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Seven Days: Jan 15 – 21, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Blood On The Tracks Revisited (Mojo) [8]
    • “We were totally confused because he was trying to teach us a new song with another one playing in the background. I was thinking to myself, Just remember, Eric, this guy’s a genius. Maybe this is the way geniuses operate.”
  • Lionel Richie: Writing “We Are the World” (Hollywood Reporter) [5]
    • “Poor Bob was having a nervous breakdown. He’s trying to sing it. And we said, “No, we don’t want you to sing it, just do it like Bob Dylan.” Now, Bob Dylan has an identifiable voice instantly. But he was trying to sing it another way. We kept saying, “No, just sing it like Bob Dylan.” But did you see that look on his face? He was like, well, what does that sound like?”
  • Should Minnesotans Claim Bob Dylan? (Racked) [5]
    • “He was operating in these very hallowed cultural spaces, where it just would not have been cool to admit you’re a chicken little kid from nowhere Minnesota, and you’re trying to invent yourself down there at The Gaslight and Cafe Wha?”
  • Art Review: Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right, Samiya Mahir Sheikh (Youlin Mag) [5]
    • “Her work is quite distinctive as she takes inspiration from the poetic realm of Bob Dylan’s lyrics, translating the soulful melodies into visual masterpieces.”
  • Drummer Kenny Aronoff (Business Jet Traveler) [5]
    • “I recorded four days over four months. The only time I spoke to Bob Dylan, I’m sitting in the control room with my back to the door, and he walks in and taps me on the shoulder. He shakes my hand and says, “Kenny! Bob Dylan.” And I never spoke to him again.”

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  • Ask Greil: January 18, 2024 (Letter In The Ether) [5]
    • “In 1969 after hearing a tape of Dylan and the Hawks at Manchester in 1966 I knew there couldn’t be anything better.”
  • Dylan + Art: The Gaze (Shadow Chasing) [5]
    • “The women in Hodler are dream symbols. They are manifestations of an inscrutable inner vision—“Where nothing comes up to the top / Everything stays down where it’s wounded / And comes to a permanent stop,” as Dylan sings in “Series of Dreams”—frozen in eurythmic sway to a secret inner rhythm.”
  • The Tour ’74 That Coulda Been (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [5]
    • “No new songs for the tour, and it’s not the best-sounding tape either.”
  • Give Florida a Shot (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [5]
    • “But in South Florida, ticket sales were slow. The day of the concert, afternoon seats were still available and a smidgen of evening concert tickets could be bought from hawkers for $9.75.”
  • Exit Through the Gift Shop (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [5]
    • “In between his two shows on the 15th and 16th, Dylan did some sightseeing. He went to the DC art museum The Phillips Collection, taking in some paintings. Dylan’s interest in visual art had been burgeoning in recent years, with his work appearing on the cover of Self Portrait, Planet Waves, and The Band’s Music from Big Pink.”
  • The Greatness of Tony Brown’s bass on Blood on the Tracks (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [8]
    • “He (Dylan) couldn’t have been more remote. I can’t remember any words that were spoken. He was concentrating entirely on the songs, nothing else. I am the first person to hear these songs and they are great and what kept occurring to me during the sessions was, he’s back. This material is really great.”
  • On the Road with Bob Dylan and Paul Simon (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]
    • “Easily for me, the most moving part of his set was when Dylan came out for “Sounds of Silence.”
  • Bob Dylan as the Teacher (Moments of Connection) [5]
    • “Bob Dylan is a uniting force in ways I had never thought of until today, touched by the feedback flowing in. I always found the experience of being around him a surprisingly quiet feeling. He is a listening field.”
  • Sixty-Two Years of Hard Rain (Ennyman’s Territory) [5]
    • “Then I was asked what my favorite Dylan song was. Naturally this is equally impossible for there are many, but if I were to narrow down the pool to five I would most assuredly include “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall.”
  • Gates of Eden: A Crashing But Meaningless Blow (Chris Gregory) [5]
    • “The song consists of nine four line verses, all delivered in a rather sinister tone. Most of the verses use three rhyming endings, followed by the non-rhymed title phrase, which is made particularly dramatic by this effect. Dylan’s delivery is harsh and uncompromising.”
  • Cover a Day Tonight I’ll be Staying Here With You (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “This song has a highly recognisable instrumental opening, a highly recognisable opening line in terms of melody and lyric, and a highly memorable title line – and that is before we get to that very distinctive middle 8 which, unusually for Bob brings in a chords that have nothing to do with the key … and eventually modulates.”
  • High Water Pt.10 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “And that, this artist name George and Lewis, seems already a more likely trigger for the name choice “George Lewis” in the opening of “High Water’s” fifth verse than some George Lewes from the nineteenth century or a clarinet-playing George Lewis from New Orleans.”
  • NET 2019 Pt.3 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “This is the best band I’ve ever been in, I’ve ever had, man for man. They can whip up anything, they even surprise me.” Dylan 2006″
  • Other People’s Songs: Ragged & Dirty (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Lomax wrote in his book, “Land Where The Blues Began”, about the time when Willie Brown sang “Ragged & Dirty”, “William Brown began to sing in his sweet, true country voice, poking in delicate guitar passages at every pause, like the guitar was a second voice…”
  • NET Extended: Mr Tambourine Man (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “And it turns out with some careful listening and a bit of background research, this isn’t a solo performance after all. Listen carefully and you hear the percussion slip in, and by the instrumental break the percussion has a major part to play, and there is a second guitar in there too.”
  • Dylan Cover a Day: Tombstone Blues (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The fast beat of the original tends to mitigate against anyone doing anything else with the piece – or at least that is how it generally seems to me. But I was as ever, wrong…”
  • “What Drives Bob Dylan?” Project, Episode Two: Leaving Home (Josee Writing) [5]
    • “Bob claims to Billy James early on in Chronicles that he had been “kicked out” (7), but he might have been making that up for some reason. Did he just feel such a strong need to get out of his hometown that he just got up and left?”

