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Seven Days: February 19 – 25, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Rollin’ and Tumblin’ Review – Cult Following [5]
    • “Hold on tight to Rollin’ and Tumblin’, the titular opener of this three-track EP is a quick sprinkle of his previous three albums. No real tonal intimacy from track to track, just a reminder Dylan is back and at his best form in two decades.”
  • Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 Review – Cult Following [5]
    • “These are the days on the cusp of an absolute tidal wave of interest – and rightly so. Talk about the right place and the right time, for those in attendance for this display there are some tremendous deep cuts within.”
  • Not Fade Away Review – Cult Following [5]
    • “Another triumph for the glory days of bootlegging – we are truly living it up in the fast lane with the amount of Dylan bootlegs out there.”
  • Live at Brandeis University 1963 Review – Cult Following [5]
    • “It is stunning to hear how confident he sounds, and how ready he was for the maddening explosion of interest in The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.”
  • Let One Tear Fall Review – Cult Following [5]
    • “This traditional Australian piece makes sense to play at these gigs – obviously. But what may not strike through as clear is the slight rewrites, the differences between this collection of daunting times for the unnamed female rambling sailor.”
  • Masters of War (The Avenar Rework) Review – Cult Following [5]
    • “There is no sense of immediacy or impact. Stripped away are the cries against warfare and the call to protest. In its place is a liquified drivel ready to be piped into headphones around the globe.”
  • Cat Power — Sharing Life on the Tightrope That Is Live Performance – Art Fuse [5]
    • ““Do you want to make a de-al?” Marshall sang in a husky howl, fans not invisible now as they danced in the front aisles. “Keep the faith,” she said among other clichéd platitudes to the crowd’s parting ovation. Yet she appeared genuinely touched, having shared life on the tightrope that is live performance.”
  • Cat Power’s Homage to an Infamous Dylan Concert Transcends Nostalgia – Nashville Scene [5]
    • “Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert is a song-by-song re-creation of Dylan’s set list that night. Though the arrangements are largely faithful to the original concert, Marshall avoids the nostalgia trap of merely mimicking Dylan’s own phrasing and channels the mythic energy of the show, which happened five years before she was born.”
  • Cat Power sings Dylan at tour-opening Red Bank show – NJ Arts [3]
    • “She performed the acoustic set with a trio, singing with a guitarist Henry Munson and harmonica player Aaron Embry. This helped give the show a bit of a different feel than if she had just stood up there alone, accompanying herself. It made her seem almost like a cabaret artist — a song interpreter, not a troubadour — taking great care to make every word count, in her distinctively deep and rich tone.”
  • ‘Girl from the North Country’ Falls Short – Hyde Park Herald [5]
    • “The real problem is McPherson’s overstuffed script. Although a boarding house provides a logical setting for a gathering of travelers, there simply are too many of them, and they all have stories, so keeping track is difficult, and caring about more than one or two is almost impossible.”
  • Dylan-izing the Depression: A Review of “Girl From the North Country” – New City Stage [3]
    • “Ah, but they’re Bob Dylan songs. Pleasantly and pleasingly presented, to be sure. Do they move the action forward? Never. Do they reflect what is being felt by a character? Sometimes, but usually with a dose of imagination needed to adjust as needed. More often than not, they offer an atemporal reflection on the arbitrary, often in contrast with character actions which seem more specific and deliberate.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Goodbye Jimmy Reed – Untold Dylan [5]
    • “This is a genuine 12-bar blues with a very strange extra instrumental bar at the end of each verse which endlessly must throw anyone who is actually listening to the music, off balance. It makes the song a 13-bar blues. In fact, as far as I know, the only 13 bar blues ever recorded.”
  • The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour: When I Paint My Masterpiece – Untold Dylan [5]
    • “Dylan is saying he can feel that being in Rome might induce a sense of being able to create a master work because of the heritage, but the heritage has long ago been commercialised to such a degree that he wants to be back home. And besides, as has been pointed out endlessly, there are no gondolas in Rome.”
  • High Water (2001) Pt. 17 – Untold Dylan [5]
    • “Dylan himself turns the spotlight on the Eagles twice in 2020. Apart from that name-check, his remark in the interview with Douglas Brinkley for the New York Times in June 2020 also causes a stir. Brinkley is curious about how and why Play Don Henley, play Glenn Frey, and wants to know which Eagles songs Dylan admires…”
  • Dylan Cover a Day: Walkin Down the Line – Untold Dylan [5]
    • “Fortunately, we even have the odd recording made by musicians of repute trying to get to grips with what they are doing with this most simple, yet utterly endearing of songs. Try this for example: it is Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal, not quite getting where they expected to be.”
  • False Prophet: ‘Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?’ – Untold Dylan [5]
    • “With characteristically fastidious self-deprecation, TS Eliot’s Prufrock, in a poem alluded to – almost quoted from – by Dylan in ‘Desolation Row’, announces: I am no prophet – and here’s no great matter. Dylan, by contrast, insists over and over, with an unPrufrockian defiance reaffirmed by a driving blues beat, “I ain’t no false prophet”.

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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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