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Seven Days: December 4 – 10 (The Week in Bob Dylan News)
[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1654295754149{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”December 4 – 10, 2022″ font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:38|text_align:left|color:%23aaaaaa” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1670795742608{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Seven Days in Dylan News” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:38|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1667164270040{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” gap=”35″ css=”.vc_custom_1669589654602{margin-top: -20px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_custom_heading text=”THIS WEEK’S NEWS” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1668973729906{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”It’s a slow-news time of the year. Nothing in this section is very significant this week. :-)” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:18|text_align:left|line_height:1.4″ google_fonts=”font_family:Muli%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic|font_style:300%20light%20italic%3A300%3Aitalic” css=”.vc_custom_1670802666186{margin-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1670801411702{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]
- Remembering 12/1/65 Dylan at Carnegie Hall (Stereophile)
- Duluth Should Recognize It’s Native Son (Duluth News Tribune)
- How To Know When To Leave Bob Dylan Alone (Ultimate Classic Rock)
- If you work for him, when he’s wearing his hood.
- Everyone else, all the damn time.
- Figaro Cafe Re-Opens in NYC (Patch.com)
- UMN to Buy Dinkytown Building Dylan Visited (TwinCities Pioneer Press)
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”The Philosophy of Modern Song” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1668985866719{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”“So, yes, for each song, there is drash (its inner meaning and often fanciful interpretation) and peshat (what is really going on in it). Dylan has done nothing less than treating these songs, many of them obscure, as modern texts, and has dug deeply into them, in precisely the way that Jews are accustomed to treating our sacred literature.“ – Jefrey Salkin” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:18|text_align:left|line_height:1.4″ google_fonts=”font_family:Muli%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic|font_style:300%20light%20italic%3A300%3Aitalic” css=”.vc_custom_1670801679225{margin-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1670801787708{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]We’ve now collected Nearly 120 REVIEWS of The Philosophy of Modern Song.
- See them all & read excerpts – Ranked by Quality or Date
- Our favorites this week:
- Man of Many Voices (Prospect)
- A Jewish Masterpiece (Religious News Service)
- Diary – A Parody (Private Eye)
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Writing About Bob Dylan” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_custom_heading text=”“There had been rumors of Bob Dylan dabbling with the idea of an album of Christmas music for years. In fact Dylan had run through two Christmas songs — Silent Night and The Twelve Days of Christmas — during one of his 1983 “Infidels” recording sessions.“ – Fred Bals” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:18|text_align:left|line_height:1.4″ google_fonts=”font_family:Muli%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic|font_style:300%20light%20italic%3A300%3Aitalic” css=”.vc_custom_1670799535864{margin-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1670823718786{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]
- More Then You Need on Christmas In The Heart (Fred Bals)
- In Anticipation of Bootleg Series 17 (Bob Log)
- I&I (Untold Dylan)
- Girl From The North Country (Untold Dylan)
- Tangled Up in Blue (Untold Dylan)
- Rolling Thunder Review (Peter Stone Brown Archive)
- With 1Hr Beyond Rolling Thunder Video
- The Art of the Unsaid In The Philosophy of Modern Song (Graley Herren)
NEW SUBSTACK – Subscribe Now! - New Last Waltz Video Emerges (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- A Close Listen To The First Gospel Tour (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”Reviews & Releases” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1670808213715{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]
- New Reviews:
- Christmas In The Heart (Acquarium Drunkard)
- Blonde On Blonde (Vinyl Me Please)
- John Wesley Harding (The Recoup)
- Good As I Been To You (Cult Following)
- Retrospectrum – Rome (Le Petit Journal)
- Greil Marcus – Folk Music Book (The Critic)
- Greil Marcus – Folk Music Book (New York Times)
- Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan Book (PSB Archives)
- Girl From The North Country PLAY (South Wales Argus)
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”IMAGE OF THE WEEK” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][interactive_banner banner_title=”Hand Signed Chronicles” banner_desc=”Once upon a time Bob Dylan signed his books. (Just Kidding Mr. Dylan)” banner_image=”id^16740|url^https://thefm.club/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Dylan-Signed-Chronicles.webp|caption^null|alt^null|title^Dylan Signed Chronicles|description^null” banner_overlay_bg_color=”#dd7c7c” banner_title_style=”font-weight:bold;” banner_title_font_size=”desktop:14px;” ib_wrapper_margin=”margin-left:20px;”][vc_row_inner css=”.vc_custom_1669589847352{margin-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1656882120208{background-color: #efefef !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”NEW PODCASTS” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1656898202381{margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-left: 5px !important;background-image: url(https://thefm.club/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/podcast-smallheader-1.jpg?id=15930) !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1670823683348{margin-top: -10px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]
- Pod Dylan
- Drifters Escape (Wayne Walker)
- Dylan.FM
- A Headful of Ideas
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_custom_heading text=”UPCOMING EVENTS” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left|color:%23ffffff” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1670808783466{margin-top: 40px !important;margin-bottom: 15px !important;padding-top: 15px !important;padding-left: 5px !important;background-image: url(https://thefm.club/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/GoogleCalendar-wKu5yvAT0bg-unsplash.jpg?id=15791) !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1670802401360{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]
- The Philosophy of Song: What Makes A Song Great – December 14, 2022
- Oxford UK
- Sony Music Norway Hosting Bootleg Series 17 Event – January 25, 2022
- Roverstaden Norway
[/vc_column_text][vc_custom_heading text=”VIDEO OF THE WEEK” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1669589928098{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCm4mMKt4GY” css=”.vc_custom_1670802192448{margin-top: 20px !important;}” title=”Ten Seconds of The Man In Me (1970 Studio)”][vc_custom_heading text=”The Onion On Layoffs at Dylan Songwriting Factory” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:18|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1670809274396{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][ultimate_video video_type=”vimeo_video” vimeo_video_url=”https://vimeo.com/780214263″ vimeo_autoplay=”” vimeo_loop=”” vimeo_intro_title=”” vimeo_intro_portrait=”” vimeo_intro_byline=”” play_size=”75″][vc_custom_heading text=”SELLING POSTCARDS” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1669591889031{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Here are some new (or new-ish) Bob Dylan items you might want to order. We’re going to be pulling together a fuller Dylan gift guide soon. Some are affiliate links that earn us a few pennies.” font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:18|text_align:left|line_height:1.4″ google_fonts=”font_family:Muli%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic|font_style:300%20light%20italic%3A300%3Aitalic” css=”.vc_custom_1668987115406{margin-top: -10px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1669591820742{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]
- “Merch” at The Bob Dylan Center
- Signed ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan’ by Michael Gray (Route Online)
- The Philosophy of Modern Song – Book (Amazon)
- The Philosophy of Modern Song – CD (Amazon)
- Pledging My Time by Ray Padgett – Pre-Order With Bonuses (Indiegogo)
- Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography by Greil Marcus (Amazon)
- The Dylan Tapes: Talkin’ Early Dylan by Anthony Scaduto (Amazon)
- Bob Dylan Fragments: The Time Out Of Mind Sessions (Bootleg Series 17)
- 2CD: $27.98 at Amazon (US)
- 4LP: $99 at Amazon (US)
- 5CD DELUXE: $139.98 at Amazon (US)
- 10LP DELUXE: $230 at BobDylan.com (Numbered, Limited to 5000)
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