October 7, 2025
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Last Updated: 10/7/2025 at 3:18 PM EST
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Legacy Unveils Record Store Day Black Friday Slate With Prince, Miles Davis, Dylan, Billy Joel, More
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Not long after its initial release, Columbia Records pulled copies of Bob Dylan's 1963 studio album - just his second - to replace four songs.
The Original Free Wheelin’ Dylan will be released on vinyl for the first time as initially conceived, including four unreleased tracks and never-before-seen original liner notes.
Dylan said he used to hate hearing Neil Young’s 'Heart of Gold' on the radio because it sounded like him.
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Dylan's invitation for Harrison to spend Thanksgiving with him in Woodstock forged a friendship that lasted through Harrison's life.
Researching Dylan’s Greenwood trip led me to dig deeper into the rest of his career and catalog.
Blonde On Blonde is widely acknowledged as the first studio double LP by a major artist and completed Dylan's transition from folk to rock.
As Far Out magazine calculated, because "Like a Rolling Stone" is six minutes long, Dylan has spent about 207.5 hours playing the song, which works out to be a whopping nine days of his life.
Both of The Band’s former bosses Dylan and Ronnie Hawkins featured on stage alongside Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, and others.
Want to really piss Dylan off, though?
Dylan Blogs
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Add to this the fact that around half of the songs listed on the BobDylan.com website as Dylan compositions have never been played by Dylan in public (not even once) shows how strange this situation is.
Dylan didn’t change the words significantly, but his later performance added a world-weary, knowing sadness that made the song deeply moving.
Recordings show Dylan and the band firing on all cylinders, delivering two of Europe 2000’s best shows despite Wembley Arena’s poor sound.
Tony Attwood reflects on songs chosen by Dylan in The Philosophy Of Modern Song, focusing on 'Money Honey,' its musical structure, lyrical cynicism, and its impact on working-class themes.
Carol shares her Dylan story in-depth, recounting how she captured nearly 80 Dylan concerts on film between 1989 and 2002.
The oldest of these is Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography 1961-2022, 3rd Edition.
Dylan’s "Watching The River Flow" is a bluesy, rock-tinged track that suits the mood of Siddhartha.
George always brought a lucid, sunny disposition to whatever he touched, and that’s absolutely the case with his rendition of Absolutely Sweet Marie.
A performance of I Shall Be Released by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and The Band has been praised by fans as an "amazing" version.
Releases & Reviews
Announcements or Analysis of Creative Work
When Dylan spoke with Paul Zollo in 1991, he singled out 'Sail Away' as the standard-bearer of his work: "It doesn't get any better than that."
The train has been rolling along from the Carter Family in the 1930s to Dylan in 2020 with 'Murder Most Foul', snaking through the United States' subconscious where the nation's imagination lies frighteningly naked.
Minnesota’s own Dylan has been one of the most generous in sharing outtakes from his career.
Old & In The Way Live Album, Ween ‘Shinola’, & Other 2025 Record Store Day Black Friday Highlights
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The Original Freewheelin’ Dylan album is getting its first release as part of a 176-title Record Store Day Black Friday 2025 slate on November 28.
Live Sessions 1961-62 is a grim undertaking for anyone interested in the context of Dylan’s early years.
Auto-generated compilations on YouTube are doing more damage to Dylan's career and discography than the bootlegs released, the unlicensed recording at least serving the purpose of historical documentation.
Dylan is among artists contributing vinyl to Record Store Day Black Friday 2025, with select releases expected to resell well.
Events News
Announcements and Commentary
The Illawarra Flame (OCT 06, 2025)
U3A Wollongong’s October program includes a 'Why Dylan Matters' talk examining Dylan’s artistry alongside climate and sustainability lectures.
Pre-Release Items
Upcoming Music, Books, Films, Etc.
Examining how Dylan's lyrics shape or get shaped by vocalization, performance, instrumentation, film, recording technologies, and the forces of history unfolding around him, this collection models a range of ways to understand the songs as poetical phenomena by answering questions like: How can we read and understand Dylan's lyrics as poetry?
Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan by exploring the virtues of rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice.
In the wake of the recent hit biopic A Complete Unknown, this probing appreciation asks: Do the lyrics of Bob Dylan tell the true story of the ever-changing, ever-radical life and career of the Nobel Prize-winning songwriter?
This publication of his art features nearly 100 black-and-white drawings that were completed between 2021 and 2022 and served as the basis for his latest exhibition—also titled _Point Blank_—at London’s Halcyon Gallery in early 2025.
Blending biography and archival history, After the Flood asks of Bob Dylan, “If your dreams are fulfilled at twenty, what do you do with the rest of your life?”
Dylan Related Events (Next 7 Days)
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- JAN-01 / NOV-14 | UK Various: Hallelujah on Desolation Row / Barb Junger Tour (Concert Tour)
- AUG-15 / OCT-15 | New York, NY: Bob Dylan Exhibit: How Many Roads (Exhibit)
- SEP-15 / OCT-15 | Lexington, MA: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan (Class)
- OCT-08 | University, MS: Public Conversation on Medgar Evers, Bob Dylan, and Jerry Mitchell (Lecture)
- OCT-08 | University, MS: Songs of Freedom: Bob Dylan’s Mississippi (Event)
- OCT-10 | Dublin, IR: Bringing Dylan Home (Tribute Band)
- OCT-11 | Tulsa, Oklahoma: Family Folk Fest (Event)
- OCT-12 | Northampton, MA: Roger Salloom - Forever Young: The Music of Bob Dylan (Concert)
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