• Japan Tour: April 6th – 20th (11 Shows)
• European Tour: June 2 – 30 (25 Shows)
• Past Week: Osaka, April 6-7-8
• Next Week: Tokyo, April 11-12-14-15

Tour Related

• Dylan Opens Japan Tour After Seven Years (Japan Posts)
  • “There are no overhead lighting devices. It’s brighter than Bob’s stage in recent years, but still darker than a typical concert. Moreover, it does not change the brightness depending on the song, it just dimly illuminates the stage. You don’t need gimmicks that rely on lighting effects. To the last, the leading role is Dylan’s song.”
• Opening Night in Osaka (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “Lights out and away we go. I see some figures emerging from the right and a smaller one with a white hat in its hand. The hat, like if Houdini was the one holding it, will remain invisible until the last seconds of the show when Bob will put it on again to exit the stage. Bob Dylan takes his place behind the piano…”
• Japanese Limited Edition Tour Posters (CD.Japan)
  • “In celebration of the April 5th release of Dylan’s new and Japan-exclusive all-time greatest hits album “Ryukoka-shu,” we’re giving away a special Japanese-style washi paper poster (A4 size) to customers who purchase Bob Dylan albums listed on this offer page on a first-come, first-served basis.” (See image below)
• Dylan at Montreux Jazz 2023 (Billboard)
  • “Nearly 250,000 spectators attend the event in a regular year, which continues to evolve and introduce audiences to styles and tunes well outside the broad world that is jazz.”
• Pretty Good Stuff: Dylan Live In Japan (Aquarium Drunkard)
  • Download disk full of past tour highlights

• Heaven’s Door Whiskey Moves Plans for Bar from Nashville to Louisville (Whisky Raiders)
  • “The Last Refuge will double as a whiskey bar and live music venue. It will open in the former Refuge of Kentucky Church. Heaven’s Door also purchased the Zephyr Gallery next door to the 150-year-old church. The gallery will showcase art from Dylan and local artists.”
• Hail Hail Rock & Roll (Sotheby’s)
  • New Memorabilia Auction – April 18 (2023)
  • Suze Rotolo’s copy of Freewheelin’ (See Dylan writing on it below), Signed Blonde on Blonde, Jerry Schatzberg outtake photo, Hand written All Along The Watchtower.

• I Am The Man, Thomas (Jeff’s Substack)
  • “The string instruments are played aggressively. The tempo is fast and urgent. The words are direct. They are presented as the words of Jesus as He greets Thomas more than a week after His resurrection. The message is not delivered as eloquently as in John’s Gospel, but the point is made.”
• Long Distant Train: Spiritual Loss in Tempest (Bob Dylan At The End of Time)
  • “Tempest is a bleak record, containing images of personal grief, societal despair, and tragic death. It is lightened somewhat by a love song — albeit one in which the protagonist drags a corpse through the mud — and a boisterous swing number, again, about a train coming to the end of the line.”
• Review of a Review of Milton Glaser Book (Splice Today)
  • “Glaser’s rendering of Dylan, not his best work, was commissioned in 1966 for inclusion in the early-’67 release of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits, which Gopnik, 66, stupefyingly calls “seminal,” when it was just a stop-gap money grab by Columbia Records—no new material—while Dylan rested from exhaustion, substance abuse, and non-stop touring in Woodstock.”
• An Ode to Awe (Indiana Daily Student)
  • “He chopped Dylan’s vocals and layered them over a beat he’d been working on for a while now, he explained. If you’ve never listened to “Winterlude,” I highly encourage you to do so right now. Think to yourself how it could be possible to splice a song like this into a genre that is the polar opposite of the Dylan canon. I was simply in awe.”
• A Visit With Seth Rogovoy: Looking at Dylan Through A Jewish Lense (Ennyman’s Territory)
  • “Rogovoy’s multi-media presentation is titled The Kabbalah of Bob Dylan. The free live event will take place Sunday May 21, 6:30–7:45 PM. Rogovoy describes his talk as “a 45-50 minute multimedia version of my book, where I examine Dylan’s life (including his early life in Hibbing) and his musical career through a Jewish lens.”
• Dylan and Ginsberg on Marlon Brando (The Allen Ginsberg Project)
  • “An interesting little clip of audio.  This, from a tape in the Stanford archives – Allen in San Jose, 1965 backstage with Bob Dylan, trying out his brand new tape-recorder.”
• The Tarantula Files 44 & 45 (Untold Dylan)
  • “Instead,  Bob Buckley Darwin sails the Jungian seas; he turns out to be a monkey’s uncle who often docks his boat where there are strange, cartoonish parties going on all the time…”
• The Tarantula Files: How Old and The Wooden Chest (Untold Dylan)
  • ““Tarantula” is presented by its author as a rather mean ole god who gains the upper hand over the God depicted in the Holy Bible ~  apparently, modern-day Hebrews, Christians too, are abandoned by JHVH because they turn yet again to worship the Golden Calf.”
• Dylan Cover A Day: Rainy Day Women as Never Before (Untold Dylan)
  • “The problem with Rainy Day is that the instrumental introduction is so distinctive, that as soon as someone starts to play it, we all know what is going on, and where it is going.  So a cover version that is really going to get attention has not only to be different from original, it has to be different from the very start.”
• Standing In The Doorway Part I (Untold Dylan)
  • ““Standing In The Doorway” is perhaps the ultimate example of an eclectic mash-up, of the recipe for the greatness of Time Out Of Mind. Dylan constructs both the music and lyrics from chunks of bluegrass, F. Scott Fitzgerald, blues, American Songbook, the Bible, folk, film noir and country.”
• Music & Lyrics: Not Dark Yet (Untold Dylan)
  • “And that tiny pause before “to be anywhere” which is hardly noticeable is a brilliant musical signification of the desolation that the vocal line is expressing.   In saying there is no room the line says “I can’t move, I’m stuck here”.   The slight pause stresses that.”
• Dylan’s Favorite Songs: Burn Down The Cornfield (Untold Dylan)
  • “A sinewy ballad built around a fine bottleneck guitar riff, “Let’s Burn Down the Cornfield” is a love song, basically, but the slightly demented lyric content is what gives it the edge.”
• Nashville Skyline Rag: Part 3 (Untold Dylan)
  • “Behind the scenes, Lester Flatt was very dissatisfied with their material; he didn’t like singing Bob Dylan and was disgusted by the long-haired hippies and their drugs. He refused to perform the new songs, and this became a source of contention between him and the Scruggses.”

