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Seven Days: August 27 – Sept 2, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Bob Dylan Gave Post Malone Some Lyrics to Record. Then Things Got Weird (Rolling Stone)
    • “Despite his best efforts, Cash had trouble getting Malone to finish the track. “I was like, ‘Dude, he’s going to finish this track. Bob Dylan wrote it.’ I’m wrong. I’m an idiot. This thing was just never going to come out.”
  • Superproducer Blake Mills on Working With Dylan (Pitchfork)
    • “The most immediate thing I picked up on during those sessions was that the worst thing you could do is ask him, “Do you want me to do this?” When you do that you’re interrupting somebody who’s on their own train of thought, and all of a sudden they have to set that aside and enter your train of thought.”
  • Another Side of Jimmy Buffet (The Deck Hand)
    • “In 1982, during a surprise performance with Joan Baez, Bob Dylan sang Jimmy Buffett’s “A Pirate Looks at 40.” Years later, in a 2009 chat with Bill Flanagan, Dylan praised Buffett as a top songwriter, having a particular fondness for his song, “Death of an Unpopular Poet.”
  • The day MLK – and Dylan and Baez – made hope and history rhyme (The Guardian)
    • “Dylan performed Only a Pawn in Their Game, about the assassination of the civil rights leader Medgar Evers just a few weeks earlier. That was also one of the songs Dylan sang before 250,000 people in Washington. When Lena Horne was introduced, she uttered a single word: “Freedom.”
  • Before The Flood – Studio Reel-To-Reel Tape Auction (Omega Auctions)
    • SEPT 12th – “Three boxed reels of 1/4″ BASF audio tape, all with ‘Island Studios’ labels. All three dated July 1974 and comprise sides 1,3,4 of Bob Dylan ‘Before The Flood’. Likely used to produce cassette tape release.”
  • The Art in Craft Whiskey (Garden & Gun)
    • “Dylan is a voracious reader and a big history buff,” Marc Bushala, Heaven’s Door CEO, says. “The authentic history of Six Mile Creek resonated with him.” Considering Dylan’s restless spirit, it will surprise no one that this is only part of the Heaven’s Door Kentucky story.
  • Who’s Starring in Girl From the North Country’s North American Tour (Playbill)
    • Cast Names and Bio’s for the new tour.

