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    • This Week: Stuttgart GY, Saarbrucken GY, Paris FR
    • Next Week: Esch-sur-Alzette Lux, Antwerp BG, Bournmouth UK, Liverpool UK
    • Tour ScheduleSetlists |  BobServe.com

News/Reviews

  • It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue in Stuttgart (Cohenpedia) [5]
    • "But Dylan’s vocals, which are much too quiet or badly controlled, don’t sound well mixed, which unfortunately doesn’t improve much in the course of the concert. A circumstance that apparently animates Dylan to less nuance, especially in the quiet songs."
  • Watching The River Flow in Saarbrücken (Cohenpedia) [5]
    • "When he tries to express the slightest gradations, to make imperceptible differences perceptible and to alternately distinguish, strengthen or diminish his voice, he gives even more expression to the spoken word, sometimes sung or 'crooned'."
  • Dylan, in majesty in Paris (DayFREuro) [5]
    • "Never being where you expect him to be. And especially not on the same ground as the previous time… Last night in Paris, Bob Dylan did not renounce his principles."
  • Bob Dylan delights Paris (Le Monde) [3]
    • "PAYWALL - There was no encore, on Thursday, October 24, not even for his comeback to the great concert hall of La Seine musicale, on the Ile Seguin, in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt."
  • Storyteller in Action!” – Bob Dylan in Paris, 24th of October 2024 (JohnnyBorganBlog) [8]
    • "No, I’m not saying this was the best show I’ve seen, but it was unique and it was different, for me, because I could SEE the working man telling his story, I could SEE how important it was, the whole night, to lean in and really tell us the story, not just by singing the song."
  • Dylan in Paris, 25th of October, 2024 (JohnnyBorganBlog) [8]
    • "His eyes are still blue, and he is still searching for the great beyond of great poetry, beyond the horizon line, beyond what is possible to know and to say, and he still asks himself what Julius Cæsar would do."
  • Two Nights in Paris (Flagging Down The Double E's) [8]
    • "On the opening night, he sings softly and with care, considering each line with attention. But perhaps tonight this tenderness is at the cost of the fire and brimstone that often fills Dylan’s best vocal performances."

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  • Dylan Revisited: Blonde on Blonde (1966) - part 2 (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • "The man who most helped to mix this musical cocktail was Charlie McCoy, who directed Rainy Day Woman’s impulsive brass section and made another unique horn-based contribution to Blonde on Blonde."
  • 5 Surprising Facts About Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ (That Eric Alper) [3]
    • "Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, but there are plenty of lesser-known details about its creation and legacy."
  • Breaking Down Bob Dylan's Harmonica Solos (Flagging Down The Double E's) [5]
    • "So today I wanted to celebrate one of Dylan’s wildest harmonica tours by showcasing every different song he played it on over those two months in Fall 2001."
  • False Prophet - Pt.14 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "The Prophet’s elusiveness is not lifted in this last verse either. Indeed, with I’m nobody’s bride, the narrator suddenly insinuates that he is female – or at least genderless, anyway."
  • Mickey Raphael Talks Playing Harmonica with Dylan (Flagging Down The Double E's) [10]
    • "It wasn’t like I even focused on the audience. I’m playing it for him, basically. It could have just been he and I in a room. That’s all I focused on, what he was doing."

New Releases & Reviews

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  • Better Than Jail
  • The 1974 Live Recordings (Uncut) [5]
    • "Never again would an audience’s expectations take precedence over his own instincts. It’s worth the investment to hear him reaching that career-redefining conclusion, on which so much further controversy would hang."
  • The 1974 Live Recordings (Under The Radar) [3]
    • "The opportunity to aurally join Dylan and The Band for dozens of 1974 shows and to track the tour’s performance evolution over every single surviving soundboard recording is a jaw-dropping treat that would have been unimaginable in earlier years."
  • The Double Life of Bob Dylan: vol 2 (Pt.1) (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • "It is quite extraordinary that having spent the entire first volume of his two volume epic on Dylan, that Clinton Heylin opens volume two 'Far Away from Myself' with a review of how drugs can change a person."
  • Dylan & Us: Beyond America (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "A clear understanding of Dylan’s art also necessitates some general observations regarding the traditional love song and its global appeal."

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