February 19, 2026
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Bob Dylan reflects on musical influences and names Lonnie Johnson as an unmatched guitarist while acknowledging producers like Daniel Lanois.
In 2026, Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways tour continues across the USA and Europe with evolving setlists, minimalist staging, and dedicated online fan monitoring.
Dylan's 1966 song 4th Time Around is analyzed in relation to Lennon's 1965 Rubber Soul and the Help era within the mid-1960s music scene.
Bob Dylan suffered a serious motorcycle crash in July 1966 near Woodstock, New York, which halted his tour and led to recording John Wesley Harding and The Basement Tapes.
Beck discusses Dylan's Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You from the Nashville Skyline era in a Mojo interview.
Dylan records MTV Unplugged at Sony Music Studios in New York with his touring band for broadcast and release.
Bob Dylan's Street Fairs: Street-Legal Outtakes, a collection of 1978 outtakes and live demos, is reviewed on Feb 18, 2026, focusing on sessions and shows in Augusta and Oakland.
Jeff Buckley in New York, 1993, backstage incident involving Dylan after a Supper Club performance.
Bob Dylan praises U2 and The Beatles in Collider magazine feature.
Dylan launches a 27 city Rough And Rowdy Ways tour in 2026 across multiple US cities from March 21 in Omaha to May 1 in Abilene.
Lucinda Williams discusses World’s Gone Wrong, its topical scope, collaborators, and her recovery from a 2020 stroke.
Jamie Campbell Bower, in a Bakers Dozen interview for The Quietus, discusses his favorite Bob Dylan albums and New York cover art locations.
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe issued a ruling in Philadelphia against the Trump administration, citing Orwell.
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In a Key West essay, the writer nominates Bob Dylan’s 'Seven Curses' as the standout song from 1963, highlighting its betrayal and justice themes.
In a Substack essay, John Nogowski analyzes how Bob Dylan's track-selection decisions for studio albums and Bootleg Series releases affect Dylan's evolving catalog.
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Bob Dylan reflects on musical influences and names Lonnie Johnson as an unmatched guitarist while acknowledging producers like Daniel Lanois.
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In a Substack essay, John Nogowski analyzes how Bob Dylan's track-selection decisions for studio albums and Bootleg Series releases affect Dylan's evolving catalog.
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In a Key West essay, the writer nominates Bob Dylan’s 'Seven Curses' as the standout song from 1963, highlighting its betrayal and justice themes.
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Bob Dylan praises U2 and The Beatles in Collider magazine feature.
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Dylan launches a 27 city Rough And Rowdy Ways tour in 2026 across multiple US cities from March 21 in Omaha to May 1 in Abilene.
Added: 11 hrs ago
Dylan's 1966 song 4th Time Around is analyzed in relation to Lennon's 1965 Rubber Soul and the Help era within the mid-1960s music scene.
Added: 11 hrs ago
In 2026, Bob Dylan's Rough and Rowdy Ways tour continues across the USA and Europe with evolving setlists, minimalist staging, and dedicated online fan monitoring.
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Bob Dylan suffered a serious motorcycle crash in July 1966 near Woodstock, New York, which halted his tour and led to recording John Wesley Harding and The Basement Tapes.
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Jamie Campbell Bower, in a Bakers Dozen interview for The Quietus, discusses his favorite Bob Dylan albums and New York cover art locations.
Added: 17 hrs ago
Lucinda Williams discusses World’s Gone Wrong, its topical scope, collaborators, and her recovery from a 2020 stroke.
Added: 17 hrs ago
Jeff Buckley in New York, 1993, backstage incident involving Dylan after a Supper Club performance.
Added: 17 hrs ago
Beck discusses Dylan's Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You from the Nashville Skyline era in a Mojo interview.
Added: 20 hrs ago
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe issued a ruling in Philadelphia against the Trump administration, citing Orwell.
Added: 20 hrs ago
Dylan records MTV Unplugged at Sony Music Studios in New York with his touring band for broadcast and release.
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In this review, a critic examines Robert Polito's book 'After the Flood' about Bob Dylan's 1991-2024 creative output.
Bob Dylan praised Gordon Lightfoot as never having written a bad song, presenting Lightfoot at a Canadian Music Hall of Fame ceremony in Canada earlier this year.
Flagging Down publishes a blog post ranking ten notable performances from Bob Dylan and Tom Petty’s True Confessions tour winter leg in Australia.
A review at Cult Following examines Bob Dylan's live bootleg Here to Bring Vengeance, documenting Rough and Rowdy Ways tour performances including a Mother of Muses rendition from Phoenix, Arizona.
In this online essay, Jochen examines Bob Dylan's Key West lyrics through Roman history, Gladiator, and Patrick Kavanagh's Raglan Road.
The article discusses how Bob Dylan, writing in 1974, crafted If You See Her, Say Hello and Call Letter Blues in studio settings to explore romantic loss.
Dylan Revisited reviews Bob Dylan's The Bootleg Series Vol. 1, focusing on 1962–63 studio outtakes, demos, and live recordings from North American and UK venues.
On Feb 11, 2026, m100group.com published a feature essay analyzing Bob Dylan songs as a sustained diagnosis of stable societal collapse.
The article explores how Bob Dylan inspired Minutemen's Mike Watt to write the hardcore punk song Bob Dylan Wrote Propaganda Songs in the early 1980s.
The article reviews Robert Polito's book After the Flood, which reexamines Bob Dylan's 1991–2024 late-career work as a vital creative period.
In this Mumbai Mirror review, the writer evaluates Robert Polito's After the Flood, a study of Bob Dylan's 1991–2024 work.
In 2026, Bob Dylan undertakes an ongoing small-theater tour across the US and Europe, presenting continually reworked songs from multiple career eras.
On Feb 10, 2026, the Daily Herald published a review of Robert Polito's book After the Flood about Bob Dylan's late career.
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