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Seven Days: Dec 3 – 9, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Music Icon Banks £2million Profit on Sale of ‘Stunningly Beautiful’ Mansion (The Scottish Sun) [3]
    • “”Tucked away at the end of a long tree-lined driveway 13 miles from Aviemore and surrounded by about 24 acres of forest, Aultmore was built between 1911 and 1915 on an isolated hill north of Nethy Bridge as a holiday home for Archibald Merrilees.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Whiskey Brand Unveils Rare 18-Year Straight Bourbon for the Holidays (Rolling Stone) [3]
    • “A new release for 2023, the bourbon is finished in Spanish vermouth rouge casks for a rich and complex aroma that features notes of dark fruit, caramel and spice, with subtle vanilla undertones. The ceramic bottle, meantime, features one of Dylan’s original paintings and everything is presented in a bespoke leather journal.”
  • ‘Lost’ Bob Dylan Debut LP Master Tapes Head to Auction (Mix) [8]
    • “Going to auction with an estimate of $800,000 to $1,200,000, the three reels of Scotch 190 half-inch tape are complete with their original slipcases and reel holders, and contain the full contents of the original 13-song album, along with outtakes, unreleased takes and dialogue between Dylan and producer John Hammond.”
  • The Lead Belly Song That Changed Bob Dylan’s Life (Jambase) [5]
    • “Bob Dylan spoke about hearing Lead Belly’s recording of “Cotton Fields” during his 2016 Nobel Lecture after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature. After detailing the influence of Buddy Holly, Dylan relayed a story about hearing Lead Belly for the first time shortly after Holly’s tragic death in a plane crash, with fellow rock pioneers Richie Valens and the Big Bopper, “the day the music died” on February 3, 1959.”
  • Exhibit to Explore Bob Dylan’s Early Career (Tulsa World) [5]
    • “The exhibit will trace Dylan’s growing political awareness during the early 1960s, a tumultuous time in American history with the rise of the the Civil Rights and anti-war movements of the early 1960s.”
  • How Many Roads: Bob Dylan and his Changing Times, 1961–1964 (Bob Dylan Center) [5]
    • “The Bob Dylan Center will premiere a new exhibition, “How Many Roads: Bob Dylan and his Changing Times,” highlighting the artist’s growing political awareness, including the civil rights and anti-war movements of the early 1960s, on Feb. 23, 2024.”
  • Elliott Murphy’s Top 10 Bob Dylan Tracks – 21st Century (Poetic Justice) [5]
    • “I think he got a lot of flak for this off-beat album, but I loved it. And the original was recorded by the singing cowboy Gene Autry back in the day when only singing cowboys strummed guitars while crooning. So what’s not to like? Bob is a traditionalist who doesn’t look back.”
  • Joe Russo’s Almost Dead Dust Off Rollicking Bob Dylan Cover In Chicago (Jambase) [3]
    • “Joe Russo’s Almost Dead broke out a cover of Bob Dylan‘s “Shelter From The Storm” for the first time since 2019 on Saturday night. The bust out served as the encore on Saturday at Chicago’s Riviera Theatre to cap the quintet’s final show of 2023.”

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  • The Dylan Diary: Themetime Radio Hour (Celebrity Access) [10]
    • “Miraculously, I am put in contact with his business manager, an incredible guy behind so much of what Bob does. We talk a few times, exchange e-mails, and he comes for a visit to DC.”
  • How Does Dylan Write His Songs? Blues and Ballads (Dylanology 28, part 2) (Dylanology) [10]
    • “In the mid-60s, Dylan discovered the bridge, as a third distinct formal unit: a stanza which isn’t strictly necessary in the song structure, but which enters as a contrasting block. It is there to stir up things, to create contrast, and it will often venture into uncharted territories, harmonically, before it returns to the fold of the keynote again.”
  • I Watched Twyla Tharp’s Bob Dylan Musical (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “A tale of fathers and sons, of men and women, of leaders and followers, of immobility and change, The Times They Are A-Changin’ uses prophecy, parable, metaphor, accusation and confession—like the Dylan songs which comprise it—to confront us with images and ideas of who we are, and who it is possible to be.”
  • Mike Evans, Bob Dylan’s “Big Police,” Talks (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “We went to the airport together, we hung around. I was on the phone. He starts talking about the Vikings and everything else. He is just chatting. “Hey, look at that sunset.” It just was not anything profound.”
  • He Listened to 152 Hours of 1993 Bob Dylan (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “With 76 regular shows in 1993, Bob had a relatively light touring schedule in this year, compared to the 100+ shows performed in both 1991 and 1992. Still, if we assume an average length of 2 hours per show, that adds up to a whopping 152 hours of music. “
  • Lions, Rams, and Love! (Bawker) [3]
    • “Where Bob and I share a compass is in our Ascendant, or rising. We’re both Sagittarius. Sagittarius, in my eyes, is the cool, understated one. I’m lucky, because Ascendant represents how others see you. And damn if Bob Dylan isn’t the freaking epitome of cool.”
  • Dylan Revisited: Folksinger’s Choice (1962) (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • “You wanna hear a blues song?” he asks Gooding before launching into a cut from that eponymous record (“that’s a novel title” she jokes). Though the radio show was recorded in January 1962 – just two months after his sessions at Columbia’s Studio A – Dylan appears to have already moved on from his upcoming release.”
  • Diamonds From the Deepest Ocean :: Bob Dylan | Blown Out On The Trail (Aquarium Drunkard) (5)
    • “It’s almost an early NET truism: the best part of Dylan’s breakneck 1988 shows were those moments when everything slowed down, when Dylan let the rhythm section take a breather and stepped out with just G.E. Smith and an acoustic guitar.”
  • High Water (for Charley Patton) Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “So it almost seems, in that sketching phase of “High Water”, that Dylan simply mistook Bertha Lee’s name – or, for reasons of rhythm, wanted a surname of two syllables (although that seems more unlikely, given Dylan’s unrivalled mastery of phrasing).”
  • Other People’s Songs: The Christmas Blues (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “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? Perhaps you would; I think I wouldn’t.”
  • In Bob We Trust (Yale Daily News) [5]
    • “”The lights come up in the Capitol Theatre. Bob Dylan and his band leave the stage. I exit the Capitol Theatre with the rest of my classmates. Dylan did not perform any of the “greatest hits” he had performed a million times, but it was the perfect concert for a diehard fan like myself.”

