douglas Brinkley followed Bob Dylan from Paris to Amsterdam as the Midwest’s most famous son held court on American icons like Elvis Presley, Walt Whitman, Chuck Berry and Carl Sandburg.

Dylan also opened up about his partnership with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, who contributed to Dylan’s new Together Through Life and mused on playing with the guitarist Mike Bloomfield.

Rolling Stone also takes a look back at the magazine’s long history with Dylan in a gallery of his RS covers (he appeared on his first in 1968), and explores the singer’s non-musical work in a gallery of his paintings, which have been displayed in galleries worldwide. Plus, read David Fricke’s review of Together Through Life.

Also in this issue:

• Sasha Grey: The Dirtiest Girl in the World

• Mike Tyson Reveals the Only Thing That Truly Scares Him

• Meet the Chess Masters Behind Obama’s National Security

• Review: Green Day Go Bigger on 21st Century Breakdown

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Denton | 4/29/2009, 8:55 am EST

Wow, a RS issue I’ll actually buy! I guess a disposable teenage girl pop singer wasn’t available this month.

parker | 4/29/2009, 9:02 am EST

Love the cover of this issue. Totally classic Rolling Stone.

Anonymous | 4/29/2009, 9:40 am EST

Neil Young is not American.

StrummerJones | 4/29/2009, 10:50 am EST

I bet that Tyson is deathly afraid of earlobes.

joshua | 4/29/2009, 11:31 am EST

neil is technically american. everyone on this side of the world is america. north, south and central american. plus by now he’s certainly been issued a green card and nationalized so i’m sure in that sense of the word as well, he is american

Sonia | 4/29/2009, 2:03 pm EST

Bob Dylan does not change… he is still the best!

Pussycat. | 4/29/2009, 5:11 pm EST

IMAGINE THAT………….

crapCover | 4/29/2009, 6:16 pm EST

Another BORING cover! The only good covers this year are GOSSIP GIRLS and TAYLOR SWIFT!

Is this magazine a “senior citizen” magazine? Who cares about DYLAN but old farts ?

Ross | 4/29/2009, 6:17 pm EST

This will NEVER sell as well as when RS has hot girls on the cover!

jt | 4/29/2009, 7:05 pm EST

Thanks for putting Bob back on the cover–his work deserves it and by placing him there, Rolling Stone still proves it’s worth a damn.

dude | 4/29/2009, 7:15 pm EST

love the cover: but I wouldn’t mind seeing live pictures of artists every now and again.

(LIKE WILCO WHEN THEY GRACE THE COVER IN JUNE)

Rob | 4/29/2009, 10:54 pm EST

I have been a loyal reader of RS since I was 13. I’m 39 now and I can tell you that I did not buy the issue with the teeny bopper girls on the front cover.
Thanks Jan, for putting Dylan on the cover and remembering what this magazine is about.

Great Cover | 4/30/2009, 12:29 am EST

Good to see Dylan on the cover again. Being the most influential person in music today he definitely deserves it. Yes this issue should sell just as well as any other. You don’t buy RS for girls….if you want that go get Maxim.

Pauline | 4/30/2009, 5:22 am EST

That is a beautiful, beautiful photo of Dylan. Far better than the strange orange one that appeared a year or two ago!

Anonymous | 4/30/2009, 5:46 am EST

Bob is Great! and this picture looks like pee wee herman and eminem had a child!

DR | 4/30/2009, 1:04 pm EST

It’s funny how the thin mustache thing has grown on me. Bob still looks cool.

Daniel | 4/30/2009, 4:59 pm EST

Man that photo’s touched up. Glad he made it on again, he deserves it

c0827 | 5/1/2009, 1:08 pm EST

I am 25 yrs old and I LOVE Bob Dylan!! When I saw him on the cover I had to remind myself to breathe….He is timeless,,,,,

Jeff | 5/2/2009, 12:27 am EST

Dylan is the man! I can’t wait to pick this up.

me | 5/2/2009, 6:30 pm EST

Bob’s hot

gringo557 | 5/2/2009, 10:34 pm EST

Old farts? Pleeze! I guess Picasso and DaVinci would be considered old farts too, eh? The day a twenty-something does something NEARLY as great as Dylan’s work, I’ll be happy to listen. Rock on, Bob!

Brianna | 5/3/2009, 2:50 pm EST

I think he had a chemical or laser peel or some plastic surgery. what happened to those jaw jowls he used to have years ago? Good make-up job, he looks healthy. Can’t say I think much of the affected expression on his face. He never looks natural.

Jack | 5/3/2009, 3:23 pm EST

He had some work done. His face was wrinkeled a year ago with jowls. At least his hair looks good unlike Bruce Spingsteen who now wears a toupee and has veneers. Are Dylans teeth original equipment?

Alberto Ortega Gurza | 5/3/2009, 4:51 pm EST

Bob Dylan is universally recognized as THE MOST POWERFUL CREATIVE ARTIST OF OUR TIME, wheather tiny-equipped-cheap-airheaded- teen-ignorant-pathetic-loser-b ums posting here like it or not. Hail Hail Rolling Stone!! for this new astounding cover of this timeless unreachable genius of the modern world.

Dave | 5/4/2009, 12:03 am EST

Sonia | 4/29/2009, 2:03 pm EST

Bob Dylan does not change… he is still the best!

wow, your wrong. he never stopped changing. hopefully you don’t either, or anybody for that matter

Dave | 5/4/2009, 12:05 am EST

but i do agree with the second part of your comment..he is the best

Shakin it. | 5/4/2009, 7:23 am EST

That’s one BEAUTIFUL face!

Anonymous | 5/4/2009, 2:24 pm EST

“Accept the things to which fate binds you,and love the people with whom fate brings together, but do so with all of your heart.”

Anonymous | 5/4/2009, 2:24 pm EST

“Accept the things to which fate binds you,and love the people with whom fate brings together, but do so with all of your heart.”

Johnson | 5/4/2009, 2:26 pm EST

“The truest wisdom is resolute determination.”

Anonymous | 5/4/2009, 3:53 pm EST

I love you.

Isis aka Jeana | 5/4/2009, 3:59 pm EST

Love the cover.
Nice to see that handsome man back on ther cover! :)
Love you bob!!!

~Jeana~

x | 5/6/2009, 3:49 pm EST

Love you.

Mike | 5/9/2009, 2:15 pm EST

I doubt if Bruce Sringsteen wears a toupee. He can afford hair transplants just like Dylan can afford plastic surgery. Money works miracles.

Anonymous | 5/9/2009, 3:11 pm EST

Loving you. Aching.

Lisa | 5/10/2009, 11:10 am EST

At least it’s a good facelift. He doesn’t look overstretched like Cher or Richard Chamberlain. It would hardly be noticable except that old people’s faces don’t hold up like that except for Madonna or Sharon Stone, but they’re not that old. Do I have to say it – forever young.

L. Fairchilde | 5/12/2009, 12:12 pm EST

yum-yummy – xoxo

Anonymous | 5/18/2009, 3:37 pm EST

HOW FUCKING BEAUTIFUL IS THAT FACE?FUCKING BEAUTIFUL!Absolutely fucking beautiful!SO FUCKING beautiful!!!!! BOB DYLAN. GOD BLESS YOU BABY!!! SENDING YOU A MILLION KISSES.XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Zpxmcquh | 7/14/2009, 2:24 am EST

uB3YZF

David | 8/1/2009, 2:02 pm EST

I don’t judge people based on their age. Those who do are idiots.

Chuck | 9/6/2009, 12:11 pm EST

What is Bob Dylan’s “America”?

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