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Seven Days: April 1 – 7, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Last Night in Austin (by Lee Ranaldo) (Flagging Down) [10]
    • “His piano playing seems almost purposely in-and-out of meter at times, just skimming the surface of the tempos, in a way that keeps the music so lively and refuses to let it become rote – ensuring that it is new and original every night. He’s still willing to walk the high wire – no, not willing to – determined to, and to not letting anyone on stage phone in it.”
  • Dylan In Austin: Latest chapter of The Never Ending Tour comes to a Masterful Close (Mojo) [5]
    • “Tonight in Austin, we’re treated to Across The Borderline, a Ry Cooder/Jim Dickinson/John Hiatt song first recorded by Freddy Fender in 1982. The new addition to the set seemed to energize Dylan: It features arguably his strongest vocal performance of the night, and his mid-song piano solo is gorgeously lyrical.”
  • Dylan Brings It All Back to Dallas (Dallas Observer) [5]
    • “To step inside a late-period Dylan performance is to confront a handful of truths, which even despite the man’s fondness for the slipperiness of perception and sleight of hand, cannot be denied or ignored. Another truth is Dylan, quite simply, isn’t here to please any of the paying customers. Satisfaction is his alone, and hoping for anything otherwise is a fool’s errand.”
  • On Serendipity. Dylan in New Orleans, April 1, 2024 (David Belbin) [3]
    • “I’m not saying that every new arrangement is superior to the original. I would have liked to hear ‘Key West’ in the original arrangement just one time and I preferred the Nottingham version of ‘Every Grain of Sand’ which was much closer to the original. But I love that Bob keeps trying to improve on and experiment with his work and the format of the tour, sticking to the same setlist every night, clearly gives him the freedom to do this.”
  • Dylan’s New Orleans concert was Extremely Bob Dylan-ish (NOLA.com) [3]
    • “So it’s a relief that he mixes in a few old faves that many of us memorized long ago. But here’s the thing: you can’t just sing along in your head, because Bob sometimes changes the words. Not just a few words, lots of words. “
  • Dylan Holds Unpretentious Court At The Saenger Theatre (Offbeat) [3]
    • “Dylan’s clever lyrics were sometimes decipherable during his Saenger performance, sometimes not. Because his words are so worth hearing and knowing maybe subtitles are in order. On the other hand, familiarizing oneself with the lyrics before attending a Dylan concert may be the way to go.”
  • Dylan Debuts Cover Of Hank Williams’ ‘On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain’ (Jambase) [3]
    • “Dylan once again used the location of his Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour stop to debut a cover related to the region. Dylan’s concert on Monday at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans featured his debut performance of Hank Williams’ New Orleans-based song, “On The Banks Of The Old Pontchartrain.”
  • Hear Dylan Cover Hank Williams’ ‘On the Banks of the Old Pontchartrain’ for the First Time (Rolling Stone) [3]
    • “Dylan became a fan of Hank Williams at a very young age. “I remember hearing’ Hank Williams one or two years before he died [in 1953],” Dylan told Rolling Stone‘s Kurt Loder in 1984. “And that sort of introduced me to the guitar. And once I had the guitar, nothing else was ever a problem.”

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  • The Story of Bob Dylan in an Eclipse (Eclipse Witness) [3]
    • “The path begins in Upper Minnesota, with both Dylan’s hometown Hibbing and birthplace Duluth, and adopted home of Woodstock ( Bethel New York) in the eclipse totality. 16 years and four months before the birth of perhaps our nation’s greatest cultural figure, Bob Dylan.”
  • Huey Lewis Finally Gets To See His Songs on Broadway (Rolling Stone) [3]
    • “Dylan comes over and goes, “Are you guys talking about golf?” And we go, “Yeah,” and he says, “That’s outrageous.” I said, “Bob, Nashville Skyline was outrageous. This is just golf.”
  • The One Hit-Wonder Praised by Bob Dylan (Rock and Roll Garage) [5]
    • “And Billy’s hit song was called ‘Red Hot,’ and it was red hot. It could blast you out of your skull and make you feel happy about it. Change your life.”

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  • High Water Pt. 25 653 10th Avenue, Hell’s Kitchen (Untold Dylan) [8]
    • “It is the music, that resolute use of just one chord, that unchanging banjo, that playing around with the melody, and that absolute sense that tells me that no matter what, it is NOT going to stop raining, and that everyone is doomed.”
  • Dylan Revisited: Bootleg Vol. 6 – Philharmonic Hall (1964) (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • “The audience may have thought Dylan was sticking with topical themes when they heard the next song’s opening, “Of war and peace…” But it’s a bait’n’switch. This is the first time most will have experienced the intense surrealism of Gates of Eden.”
  • When I Paint My Masterpiece part 1: She’s Delicate and Seems like a Vermeer (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “He (Leon Russell) occasionally runs into him, backstage at Fillmore East, Leon recalls, and on one such occasion he dares to ask Dylan, who is always friendly and communicative to him (“he endeavoured to show me all the stuff that I asked him”), if he can witness such a writing session.”
  • NET Extended: Love Minus Zero / No Limit 1988-1996 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “This 1998 version really took me by surprise. There’s a real earnestness and urgency about Bob’s delivery, and the decision to perform the whole piece with just two acoustic guitars really lays the song bare.”
  • The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour Pt.13 – I Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “I have often wondered before, is Bob changing the arrangement and the vocals because that is what is expected of him, or because he is offering us a different insight into the song through this live version.”
  • Cover a Day: When the Ship Comes In (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “In the end after listening to 20+ covers I found myself playing a few bars of each version and then giving up, because once again the performers had not found something quite different to do with the song.”
  • Lyrics and the Music: It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “Those opening lines are gentle – the music is calm and Bob’s voice seems to be straining with sadness.  And he lowers his voice to speak of “your orphan” which we may perhaps take as her son who is not being fully looked after.”
  • Woody Guthrie’s Advise to Bob Dylan (Ross Altman) [5]
    • “That’s what brought Dylan to Greystone Hospital in the spring of 1961-a twenty-year old troubadour to meet the man for whom he had just written his first real song. The man for whom Hard Travelin’ was not a lament, not the blues, but a celebration, a way of life – something to aspire to.”
  • People of UT: Tom Palaima (The Daily Texan) [1]

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  • The Perfect Bob Dylan Movie Doesn’t Feature Bob Dylan (Collider) [5]
    • “The film is I’m Not There, directed by Todd Haynes (May December), and what makes it so special is that it is a Dylan movie that does not even feature a character with his name. Dylan tells us right in the title, “I’m not there,” and the film instead follows six different characters who are all inspired by aspects of his life, persona, and musical eras.”
  • Bob Dylan-inspired musical ‘Girl From the North Country’ arrives in Dallas (Dallas Morning News) [3]
    • ““He seems to approach his subjects with almost a shrug of indifference and just throws a lot of images at them,” McPherson says of Dylan. “Like, ‘You figure this out.’ The great thing is everyone has a different picture in their mind of what’s going on. And the songs are so sturdy that they survive and flourish.”
  • ‘Desire’ by Bob Dylan (American Songwriter) [1]

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Article/Link Quality Ranking

Each link has a ‘quality score’ listed as [#] with a 1-3-5-8 after the publication name. This is designed to help you choose articles and links worth reading.

Simply put, higher numbers reflecting better content and writing. At each of these levels, the quality should be more than twice as high. One way to translate the values is:

1 = Limited Value
3 = Minor
5 = Substantial
8 = Outstanding

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