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  • I Heard the Sound of Thunder – Budokan – (My Impression Now) [8]
    • “As a listener, I am drawn first to the music and then, much later to the lyrics. This is the case with every artist, but it makes me fairly unique as a Dylan fan. So much of what you hear and read about Dylan revolves around his lyrics, and rightly so. I do often find myself hooked by and fall in love with the way Dylan uses words. But it is the music — his melodies and phrasing and chord choices — that made me a fan.”
  • The Complete Budokan 1978 (Shepherd Express) [3]
    • “Not unlike Vegas-era Elvis, Dylan’s ’78 tour is an effort to incorporate many divergent strands of music into a bright showbiz tapestry. The difference is two-fold: unlike Elvis, Dylan’s voice was far from well-tuned, but he carried a large catalog of his own songs from which to construct a show.”
  • The Complete Budokan 1978 (Relix) [3]
    • “As he’s always done, Dylan retooled many of these songs from the bottom up, some to the point of unrecognizability. “All I Really Want to Do,” a song best known from its jangly cover by The Byrds, is given a stomping martial rhythm, for example, while “I Want You,” from the 12-year-old Blonde on Blonde, is stripped to a spare, quiet meditation.”
  • Cat Power: Sings Dylan (Elsewhere) [5]
    • “But she brings empathy, distinctive intonation and different emphasis to the acoustic songs while locating their elegant melodic beauty (among them the 12 minute Desolation Row). If, in the electric half, she doesn’t tap Dylan’s sometimes venomous delivery (Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat, Ballad of Thin Man, his furious Like a Rolling Stone after the “Judas” jeer) that’s understandable. Different times.”
  • A production worthy of a Nobel laureate – Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine (Book Munch) [8]
    • “Drawing from the archives of the Bob Dylan Center, it’s a lavish compendium of family photographs, old gig posters, lyrics hastily scrawled on scraps of paper (most often, stationary from whatever hotel he was staying in), as well as essays written by Dylan scholars and fans.”
  • “Mixing Up the Medicine” Writes An Incredible Journey (ERP) [5]
    • “Mixing Up the Medicine marks a monumental achievement because it presents strands of the real Dylan in pure unadulterated form. Juxtapose the text with pieces from the Bootleg Series and you’ll arrive at a living portrait of the artist at work. If you could only take one book to that desert island where you’ll be stranded for the next 10 years, this is the one you’ll want: the story of Bob Dylan told in his own inimitable words.”
  • The Best Music Books of 2023, from Bob Dylan to Britney Spears (The Telegraph) [1]
    • “”Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine (Callaway, £80), curates more than 1,000 images and objects from the Bob Dylan Centre in Tulsa. If you want to examine the first draft of Tangled Up in Blue in Dylan’s tiny handwriting in a battered old ­notepad, this is the book for you.”
  • ‘Girl from North Country’ Beautiful, Bewildering (The Times Union) [5]
    • “By the end, the whole thing has spun out of control, crossing the finish in such a nimbus of cartwheeling powder that the show-closing gospel anthem, “Pressing On,” from Dylan’s born-again phase, feels like a funeral exaltation. And yet it, too, is beautiful, despite striving for a transcendence never fully reached.”
  • ‘Girl From The North Country’ A Trip Worth Taking (Nippertown) [5]
    • “Visually, the show is stunning. Rae Smith’s set and costume designs create a dark, brooding mood. Mark Henderson’s lighting and Simon Baker’s sound design flesh out the ominous foreboding of the period.”
  • Girl from the North Country makes stop at Kennedy Center (Fairfax County Times) [3]
    • “They say that the scenes in this play is the vinegar, and the music is the honey,” Blood said. “There’s all of this meanness and hardness and struggle going on, and all of a sudden, it builds, and there’s this Bob Dylan song in a beautiful arrangement. The story searches for beauty in a time where there’s so little left.”

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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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