How Bob Dylan and John Lennon inspired Benmont Tench’s ‘The Melancholy Season’ Keyboardist Benmont Tench’s second solo album “The Melancholy Season” arrives on Friday, March 7, 2025.

John Lennon did not single out Bob Dylan in his statement. Rather, he made the sweeping claim that much of America’s country, western, and folk music all came from the British Isles.

John Lennon and Paul McCartney notoriously had varying musical opinions; however, they both agreed that these singers were ...

The first Lennon solo record is John, Ringo and Klaus Voorman. “John Wesley Harding” is Bob Dylan on piano or guitar, Charlie McCoy on bass and Kenny Buttrey on bass.

In an interview edited for clarity and length, Tench, 71, talked about how two albums by John Lennon and Bob Dylan influenced the production on his new record, how a free-verse poem he’d ...