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Seven Days: February 26 – March 3, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Bob Dylan Kicked Off His Spring Tour Swing With a Big Surprise (Miami New Times) [5]
    • “In general, the evening was a matter of the rowdier, the better, peaking with “Gotta Serve Somebody,” a song from Dylan’s Christian period that won him a Grammy in 1980. Here it got a rollicking gospel treatment that was sufficient to motivate one retiree sitting close to the front, who’d clapped her hands and rocked with nothing short of ecstasy to all the blues tunes, to bust out the full-on air guitar.”
  • Last Night in Fort Lauderdale (Flagging Down) [5]
    • “While an exciting arrangement, Bob Britt caught a nasty glance from Bob and not more than a few bars later, Doug got the hand chop from the piano letting him know he was doing something Bob didn’t like.”
  • Concert Review: E-Centre, Camden, New Jersey July 17, 1999 (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “Dylan has presence and Simon for all his hand motions during his set just doesn’t — not at this show anyway. Dylan was singing in one of his spookier voices and immediately you knew that he was singing strongly as well.”
  • Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson Unite for Epic ‘Outlaw’ Summer Tour (Rolling Stone) [5]
    • “Willie Nelson is hitting the road this summer on his annual Outlaw Music Festival Tour, and Bob Dylan is joining for all 26 shows. They’ll be accompanied on the first leg by Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, and John Mellencamp on the second. Billy Strings, Brittney Spencer, Celisse, and Southern Avenue will also be playing with them at various stops along the way. It kicks off June 21 in Alpharetta, Georgia.”
  • Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, Plant & Krauss Anchor ‘Outlaw’ Tour (Spin) [3]
    • “Willie Nelson will be joined by a host of famous friends on the 2024 edition of the Outlaw Music Festival tour, including Bob Dylan, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss and John Mellencamp. The Blackbird Presents-organized trek, which launched in 2016, kicks off June 23 in Alpharetta, Ga., and wraps Sept. 17 in Corfu, N.Y.”
  • Your Own Chosen Concert (Bobserve)
    • “Enter as many as 12 songs and hit the submit button to ask bobserve.com to search every Bob Dylan event to find any that contain all your chosen songs. There are more than 4,000 events to be searched, so please be patient :-)”

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  • From Dylan to Ishiguro: Can Lyrics be Literature? (The Guardian) [5]
    • The strongest case for lyrics as literature was made by the Nobel committee when it awarded the 2016 prize for literature to Bob Dylan – the first songwriter to receive that honour. But the committee skated over the reasoning for the decision and its implications, saying only that the award was for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”.
  • Young Bob Dylan: The Songwriter of the Century (Woman’s World) [3]
    • Once Dylan reentered his musical era, the songs and albums he produced had a different sound and style than before. While he was previously writing folk-rock songs, Dylan transitioned over to more of a country-rock style. His releases within this new genre include 1967’s John Wesley Harding and 1969’s Nashville Skyline.
  • Bob Dylan’s 6 Children: All About His Sons and Daughters (People) [5]
    • Bob Dylan is a father to six kids: Maria, Jesse, Anna, Sam, Jakob and Desiree

