When Roger McGuinn inadvertently co-wrote “The Ballad of Easy Rider” with Bob Dylan for the Easy Rider soundtrack in 1969, he couldn’t have known that he was writing an anthem for the counterculture.

With the Byrds, Roger McGuinn gifted us chiming electric 12-string anthems like “Turn, Turn, Turn,” riff-laden cuts like “So You Want to Be a Rock ‘N’ Roll Star,” and proto-country-rock classics like ...

Although he took influence from George Harrison, as a session player Roger McGuinn had been experimenting with 12-string guitar sounds long before he was captivated by the Beatles and Harrison’s use ...

McGuinn and Dylan have a longstanding mutual respect for one another’s talents and would go on to collaborate and appear together multiple times, including during Dylan’s 1975–76 Rolling Thunder Revue ...

For the house or McGuinn or otherwise, Dylan visited the guitarist’s home often to play pool, shoot the breeze, and, after Dylan noticed McGuinn’s house had a basketball hoop, play pickup ball games. ...

Reel off any number of watersheds in rock history and it’s odds-on you’ll find Roger McGuinn was involved. He was singer and guitarist with The Byrds, whose 1965 chart-topping take on Bob Dylan’s Mr ...

As the first musician to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan's songwriting skills are unparalleled. But the man himself doesn't consider all of his lyrics to be winners...and in one case ...