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Seven Days: April 8 – 14, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Guitarist Jimmie Vaughan Drops In On Bob Dylan’s Tour Closer In Austin (Jambase) [3]
    • “Dylan briefly introduced Vaughn after the sixth song of the set, “Black Rider.” The guest guitarist replaced guitarist Doug Lancio for much of the rest of the show, playing on “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” “My Own Version Of You,” “Crossing The Rubicon,” “To Be Alone With You,” “Gotta Serve Somebody,” “Mother Of Muses,” and more.”
  • Bob Dylan Busts Out Ry Cooder Cover for First-Time Since 1998, Welcomes Jimmie Vaughan (Relix) [3]
    • “During the later portion of Friday’s concert, Dylan pulled an unexpected move and dusted off Ry Cooder’s “Across the Borderline” for the first time since Nov. 3, 1998. Notably, Dylan had only covered Get Rhythm originator seven times prior, performing it most frequently, with a mere three run-throughs in 1990.”
  • Bob Dylan Puts an End to “Rough and Rowdy Ways” With Two Nights in Austin (Austin Chronicle) [5]
    • “On March 1 in Fort Lauderdale, Bob Dylan was a few songs into his show – and a few years into his Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour – when a woman in the audience seized a medium-quiet moment of tuning to make a request: “Play something we know!” she shouted to the stage. Dylan squinted. He clearly heard her.”
  • Don’t Hate on Dylan; Enjoy his Evolution and Vocal Maturity (Tennassean) [5]
    • “My hope is for people to approach Dylan with a more open mind. To see him as someone who, from the beginning, was able to undergo chemical changes with the snap of a finger, to transform from song to song, album to album.”
  • Announcing the ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour’ Finale Series (Flagging Down) [10]
    • “Today’s introductory post will be an overview: What he played, where he played, with whom he played, etc. Much of which you may already know, but perhaps it will be helpful to look back at the big picture, the journey we and he have been on from Fall 2021 to here.”
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour Finale II: The Arrangements (Flagging Down) [10]
    • “Bob used to be known for mixing up which songs he played every night. He doesn’t do that any more. He plays the same songs (mostly) every night. What he does do is mix up how those same songs are played. He did “When I Paint My Masterpiece” 201 times on this tour. But on some legs, even on some specific nights, it sounded very different than on others. Same words, different music.”
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour Finale III: The Covers (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “By my count, Dylan covered 30 different songs during the Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour. Over half of them he had never sung before. So today, I wanted to go through them one by one.”

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  • The Story of The Martin D-28 Used by Hank Williams, Bob Dylan, and Neil Young (Ultimate Guitar) [5]
    • “Interestingly enough, Bob Dylan also possessed the guitar for a brief time, but it remains unclear if any songs were written or recorded on it during its tenure with the folk legend. Here, Neil Young explains how the guitar landed in Bob Dylan’s lap.”
  • T Bone Burnett Steps into the Spotlight (FT) [8]
    • “The first public result was Dylan’s re-recording of “Blowin’ in the Wind”, which sold for nearly $1.8mn at auction in 2022. The steep price paid for the song didn’t bother Burnett. “The market spoke, so to speak, and it went for what it went for,” he says. “I would say the value has doubled already.”
  • An Art-Drenched Wine Estate Decorated by Gehry and Dylan (Michelin Guide) [5]
    • “You’ll even find the last project by architectural titan Oscar Niemeyer (alongside installations from relative lightweights Bob Dylan and Michael Stipe). The latest work comes courtesy of Damien Hirst, a temporary exhibit that will run until June 2024.”
  • ‘Nashville Skyline’ Cover: The Inside Story (Best Classic Bands) [5]
    • “He paused for a moment, apparently inspired, and said, “What about taking one from down there?” pointing to the ground. As I started kneeling, I saw that it was muddy but kept going. “Do you think I should wear this?” he asked, starting to put on his hat, smiling because it was kind of a goof, and he was having fun visualizing himself in this silly-looking traditional hat.”
  • 55 Years Ago: Nashville Skyline (Moose Radio) [3]
    • “If you listen to every other album he made before then, and then go back and listen to Nashville Skyline, it is a totally different album,” Charlie Daniels — who, as a then-aspiring country star, played guitar on the album — tells CMT. “His vocal sounds, the material he did, the way he approached it, all of the arrangements — everything — the total thing was kind of a departure for him.”
  • 5 Fascinating Facts About Bob Dylan’s 1969 Country Album ‘Nashville Skyline’ (American Songwriter) [1]
  • Stevie Van Zandt Teaches Chuck Berry And Dylan (Forbes) [1]

