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Seven Days: February 5 – 11, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • The Pogues exhibition to make US debut at Bob Dylan Center for St Patrick’s Day (Irish Star) [5]
    • “Bob Dylan Center Director Steven Jenkins said the center adjusted its planned exhibit schedule to accommodate They Gave The Walls A Talking. “As a tribute to Shane, the band’s remarkable artistry and a celebration of Irish music and culture, we thought it was important to bring this exhibit to the United States in time for St. Patrick’s Day,”
  • They Gave The Walls A Talking: Exhibition On Irish Music Legends The Pogues (Hot Press) [5]
    • “The exhibition They Gave The Walls A Talking: The Extraordinary Story of The Pogues and Shane MacGowan will have its United States premiere with an exclusive showing at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, beginning March 8.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Recurring Lesson Plan (Arena) [8]
    • “Dylan’s songs consistently advocate atomisation. In this unannounced project he unequivocally promotes what Zygmunt Bauman, amongst others, has termed the process of individualisation. This sick storyboard dictates just the one instruction: be true to your authentic self.”
  • Stevie Wonder’s impression of Bob Dylan is highlight of ‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ (The Jewish News) [5]
    • “His composure is thrown. There’s both genuine anxiety and an equally evident commitment to delivering what the producers want. It’s not even clear if the tune he ends up singing — a “beautiful” octave Jones calls it — is what was intended, or just a riff the room was willing to go with for lack of a better option.”
  • 10 Revelations About the Mega-Stars Who Created “We Are the World” (Hollywood Reporter) [3]
    • “One of Jones’ earliest directions in the studio was to opt out of singing if your voice wasn’t naturally in the range of the chorus, which Dylan took to heart, as he’s seen on video muffling the lyrics during the recording. But things got no better when Dylan was asked to record his solo.”
  • Filmmaker Bao Nguyen On His Triumphant ‘The Greatest Night In Pop’ (Uproxx) [3]
    • “And I think both Bob and Stevie have a great arc in their storyline. When you enter, when we first introduce Bob Dylan, it’s a bit of discomfort, a bit of humor. Not laughing at him, but just the whole situation in general, and then he comes up. “
  • When the 49ers — and Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the Grateful Dead — Played on a High School Field (Creators) [3]
    • “Promoter Bill Graham organized a benefit concert to be held at Kezar to raise money for sports and other extracurricular activities at San Francisco public schools. The concert was called Students Need Athletics, Culture and Kicks, or SNACK. Among those who volunteered their services that day were Jefferson Starship, Santana, the Doobie Brothers, Bob Dylan, Neil Young and the Grateful Dead.”
  • ‘Cursive singing’ is inescapable – but is it any goyidd? (The Guardian) [3]
    • “It’s also been called “indie girl voice”, but there are plenty of non-indie, non-girls who do it, including Mendes, Justin Bieber and John Legend. Even Bob Dylan – not typically considered the most mellifluous vocalist – has used elements of cursive singing.”

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  • The Dust of Rumour: Spin in camp Dylan – 2001 (Peter Stone Brown) [5]
    • “Just cause Bob Dylan doesn’t happen to like someone at that second doesn’t mean they should be moved.  As far as I’m concerned that’s tough shit for him.  I mean too bad if he doesn’t like his fans.”
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour: Most Likely You Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The one big innovation from the original recording is the declaimed section of “The judge he holds a grudge” which really added a deep sense of sorrow and regret to the 2009 performance. And the removal of that makes this much lighter.”
  • Interview with Bob Dylan — Bill Flanagan (Various Mornings and Nights) [10]
    • “You like that sound? Oh yeah, very much so. . . the old Chess records, the Sun records. . . I think that’s my favorite sound for a record.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Jimmie Rodgers Tribute (Various Mornings and Nights) [10]
    • “(Dylan Liner Notes) Jimmie Rodgers of course is one of the guiding lights of the Twentieth Century whose way with song has always been an inspiration to those of us who have followed the path. A blazing star whose sound was and remains the raw essence of individuality in a sea of conformity, par excellence with no equal.”
  • Bob Dylan and Dock Boggs (Various Mornings and Nights) [5]
    • “Bob’s song North Country Blues is about a mining range, and Dock had just been found as a retired miner in Virginia, (in 1963, when Bob possibly met him).”
  • The Ballad of Rambling Jack (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “One of the best stories about Dylan and Elliott is not told. Reportedly, when Dylan found out that Jack Elliott was really Elliott Adnopoz, which happened in one of those after-hours sessions at the Gaslight Cafe, he rolled on the floor laughing hysterically.”
  • I’m Your Fan / Tribute Albums (Peter Stone Brown) [5]
    • “I Shall Be Unreleased (Rhino) was originally released in England a couple of years ago and is a collection of already recorded Dylan songs by other people that he (until this year’s Bootleg Series) has never officially released.”
  • The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour Pt.3 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “To me this performance, slowing the concert down so close to the start, is as much a strong statement by Dylan about himself and the never ending tour (the name he so fervently denies) as anything else, and its position here does suggest Bob wants to offer us a clear link between his vision of life and that of Walt Whitman.”
  • High Water (for Charley Patton) Pt.15 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Dylan himself performed “Dust My Broom” one single time, and seems to use the standard set by Elmore James as a template. Which is also the version DJ Dylan plays on his radio show, introduced with the appreciative words “Speaking of brooms… here we have Elmore James with a song that’ll drive you ’round the bend.”
  • Dylan Cover a Day: “Up to Me” (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “What he does is emphasise the lyrics so we really can pick them up first time around – not something that is always the case. The point is that since there is only the acoustic guitar and the bass guitar providing the accompaniment, and with the lyrics being clearly sung, almost occasionally declaimed, that is where our attention has to go. There is nowhere else to listen.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Abandoned Love (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “In fact although the song is in G, it confuses us by ending the first line on E minor, and then feels as if it has modulated to D by the end of the second line. The third line leaves us uncertain (which is a good musical reflection of the lyrics) and the six chords of the fourth line are used to gake us back to the key of G – where we started.”
  • NET Extended: Thunder on the Mountain (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “And just listen to that instrumental break! After that Bob changes the tune too – we are half way into contemporary jazz. OK it’s not the Modern Jazz Quartet, but I can almost imagine Bob having listened to them while thinking up this arrangement.”

