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See Bob Dylan's new performance of Woody Guthrie's classic song "Do Re Mi" with Ry Cooder and Van Dyke Parks in the television documentary The People Speak on History, Sunday, December 13

Trailer and more info: http://www.history.com/peoplespeak

The film, coproduced by Josh Brolin, Matt Damon, Howard Zinn, Chris Moore, and Anthony Arnove, is the long awaited documentary film inspired by Howard Zinn's books A People's History of the United States.

The video for "Little Drummer Boy," illustrated by Jeff Scher, premieres today on Amazon. Jeff is a regular contributor to the NYT.com/Opinion section with his blog, "The Animated Life."

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Isn't it ironic? Dylan surprises again with holiday CD

By Douglas Newman

December 02, 2009 at 7:00 PM

Earlier this fall, when news broke that Bob Dylan would be cutting an album full of age-old Christmas standards, my friend Jim (a fellow uber-fan) and I engaged in a lively discussion of what might follow. "Why in God's name," Jim asked, "would Dylan pull a stunt like this, especially during such a remarkable late-career creative resurgence?" His fear was that it would be a "...

Bob Dylan has been nominated for 2009 Grammy Awards in the "Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance" category, for "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" from Together Through Life, and in the "Best Americana Album" category, for Together Through Life.