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  • There Is No One Out There Like Him (Peter Stone Brown) [3]
    • “Every night on this last tour there’s been variations in approach to the songs, giving fans the opportunity — if they want it — to hear different treatments and nuances as well as playing songs from various sources and backgrounds, sharing songs he loves from Hank Williams to folk and blues. What a gift.”
  • He Belongs To Me (On Being a Woman and Loving Bob Dylan) (Rock The Inbox) [8]
    • “It’s never a massive blast being a female fan of a band that the culture at large has decided that men have ownership over, and I don’t think that this is even particularly true about Dylan (and, for the most part, I stopped caring about that long ago). And I am sure plenty of women could write this same story about Springsteen or Petty or Neil Young.”
  • Next Time You See Me Coming… (Chris Gregory) [3]
    • “The road itself is 1,400 miles long and runs from New Orleans – the ‘birthplace of the blues’ – up to Dylan’s home state of Minnesota. It also follows of the course of the USA’s longest river, the Mississippi, which itself occupies a prominent place in American literature and folklore.”
  • Lyrics and Music: It’s All Right Ma (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “But it is also possible to hear the song as an exposition of getting through life despite all that.  That descending guitar line that runs through line after line in the verses, beyond Bob’s vocals, tells us that yes life is repetitive. But combined with the beat it also tells us that yes, it can all be ok. “
  • Cover A Day: When He Returns (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “My view is that in this performance the music is secondary to the meaning.  For me the music and the meaning can co-exist, and indeed in the best songs are equal partners, but once the meaning overtakes the music then the essence of the music is in danger, and that is what I find here.”
  • All I Really Want To Do (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “‘All I really want to do’ is a love song in the minor. The I-figure speaking is not in love – or in the best-case scenario, not any more – and wishes to keep somebody at arm’s length who wants more than to be ‘just friends’.”
  • Lyrics and Music: I Want You (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “But the lyrics offer something else – or rather two something else’s, if there can be such things. The chorus is trivial, both musically and lyrically, repeating “I want you” and then adding “so bad”.  That is hardly what any of us would quote if telling a colleague or friend that Dylan was a master of words.”
  • When I Paint My Masterpiece Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “But apparently – paradoxically – it inspires two songs today that have an inspiration-seeking creator as their protagonist. The opening line, Oh, the streets of Rome are filled with rubble, remains unchanged in all alternative and later versions – presumably that line is the catalyst, as Dylan calls it.”
  • The NET Extended: Positively 4th Street (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “And indeed one might think that the 1996 performance once again was just about as far as it could go. I won’t take you through all the variations that came thereafter, but will now jump through to the last performance of which we have a recording, from the Never Ending Tour series.”
  • Melancholy Mood: Reworking a Classic (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “The music was written in 1939 by Walter Schumann with lyrics written by Vick Knight and Bob’s version appeared on the Fallen Angels album. It was first recorded by Kenny Baker in the year of its composition, and I believe it is certainly worth returning for a moment to that original recording, just to see the magnitude of what Bob has done with this song.”

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  • ‘Girl from the North Country’ Sports Bob Dylan Hits, Societal Commentary (The Huntingdon News) [3]
    • “As an unmarried, pregnant Black teenager in a white family, she faces a large social stigma that her father tries to hide from society. She has multiple solos throughout the musical, and her emotional performances tugged on the audience’s heartstrings.”
  • Top 25 Bob Dylan Films and Videos (BarnFlakes) [5]
    • “With questionable abilities as an actor and director, Dylan has nevertheless amassed a fascinating filmography which includes feature films, documentaries, concerts, interviews and music videos* – often all rolled up in the same movie and blurring distinctions between fact and fiction.”

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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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