February 26 - March 4, 2023

Seven Days in Dylan News

The World of Bob Dylan Conference 2023

DATE: June 2-4
LOCATION: Tulsa OK
NOTE: World of Bob Dylan now sits within ‘SwitchYard Tulsa’ a larger arts festival
Pre-Sale Ticket Discount NOW through March 15
- Register for SwitchYard AND World of Bob Dylan ($225)
- Register only for World of Bob Dylan ($200)
AGENDA: The WOBD Agenda has not been announced but over 125 Speaker Events plus Keynotes and live performances are expected. This is an incredible chance to learn a ton, meet about 1000 people in the Dylan community, and have a great time. There will likely be some amazing live music performances from headline names during the event.
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Note: The Conference website and details are essentially non-existent and the registration is confusing because of the way it’s presented with/vs the new Tulsa SwitchYard conference. We recommend buying a SwitchYard “Full Festival Pass” because you get a full World of Bob Dylan Pass plus entry into SwitchYard events for just $25 (Even though sadly those aren’t announced yet either.) It would be hard to imagine being there and not wanting to check out at least a few of the events either the day before WOBD or during. Despite the lack of details and clarity, and the terrible web site, the last World of Bob Dylan as insanely great and we expect this one will be to – don’t miss out and take advantage of the early reg discount.

Bob Dylan On Tour

Japan Tour: April 6th – 20th (11 Dates so far)
Next Shows: Osaka, April 6-7-8
European Tour Rumors (Not Officially Announced)
- Granada Show Story (Spanish) – June 13
- Ganada Show w/Poster (Spanish) – June 13

THIS WEEK'S NEWS

Hedi Slimane Photographs Bob Dylan for Celine
- Photographs (WWD)
- Slimane Enter Dad Rock Phase (HighSnobiety)
- Photographed in Los Angeles in December 2022

Soy Bomb Interview (Mojo)
- “I was secretly hoping, ‘Fuck, someone please take me off stage.’”
The Wind: Dylan in 2020’s (First of The Month)
- “Dylan’s bow to Stevens in “Key West” doesn’t mean he’s dumped his first literary heroes—he still places himself “on the wrong side of the railroad track/with Ginzberg, Corso, and Kerouac”—yet it hints an aesthete’s way of being seems homey to him.”

B-Sides

Additional articles but less essential

Lynn Goldsmith Interview (Print)
- “I was concerned when I went to photograph Bob Dylan, because that shook me. I was in the back of the cab and I kept saying, “I’m going to shoot Bob Dylan.”
Who Killed Davey Moore Killed Boxing (Defector)
- “Dylan’s song about Moore isn’t even his best-known song about a prizefighter.”
Fans Risk Dylan’s Ire – No Photo Policy (Rock Celebrities)
- “The singer then asked the audience who took the photo whether they could keep playing or pose. Later, Dylan went on to perform a rendition of ‘It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry’ before walking off the stage.”
Dylan’s Clancy Brothers Influence (IrishCentral)
- “I got to be friends with Liam and began going after-hours to the White Horse Tavern on Hudson Street, which was mainly an Irish bar frequented mostly by guys from the old country. All through the night, they would sing drinking songs, country ballads, and rousing rebel songs that would lift the roof.”
Dylan Happens to be at Same Studio as Daisy Jones & the Six – (They use it for publicity.)
- “He had a tour bus outside of Sound City.”

Blog Posts About Bob Dylan

The Song That Changed My World (The Territory In Between)
- “Breathless short and middle-length songs with explosive, electrified arrangements were sandwiched between the seemingly endless Ballad of a Thin Man, Queen Jane, Like A Rolling Stone, and Desolation Row. No one in my circle had an inkling of the civil unrest inspiring Dylan’s protest songs, or awareness of the suffering feeding the Blues.”
The Never Ending Tour 2011 (Pt.3) (Pt.2) Untold Dylan
- “The Chinese leg of the tour had its controversy, with The Washington Post accusing Dylan of caving into pressure from China to avoid certain songs, in short, allowing himself to be censored by the Chinese Government.”
I’ve Made Up My Mind to Give Myself To You (Pt.6) Untold Dylan
- “Until this sixth stanza, we had the impression to be listening to a dramatic monologue, one like Dylan has done dozens of times before; a protagonist telling his story to an otherwise invisible antagonist.”
Last Times on Guitar (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- September 1, 2002, was the last time Dylan played an entire concert on guitar, having done so for most of his career up to that point.”
One Year Ago In Tuscon (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- “Somewhat to my surprise, the hype holds up. This early-2022 performance sounds startlingly different to the shows from the end of the year.”
Preface: I Don’t Love Nobody: Bob Dylan At The End of TIme
- “This Substack will present a serialized release of my book: I Don’t Love Nobody: Bob Dylan at the End of Time. The manuscript has 24 chapters in two parts, plus an Introduction and a Coda.”
The Time They Are A’Changin (Jeff’s Substack)
- “Bob Dylan performing at the White House and being hosted by the first Black President of the United States represented immense change. Yes, this was how things looked on the new road Dylan sang about.”
Bodhisattva in Blue Jeans (A Sense of Wonder)
- “We all turned around to see President Carter and Rosalynn, accompanied by friends and the requisite Secret Service agents, moving toward their front-row balcony seats. They waved. They settled. Then, almost on cue, the houselights dipped and Bob Dylan took the stage.”
NEW ISIS e-Subscription (ISIS)
- One of the long-time great Bob Dylan Fanzines now available digitally.

New Reviews & Releases

NEW BOOK: Whole World In An Uproar:
- What Shaped Dylan’s 60’s Politics (Inside Hook)
- “As Leonard writes, Dylan “was, for a time, part and parcel of a left-inclined resurgence in music that was relentlessly opposed by the powers that be.”
- How Dylan Became A CounterCulture Icon (LitHub)
- “Because of her FBI monitoring, we know Bob Dylan was also on the Bureau’s radar—in entries such as “during 1963, the subject [Suze Rotolo] frequently associated with Robert Dylan, a folksinger.”