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  • My Days and Nights at the Waverly Lounge (Daily Kos)
    • “During my teens, I spent a lot of Saturday afternoons in Greenwich Village visiting my father, who owned the Waverly Lounge, a bar and restaurant located inside the Hotel Earle – the “crummy hotel” Joan Baez was talking about in “Diamonds and Rust.”
  • “An Evening with Ray Padgett” Recap (The Dylantantes)
    • “The highlight of the hour-long event was the audio recordings of the interviews Ray did with Scarlet Rivera, Larry Campbell, and Winston Watson. All the stories appear in his book, and some have been featured on his Substack. Each of them, as they appear in the book or as heard in the transcript, provides a fresh perspective on stories we know, scenes we’re familiar with, or Dylan behind the scenes.”
  • Hurst course explores iconic singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (Mercy Hurst University)
    • “Roessner is taking the opportunity to share Dylan’s remarkable 60-year career with his students once again. He’ll take them from Dylan’s folk and protest roots, through his impact on the 1960s counterculture, his evolution as a rock provocateur, to his exploration of country, gospel, and blues music. Through it all, his ability to adapt and evolve while maintaining his artistic integrity and relevance stands as a hallmark of his career.”
  • Like a Jew Among Jews (New Voices)
    • ““Dylanic Judaism” makes sense to me. It’s a healthy reminder from one Minnesotan Jew to another that I don’t need to strive, helplessly and aimlessly, to fulfill a falsely-monolithic idea of Jewish tradition.”
  • In Nobel Denial 2: The Committee’s Flawed Motivation (Dylanologist)
    • “What does it mean, to have “created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”? He has created. That’s something. Creating is good – it’s what gods do. In fact, until 1623 the word had never ever been used about any human being, only about God. Creation is God’s exclusive domain. Creativity can’t be taught in Arts-And-Crafts class.”
  • Dylan in Cincinnati: November 1992 (Shadow Chasing)
    • “Dylan’s best performances often take place far away from the brightest spotlights and the orchestrated spectacles designed to showcase his preeminence. You’re much more likely to catch his genius in full bloom out on the road and in the provinces—say, on a random Tuesday night in Cincinnati in 1992.”
  • Bob Dylan: Myth Overtaken By Sobering Reality (Reports Online)
    • “The deeper you delve into his body of work, the stranger and more inscrutable it becomes. This is primarily due to the lyrics, which are brimming with cynical or dry humor, interspersed with associative thought-prose and images full of elusive meanings. Dylan has simply slammed every door we have opened for him right in front of our faces.”
  • Thoughts on Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (Jokermen)
    • “Despite all this darkness, it’s also a movie with a great, earthy sense of humor. Brilliantly articulated by a score of elite character actors and newcomer to the screen Bob Dylan whose performance is as odd and mysterious as anyone could hope for. If there was an Oscar for a scene where a character reads labels of cans out loud in a store, it would be his to lose.”
  • The Stabber Of Polyphemus / The Rococo Angel Glides (Untold Dylan)
    • “For Dylan, mythological Polyphemus, the one-eyed Cyclopes, man-eater, son of earth-shaker Neptune (like the biblical Whore Of Babylon, like Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein monster – even Mattel’s plastic blonde Barbie doll) represents America.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Most Enduring Lyrical Themes (Untold Dylan)
    • “Let’s cover a few of his most enduring lyrical themes, starting with the concept of winning and losing in life.”
  • NET 2016 Pt.1 : Riding the Wave (Untold Dylan)
    • “I raved about the superlative ‘Long and Wasted Years,’ somewhat intemperately claiming that this vocal triumph must be one of Dylan’s greatest-ever live performances. I stand by that, but I have another one for you: ‘Pay in Blood.’ Like ‘Long and Wasted Years,’ this captures a voice, in this case the triumphant voice of the conquering hero who has suffered long and hard, the would-be dictator, a man of violence.”
  • His Own Version of Us, Our Own Version of Him (Dylan At The End Of Time)
    • “Into this Hell I drove one overcast late May afternoon to see Bob and the band play at the Toyota Center, a multi-use venue (a.k.a. hockey arena). I was excited to see Dylan, but in many ways the situation seemed unpromising. Most other shows on the tour were booked in classic old theaters, not characterless arenas, and an online search showed that tickets for this one were half-sold.”
  • Other People’s Songs: “The Ballad of Ira Hayes” (Untold Dylan)
    • ““The Ballad of Ira Hayes” is a song originally written by Peter La Farge and popularised by Johnny Cash.”

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  • NEW ALBUM: Mixing Up The Medicine
    • New Career Spanning Compilation Album/CD
    • Amazon – CD
    • Amazon – LP
  • Another Cash Grab Bob Dylan Compilation On The Way (Noise11)
    • Guy who already has all the Dylan albums can’t imagine their are people who don’t.
  • NEW AUDIO BOOK: Mixing Up The Medicine
    • Unclear what it contains, but Amazon lists 9 CD’s as separate $22 releases.
  • BOOK REVIEW: Mixing Up The Medicine (Library Review)
    • “Nearly a decade after acquiring the Bob Dylan archives, the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, finally opened to the public in May 2022. Their inaugural exhibits are expanded into this book. More than a mere guide, however, this is a career-spanning, show-and-tell reflecting the myriad dimensions of Dylan.”
  • BOOK REVIEW: Mixing Up The Medicine Exclusive Preview (Dylan.FM)
    • “But not only is the content of the book mind-blowing, the editorial effort – to identify and curate Bob’s story out of the mountain range of items at their disposal – to impressively chronicle such a long and eventful career and telling the big story while endlessly diving into details that will thrill hardcore fans – is almost unimaginable and yet they nailed it.”
  • BOOK REVIEW: Blood In the Tracks Recognizes the Musicians Behind Bob Dylan’s Classic (Electric Review)
    • “Blood in the Tracks finally throws some light on the faces of the six studio musicians who bring body and soul to Dylan’s songs of lost love and restlessness. As such, authors Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik go back to the beginning to revive the story, showing all the twists and turns in the road that brought a half dozen random guys into a room with the greatest force in the history of recorded music.”
  • The Bridge – No.76 Summer 2023 – OUT NOW

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