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  • The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes (Cult Following) [5]
    • “The Basement Tapes – Raw is likely one of the best compilations of such material, particularly toward the second side of its disc. It wanes a bit in its full, six-disc summary, another reason to retreat to the two-disc spectacle here.”
  • The Times They Are A-Changin’ at 60 (PopMatters) [5]
    • “An entire ghost album of songs from the Times sessions can be found among later compilations. Several outtakes, including “Seven Curses” and “Percy’s Song” (later performed by the likes of Joan Baez and Fairport Convention), could have suited the album.”
  • Live at the Gaslight 1962 (Cult Following) [5]
    • “This is a monumental performance and a real piece of historical recording which shapes the image and vision Dylan had at the time with tremendous clarity. A few sprinklings of his absolute classics in there with the lesser-known flickers of early years’ work.”
  • Unplugged at Supper Club Vol. 1 (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Unplugged at Supper Club Vol. 1, is a monumental cruise through the works and words of Dylan. Acoustic beauties through and through, the Acid Project bootleg does a marvellous job of scrubbing up the quality and assuring real consistency, splitting these four gigs over two days into compact and welcoming states.”
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Flute goodness for Final Theme settles in rather nicely and the backing vocals, with Dylan and company feeling like whispers on the country trail, is a fitting yet rather light addition. It is easy to think up those cowboys from the Peckinpah film, a fine feature which does benefit from this Dylan soundtrack – though it is grand to hear it stand on its own two feet.”
  • Nadine (Is It You) (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Nadie (Is It You) may be the best of the bunch because of how natural it feels in the setlist – most of these covers do. But there is something to be said for the simplicity and the intoxicating build soon after which makes it feel an oh-so-natural part of the show.”
  • Archives Come Alive: Bob Dylan, Mixing Up the Medicine (Bilingual Culture Blog) [3]
    • “Biographically, the book offers an account, both lucid and ludic, of Bob Dylan’s career, the focus being on the artistic rather than the personal, and within the artistic on Dylan in his best-known manifestation as songwriter and musician.”
  • Protests, Makeup, and a Whole Lotta Grateful Dead in Tour ’74’s Penultimate Stop (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “According to Louie Kemp’s Dylan & Me, Bill Graham even tried to convince Dylan to let him professionally film these shows, offering to let Bob keep the masters as added incentive. Dylan still declined, which is one reason we have so little decent video footage of this tour.”
  • “Dylan Didn’t Sell In Seattle” (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “This was one of only two General Admissions shows (along with Miami) without assigned seating. The earlier people arrived, the closer to the stage they could sit. All those earlier press reports remarking upon the polite and orderly crowds went out the window.”
  • Ping-Pong and Playboy Bunnies in Denver (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “After a long run of setlist stasis, Dylan has started adding songs to the acoustic set again too. At the previous stop in St. Louis, “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” and “Desolation Row” both made their only Tour ’74 appearances, and now in Denver, the same is true for “Visions of Johanna. “She Belongs To Me” debuts too.”

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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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