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Seven Days: May 20-26 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Dylan’s 60 Greatest Songs (Mojo) [5]
    • “Mojo lists the top songs of Bob Dylan, exploring the stories and impact behind each. By handing the choices over to Dylan’s fellow musicians and songwriters, we feel we’ve given a different perspective on Dylan’s craft and enduring genius. And these aren’t just any musicians, either.”
  • Don Was on Detroit, Dylan, and Rolling Stones (Stereogum) [8]
    • “Don Was discusses his experiences touring with various artists, including his work with Bob Dylan. Since COVID, he’s figured out something about how to keep his vocals on top of the mix and to have the band support the vocals. It’s made for a better show, I think. You can hear it. He’s thoroughly engaged in the songs every night in the storytelling.”
  • Inside Bob Dylan’s Masked and Anonymous (Uncut) [5]
    • The article delves into the making of Bob Dylan’s film ‘Masked and Anonymous,’ exploring its themes and production challenges.
  • Dylan, The Avid Chess Player, Has Also Made Nobel Prize-Winning Music (Chess.com) [5]
    • “Dylan has been a very avid chess player. In fact, he used to play chess for hours in Greenwich Village in New York City.”
  • The Time Dylan Visited John Lennon’s Childhood Home (Clash Music) [3]
    • “Bob Dylan boarded a tourist bus unnoticed, and took the £16 tour alone – the truth only coming to light afterwards. A National Trust spokeswoman said Dylan “appeared to enjoy himself”.
  • 83 Dylan Comic Book References (CBR) [8]
    • Bob Dylan has been referenced in numerous comic books over the years, reflecting his influence on pop culture. This shows 83 of them.
  • Forever Young: The Timeless Influence of Bob Dylan (Grateful Web) [3]
    • “Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead shared a bond that went beyond mere collaboration. Their joint tour in 1987 was a melding of two musical worlds, with Dylan’s lyrical mysticism weaving through the Dead’s improvisational jams.”
  • When Bob Dylan Gave Everyone a Glimpse Behind the Mask (American Songwriter) [3]
    • “Dylan couldn’t really hide, since he was the main attraction. Taking the film as a whole, he doesn’t come off too bad, save for a couple of unpleasant moments. But his depiction likely colored his decision to keep that private side out of the public eye, even in so-called documentaries.”
  • Dylan’s Acoustic Guitar Approach (Guitar World) [3]
    • “Dylan typically uses repeating patterns with slight variations as you’ll see here, and the main challenge is to get to the speeds he picks at. When learning parts like this it’s a good idea to learn the fretting-hand shapes first (and there are several variations to get to grips with) and then bring in the picking hand.”
  • Allen Ginsberg Tribute to Bob Dylan (Ginsberg Project) [5]
    • A tribute to Bob Dylan, highlighting his friendship with Allen Ginsberg and their artistic collaborations.
  • Everything We Know About Dylan’s Six Kids (Pinkvilla) [3]

