Blog: 30 Days Out

In the late 1960s Columbia Records tried to be really hip because, after all, they had nothing to lose. This is the oldest recording label - founded in 1888 to sell Thomas Edison's new-fangled recording machines - and in the Sixties this label was really suffering from a "credibility gap." With one huge exception: Columbia (by this time they were owned by CBS) stumbled onto the burgeoning folk craze in the early 1960s and signed Bob Dylan. Dylan went on to change popular music virtually singlehandedly (the Beatles helped a little) but even so Columbia had very few [...]