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July 29 to Aug 3, 2024

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On Tour

Bob Dylan is currently on-tour in the US through September 17, and has a European Tour from X to Y.

  • 27 Shows (June 21 – Sept 17)
  • 11 Done / 16 Remaining
  • Dates/Setlists / Outlaw /

Latest News

  • Riding the Train Around Europe with Dylan (Flagging Down) [10]
    • “It’s funny. You get this opportunity to spend all this free time with one of your idols from your youth, and you don’t get to ask him questions. He gets to ask you questions.”
  • The Guy on the Cover of Dylan’s Under the Red Sky (Recliner Notes) [8]
    • “He’s not exactly smiling through his scraggly half-beard, and there’s a slight squint to his eyes. He has a mischievous, nonchalant air.”
  • Now It Goes Like This: “Shelter From the Storm” (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “Dylan had released the song a year earlier as an acoustic-guitar-and-bass ballad. The first time anywhere hears it live, though, he’s shredding an insane slide guitar (only time he ever played slide I believe) and screaming his head off.”
  • Dylan in Cincinnati: July 2013 (Shadow Chasing) [5]
    • “This song fits perfectly within Dylan’s late-career vocal range. His mike is turned way up in the mix, a wise decision for “Love Sick,” allowing him to sing low without being drowned out by the music.”
  • Wallflower Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “In the three seasons of the radio show he plays a Doug Sahm record five times (twice Doug Sahm solo, three times Sir Douglas Quintet), each time with resounding words for the Texan. He calls him the great Doug Sahm…”
  • Covers We Missed: “Baby, Stop Crying” (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The history of Baby, Stop Crying covers begins the same year Dylan released the song (1978) with a proper, correct cover, a smooth pop version which stays close to the original.”
  • Lyrics & Music: Love Sick (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “And thus at the end of the song we are utterly lost, both via the lyrics and the music. He can’t say that it is over and he’s walking away, merely that it doesn’t know if she ever could be true.”
  • Approaching the End of Bob Dylan’s Odyssey (Old Rookie) [3]
    • “Later in the set, he brings the harmonica to his lips and in the yellow stage lighting, he is transformed. He is a lonely Civil War soldier playing a jaw harp around the campfire. He is my great-grandmother covering her face, lighting Shabbat candles.”
  • 58 Years Later: Dylan’s Back at Albert (John Nogowski Substak) [3]
    • ““You’re not going to see me anymore and I’m not going to see you anymore,” he said, sounding tired, stoned, irritated all at once. Then, more than a bit of sarcasm. “All you people are wonderful.”
  • Mr Tambourine Man – A History in Performance Pt. 1 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “Goodbye Jimmy Reed had a short but intensive lifespan as a concert song, being played between 2 November 2021 and 6 April 2024.”

Blog Posts

  • Riding the Train Around Europe with Dylan (Flagging Down) [10]
    • “It’s funny. You get this opportunity to spend all this free time with one of your idols from your youth, and you don’t get to ask him questions. He gets to ask you questions.”
  • The Guy on the Cover of Dylan’s Under the Red Sky (Recliner Notes) [8]
    • “He’s not exactly smiling through his scraggly half-beard, and there’s a slight squint to his eyes. He has a mischievous, nonchalant air.”
  • Now It Goes Like This: “Shelter From the Storm” (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “Dylan had released the song a year earlier as an acoustic-guitar-and-bass ballad. The first time anywhere hears it live, though, he’s shredding an insane slide guitar (only time he ever played slide I believe) and screaming his head off.”
  • Dylan in Cincinnati: July 2013 (Shadow Chasing) [5]
    • “This song fits perfectly within Dylan’s late-career vocal range. His mike is turned way up in the mix, a wise decision for “Love Sick,” allowing him to sing low without being drowned out by the music.”
  • Wallflower Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “In the three seasons of the radio show he plays a Doug Sahm record five times (twice Doug Sahm solo, three times Sir Douglas Quintet), each time with resounding words for the Texan. He calls him the great Doug Sahm…”
  • Covers We Missed: “Baby, Stop Crying” (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The history of Baby, Stop Crying covers begins the same year Dylan released the song (1978) with a proper, correct cover, a smooth pop version which stays close to the original.”
  • Lyrics & Music: Love Sick (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “And thus at the end of the song we are utterly lost, both via the lyrics and the music. He can’t say that it is over and he’s walking away, merely that it doesn’t know if she ever could be true.”
  • Approaching the End of Bob Dylan’s Odyssey (Old Rookie) [3]
    • “Later in the set, he brings the harmonica to his lips and in the yellow stage lighting, he is transformed. He is a lonely Civil War soldier playing a jaw harp around the campfire. He is my great-grandmother covering her face, lighting Shabbat candles.”
  • 58 Years Later: Dylan’s Back at Albert (John Nogowski Substak) [3]
    • ““You’re not going to see me anymore and I’m not going to see you anymore,” he said, sounding tired, stoned, irritated all at once. Then, more than a bit of sarcasm. “All you people are wonderful.”
  • Mr Tambourine Man – A History in Performance Pt. 1 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “Goodbye Jimmy Reed had a short but intensive lifespan as a concert song, being played between 2 November 2021 and 6 April 2024.”