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  • Concert Producer Talks Putting On Dylan’s ‘Hard Rain’ Concert (Flagging Down) [10]
    • “(Dylan) had painted these pictures of Christ on four-by-eight sheets of scrap plywood. My carpenter, under the pressure of the TV people, grabbed that scrap plywood and cut it up and made a table of it.”
  • 30 Years Ago Today, Dylan Sang with a 64-Piece Japanese Orchestra (Flagging Down) [10]
    • “We did the show over three nights. Three times. At the end of the third night, when he came off, he said to me that was the best he’d sung for 15 years. I don’t know whether that’s true, but that’s what he said to me.”
  • MusiCares Speech 2015 (Various Mornings and Nights) [10]
    • “If you had sung that song as many times as I did, you’d have written “How many roads must a man walk down?” too.”
  • When I Paint My Masterpiece Pt. 9 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Dylan just thought he heard Dorsette’s ‘Tall Oak Tree’ in the music track Leon Russell presented him with. Anyway, he changed those lines later.”
  • The Never Ending Tour Extended: Long and Wasted Years (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Long and wasted years was played 328 times between 2013 and 2019. We first pick it up in 2014.”
  • Bob on the Tracks: 18 Cover Songs for Dylan’s Birthday (Between A Rock & A Hard Place) [5]
    • “Below, 18 of my favorite covers of his songs, some not very well known.”
  • Apocalyptic Themes in the Music of Bob Dylan (Ennyman’s Territory) [5]
    • “It’s well known that from the beginning of his career Bob Dylan’s music has often touched on apocalyptic themes. The Cold War weighed heavily on our hearts and in our thoughts. I remember practicing air raid drills in school and many Americans (including relatives of mine in Cleveland) stockpiled food and water in fallout shelters.”
  • Not Dark Yet: Bob Dylan’s Influence (Power Line Blog) [5]
    • “I wonder how Dylan could have absorbed all the strains of American popular music in a town as remote as Hibbing. The radio was apparently Dylan’s indispensable source, but the development of his gifts seems incredibly unlikely. How could he have formed the ambition to become “Bob Dylan” from his roots in Hibbing?”
  • He’s Got Everything He Needs, He’s an Artist, He Don’t Look Back (Everything is Broken) [5]
    • “While he has very obviously absorbed the blues form, the blues vernacular, the blues attitude, and blues tropes, in the end, Bob Dylan’s blues are first and foremost Bob Dylan songs. Casual listeners may think they are hearing a blues song or a blues singer, but that is the magic and the genius – Dylan transubstantiates the blues into Bob Dylan music.”
  • One Bob Dylan Song (Critical Conditions) [5]
    • “But to choose one Bob Dylan song and performance? It’s too reductive, so radioactive that it would melt cities. You’d have to be a fool to find that hill, much less make a stand on it.”
  • Comment: A Complete Unknown (York Vision) [5]
    • “Exploring the enigmatic persona of Bob Dylan and his impact on the music world.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Everything is Broken (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “What carries the music through against this repetition is the multiple textures of the music which are introduced one by one at the very start.”
  • NET Extended: Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather. 1992-99 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • This song was first played on 12 April 1963 and was finally wrapped up on 6 July 2019 after 300 performances.
  • Lyrics and Music: Tombstone Blues (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “The musical opening of this song is nothing if not frantic…Dylan hardly worries about a melody – it is in fact a recitation depicting an utterly frantic world.”
  • Once or Twice: You Angel You (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “You Angel You was played on January 14 and 8 February 1990 and was picked up for this site by Mike Johnson.”
  • Parking Lot Encounters: A Chance Run-In with Bob Dylan in Greenwich Village (Need Some Fun) [3]
    • “I took a quick look to see who she meant. Then him yelled, “It is!” It was Bob Dylan all right, right there in the flesh, who’d beaten me out of that NYC parking spot.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Birthday (Patti Smith) [3]
    • “I have been thinking about Bob Dylan’s work through the years and wondered what song to listen to, and also what one to choose here. I played a lot of from the John Wesley Harding album which I love but stopped at It’s Alright Ma (I’m only bleeding) from Bringing it all back Home.. It spoke to me, in its time, on many levels.”
  • The Covers We Missed 3: Abandoned Love (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “Willie Nile hits the right tone in ‘Abandoned Love,’ capturing regret, remorse, sadness, but also defiance and self-confidence.”
  • A Salute to Bob Dylan (Village Preservation) [1]
  • Jesus Christ Meets Bob Dylan in a Hotel Room in Tucson, 1978 (1)
  • Happy 83rd Birthday Bob Dylan (1)

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  • Graded on a Curve: Bob Dylan, Time Out of Mind (The Vinyl District) [5]
    • “Time Out of Mind marked a return to form for Dylan, showcasing his prowess as a songwriter with deeply introspective lyrics and a haunting atmosphere.”
  • Beyond Here: Unreleased Live Recordings Spring 2016 (Cult Following) [3]
    • “Further evidence of its early sound can be found on That Old Black Magic, a Johnny Mercer cover which became a staple of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. Its slack, jolly rock motion is a very different occasion for Beyond Here but captures the overarching sounds Dylan was building towards.”
  • Kansas City Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “Taking to the stage with Kansas City at the start of his setlist is not just a way to pay tribute to one of the historic cities on this tour date list but also a mark of respect to Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller. This live recording lingers as a rough way of inserting Dylan into the classics.”
  • High Water Rising Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “Love and Theft, the performances within High Water Rising, are a boom of wonder. Sugar Baby lingers as one of the finest in this unofficial collection. “
  • Fiddle Bow Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “A collection of classics drawn up with new instrumental flourishes is always a neat joy. No surprise these are pieces with additional fiddle and bow instructions for the backing band. It works wonders.”
  • Girl From The North Country Keeps Traveling (ExpertClick) [3]
    • A review of the musical ‘Girl From The North Country,’ which continues to tour successfully.
  • Theatre Review: Really Girl from the North Country (We Live) [3]
    • “The problem lies with a book that doesn’t quite know what it wants to be or who it wants to focus on. The characters’ stories are glossed over, and others feel like they are missing important beats to connect the dots. Had celebrated playwright Conor McPherson (“The Seafarer”) chosen just a few of the stories to center his show on, this could have been a more affecting tale.”

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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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