Robert Polito's After the Flood is one of the first works to benefit from the thousands of manuscripts at the Bob Dylan Center; Polito says he was 'the first writer to experience the archive' and advised on its architecture and catalog. [85]

Dylan recorded a 1967 Basement Tapes version with the Band; it appeared on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1–3 (1991) and a remixed take on The Bootleg Series Vol.11 (2014). [85]

The post thematically revisits prophets and false prophets, echoing material and concerns from Rough and Rowdy Ways and the song “False Prophet,” and frames figures like Stafford Monk as a false prophet/demagogue. [80]

Steven Rings identifies Dylan's Nara, 1994 performance of 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall' as a milestone that creates a before-and-after in the song's performance history. [80]

Polito frames Dylan's creative process as a 'memory palace' mnemonic, citing Dylan's manager's note of his ability to 'tuck away' information and Sylvia Tyson's claim 'He literally remembers everything he's ever heard or seen.' [80]

Polito argues Dylan's use of collage 'spans folk process and literary modernism' and that Dylan treats race as the engine of America's creativity while remaining aware of his role as a white blues singer or 'sort of minstrel.' [80]

Dylan wrote in Chronicles that his eighteen-month tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 'would be my last' and that his songs had become 'strangers to me'. [80]

Polito argues Dylan built 'memory palaces' in his songs—assembling books, people, historical facts, forgotten lyrics and biblical quotations into late works including "Murder Most Foul" and "I Contain Multitudes." [80]

On some Self Portrait songs producer Bob Johnston used Dylan's solo guitar-and-vocal tapes and had musicians overdub bass and drums, despite Dylan's unsteady tempos on those tapes. [78]

The post’s title, The Articles of Faith, explicitly alludes to Joseph Smith’s 1842 Articles of Faith and invokes creedal, Mormon-language framing. [75]

That Instagram post, titled The Articles of Faith (Excerpts from Chapter 5 — How Does it Look?), presents seven numbered statements/dialogues among Stafford Monk, Captain Carlsen, Wilkins, Doctor Farrell, and a Narrator. [75]

Dylan rewrote 'You're a Big Girl Now' and performed it over 200 times across the next 30 years. [75]

Dylan recorded a second version in 1971 with Happy Traum; that arrangement was released on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. II. [75]