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Seven Days: Dec 10 – 16, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Bob Dylan Sings, and Talks, on These Tapes From 62 Years Ago (The New York Times) [8]
    • ““Handwritten on the boxes are ‘Bob Dylan 1, 2 and 3.’ I’m going, What’s this? He goes, ‘I’m not entirely sure.’ He said: ‘There was a pile of boxes of tapes by the incinerator, and these were on the top — and you know how I like Bob Dylan. So I asked the engineer, What’s going on?’”
  • Dylan Tapes Don’t Sell (NY Times) [5]
    • “The tapes of Bob Dylan’s first album that we wrote about in Monday’s New York Today were not sold at auction. A spokeswoman for Sony Music Entertainment, of which Columbia is now a subsidiary, noted that the tapes in question — which a sculptor who now lives in Detroit has had since the 1960s — are not unique copies and that the original reels are not lost. Sony Music’s archives has the original versions.”
  • Detroit Artist’s Rare Bob Dylan Tapes Fail at Auction (Detroit Free Press) (5)
    • ““I am surprised,” Handschu said Friday, “but not devastated. I’m not harmed. I’m the same guy I was when you met me.”
  • Bob Dylan at the ’65 Newport Folk Festival (with Pete Seeger) (Daily Kos) [3)
    • “So was our old friend Pete really spitting mad because Dylan picked up an electric guitar? Actually, no, he wasn’t. He knew his friend was going to plug in.”
  • Chalamet Rerecords ‘Wonka’ Song after Channeling Bob Dylan (USA Today) [5]
    • “‘There’s a hard rain that’s gonna fall.’ And I really couldn’t resist doing it (as Dylan). It was totally improper, but I was dying for it to be stuck in there. It’s one of the lines that we had to rerecord.”
  • Fortune, Coincidence, and Karma: The Return of Dylan’s Guitar (Newport Folk) [5]
    • “After Dylan’s storied performance, where fans booed, chaos ensued, and history was made, he took off from Rhode Island in a private plane. It was then that the story of his guitar took its next turn. After the flight, the pilot Victor Quinto, found the guitar onboard. Dylan had left it behind. Intentionally or unintentionally, we, of course, don’t know.”
  • The Best Covers of Bob Dylan Songs (Yardbarker) [3]
    • “Trying to cover any of Dylan’s songs is even more daunting. Many have tried, and some even shined. Here are some of the best covers of Bob Dylan’s tracks.”
  • The Acoustic Guitars Of Bob Dylan (Acoustic Guitars) [8]
    • “Dylan bought his 13-fret Nick Lucas Special at Fretted Instruments in New York in 1963, and it was previously owned by the shop owner’s sister who had it refinished in Natural. Dylan played it live from the end of 1963 through to 1966, and it was used extensively on the sessions for ‘Another Side Of’ and ‘Bringing It All Back Home’.”
  • Bob Dylan in Gaza (Folk Works) [3]
    • “No sooner was my new album done—and finally released—than Rozan asked me what I was doing last Sunday—and followed up her question by sending me Bob Dylan’s Blowing In the Wind—from Gaza—complete with the Palestinian title. Who could write a song about this I asked—and sure enough the only name that came to mind had sent me his song!”
  • Actor Harry Dean Stanton compared to Bob Dylan (Far Out) [3]
    • “During the course of shooting, the pair also collaborated musically, “Dylan and I recorded a Mexican song,” the actor continues, “We made a tape together. He asked me, did I want a copy. I said no. What an idiot”. “
  • The Metro and Smartbar owner, 66, on DJ’ing, meeting Bob Dylan (Chicago Mag) [3]
    • “So I got to meet Bob, sit with him, and have a conversation about the album he had just released where he had reinvented himself for the umpteenth time. We talked about the show, the musicians, his guitars and amplifiers, the rugs that he put out.”
  • Girl From The North Country National Tour is Coming (Broadway World) [3]
    • “The Kimmel Cultural Campus and The Shubert Organization are proud to present the Philadelphia premiere engagement of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, Girl From the North Country, at the Forrest Theatre from February 27 to March 10, 2024.”

