Eduardo Cobra's Bob Dylan mural in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis shows the singer in three life stages. Verena Wolff/dpa It must have been a dismal childhood that Robert Allen Zimmerman spent ...

In the biography “After the Flood,” Robert Polito explores Dylan’s creative evolution and the significant contributions he has made in the past 30 years.

Bob Dylan’s journey from a budding musical prodigy to a Nobel laureate offers insights into the artistic process. In Robert Polito’s “After the Flood,” discover how Dylan’s late-career works reveal ...

1. Actually, my mother discovered Bob Dylan. Well, she discovered him before any of us did. And by us I mean my dad, my 12-year-old brother and me, age 9. She was driving in her car one day and she ...

Having his 1984 hit “Purple Rain” named one of the state songs of Minnesota “would have meant so much” to Prince, his sister Sharon Nelson told a state Senate committee Tuesday. “It was more than just ...

Dylan took the Greyhound Bus from Hibbing to St. Paul, where his cousin Howard Rutman and their summer camp friend Larry Kegan lived. They went to Terlinde Music Shop on W. 7th Street where customers ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

If you’re thinking of musicians from Minnesota, Prince and Bob Dylan are probably first to spring to mind. Or so says state Sen. Rob Kupec, who’s sponsoring legislation to establish a song by each of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — It must have been a dismal childhood that Robert Allen Zimmerman spent in the upper Midwest town of Hibbing — somewhere in Minnesota's nowhere, with long dark winters, freezing winds and ...

MINNEAPOLIS — It must have been a dismal childhood that Robert Allen Zimmerman spent in the upper Midwest town of Hibbing — somewhere in Minnesota's nowhere, with long dark winters, freezing winds and ...