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New Videos

  • Dylan’s Gospel Revisited (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “Both this and “Groom” emphasize one of the virtues of The Bootleg Series – they show how Dylan works on every level, as a songwriter and as a musician, constantly revising lyrics, changing chords, melodies and arrangements.”
  • That Time Bob Dylan Played Elijah the Prophet in a Western (Forward) [8]
    • MOVIE REVIEW “It is impossible to watch the movie and not connect Alias, played by Bob Dylan, to the ever-present soundtrack music, played by Bob Dylan. They work in tandem to help propel the plot, almost steering it from another dimension.”
  • The Night the Folk Movement Died (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • BOOK REVIEW “After Dylan left the stage, the Evening Concert continued and thanks to Seeger went longer than scheduled as he apparently tried to salvage what was left with an extended civil rights/peace in the world/all men are brothers finale, but Bob Dylan had pretty much let the air out of the Newport tire.”
  • Bob Dylan Asbury Park 14 August 2011 (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “Bob Dylan is really singing again. It’s as if he’s finally figured out how to make his voice the way it is now do what he really wants it to do. The phrasing, the emphasizing of lines is back, and it’s revitalizing the songs and giving them meaning again, both new and old.”
  • Cat Power Sings Dylan at the Folies Bergère in Paris (Sortira Paris) [5]
    • CONCERT REVIEW “Then comes the sublime cover of ” Ballad of a Thin Man “, a beautiful moment suspended in time. Once again, the American artist demonstrates her undeniable talent.”
  • Rolling Stone Magazine Laid the Hammer Down on Dylan’s ‘Self Portrait’ (American Songwriter) [5]
    • “Marcus didn’t write the usual record review essay, instead dividing it up into a couple dozen individual observations, a few of which go off on tangents about auteurism or the poet Rimbaud.”
  • The Double Life of Bob Dylan. Pt. 5 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • BOOK REVIEW “Furthermore, calling Dylan a “song-snatcher” is insulting as well as misleading – because in the early days of pop, rock and commercial folk music songs were built on each other. Indeed one only has to consider the 12 bar blues to see how this works.”
  • Zoran Paunovic: Rock and Roll is Literature, and Literature is Rock and Roll (Vijesti) [5]
    • BOOK ANNOUNCE “Dylan is a good example of such incorruptibility: over the years, he too was often pushed to the brink of extinction, but always came back stronger. The consumer society – to touch on the final part of your question – as a rule liked him more when he delivered what was expected of him, with the fact that he only did so when it was in accordance with his inner artistic voice…”
  • Before The Flood – Dylan’s Nostalgia Trip That Became The Future (Music Radar) [3]
    • “The new year would see new music: Planet Waves, his first ‘proper’ album for three and a half years. Plus he and the Band would undertake a six week US tour, playing some 40 arena shows across 21 cities.
  • Label Dusts Off Treasure from Dylan & The Band (Barrie Today) [3]
    • “A treasure trove of music from Bob Dylan and The Band has been rediscovered by the record label.”
  • Bob Dylan at Slane Castle 1984 (Cult Following) [3]
    • “Those excesses of excitement are featured well in Slane Castle 1984. A monumental collection of the very best works from Dylan all performed to the highest standard.”
  • Screaming at the Moon: Volume 3 (Cult Following) [3]
    • “What a song to listen to when infuriated by tech troubles. Life is just a constant swing of those tearful, rage-inducing moments.”

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