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Seven Days: Jan 29 – February 4, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • The Singers On ‘We Are The World,’ Ranked (Uproxx) [8]
    • “It’s not that he sounds bad. He can’t even get the words out. His voice shrinks under the pressure. The panic in his eyes is unnerving. It’s the most vulnerable this famously impenetrable man has ever looked on camera.”
  • ‘We Are the World’ Documentary – Juicy Stories About Dylan (StarTribune) [3]
    • “Bob Dylan looking like a nervous wreck, seemingly aware that his voice wasn’t as powerful as the others. It’s Wonder who comes to the rescue, plunking Dylan’s solo parts on piano while doing a masterful impersonation of his elder. A laughing Dylan instantly relaxes.”
  • Netflix’s “We Are the World” Documentary Brings Us Back to That Night (Spin) [5]
    • “The image that is the most indelible is Bob Dylan looking absolutely terrified, painfully uncomfortable, and about as far out of his element as he can get.”
  • Dylan Proves Why He’s the Most Featured Artist in Movies (MovieWeb) [5]
    • “Many movies in which Dylan’s music is featured are among the most famous ever made. Most titles on this list are highly recognizable, while a few may appear unfamiliar. All that said, these are 20 Bob Dylan needle drops that prove why he’s the most featured artist in movies.”
  • A 17-Year-Old Dylan Saw Buddy Holly Perform (American Songwriter) [3]
    • “Buddy played the music that I loved, the music I grew up on—country western, rock and roll, and rhythm and blues. Three separate strands of music that he intertwined and infused into one genre. One brand. And Buddy wrote songs, songs that had beautiful melodies and imaginative verses. And he sang great, sang in more than a few voices. He was the archetype, everything I wasn’t and wanted to be.”
  • Roots of the Two Dylans (The New European) [3]
    • “On the other side of his family, Bob Dylan’s maternal grandparents were also Jews who had their origins in Lithuania. So it is rather likely that all four of his grandparents spoke Yiddish, and we can now see that Zimmerman was strictly speaking a Yiddish-language rather than a German-language name.”
  • Real Life Rock Top 10: February 1, 2024 (Greil Marcus) [5]
    • “And then it begins to play as a quest. You feel Dylan trying to breathe the air of the Kid’s 1880 New Mexico Territory, and when it happens—with “Pecos Blues,” “Final Theme (Ride Billy Ride),” and “Rock Me Baby” —you can feel everything else on the set gathering into these moments, as if finally they can breathe too.”

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  • Leon Russell Brings the Vibes (Flagging Down) [8]
    • “Just look at the photos, both the one up top and a few more below capturing Leon’s two onstage appearances. Notice what Dylan is doing in all of them? Grinning.”
  • No Whistling, Howling, or Song Requests (Flagging Down) [5]
    • “The reason I’m bringing up the exhaustion factor is that Bloomington has the worst newspaper reviews I’ve encountered so far. Now, they’re not pans. Pans could be explained away as a reviewer with an agenda. They’re middling, which is almost worse. The Daily Sun-Herald’s is headlined “Dylan: Almost Anticlimactic, But Definitely Memorable.””
  • Bob and The Band Take Madison Square Garden (Flagging Down) [5]
    • “These concerts were also being recorded—not just by audience tapers, but for the live album that became Before the Flood. Phil Ramone, the future Billy Joel producer (and Blood on the Tracks engineer) who was at this point most notable for engineering The Band’s Rock of Ages, handled recording duties.”
  • Bill Graham: “Somebody’s f***in’ around with this concert” (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “Bill Graham comes on stage to scold the local promoter as the audience tries to figure out whether the show is over. Per the Michigan Daily, he told the crowd this was “the first time in 16 cities on this tour that we’ve had a heavy amount of ticket scalping.”
  • Dylan Revisited: Bootleg Vol. 1 (1961-63) (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • “Outtake and B-side collections are usually aimed at the hardcore. But new or casual Dylan fans will find something to love on The Bootleg Series Vol. 1. It’s a remarkable record of the relentless tide of songs that flowed from him during this time.”
  • An Earthquake in Slow Motion (Traveling With Dylan) [5]
    • “I would tell him in the morning that Bob had asked me to come along on the tour to be his movement teacher, though I had no idea for how long. He seemed to be leaving that up to me.”
  • Dylan Cover a Day: Unbelievable (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Bettye LaVette of course we know well through these explorations, and she too finds energy and excitement in the song.  And just in case you think you’ve got the hang of it after the first minute, I would urge you to keep going; she and her arranger do have some fun with the piece.”
  •  The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest: Nothing Is Revealed (Chris Gregory) [5]
    • “In Frankie Lee Dylan creates an entirely nonsensical scenario, which he leavens with various aspects of Biblical symbolism. Frankie himself is a kind of ‘Jesus figure’ whom Judas Priest (arguably taking on the satanic role) leads into temptation. But instead of suffering in a desert and having to live off locusts, he kills himself through extreme sexual indulgence.”
  • High Water (Pt.14) (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Text-internal circuits in which Dylan performs something like analysis on his own creative process would be highly atypical; too laborious and even smelling of arrogance and complacency – no, Dylan is allergic to that. The decisive factors for content and word choice of this verse seem to be first and foremost: pleasure in wordplay and euphony.”
  • Stay With Me Backbone (DarmstadtDylandays) [3]
    • “Back to Stay With Me Backbone and to the bassist and musical director for Dylan’s music Tony Garnier, who is well known in the Dylan cosmos. The real backbone for almost 30 years now. Like in Brooklyn on Old Black Magic Called Love and the deepest bass on Mother of Muses.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Tangled Up in Blue (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The drama therefore is not the ditching of the car, but her simply walking away.  And walking away where? Somewhere “out west”. The image (at least to a UK resident) is this is somewhere remote – and a long way away.”
  • Dylan, The Beatles, Buddy Holly, and The Day the Music Did Not Die (Between A Rock & A Hard Place) [5]
    • “I saw him only but once, and that was a few days before he was gone. I had to travel a hundred miles to get to see him play, and I wasn’t disappointed. He was powerful and electrifying and had a commanding presence. I was only six feet away. He was mesmerizing.”
  • Don’t Hurt Yourself (Bawker) [5]
    • “You rip off your shoes and fling them across the room. “Is this how you live, huh?” you yell, hoping it hurts. “Is this how you treat my house? Is this how you treat me?” accentuating each question by picking up some shit and throwing it on the ground. It was almost there anyway!”
  • The Rough and Rowdy Way Tour: 2021 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “A Tour Compilation of Best-of Performances from 2021.”
  • Tangled Up in Bob, #1: Rebecca Slaman (Between Art and Life) [5]
    • ” I don’t know what kind of person you have to be to think this movie is good in any way. The script is terrible. The performances are terrible. The editing is hostile to the viewer at times, the way it’ll cut to screams at a theme park, or a really loud jet engine just when you’re not expecting it.”
  • Dylan + Art: The Gaze (Shadow Chasing) [3]
    • “Needless to say, I know nothing about the real Sara Dylan. Neither do you. She has maintained her anonymity and silence astoundingly well for decades. All we know is Dylan’s perspective, as refracted through the prism of art, in several memorable songs written almost fifty years ago.”
  • Bob Dylan talks About John Lennon (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “To me it was the same attitude earlier on before he did the primal therapy thing and came out. To me, he was always a musician first. Like, to me, his version of “Stand By Me” is the version regardless of the song’s been done so many times, but his was better than the original.”
  • Dylan Cover a Day: Tryin’ to Get to Heaven (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “It is a strophic song of five musically identical verses, and by now we all know the lyrics … but what this version does is has some fun in the instrumental break in a way that isn’t expected.  That gives us a refreshed outlook for “I’m going down the river” which really works for me.”
  • Sugar Baby (Dylan Song Analysis) [5]
    • “He’s a womaniser, duplicitous and opinionated. He has a tendency to deceive himself. He’s also vicious and vindictive. Much of the time he’s able to convince himself not by sound reasoning but by the conscious or unconscious use of rhetorical language – imperceptibly sliding, for example, between two different meanings of the same word.”