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  • Bob Dylan and Tom Petty’s Golden Oldies Revue (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “I recently launched a new podcast called Watching the Covers Flow – the one I had the most fun preparing is the second, focusing on the covers Dylan performed in 1986 backed by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. There were a lot! Dylan and Petty drew largely from songs they grew up with, pulling out all sorts of old-time-rock-and-roll chestnuts. Many Dylan never played before or since.”
  • High Water Pt. 18 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Thus, of “High Water (For Charley Patton)” we also get to see first manuscripts, handwritten drafts with deletions and annotations and alternative stanzas. Not very much and partly illegible, but intriguing enough – and it does what you hope for from manuscripts: it gives some insight into the creation of the masterpiece.”
  • Dylan Cover a Day: Whatcha Gonna Do? (Untold Dylan (5]
    • “I can only find one cover version of Dylan’s “Whatcha gonna do?” which either emphasises a view that I have put forward before that there is a feeling among musicians generally that if you are going to do a cover version of a Dylan song, do a famous Dylan song, or else they simply don’t know the more obscure bits of the catalogue.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Musically “Hard Rain” is indeed highly repetitive.  The first two lines are very similar, the difference being that the second line ends on the dominant chord, which gives us a feeling that we’ve reached a turning point, and something different will happen.”
  • NET Extended: Spirit on the Water (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • ““Spirit on the Water” from Modern Times was played 547 times by Dylan and the band between 2006 and 2018, when it was finally put to bed. In this piece I’m going to look at five snapshots: Dylan’s live performances from 2006 (when it all started) through to 2016, just three years before the Never Ending Tour actually ended.”
  • Dylan and Vee (The Town Line) [5]
    • “At a 2013 concert in St. Paul, Minnesota, Bob Dylan paid tribute to Bobby Vee (1943-2016), who was in the audience. Dylan played piano as part of Vee’s backup band for two gigs in 1959 and the two singers had remained friends and performed together on occasion over subsequent decades.”
  • Andrea Orlandi from Zeppelinfeld to the Photo for ‘I Contain Multitudes’ (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “I am not usually a very social guy, not easy to introduce my self to anybody: well, to do that with that man that shaped my youth dreams, who I already worshipped for more than 20 years, was beyond me.”
  • Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie: In The Grand Canyon at Sundown (Chris Gregory) [5]
    • “There is little doubt, however, who the main attraction is tonight. It is the first time Bob Dylan has appeared in public since the epochal 1966 tour and few of the audience know what to expect. He had recently released the laid back John Wesley Harding album, but this will not give them any clues as to the nature of his performance.”
  • Eat The Document: How Dylan’s Mind Works (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “For instance there’s a dog in the movie that keeps reappearing, just walking. On one hand you’re saying to yourself, “what is this dog doing in this movie?”. It took me a while to realize, but the dog is going somewhere, in this case, to the show at the Albert Hall!”
  • First Reactions to No Direction Home (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “Whether Scorcese dubbed in booing (I didn’t really hear any) is such a minor matter. I could be wrong, but he may have turned up the audience sound for dramatic effect. Complaints about no full songs don’t matter. They just don’t matter. Maybe it’s the actual Judas footage (they make it look like it is) doesn’t matter. “
  • False Prophet Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “You ‘open your heart’ to or confide in usually one person, not to ‘the world’, but the speaker’s naïve mistake was perhaps to have assumed that his audience would listen and respond with generosity of spirit rather than seizing an advantage, moving in and, as it were, setting up camp.”
  • 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.”

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  • The Complete Budokan 1978 (Spill Magazine) [5]
    • “The Complete Budokan 1978 demonstrates the fluidity of Dylan’s great art, which he has spent a lifetime tweaking, revising, and renovating, sometimes to the point of unrecognizability.”
  • It All Came Crashing Down Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Take it all back to the beginning of this compilation. Isis is a neat slice from Desire as most of these tracks are, the absence of Hurricane heartbreaking as it always is when omitted from the live circuit. Live for the fiddle and crunch of instrumental excess. This is what makes It All Came Crashing Down such an essential listen.”
  • West L.A. Fadeaway Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “His formidable playing, and the longstanding and well-preserved layering of the string and percussion underneath, allow for the vocal clarity found on this track. In a time where Dylan can fall toward mutterings and grumblings, it is refreshing to hear such clarity on West L.A. Fadeaway.”
  • Still the One Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Hearing the early 2000s live work sounds like the early drags of what would become an obsession with the classics, the moody tone which can be set on songs from other artists. But these moments are where Dylan finds this mannerism, this tone, can be inflicted on his works too.”
  • The Bootleg Series Vol. 12: The Cutting Edge 1965-1966 (Cult Following)
    • “Six hours of stop-and-start takes may sound like borderline torture, but for the Bob Dylan faithful this Bootleg Series entry will delight to no end.”
  • Cat Power Sings Dylan: St Paul (We Heart Music) [5]
    • “You’ve never heard “Just Like a Woman” like this, sung from a fragile woman. You’ve never heard “Mr. Tambourine Man” like this either. It takes its time and there’s a hint of sadness in the way it’s sung.”
  • Cat Power Offers Dylan’s Home-State a Visionary Tribute (Star Tribune) [5]
    • “Fans stayed silent and mesmerized up until “Just Like a Woman” and “Mr. Tambourine Man,” when many couldn’t help but sing along quietly. As the latter song wrapped, a change to just slightly brighter lighting marked the arrival of the rest of Cat Power’s six-piece band. And away we went.”

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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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