• Japan Tour: April 6th – 20th (11 Shows)
• European Tour: June 2 – 30 (25 Shows)
• Past Week:Tokyo, April 11-12-14-15
• Next Week: Nagoya, April 18-19-20

Tour Related

• Truckin’ (Grateful Dead) in Tokyo April 12th
• Brokedown Palace (Grateful Dead) – in Tokyo April 14th
• Not Fade Away – In Tokyo April 15th
• Recordings: Goodbye Jimmie Reed, Watching The River Flow, Black Rider, My Own Version of You
• Dylan in Japan Osaka Review (Spin)
• Truckin’ In Tokyo – Full Show Review (Tim Shorrock)
  • “What a great song to mark your years on the road, I thought, and ours too. I’d read Bob’s recent comments about his deep friendship with, and love for, Jerry Garcia, and this seemed super-appropriate for the moment.”
• Truckin’ In Tokyo (Talkin’ Bob Dylan)
  • “The biggest difference between “Truckin’” and the earlier covers is that Bob seems somewhat unsure of the words, switching the order of verses and sometimes singing off-mike to conceal a forgotten lyric. But it doesn’t matter; he and the band are having a great time, and their joy at performing this song is infectious. “
• Dylan Broke Established Setlist – Truckin’ (Althouse)
• Dylan Honors Dead with Truckin’ Debut (JamBase)
• April 12 in Tokyo (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “He launches into “Truckin’” and what for two days has been a conservative, reverential crowd suddenly turns. A middle-aged woman steps into the aisle and starts dancing. Perhaps Dylan doesn’t mind. He just called the Grateful Dead a dance band in his Philosophy of Modern Song. “
• April 14-15 in Tokyo (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “As for the show, although I couldn’t really see Dylan, his voice sounded strong and much less nasal than in years past. The band was tight, with punchy bass and drums (the tom toms were very highly mic’d), nice jangly guitars, and of course, Bob’s increasingly improved piano playing.”

• Bob Dylan’s Shadow Kingdom, first broadcast as a pay-per-view in July 2021, will be released on Audio on Vinyl, CD, Streaming and via Video Streaming – June 2, 2023
• Release includes 14 tracks from the XX on the original broadcast.
• Video directed by Alma Har’el
• Official Announcement
• Announce and Review (Best Classic Bands)
• Announce (Variety)
• Announce (Spin)
• Announce (Cult Following)

Pre-Order Shadow Kingdom

• CD (Amazon US)
• Vinyl (Amazon US)

• 62 Years Ago Dylan’s First Major Gig with John Lee Hooker (Frank Beacham’s Journal)
  • “Who knows how many other young men arrived in New York City in the winter of 1961 looking like James Dean and talking like Jack Kerouac?”
• 60 Years Ago Dylan’s First Major Concert at Town Hall (Frank Beacham’s Journal)
  • “Town Hall was about three quarters full and few could have realized what a historic night that would be. Fortunately the concert was recorded from the sound board.”
• Metallica on Dylan’s Revelation (NME)
  • “Bob, you’re welcome at any Metallica show anywhere in the world at any time – but please come backstage and say hello. We’d love to meet you and pay our respects!’”
• American Insanity (Northwest Arkansas Democrat)
  • “I wore a harmonica around my neck, bark-moaned my vocals, structured my songs like Dylan’s early tracks. I performed at the Oyster Bar during Little Rock Folk Club nights, calling myself Cutt Jason. I thought the name sounded show-bizzy, but now its darkness is clear.”
• Dylan’s 65 Strat on Jeopardy (Jeopardy Archives)
  • Who is Bob Dylan?
• Becoming Bob Dylan (WTOP)
  • The earliest professional photos of a then-unknown 19-year-old Bob Dylan in 1961, which capture the future legend in the vibrant folk music scene in New York City, will soon be the focus of an exhibition at the Bob Dylan Center.”
• Cumberbatch to Play Pete Seeger in Dylan Movie (World of Reel)
  • “Benedict Bumberbatch has replaced Bale in the role. Seeger had an immense influence on Bob Dylan, paving the way for his infatuation of the folk music scene in 1960s Greenwich Village.”
• Dylan Rejected Donald Fagen (Far Out)
  • “Donald Fagen replied. Dylan’s bass player, Rob Stoner, recognised his name amid the trickle of tentative responses. He excitedly contacted Fagen and said that he would put his esteemed CV before Dylan and get back to the Steely Dan founder in a matter of days. Fagen waited patiently… and then he waited patiently some more. He never heard anything back.”

