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Seven Days: Jan 22 – 28, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Meeting Bob Dylan at the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1982) (PSB) [8]
    • “So finally I get up the courage go over to him offer my hand and say, “My brother Tony Brown, says hello.” He just looked at me and he’s got these piercing baby blue eyes that just peer right the fuck into you.”
  • Bob Fass: From Midnight To Exhaustion (PSB) [8]
    • “As soon as I reached consciousness, I leapt out of bed, ran into my brothers room (midyears be damned – I knew what was important) and said get up, Dylan’s on BAI. He took phone calls from highly political up all night New Yorkers for an hour! It was very, very funny. And remember this was when he was a huge rock and roll star.”
  • What Really Happened On Les Crane (PSB) [8]
    • “I was lucky enough to watch the Les Crane Show the night Dylan was on. Dylan was rarely on TV back then, a practice he’s continued throughout his career. While there were other guests that night on the show, Dylan was the main guest. He sang two songs, debuting “It’s All Over Now Baby Blue,” at the beginning of the show, and “It’s Alright Ma, (I’m Only Bleeding)”.”
  • The Halfway Point of Tour ’74 (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [5]
    • “Both afternoon and evening shows today in Houston, for instance, have identical setlists. There are only three more full-band songs to get added during the entire second half of the tour, along with four more solo-acoustic numbers.”
  • Stories in the Press: Memphis 1974 (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [5]
    • “Several other local news stories ran in the weeks after the concert. One letter to some sort of local advice columnist expresses surprise that someone would be arrested for playing Frisbee at a concert.”
  • Cover a Day: Trouble as You Have Never Been Troubled Before (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The normal approach in this series is for me to find a number of cover versions of a particular song composed by Dylan and put up links to them with a few notes relating to my own feelings about the song, the covers and anything else that pops into my head while I am writing.”
  • High Water Pt. 12 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The song, like “Po’ Lazarus”, is deep under Dylan’s skin. “The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird” (or: “The Coo Coo Bird”) is on his setlist as early as November 1961, at the Carnegie Chapter Hall concert, and still is in October 1962 (Gaslight Café, New York).”
  • NET Extended: Simple Twist of Fate (1989-2003) [Untold Dylan] (5)
    • “We first come across “Simple Twist of Fate” in the Never Ending Tour series of articles in 1989 when the song was already 15 years old, and we find it with an accompaniment that makes it utterly clear what the song is, but with Bob varying the melody in order to maximise the sense of tragedy.”
  • Cover a Day: Too Much of Nothing (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Dylan clearly did not rate the song himself – and for me the version on the Basement Tapes is one of the worst things, if not the worst, I have ever heard from Bob. The attempt to add the ascending chord sequence, the vocal harmonies… well, maybe there are many people who love it and still play it, but not in my house, please.”
  • NET: 2019 Pt. 4: Virgil’s Farewell (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Let’s start where we have often started in 2019, at the wonderful Palo Alto concert (Oct 14th) for a sensitive and softly delivered gem. It’s beautiful the way he unfolds the drama of the song in a soft, hushed voice.”
  • Lord, Protect My Child: Death At A Party, II (Jeff’s Substack) [5]
    • “In his song, “Lord Protect My Child,” Bob Dylan considers the thoughts, fears and hopes mothers and fathers dwell upon. It’s a prayer-in-song. Dylan’s words reflect on the joy a child’s life brings and how vital that child’s life is to the parent.”
  • Dylan Cover Songs – Aussie Style (The Footy Almanac) [5]
    • “In this, the first of a series of articles showcasing ‘Dylan cover songs – Aussie style’, I look at 10 of the more obscure Aussie artists or albums that have ventured into Dylan’s anthology. Sometimes, it is the back story or side story that makes for the most interesting insight.”

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  • Girl From The North Country at Kauffman Center (Broadway World) [5]
    • “They have converted non-believers (even me) into becoming fans of Dylan’s music.”
  • Driven by Dylan’s music, ‘Girl From the North Country’ Arrives (Greenville Journal) [5]
    • ““The music is amazing,” Moultrie said. “Bob Dylan is an icon, and the way Simon Hill has arranged his music is really remarkable.” The show garnered high praise from critics in both London’s West End (2017) and on Broadway (2020).”
  • The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 (Rare & Unreleased) Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • ” A dark horse of an album, it would seem, despite its general brilliance. Rare and Unreleased Vol. 3 is instead hellbent on bringing in the darker days of his discography.”
  • The Classic Albums: Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ (Ultimate Guitar) [5]
    • “With Bob the sessions were kind of helter skelter in as such that he never did the same song, the same way twice. It was a question of trying to figure out when he was going to change the chord and getting comfortable with the song. He would listen to the track and listen to what the other players were playing.”
  • Tell Tale Signs Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “This Bootleg series entry is a vital piece of the long-running puzzle of shifting sands, of how Dylan got back to his grand form.”
  • The Bootleg Series Vol. 7: No Direction Home Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Clunky at times as the difference between compilation and soundtrack is never made clear, this dark horse of the Bootleg Tapes series is more of the same. Rare cuts and uncovered gems which will no doubt delight the seasoned Dylan fan. One of the finest Desolation Row interpretations can be found on No Direction Home, an initially spotty but eventually essential piece of work from Dylan.”

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Article/Link Quality Ranking

Each link has a ‘quality score’ listed as [#] with a 1-3-5-8 after the publication name. This is designed to help you choose articles and links worth reading.

Simply put, higher numbers reflecting better content and writing. At each of these levels, the quality should be more than twice as high. One way to translate the values is:

1 = Limited Value
3 = Minor
5 = Substantial
8 = Outstanding

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