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Seven Days: April 29 – May 5, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Recently Discovered Early Painting by Bob Dylan Revealed (Hot Press) [8]
    • “Sandy talked about the painting through the years, and how she got it from Dylan in exchange for astrology readings…. I remember seeing the back of the painting. I recall the unique way it was signed with musical bars and notes. The painting itself looked like many abstracts that I had seen from the sixties”
  • Rare Original Abstract Painting (c. 1968) (RR Auctions)
    • “AUCTION: An unseen treasure from Bob Dylan’s Woodstock years—an incredibly rare circa 1968 original painting by Dylan, 24.5 x 30, with a colorful and energetic abstract composition featuring the large central outline of a bull.”
  • Daniel Kramer, Photographer Who Documented Bob Dylan’s Electric Transformation, Dead at 91 (Rolling Stone) [5]
    • “Kramer called up Dylan’s management firm and arranged a one-hour photoshoot in Woodstock, New York. But the two hit it off, and Kramer wound up working with Dylan for five hours.”
  • Daniel Kramer 1932-2024 (The Blue Moment) [5]
    • “But I’m probably not the only one who has a special fondness for the photos taken in 1964-65 by Daniel Kramer, who has died aged 91. Brooklyn-born, the young Kramer worked as an assistant to Diane Arbus and Philippe Halsman. He had just set up his own studio and knew little about Dylan when he first saw him on TV early in 1964 but then spent six months petitioning Albert Grossman to allow him access.”
  • What Acoustic Guitars Did Bob Dylan Play? (Ultimate Guitar) [5]
    • “(Dylan) is primarily known for his acoustic guitar work. But Dylan’s first couple of guitars were actually electric guitars — specifically, a Silvertone and a Supro Ozark. When Dylan moved to Minneapolis in 1959, he traded in his electric guitar and began playing acoustic almost exclusively, as he recounts in his memoir.”
  • ‘Every Dylan Song Could Be Improved’? (The Guardian) [5]
    • “Dylan has written more great songs than anyone in history but a condition of that greatness is that he was not hung up on perfecting any of them. Every version of every Dylan song could be improved. For each enhancement made to a song’s lyrics there’s a corresponding loss.”
  • 10 Blatant Bob Dylan Imitations (Best Classic Bands) [5]
    • “Certain other artists, however, couldn’t have cared less about that—the more blatant the imitation, the better. Some eventually found their own voices, some never recovered from the Zimmermanic digression, but the best of the bunch, listed below, and their fellow travelers galore, still provide endless fascination and amusement following the leader.”
  • Joan Baez Haunted by Heartbreak (The New Statesman) [5]
    • “There’s no doubting the song is about Dylan – she paints a clear portrait of him – but here’s the thing: she has also described, in her memoir, the moment when she blankly denied this fact to Dylan’s face, saying instead that the song had been written for her husband.”
  • The Best Bob Dylan Documentaries (Spin) [5]
    • “Dylan’s shifting facades have fascinated fans for decades, and these movies attempt to find some form of truth about why he has so insistently captured our attention. Though “truth” is something Dylan—and some of the filmmakers—would surely laugh at. It’s as subjective as this list.”
  • Cat Power Extends 2024 Bob Dylan Tribute Tour (Consequence of Sound) [3]
    • “Cat Power has lined up a second leg of her 2024 tour in support of her live album, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert. The new dates begin on September 6th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with Cat Power continuing through cities including New Orleans, Austin, and Sacramento.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Dream Machine: The Ford that Captivated the Musician (MSN) [1]
  • How Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Started My Music Career (Talkhouse) [1]
  • What Does Dylan Think of ‘A Complete Unknown? (WeGotThis) [1]
  • I Thought Bob Dylan had Fallen in Love With Me (The Telegraph) [1]

