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Seven Days: July 23 – 29, 2023 (Bonus)
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- ‘A Complete Unknown’ Update … (A World of Reel)
- “In regards to my original HULU piece, a publicist on the film is telling me that “at this point we can only confirm that this is a Searchlight film, release plans will be determined at a later date”.”
- 35 Years Ago: Rod Stewart and Bob Dylan Both Win with ‘Forever Young’ (Ultimate Classic Rock)
- “Stiefel added that he “didn’t hear back from Bob directly, but his attorney relayed the message that he had no problem with the song, but that he did want to participate in the ownership of the song.” Stewart credited Dylan as a co-writer on “Forever Young,” and both parties agreed to equally split the royalties.”
- ‘I’m not down’ — The day Sinéad O’Connor faced down the boos (Irish Examiner)
- “The place erupted in a chorus of boos as she walked on stage. She stood at the mic, head somewhat bowed, with a slight smile, as the jeers rained down.”
- How Bob Dylan inspired, and angered, Sinead O’Connor (Duluth News Tribute)
- “O’Connor first remembered hearing Dylan in 1977, when she was 10 years old. “I see from the album cover he’s as beautiful as if God blew a breath from Lebanon and it became a man,” she wrote.”
- The Many Sounds of Bob Dylan’s Voice (PopMatters)
- “In 2018, Dylan premiered an unadorned ballad version of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”. For the first few minutes, Dylan is practically unaccompanied at a piano before a pizzicato double bass and snare-brushed-drum lift and borne the arrangement to its bittersweet coda.”
- Timothee Chalamet is seen with his movement and dialect coaches (Daily Mail)
- Is Timothée Chalamet Embracing His Inner Bob Dylan? (GQ)
- “Chalamet is presumably still trying to keep his Dylan persona sharp for when production on A Complete Unknown resumes. With this look, some on Twitter wondered if Timmy was somehow channeling the real-life Bob Dylan’s brief bangs-and-beanie phase, as seen when the musician attended the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.”
- When Dylan Shocked The World Going Electric – This Day In 1965 (Live for Live Music)
- “Ditching the plain work clothes he had favored as onstage wear until then, Dylan appeared clad in all black, head to toe. Festival emcee Peter Yarrow brought Dylan out to massive cheers from the eager audience, mentioning the short amount of time Dylan had to play. Dylan plugged in his Fender Stratocaster and, with a wink to his band, launched into his first public set of electrified music since high school.”
- The Day Dylan Went Electric (History Channel)
- “Dylan’s new amplified sound made its live debut the following night. After being introduced by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary, the 24-year-old strode onto the stage carrying a Fender Stratocaster guitar and wearing a leather jacket. As a confused audience of 17,000 fans looked on, he and his band roared to life with a manic rendition of the song “Maggie’s Farm” off his recent album “Bringing it All Back Home.”
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- Why Dylan Should Not Have Received the Nobel Prize (Dylanology)
- “Giving Dylan the Nobel Prize of Literature is an error of categories: Dylan can not be awarded a Literature prize, because what he is doing is not literature. He is a singer: he writes songs and sings them, and even though those songs partly consist of texts, and those texts are of an outstandingly high level, and for many are what define their image of Dylan, all of this is not enough to call him a “literature guy”.”
- If Dogs Run Free, Then Go, Dog. Go! (Jeff Cochran)
- “For something “simplistic,” “If Dogs Run Free” is filled with thoughtful elements. The scat-singing of the back-up vocalists, the late-night sound Kooper educed at the 88s, and Dylan’s pondering desires for the human species — desires not so irrational — that make one long for a less rapacious environment.”
- Bob Dylan’s SARA: FORGIVE ME MY UNWORTHINESS (Chris Gregory)
- “Yet when Dylan released Sara, the last track on 1976’s Desire, for the first (and only) time he appeared to be leaving listeners in no doubt as to whom the song was about. His subsequent claim in an interview that the song was addressed to the Biblical Sara, the wife of Jewish patriarch Abraham, was extremely unconvincing, to say the least.”
- PhilosopHer of Modern Song: Brooklyn Baby (Bawker)
- “Except I’m a barista, I’m just out of college, I live in in bushwick with 3 roommates I hate, and I like to go thrifting on my days off. Every day people treat me like I’m not a person. I have no concept of the future.”
- Did Johnny Cash Discover Bob Dylan? (Tomson Highway)
- “Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan first crossed paths in the early 1960s during the emergence of the folk and rock music movements. Their shared involvement in these influential musical spheres brought them into proximity and set the stage for future encounters.”
- Lyrics and music: Chimes of Freedom (Untold Dylan)
- “Each of those lines is fundamentally sung on one note, and since the song is strophic – which is to say it is verse, verse, verse without any break for a chorus or middle 8, we get that repeated one note pattern in each of the six verses, which of course means 18 times. 18 lines of just one note – which really is quite a lot.”
- The Never Ending Tour: The Absolute Highlights – the Levy’s Gonna Break (Untold Dylan)
- “I think the clue to what Bob has found is the bounce of the rhythm, and counteracting bounce in his voice. Also, he’s dropped the emphasis that the lead guitar had on the recording with the two notes at the end of each line. Instead, we get a guitar pattern, but then in the non-vocal verses, it is played against that repeated short pattern that we know from the recording.”
- Unpacking “Oh Mercy” for live performance (Untold Dylan)
- “Let’s start with the guitars. Lanois, in his account, has Dylan playing the rhythm parts on a butterscotch (‘52) Telecaster. My Harley Benton black-and-white is decidedly non-vintage, but pushed through a Fender amp with the reverb on 11, it provides that shimmering curtain of sound you’ll recognise even if you have no idea what I’m talking about when I talk about guitars.”
- I Contain Multitudes (2020) P.11: She’s the queen of all the teens (Untold Dylan)
- “For Dylan the song is, at the very least, one of the components of the Big Bang. The first record he records, as a teenager in 1958 with his a-capella group The Jokers, is one of those vanity pressed 78-rpm records: “Be-Bop-A-Lula” . Gene Vincent’s “Baby Blue” provides the name for Dylan’s “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”, in the 80s he records “Important Words” for Down In The Groove, and in 2020 he comes full circle, returning to “Be-Bop-A-Lula” again.”
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- Boys from the North Country: Exploring Bob Dylan’s time in Minnesota (MinnPost)
- “Two new books explore Bob Dylan’s roots in Hibbing and Duluth, with fellow Iron Range songwriter Paul Metsa at the heart of both. “I stood in front of that house and told myself, ‘The young man who lived here went out into the world and now is in New York and Boston, changing American culture. You can get there from here,’” said Metsa, 67, by phone from his home in Duluth last week. “And that started a lifelong fascination with the man.”
- Dylan in Cincinnati: June 1988 (Shadow Chasing)
- “This tour would be different. After playing with large ensembles in the late seventies and early eighties, and then attaching himself to pre-existing bands with their own fan bases in the Dead and the Heartbreakers, Dylan decided to form his own lean and mean squad of road warriors and start over.”
- “Tombstone Blues” and Paul Williams’ Unfinished Fourth Book (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- “Below, find Williams’ quotes about specific line-readings and musical moments from this Costa Mesa 2003 “Tombstone Blues,” with the accompanying bits of audio, in the order of how they appear in the text (which is not the order they appear in the song).”
- Exploring Two Newly Unearthed Dylan/Petty Soundboards (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- “Today, a look at a magnificent new tape of a show in Bonner Springs, just outside Kansas City, on July 24, 1986.”
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