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  • Jeff Kramer’s Bob Dylan Interview Primer (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [10]
    • “Do not treat him like a God. It wigs him out. / Don’t ask who Mr. Jones is or the motorcycle crash, any of that corny Dylanologist stuff.”
  • A Deep Dive Into Bob Dylan Setlist Data (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [10]
    • “We looked at not only which years had the most/least variation, but which had the most/least covers — both total performed and unique songs covered —how many total songs Dylan would usually perform a night, and more.”
  • Ballad of a Thin Jacket: An Emersonian Spin on ‘Bob Dylan Core’ (Emerson Today) [3]
    • ““I looked around and saw a large amount of people in this same fashion style, so I made the joke ‘Why are all the guys here cosplaying Bob Dylan right now?”
  • On Denny Freeman (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [8]
    • “Denny would take a solo (and the cat never played the same solo twice, something only a few Bob fans realized) and what he does is put together licks from four or five different guys more or less. And a lot of times he’ll invert them, and invert not only the lick, but start a solo with an ending lick from someone else, and put them together in a totally unique way. “
  • Everything you Could Ever Want to Know about Bob Dylan (Sydney Morning Herald) [5]
    • “But not insignificant: “My life has revolved around those magic black discs since forever, and none more so than Bob’s,” writes Ranaldo. “So many of our lives have. The object is important.”
  • The Strange Sad Tale of Victor Maymudes (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]
    • “Ultimately, there just isn’t that much revealed about Bob Dylan that hasn’t already been out there in one way or another. “
  • High Water (for Charlie Patton) Pt.1, Pt.2, Pt.3, Pt.4 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The alienating intruder with a wig does not stand alone, in this whimsical verse. The tone of the follow-up I hope you treat me kind does not fit at all with the macho talk of the Mustang driver either, with the stud who gruffly orders some nice girl to jump in the car and throw her panties overboard.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Shelter from the Storm (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Thus the music sets a very clear scene: this is a world of unchanging continuity, it goes on and on and on. But what we learn from the start is that the song is about “another lifetime, one of toil and blood, When blackness was a virtue the road was full of mud.”
  • Other People’s Songs: The Christmas Blues (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Bob does the gruff old man voice for the verse, except then he drops it for the title line. And I must say I really don’t know about this.  I mean if it wasn’t Bob would you listen to the track?  Would anyone listen?”
  • NET 2018 Pt.3 – Riding The Wave (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “I don’t want to read too much into the pairing of these songs at the beginning of the concerts. Are we to read ‘It Ain’t Me, Babe’ as a continuation of the assertion that ‘things have changed’? It still isn’t him, dontcha know?”
  • Dylan Cover A Day: This Wheel’s on Fire (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The harmonies are perfect, the instrumental break at the end is beautiful, the accompaniment is sublime, and as ever with Richard Thompson’s recordings I feel he really has worked and worked on what the essence of the piece in order to get an arrangement that makes musical sense.”
  • Tangled Up in Bob Dylan for 15 Years at BU (BU Today) [5]
    • “In 2008, Barents introduced Bob Dylan’s Lyrics to the Writing Program, a course that taught students to examine poetic structure and figurative language through songs like “Visions of Johanna” and “Tangled Up in Blue.”

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  • Waterboys to Release Instrumental Written by Bob Dylan (Yahoo!) [8]
    • “The song, Meridian West, was first played by Edinburgh-born Scott and his band in 1985, when Dylan invited them to Dave Stewart’s recording studio in north London.”
  • Bob Dylan in Japan: Portrait of a Curiously Happy Bard (El Pais) [5]
    • “It seems like a fulfilling and productive time for Dylan. Heckel Sugano, who managed Dylan’s catalog at CBS Japan, recalls that on March 4, CBS director Norio Ohga hosted a farewell party for the tour at Maxim’s restaurant. To everyone’s surprise, Dylan showed up looking relaxed, signed posters and enjoyed the celebration.”
  • More Blood, More Tracks Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Some tracks throughout More Blood, More Tracks may as well be completely different to the final pieces which featured on the 1975 classic. Very useful differences which bring about completely new meanings to the final works.”
  • A Moving Connection to the Mystical in Two Conor McPherson Plays (The Washington Post) [3]
    • “In both “Girl From the North Country,” a Bob Dylan songbook musical at the Kennedy Center, and “The Seafarer,” a dark comedy at Round House Theatre, hardscrabble, real-world lives stake out the foreground. Yet, in both works, apparitions convey a captivating broader vision.”
  • Girl From The North Country At The Kennedy Center (Broadway World) [5]
    • “Nick hopes to arrange a marriage between Marianne and Mr. Perry, a shoe manufacturer who is candid about not being able to offer her years of devoted love, but financial security.”
  • Dylan Songs Shine in ‘Girl from the North Country’ at Kennedy Center (DC Theater Arts) [5]
    • “Dylan’s songs, few of which are performed in their entirety, punctuate the action. So closely do the scenes follow the songs, there is no time for the audience to get off a single clap.”
  • How ‘Girl From the North Country’ Repurposes the Bob Dylan Songbook (The Washington Post) [8]
    • “I mean, this is not just a song — it’s an artifact in the history of pop music. It just comes at you like a tornado. Having said that, it’s also really, really beautiful. It has a gorgeous minor-key chord progression in the verses but then has a beautiful three-chord rock-and-roll major chorus. So it gives that sense of release.”

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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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