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  • ‘Dylan is a Walking Dictionary of American Music’ (The Hindu) [5]
    • Blood In The Tracks Book Review
    • “The Minnesota bloodlines that run through Blood on the Tracks are important, Shefchik says. “One of the sub themes of the book was that Dylan took an awful lot of criticism from some of his industry friends when he re-recorded the songs in Minneapolis.”
  • Travelin’ Thru Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Travelin’ Thru is an exceptional companion piece for listening to the later stages of the 1960s Dylan productions. Lending an ear to the first take of To Be Alone with You is a revolutionary moment for those who need something to turn their reflections inward and their hearts upside down.”
  • Concert at Philharmonic Hall Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “But Concert at Philharmonic Hall, the sixth in a long-running selection of Bootleg Tapes, documents a man at the start of his long crawl to quiet and brooding respect.”
  • Before the Flood II Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Before the Flood II, a collection of rare tapes and leftover bits which prove exceptional to listen to and almost as towering, exciting and influential as the first instalment. Long live the Bootleg tapes. “
  • 50 Years Later: Bob Dylan Teams Up With The Band Again For Graceful ‘Planet Waves’ (Glide) [5]
    • “Still, with the retrospect of five decades, Planet Waves stands as a significant marker in the man’s career arc. Arguably comparable (or superior) in quality to his prior studio release, 1970’s New Morning, the presence of his famed accompanists lends it more than a little cachet.”
  • Review: Girl From The North Country (Buffalo Rising) [5]
    • “GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY was not what I expected. This musical had a lot of good laughs, but also a lot of dreariness.”
  • ‘Girl from the North Country’: A Musical Journey into the Heart of the Great Depression (BNN) [3]
    • “The musical culminates with ‘Forever Young’ and ‘Pressing On,’ encapsulating the era’s struggles and leaving the audience with a sense of hope. The captivating blend of humor and dreariness, the depth of character portrayals, and standout musical performances have made ‘Girl from the North Country’ a must-watch.”
  • Bob Dylan ‘Planet Waves’ and Joni Mitchell ‘Court and Spark’ Were Both Released 50 Years Ago Today (Noise 11) [1]
    • “Dylan was backed by The Band, Rick Danko, Levon Helm, Garth Hudson, Richard Manuel and Robbie Robertson, for this record.”

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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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