• Radford 1993 (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “Thirty years ago today, Dylan played the small Virginia town of Radford for the first and, so far, only time. You can sense the feeling of disbelief that he would play Radford in the close-enough-to-local paper the Roanoke Times and World-News.”
• The Soul’s Code (Bob Dylan at The End of TIme)
  • “My desire is to show that Bob Dylan, in all his guises and personas — folkie, rocker, bluesman, small-town boy, family man, storyteller, liar, thief, bluesman, vagabond, heart-sore lover, Christian and Jew, etc. … fulfills the purpose of his own acorn by creating an essential array of psychic images for his listeners.”
• Stories In The Press: Atlanta 2004 (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “This run came right after a big piece of Dylan news. And not just big news in superfan-world either. Every few years, there is a piece of Dylan news that breaks through in a big way. The sort of news your Dylan-agnostic friends and family ask you, the biggest Dylan fan they know, about.”
• Dylanati (Shadow Chasing)
  • “I am working on a project studying Dylan’s many concert performances in Cincinnati. My long-range plan is to turn this study into a book called Dylan in Cincinnati. “
• Five Minutes with Matt Steichen (Ennyman’s Territory)
  • “Matt will be presenting one of the John Bushey Memorial Lectures at this year’s Duluth Dylan Fest. The free lecture, titled Bob Dylan and his Fans: Searching for Love and Inspiration, will be shared at Wussow’s Concert Cafe on Saturday May 27.”
• Last Thoughts on Fragments (Dylan.FM)
  • “Imagine that. After helping Bob Dylan raise his game like few ever had with this Grammy-winning record “Time Out Of Mind” and here is Daniel Lanois, some 25 years later, saying he still has a broken heart.”
• Black Rider Pt.1 (Untold Dylan)
  • “On 23 July 1950, when CBS airs the first of 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show, Robert “Bobby” Zimmerman is nine years old – at an age, that is, that makes him extremely susceptible to the one-dimensionality, simplism and morality of “America’s Favorite Cowboy”.”
• NET Highlights: It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Untold Dylan)
  • “This song is one that has always seemed to me much sadder than the music of the original recording portrayed, and here in this recording we can get a much deeper insight into what other emotions and feeling – and indeed background – lie within the song which are not revealed in the LP recording.”
• Dylan Cover A Day: Restless Farewell (Untold Dylan)
  • “So there we are – four actual covers, and a reworking of the song by Bob himself.  And yet I am still not finished.   For here is an utterly overwhelming and stunning arrangement of the original.   And I really would beg you, if you have never heard this before, to listen now.”
• The Tarantula Files: Maldoror and The Good Word (Untold Dylan)
  • “The symbolic Tarantula, for the prose/poet below anyway, is not at all sympathetic to any claim that there’s a brighter world to come, where everyone’s equal; rather eternally surrounded we all are by a vampiric nightmare…”
• Music and Lyrics: Sign On The Windows (Untold Dylan)
  • “So if you want a piece of arrogant writing – here it is, for I am arguing “I am right and they are all wrong.”  So if you feel that no one has the right to criticise Dylan’s work in this way, this article may not be for you.”
• Standing In The Doorway Pt.2 (Untold Dylan)
  • “Of the 357 words, 83 were first in the outtake “Dreamin’ Of You”; about a quarter of them, therefore, fall into the category,“I basically moved lyrics around and put together the puzzle”. And most of them are the “right type of lyrics” anyway, lyrics that Dylan found elsewhere, “by scrambling around”.”
• Dylan’s Favorite Songs: Donald and Lydia (Untold Dylan)
  • “Dylan’s choice is completely different – this is taking the experience of loneliness directly into the heart, mind and soul of the listener.  It is presumably something that Bob Dylan has never and could never feel.”
• NET Highlights: One Too Many Mornings (Untold Dylan)
  • “And this really is a clever arrangement – everything is moving at a very slow pace to emphasise the words, and yet we move on to emphasise the similarity of everything, day after day, before we get the instrumental break.”
• Abandoned Love (Chris Gregory)
  • “The first couplet is immediately arresting: …I can’t hear the turning of the key/ I’ve been deceived by the clown inside of me… The image of a clown as a kind of internal impish spirit is a very Dylanesque conceit. He has long been fascinated by circuses and his own writing has always been informed by his ability to add a humorous slant to almost any subject.
• The Bridge: No 75 Out Now