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  • Ira Ingber on Working with Bob Dylan (Hound Dawg Blog) [8]
    • “It turns out my aunt through marriage is his mother’s second or third cousin. When I told him about that later on, his response was, in typical Bob fashion, ‘everybody’s related to my mother.” That was his answer.”
  • Artists on Murder Most Foul (Peter Stone Brown) [10]
    • “Elvis Costello: This song is “about President Kennedy” in the same way that, Moby Dick is about a whale of a time. Make no mistake, this is a writer and – perhaps more importantly – a singer, operating at the top of their powers.”
  • Three Musicians Who Auditioned to Play with Bob Dylan (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “With all the Dylan band members I’ve interviewed, one thing that comes up a lot is the strange audition process to join Bob’s band. For one, it’s rarely called an “audition.”
  • Bob Dylan and Basketball: 17 Surprising Connections (5×5) [8]
    • “One fellow hoopster, David Reitman, spent long hours playing and shooting, sometimes in hope that Dylan would show up. One day, Bob did, asking, “Mind if I shoot here?”
  • Dylan’s “False Prophet” and Wilder’s Alcestiad (Ad Fontes) [8]
    • “ALCESTIS: It is the despair that one has not lived. It is the despair that one’s life has been without meaning. That it has been nonsense; happy or unhappy, that it has been senseless. “Father, help me.”
  • Gender Performance Pt. 3 (Shadow Chasing) [8]
    • “There were always places in Hibbing and surrounding towns to perform if one was willing to play for free. Paying gigs were harder to find, however, and young Bobby struggled to gain access.”
  • Cover a Day: With God on Our Side (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Judy Collins brings me back to how I think the song should be performed. This is haunting, even though I have (by the moment of hearing this) heard quite a few versions. The harmonies, with a lesser artist, could be horribly inappropriate but no, it works.”
  • When I Paint My Masterpiece (1971) Pt.5 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The Coliseum is now unmistakably the stage, the publicness in which the artist for so long has been offering panem et circenses, bread and games to the public. The lions are now mean and hungry – evoking the critics, the arrogant reviewers, the howlers, the disgruntled fans, the Judas-and-treason-shouting disappointed ones.”
  • The Relevance of Folk Music Today (Salient) [5]
    • “That’s the essence of folk music—what Dylan accomplished for Garnet. It is the idea that someone will bravely tell you the truth, whether you want to hear it or not. It makes the music more important, and the message more urgent.”
  • Bob Dylan’s “Saving Grace” Offers Comfort in a Time of Need (Ennyman’s Territory) [5]
    • “Now my personal take is that Saved has to be evaluated for what it is, not for what critics or fans want it to be. Essentially it is a heartfelt gospel album. The songs here are offered as a gift to gospel believers much like the hymns of old, giving voice to Biblical concepts and encouragement to faith.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Just Like A Woman (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “There is also the short musical interlude between the verses of the solo acoustic guitar picking out individual notes, followed by the organ with its descending pattern. These again focus on the contrast: the delicate young woman symbolised by the acoustic guitar, and her attempt to be an adult with the descending organ.”
  • No Vacancies. Painting by Bob Dylan (Various Mornings) [5]
    • “The road, the blue mountains, the sky, the close up part of the painting, the cracks in the pavement. Often though when seeing this painting something about that sign would seem out of place.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Key West (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “Not that not making sense of the song worried me in the past, but now I get it, I like the song more. As Bob says in the second line, “That’s my story, but not where it ends.” Snap shots of life, knowing that nothing from the past can be changed.”
  • The NET Extended: I Shall Be Released 1975 to 2008 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “I have no doubt (for myself and course it is just me) the original is a billion times better. that the live version above. The message is one of hope not of desperation.”
  • Songs Bob has Performed Only Rarely… “Caribbean Wind” (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “Plus we have the fact that the lyrics are intriguing, the musicians know exactly where they are and what they are doing (which is not always the case!) and the contrast musically between the verse and the chorus is superb and sustains the song through its six plus minutes of performance.”
  • The Story Behind “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” (American Songwriter) [3]
    • ““Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” was the B-side of “Blowin’ in the Wind.” The song achieved more success when other artists recorded it. For a time, it seemed trendy to record a Bob Dylan song.”
  • The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour 17: Every Grain of Sand (Untold Dylan) [1]
  • Music Journalism in A Social Media World (Harvard Crimson) [1]

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  • GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY at Broadway at The Hobby Center (Broadway World) [5]
    • “The only connection to Bob Dylan is that he was born near Duluth in 1941, and that is a spiritual connection at best. Yet his songs become the innermost thoughts of each of these characters as they struggle with who they are and who they will become in this time.”
  • The Dichotomy of Girl From The North Country (Houston Press} [5]
    • “Yes, all of this is a disaster. But maybe it’s also brilliant. After all, if you’re going to do a Dylan musical it better as hell break the mold. It better be the newly electric fighting against the expected acoustic, no matter who it upsets in the short term.”

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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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