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  • Hard Rain Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “They had given all they could – no more was left in the tank. It can be heard here, this live recording from the right tour but plucked at the wrong time.”
  • Footlights Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “His desire to hold his audience and their attention to task for the whole of his shows saw the ban on electronic devices at his shows. But those who persevered are responsible for bringing about Nothing Lasts Forever, a wonderful collection from BennyBoy which lingers on the mind.”
  • 50th Anniversary Collection 1973 Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Dips in form on And He Killed Me Too sound as though Dylan is attempting an impression of Yoko Ono. Out of form, rising and falling – it is all over the place and the only jutting trouble found on this compilation. The likes of Knockin’ On Heavens Door do not sound so far off the eventually released work.”
  • Go Lightly from the Ledge, Babe (The Run Out Grooves) [5]
    • “The release of Another Side of Bob Dylan, culminating in ‘It Ain’t Me Babe’, can viewed as a minor watershed moment in Dylan’s career. It was a declaration of his evolving artistic vision, one that the expectations of others would not constrain.”
  • ‘Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan’ (The Aquarian) [5]
    • “It’s not for casual fans, but if you’re a Dylan fanatic, you’re probably going to want the new edition, which divides what had been a fat single book into three more manageably sized volumes.”
  • GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY May Have Been Created Expressly For Nashville Audiences (Broadway World) [5]
    • “Dylan’s songs are stunningly, startlingly performed by McPherson’s enormously talented cast who come together to create a whole world within the confines of Jackson Hall. A palpable sense of authenticity and relevancy pervades the theater as the play’s action transpires, somehow seeming totally spontaneous.”
  • GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY’s Jennifer Blood On ‘A Show Like No Other You’ve Ever Seen’ (Broadway World) [5]
    • ” I learned quickly that this was not a jukebox musical, but rather characters singing songs by Bob Dylan.”
  • Laura Pursell Releases Dylan Song Video (Broadway World) [5]
    • “The “Shooting Star” video was filmed and directed by Andrew Rozario and Cinematographer Mike Stryker for Casting Life Films in various downtown Nashville musically historical locations. Viewers will see the famous alleyway behind Tootie’s Orchid Lounge, the backstage entry to the Ryman Auditorium, and just across the alley is the back entry to Roberts Western World.”
  • 24 Covers of Bob Dylan Songs That Are Better than the Original (Wealth Of Geeks) [5]
    • “Few would suggest that Bob Dylan isn’t a great songwriter. Over 1500 artists have covered his songs, indicating that he’s hugely respected and his legacy will live beyond him. However, not every music lover enjoys the singer and musician Bob Dylan. The folky nature of his voice divides opinion, and several of those cover versions are better than a Dylan original.”

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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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