Threads
Follow one idea through his songs
Each thread is a path through songs that share something, in time order. Or see every connection at once on the map.
- Borrowed tunesOld melodies he made new: each song and the tune it came from.12 songs
1927–1936 - Songs others made famousHis songs in other hands, from the Byrds to Adele.12 songs
1963–1966 - Protest and afterFrom the civil-rights songs to the ones that came later.12 songs
1963–1989 - Love songsLove found, love lost, love remembered.13 songs
1967–2001 - Love gone wrongPartings, regrets, and songs written after the door closed.13 songs
1964–1989 - FaithFrom early hymn-shaped songs to the gospel years and after.13 songs
1965–1989 - The roadSongs of leaving, travelling and never quite arriving.13 songs
1963–2001 - Songs about deathMortality, from murder ballads to late reckonings.13 songs
1962–2020 - AmericaThe country as he sang it: its history, its myths, its outlaws.13 songs
1964–1983 - Time passingSongs that watch the clock, the years and the changes.12 songs
1965–2012 - FreedomSongs that ask who gets to be free, and how.11 songs
1963–1970 - WarSongs written against war, or in its shadow.10 songs
1963–1993