American Songwriter Magazine

Bob Dylan: The Paul Zollo Interview(0)

January 9, 2012

Photo © Elliott Landy/www.LandyVision.com It was May 8, 1991, and I’d returned to my Hollywood office after lunch to find a pink phone message tacked to the board with an unlikely haiku: “Mr. Dylan appreciates your magazine. He will be in touch.” At first I suspected it was a joke. I’d been trying to land [...]

Bob Dylan: The Paul Zollo Interview

Role Models: Robyn Hitchcock

British singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchock is best known for his days in The Soft Boys and his incredible, often psychedelic solo work. Here he discusses his most profound influence. How did you first get into Bob Dylan? I was marooned in a penitentiary for overprivileged boys when I was 13 and I heard “Like A Rolling [...]

Legendary Guitars: Eric Clapton’s Martin 000-28EC

For most of his career, Eric Clapton has been closely associated with the Stratocaster. It’s the guitar you hear on Derek And The Dominos’ Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs, and also the guitar that one of his idols, Buddy Guy, plays. Clapton even once said the best way to tell the difference between his [...]

Glen Campbell: Memory Maker

It’s an essential part of the late 1960s time capsule. That well-scrubbed, apple-cheeked, All-American boy on Sunday night TV. The golden brown, blow-dried hair carefully parted on the right. The turtleneck. And especially that glorious voice, all full-throated sincerity and cowboy-virtuous. He made his first inroads into the national psyche with his record of [...]