• Book Review: Bob Dylan In Minnesota (Crazy On Classic Rock)
  • “As you can expect with anything Bob Dylan there’s mystery and plot twists and the story isn’t always so straightforward and that’s what makes his life so interesting. This book is packed full of interesting tidbits about Bob Dylan’s life in Minnesota, and it didn’t end when he left for New York in 1961.”
• New Review: Oh Mercy – Two Stars (Far Out)
  • “That opening track introduces us to one half of a dichotomy present throughout Oh Mercy. In tracks like ‘Living in A Material World’ and ‘Everything Is Broken’, Dylan attempts to live up to his image. In both cases, he interrogates the political landscapes and finds a nation where faith has little meaning, humans have no value, and politicians cannot be trusted.”
• Time Out Of Mind Blu-Ray (2022 Remix in High Res and Atmos) UPDATE
  • “Time Out Of Mind is about to go into production and, unfortunately, we are going to miss the planned 28 April release date. I will email everyone who has ordered with more details soon, but it’s looking likely to ship around mid-May.
  • 5000 Units were pressed – MORE WILL BE SOLD SOON.
• New Reviews of Fragments
  • We continue to add reviews to our roundup.
• New Reviews of The Philosophy of Modern Song
  • We continue to add reviews to our roundup.

• 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 20: Book Talk with Lewis Hyde (Bob Dylan Center)
• April 23: Dylan & Me Author Louie Kemp (Altadena CA)
• May 14 – June 2: Girl From The North Country Coming to LA
• May 20-28:Duluth Dylan Festival (Duluth MN)
• May 24: Bob Dylan Birthday Bash (Brooklyn NY)
• May 26: Michael Gray presents Dylan’s Greatest Rejected Tracks (Sussex)
• 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
• World of Bob Dylan now sits within ‘SwitchYard Tulsa’ a larger arts festival
• KEYNOTES ANNOUNCED:
  • Greil Marcus – Author, Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs.
  • Cass Sunstein – Museums Are Vulgar: Bob Dylan and Dishabituation
  • Margo Price – Recording Artist Strays (2023)
  • Jessica Hopper – Author of The First Collection of Criticism By A Living Female Rock Critic
  • Happy Traum – Coming of Age in Greenwich Village Folk Revival, 1954-1971
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• Regitration
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Dylan Guitarists in Tokyo

• Peter Stone Brown Archives
  • Last Thoughts on Bob Dylan
• Is It Rolling Bob
  • Bettye LaVette
• Man & God & Law
  • The Book Part Four
• Bob Dylan Album By Album
  • The Basement Tapes
• Pod Dylan
  • You’re A Big Girl Now (Amanda Marcazo)
• Hard Rain & Slow Trains
  • Pearls from Japan Pt. 2