January 28, 2026
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Last Updated: 1/28/2026 at 9:05 AM EST
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Dylan News
Sly Dunbar, the reggae drummer of Sly and Robbie, died at 73, with the death announced to the Jamaica Gleaner by his wife.
Dylan Articles
Bob Dylan performs Van Morrison's Going Down to Bangor during the Belfast show in November.
A blog post on Oreate AI reevaluates Bob Dylan’s 1980s albums and live releases, highlighting twenty underrated tracks from the decade.
Bob Dylan’s 1966 song 4th Time Around is presented as a pointed reply to John Lennon’s 1965 Norwegian Wood, with Lennon reportedly uneasy after Dylan played the song for him in London.
Dangerous Minds profiles Karen Dalton, recounting her Greenwich Village career, ties to Bob Dylan, recording history, and later rediscovery.
Dylan's early life in Duluth and Greenwich Village in the early 1960s shaped his ascent through folk and early rock influences.
Bob Dylan described Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson as his songwriting models and collaborated with Robert Hunter on Together Through Life, the article reports.
On a snow day, the author watches A Complete Unknown and Deliver Me From Nowhere in Akron, Ohio, evaluating fidelity and portrayal.
Bob Dylan contributed to the Easy Rider soundtrack in the late 1960s, collaborating with Roger McGuinn in New York.
Dylan Posts
In this blog post, Untold Dylan analyzes Bob Dylan's song Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts within Dylan's 1974 creative period.
Releases & Reviews
Cult Following reviews Bob Dylan's Bleeding Shadows bootleg, documenting a 2004 Motril, Spain concert where Dylan experiments with rearranged classics and evolving vocals.
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In this blog post, Untold Dylan analyzes Bob Dylan's song Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts within Dylan's 1974 creative period.
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Sly Dunbar died on Jan 26, 2026 in Jamaica at age 73.
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Bob Dylan performs Van Morrison's Going Down to Bangor during the Belfast show in November.
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On a snow day, the author watches A Complete Unknown and Deliver Me From Nowhere in Akron, Ohio, evaluating fidelity and portrayal.
Added: 6 hrs ago
A blog post on Oreate AI reevaluates Bob Dylan’s 1980s albums and live releases, highlighting twenty underrated tracks from the decade.
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In this essay, the author revisits Bob Dylan's Highlands restaurant scene, relating it to early-2000s graduate-school experiences in Boston.
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Bob Dylan contributed to the Easy Rider soundtrack in the late 1960s, collaborating with Roger McGuinn in New York.
Added: 15 hrs ago
Dylan's early life in Duluth and Greenwich Village in the early 1960s shaped his ascent through folk and early rock influences.
Added: 15 hrs ago
Dangerous Minds profiles Karen Dalton, recounting her Greenwich Village career, ties to Bob Dylan, recording history, and later rediscovery.
Added: 15 hrs ago
Bob Dylan’s 1966 song 4th Time Around is presented as a pointed reply to John Lennon’s 1965 Norwegian Wood, with Lennon reportedly uneasy after Dylan played the song for him in London.
Added: 21 hrs ago
Sly Dunbar, the reggae drummer of Sly and Robbie, died at 73, with the death announced to the Jamaica Gleaner by his wife.
Added: 21 hrs ago
Bob Dylan described Woody Guthrie and Robert Johnson as his songwriting models and collaborated with Robert Hunter on Together Through Life, the article reports.
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On Oct 13, 2016, the Nobel Committee awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Cult Following reviews Bob Dylan's Bleeding Shadows bootleg, documenting a 2004 Motril, Spain concert where Dylan experiments with rearranged classics and evolving vocals.
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Cult Following reviews Bob Dylan's Bleeding Shadows bootleg, documenting a 2004 Motril, Spain concert where Dylan experiments with rearranged classics and evolving vocals.
In this retrospective article, Guitar Player details Mark Knopfler's production of Bob Dylan's 1983 album Infidels at New York's Power Station studio.
In a Substack post centered on Bob Dylan's 2002 Red Bluff, California concert, Joker and the Thief shares a remixed Crystal Cat recording and Michael Glover Smith's original review.
In this essay, the author revisits Bob Dylan's Highlands restaurant scene, relating it to early-2000s graduate-school experiences in Boston.
On January 17 and 18, Bob Dylan used Instagram to share vintage performance videos, fan artwork, and the essay The Academy with a global audience.
On 2026-01-23, hughsviews.blog published a blog post analyzing Bob Dylan's Visions of Johanna through themes of mid-1960s relationships, morality, and Christian theology.
In May 1963 at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, Bob Dylan performed a short concert that was taped, misplaced for decades, and officially released in 2010.
Bob Dylan displayed an Oscar on stage during the Spring 2001 Australia tour and kept it there until 2019.
At Renovatio, an essay analyzes Bob Dylan's Every Grain of Sand and artistic influences through Jacques Maritain's aesthetic theory of creative intuition.
In this Substack article, John Nogowski revisits Bob Dylan's 1967 Basement Tapes sessions with The Band at Big Pink in Saugerties, New York.
On 1975-03-23, Bob Dylan joined Neil Young and guests at San Francisco’s SNACK Benefit Concert at Kezar Stadium to support local school programs.
Fred Bals, on Medium in the 2020s, analyzes Bob Dylan's Instagram stories.
Dylan's John Wesley Harding (1967) is described as a restrained inward turn after the electric controversy, emphasizing language over spectacle.
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Recording for Infidels began at the Power Station in New York City in April 1983, and Dylan had largely sewn things up before Knopfler arrived, limiting the producer role.
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Dylan hired Sly & Robbie (Robbie Shakespeare and Sly Dunbar) for rhythm and former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor, who played slide guitar on much of Infidels.
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The addition of piano made a drastic departure for Never Ending Tour Dylan; Dylan plays piano frequently, acts more as bandleader and often 'conducts' song endings.
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Between Love and Theft (2001) and Modern Times (2006) Dylan spent roughly five years adjusting his on-stage sound, notably vocal delivery and track tempos.
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Dylan considered and rejected David Bowie, Elvis Costello and Frank Zappa before selecting Mark Knopfler to produce Infidels.
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