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In the way it avoided a conventional timeline or stories behind the making of some of his best-loved albums, Bob Dylan’s 2004 book Chronicles: Volume One wasn’t a remotely traditional memoir. And let’s not even start on the whirligig prose in his Sixties head-scratcher Tarantula. Next to them, his third book, The Philosophy of Modern Song (which is out next week), would seem comparatively straightforward: essays on 66 of his favorite songs, billed, on its inner flap, as “a master class on the art and craft of songwriting.”

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Béla Fleck came away the big winner at Thursday night’s 33rd annual International Bluegrass Music Association awards in Raleigh, North Carolina, winning Album of the Year for My Bluegrass Heart. The banjo virtuoso also won Instrumental Group of the Year, Banjo Player of the Year, and Instrumental Recording of the Year.

“Things grow and they change,” Fleck tells Rolling Stone backstage at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Raleigh. “You are just part of an evolution, and you just have to do your best to...

This is the perfect time for me to cover a story about bluegrass legend Bill Monroe since I just started building my own banjo and haven't listened to much besides bluegrass in the past few weeks.

Bill Monroe is an interesting choice for a biopic since his personal life isn't particularly well known. He's best known as a pioneer of the bluegrass style and for the song "Blue Moon of Kentucky" (which will probably be the title of the film, that's usually how these things go).

Now that I think about it more, it's going to provide a lot of those "meeting famous people" moments that biopics love to do. Monroe discovered so many future bluegrass stars like Earl Scruggs and Lester Flatt, plus his song was covered by Elvis so he'll have to be in there.

The big casting news about the movie is that Peter Sarsgaard will be taking the lead role.