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Seven Days: July 2 – 8, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Female Artist Cover Bob Dylan (New York Times)
    • “My mother always thought that Dylan was somewhat misogynistic,” the singer-songwriter Suzanne Vega said, “but I don’t see that. I see a whole range of female characters in his music from goddesses and queens and women revered and then also women used, abused.”
  • Blake Mills Played Tasteful Guitar for Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan (Rolling Stone)
    • “His attention to detail, and wanting to make sure he’s writing it as clearly as can be, and that he’s doing the song and the character in the song justice as a performer, was inspiring and educating. It was also fascinating because he’s just doing the same thing everybody else is trying to do in their own way.”
  • Everything We Know About A Complete Unknown (I-D)
    • “It’s such an amazing time in American culture and the story of Bob — a young 19-year-old Bob Dylan coming to New York with like $2 in his pocket and becoming a worldwide sensation within three years.”
  • Suze Rotolo was a Student in Perugia Italy (site of show this week) That Drove Dylan Crazy (Italy24)
    • “It was July 1962 and she was a pretty American student from New York who had arrived in Perugia to attend quarterly Italian courses at the University for Foreigners of Perugia. She frequented Palazzo Gallenga from 1 July to 7 September 1962. Susan Elisabeth called herself “Suze” and she was the girl who made Bob Dylan lose his mind to the point of writing him the lyrics of his most famous folk ballads of his career.”
  • Dylan is a Modern Name with Ancient Origin (Omaha.com)
    • “The Mabinogion, Welsh legends compiled from oral traditions around 1175, tell of Dylan ail Don, who at his baptism plunges into the sea, swimming away like a fish. Experts think Dylan was originally a Welsh sea god whose name meant “toward the tide.”

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  • Dylan in Cincinnati: Novermber 1981 (Shadow Chasing)
    • “The crowd spontaneously starts clapping along to this jaunty, swinging performance. Much as I love the album version, the song works best as a duet. We eavesdrop on an amorous couple as they pass around the booze and slowly get buzzed, sauntering toward sex but in no hurry—they’ve got all night. Dylan and King are pros, and they play their parts convincingly. I buy everything they’re selling.”
  • Stu’s Noodles (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
    • “Fans, I discovered, had nicknamed these intros “Stu’s noodles” at the time. They lasted the better part of six years, from 2012-2018. Every show—every set, in fact, in the years where Dylan shows had an intermission—Kimball would kick things off alone onstage, guitar in hand. After a minute or so, Dylan and the band would join him and transition into, usually, “Things Have Changed.”
  • The Hibbing That Shaped Bob Dylan (Dave Hoekstra)
    • “The open lands of Hibbing made these places possible and real for anyone with untethered dreams in the early 1950s. You could count all the stars in the sky. Dylan would not be who he is without his early days in Hibbing. That is why this town is a must-see for fans of American music.”
  • Dylan and Wilco, July 28, 2013 (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “The highlight of this particular show was a revamped “Tangled Up In Blue,” a song that’s been a work in progress for 39 years. There were several new lines including one about making rhymes while walking in the snow, but there were melodic changes as well.  The arrangement started off similar to the tour earlier this year, but Dylan found a riff he liked on the piano that changed the dynamics of the melody, and the band quickly picked up on it.”
  • Peter Paul & Mary Gave Dylan First Big Hit (The Music Man)
    • “Peter, Paul, & Mary, who shared a manager with Bob Dylan, released Blowing in The Wind as a single. It soon reached #2 on the Billboard pop chart.
  • Dylan Covers: She Belongs To Me (Untold Dylan)
    • “Do any of the vast number of covers actually get anywhere near either to holding the paradox or resolving it?”
  • Dylanesque: Anti-War Songs (Untold Dylan)
    • “First up we have Elvis Costello. The song is Shipbuilding and it was written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer.”
  • Music and Lyrics: Black Diamond Bay (Untold Dylan)
    • “It is also an unusual piece for Dylan, for starting with a musical verse, and for that musical verse having a harmonica lead.  What is also unusual – and this is something that adds a lot to the performance is that the end of lines has a harmony added by a female vocalist – not a normal thing for Bob.
  • I Contain Multitudes Pt.7 (Untold Dylan)
    • “The difference between all those interpretations and Ginsberg’s attempt lies in the word like; “I sing the songs of experience like William Blake,” Dylan sings and writes in the opening of this fourth verse of “I Contain Multitudes”. Which is what Ginsberg was already striving for at the time.”
  • NET 2014 Pt.1 (Untold Dylan)
    • “Just as Dylan’s performances in 2013 were a distinct improvement on 2012, especially his vocals, Dylan continued to build confidence and power in 2014, often giving these performances an edge on 2013.”
  • Dylan Covers: Shelter From The Storm (Untold Dylan)
    • “The rhymes are simple (blood/mud; form/storm) the construction is simple, the accompaniment is simple; the meaning is, well, possibly very simple, the meaning is increasingly obscure.  What is the cover artist to do with this complex simplicity?”
  • Showcase: She Belongs To Me (Untold Dylan)
    • “Taken at face value, “She Belongs To Me” is a character sketch. There is a woman. She is a transformative artist, turning the day into night. She’ll change you too! She is self-possessed and meticulous, if not out of nature than out of necessity. She is mysterious, and powerful and if she sees you at all, it’s from a vantage point of control. This is not a relationship between equals.”

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  • Dali Van Gogh Drop Dylan Cover – All Along The Watchtower (BraveWords)
    • “Dali Van Gogh’s rendition of “All Along The Watchtower” pays homage to the original composition by the legendary Bob Dylan, while adding their own inimitable flair and hard-hitting energy. With powerful guitar-driven melodies, explosive drumming, and soulful vocals, Dali Van Gogh has created a hard rock anthem that resonates with fans of both the original track and Dali Van Gogh’s unique brand of music.”

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