• Bob Dylan Pays Tribute to Former Bandmate Robbie Robertson (Pitchfork)
  • “This is shocking news,” Dylan wrote. “Robbie was a lifelong friend. His passing leaves a vacancy in the world.”
  • Rolling Stone Obit
  • Harvey Brooks and Louis Kemp on Robbie/Dylan
  • Beginning of The Band / Meeting Dylan (Rolling Stone 1968)
• Jerry Garcia’s Last Recording Was Dylan’s Jimmie Rogers Tribute (Jambase)
  • Dylan Letter to Jerry: “My record company (a very limited one) is doing a Jimmie Rodgers tribute record – you don’t have to yodel – there’s plenty of songs where he doesn’t yodel but if you want to yodel, that’s ok too –Anyway one of the performers on this record will be me and of course the perfect song for me is Blue Eyed Jane. And it’s included with this letter – Did ya hear my version of “Two Soldiers”? Anyway if it’s not too much to ask, think about a Jimmie song – let me know something in some kind of incalculated amount of time – whatever you decide is ok with me – All the best – Bob”
• Ask Greil: Aug 8,2023 (Letter In the Ether)
  • “I didn’t have time to look at, let alone go into, the archives when I visited the Bob Dylan Center in June and I doubt I will when I’m back for a book event in late October. Some day—or week—I’d love to. Maybe. Or not.”
  • Lots of other good Dylan mentions.
• Tough Guy Angels: The Larry & Charlie Harmonies I (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “Between 1999 and 2002, Dylan’s guitarists Larry Campbell and Charlie Sexton joined in on quite a few songs. Their vocals were raw and rootsy (rough and rowdy?), but powerful. They sang on a ton of covers — the bluegrass-gospel numbers that opened the show always a high point — but quite a few Dylan originals too.
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• NEW Cover: Make You Feel My Love (Richard Shindell)
• NEW Cover: Wiggle Wiggle (Neil Matthew Fox)

There are 16 more news items, blog posts, & reviews, plus a bonus video link – in the Bonus Edition this week. Join us.

• Pod Dylan
  • Wiggle Wiggle (Andrew Heavens)
• TheDylantantes
  • Interview with Keith Nainby
  • Particularly excellent show, recommended!
• Definitely Dylan
  • Oh Mama (Rebecca Slaman)
• Never Ending Stories
  • RIP Robbie Robertson
• Hard Rain & Slow Trains
  • A Highway of Diamonds – July 1963
• Discograffiti
  • The Band (Part I) (Bob Forrest)
  • Mostly the Band early days but good discussion of early Dylan years.
• Deadology
  • Dylan’s Garcia Tribute
• Broken Record:
  • Robbie Robertson (REPLAY)
• Curmudgeon Rock Report
  • The Times They Are A Changin’
• Imbalanced History of Rock and Roll
  • The Day That Dylan Went Electric
• In The Past: Garage Rock Podcast
  • Girl From The North Country
• Mulligan Stew
  • From The Vault: Bob Dylan Comments From Interviews

• Aug 17 (ZOOM) – An Evening with Ray Padgett
• Aug 17 (Lakewood OH) – Tribute Concert with Chrome Horse
• Aug 20 (Oslo Nor) – BobFest Tribute NEW
• Aug 20 (London UK) – Bob Dylan London Walks 
• Aug 25 (Palatine IL) – Bob Dylan Tribute Concert
• Aug 30 (Pleasantville NY) – An Evening With Bob Dylan Center
• Sept 15 (South-West France) – Michael Gray’s Dylan Discussion Weekend
• Sept 16 (Tulsa OK) – An Evening with Bernie Taupin
• Oct 13 (Vancouver BC) – Highway 61 Re-Imagined
• Oct 17 (Winchester OH) – Chrome Horse Tribute NEW
• Oct 29 (W. Yorkshire) – Bob Dylan’s Greatest Rejected Tracks
• Nov 9 (Dublin, IR) – The Bob Dylan Roadshow NEW

Complete List of Worldwide: Bob Dylan Events Calendar

Robbie Robertson steps out of Bob Dylan’s Shadow – Crawdaddy Magazine – March 1976

Books

• Robbie Robertson: Testimony (Autobiography)
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• The Last Waltz (Blu-Ray)
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• PRE-ORDER: Material Wealth: The Personal Archives of Allen Ginsberg
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• PRE-ORDER: My Greenwish Village: Dave Bob Me (Terri Thal)
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• PRE-ORDER: Mixing Up The Medicine (The Bob Dylan Center)
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