• The Complete Tell Tale Signs Notes (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
  • “Spend the afternoon reading the full un-edited version of the notes Peter wrote for Jeff Rosen in June 2008. They’ve not been seen in this extended version before.”
• Heaven’s Door Bootleg Series Vol IV (The Whisky Mash)
  • Review of the Annual $500 Limited Edition Release
  • “Heaven’s Door Bootleg Series Vol. IV 11-Year-Old Wheated Bourbon is finished in peated Islay scotch whisky barrels. This means that after the bourbon has aged for 11 years, it is dumped out of the original bourbon barrels and transferred into barrels that previously held smoky Islay scotch. The whiskey is then allowed to age for another year before being bottled. This imparts slight smoky and malty notes to the already-aged whiskey.”
• Chronicles Review: The Solace of Bob Dylan (Dawn)
  • “But all this points to one thing: that here is an authentic book, not a ghostwritten tome workshopped by a team of for-hire content developers. The voice is solely Dylan’s. The text is so original, it’s uncanny.”
• Peter McKenzie on ‘Bob Dylan On A Couch & Fifty Cents A Day’ (Accoustic Live NY)
  • “I think what pushed me over the edge was when I saw so many books coming out about Bob that were so inaccurate,” he says. “It was cringeworthy. I did read Dylan’s ‘Chronicles Vol. 1,’ and Bob left an awful lot out.”
• Infidels Review (Far Out)
  • “All in all, Infidels is not an album I’d note as one that’s particularly pressing in Dylan’s oeuvre. There are highlights, but they are scarce, and, with the exception of the magnificent ‘Jokerman’, barely qualify as golden. As a whole, it’s a damp squib that bounces between mostly uninspiring balladry and cheesy 1980s rock.”
• New Book: Bob Dylan in Minnesota (Isis)
  • Troubadour Tales from Duluth, Hibbing and Dinkytown
  • “We travel back in time to hear stories from his early teacher, tales of the mysterious wandering rabbi, eye-witness accounts from early Dinkytown musical collaborators, as well as being privy to secrets from behind the scenes of the classic ‘Blood On The Tracks’ album.”
• New Retrospectrum Book (ArtNet)
  • “Released to coincide with the show’s European debut at the MAXXI in Rome, Italy, the book, also titled Retrospectrum, brings together more than 100 artworks that Dylan has created over the past six decades. It includes his early ink sketches, silkscreen collages, iron sculptures, and acrylic paintings—all of them bearing out his eye for haunting detail in everyday moments.”
  • Amazon Link

• April 9: Nashville Skyline/Planet Waves (Woodstock NY)
• April 9-13: Girl From The. North Country (Dallas)
• April 13: Blowin’ In The Wind – Celebration Concert (Los Angeles)
• April 14-19: Gotta Serve Somebody TRIBUTE (Gothenburg)
• April 14-30: The Movie In Me (Series) Maxxi Rome
• April 19 – Oct 13: Becoming Bob Dylan, Ted Russell 1961 – 1964 (Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa)
  • Article
• April 23: Dylan & Me Author Louie Kemp (Altadena CA)
• May 14 – June 2: Girl From The North Country Coming to LA
• May 26: Michael Gray presents Dylan’s Greatest Rejected Tracks (Sussex)
• May 20-28:Duluth Dylan Festival (Duluth MN)
• June 2-4: The World of Bob Dylan (Tulsa)

• Did you know we maintain a full list of all upcoming Dylan events?
  See it all at: Dylan Events Calendar

• DATE: June 2-4
• LOCATION: Tulsa OK
• NOTE: World of Bob Dylan now sits within ‘SwitchYard Tulsa’ a larger arts festival
• AGENDA: The WOBD Agenda has not been announced but over 125 Speaker Events plus Keynotes and live performances are expected. This is an incredible chance to learn a ton, meet about 1000 people in the Dylan community, and have a great time. There will likely be some amazing live music performances from headline names during the event.
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• Regitration
  • Register for SwitchYard AND World of Bob Dylan ($300)
  • Register only for World of Bob Dylan ($250)

Limited Edition A4 Posters Offered with Select Bob Dylan Recording Purchases in Japan to Celebrate the Tour.

• Bob Dylan Album By Album
  • Tempest
• Pod Dylan
  • I Believe In You (David Hajdu)
• Dissent
  • Bob Dylan’s America (w/Will Epstein)
• Jokermen
  • Never Ending Stories 12/11/95