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Seven Days: Jan 8 – 14, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Hear a Pristine Recording of Bob Dylan’s 1976 Austin Gig That Just Surfaced After 48 Years (Rolling Stone) [8]
    • “I was the audio engineer for this portion of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour,” it read. “While I do not have a complete setlist for both the Mobile, AL and Austin, TX shows, I do have tapes of both shows. However, the songs have been combined into a single tape, so I don’t know which song was performed at which venue.”
  • Dylan as Producer: BARRY GOLDBERG (Letter To The Vatican) [5]
    • “Even more striking is the spooky “Soothe Me.” It’s echoed vocals, bluesy electric piano and swampy guitar actually make it sound like an Oh Mercy! outtake. These two bonuses are just icing on the cake for an already eclectic, engaging album that is far more than just a footnote in Bob Dylan’s history.”
  • Martin Carthy recalls trying to teach Bob Dylan to play Scarborough Fair (Guitar.com) [5]
    • “As well as escorting Dylan round the London folk scene, Dylan also saw Carthy as an incredibly influential and inspirational guitarist. He was often begging Carthy to teach him a song or two. “He used to ask me for Scarborough Fair… and Lord Franklin all the time,” Carthy says. Lord Franklin would go on to forge the foundations of Bob Dylan’s Dream.”
  • ‘A Complete Unknown’ Starts Production in Late March (A World of Reel) [5]
    • “After numerous delays due to the strike, “A Complete Unknown,” the Bob Dylan biopic from James Mangold, finally starts production in late March. Shooting will be done in Montreal and New York.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Grandson Is All Grown Up And Stunning (MSN) [5]
    • “”I love music, but as far as a career goes, no,” he said. Levi also noted he played bass with a band called Dreamer’s Dose. “We were really good,” he said. “But then I stopped because I wasn’t as interested as people thought I would be. I just grew out of it.”
  • Louisiana Cajun And Country Legend Jo-El Sonnier Passes Away (KPEL) [5]
    • “Jo-El opened for Dylan, sat in with Dylan, wrote a song called ‘Dylan Song’ and Dylan did a Jo-El cover song in 2004.”

And Also

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  • ‘Masked and Anonymous’ Is the Midnight Movie for Mathematicians, Carpenters’ Wives, and Bob Dylan Sickos (IndieWire) [8]
    • “Like all great late-career Dylan albums, it’s best described as a vibe that simply washes over you. The story shifts between music industry satire, political commentary with wildly unclear positions, and dreamlike hallucinations.”
  • Ch.1 – With Dylan in Rotterdam (Travelling With Dylan) [10]
    • “I asked his advice about how to get backstage, and he said, “Just ask for Victor Maymudes, Bob´s road manager,” and it worked. In a minute, Babeth, looking outrageous in the black, beaded bustier she´d bought as her costume for the occasion, was on the couch in Dylan´s dressing room, lighting up a joint.”
  • Ch 2: Do you remember…? (Travelling With Dylan) [10]
    • “Yeah, that´s gone. I´m tired, but not sick. What you did really helped. It would be great if you could do that for me before every show. Come with me. I need you on the road with me. And nobody talks to me the way you do. I´ll let you try out your idea of getting the audience to hear themselves so they don´t disappear.”
  • Temples in Flames with Bob Dylan and Britta Lee Shain (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [8]
    • “As ‘Ernie’s girlfriend’ she rubs shoulders with some iconic people, who all treat her well at first. She socializes with Dylan’s girlfriend Carole Childs and will eventually come between them. Slowly, from 86 to 87 she gets closer to Bob Dylan, feelings ‘appear’ mutual, but we only know her side.”
  • The Ballad of Blake Mills (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]
    • “He recently posted on his Instagram the guitar parts he played on 7 of the Bob Dylan songs on Rough and Rowdy Ways. What becomes clear on listening is that the album would have in no way been as musically elegant without his parts, if indeed these are the parts he played. What a fine, fine musician either way.”
  • Every Song Bob Dylan Has Ever Played Live (Can’t Get Much Higher) [10]
    • “The least amount of variation — again, by far — came in 1978 (2.08%). True, some songs came in and out, most notably when he released Street-Legal halfway through the year, but there were a lot of shows that year (over 100) with more or less the same songs for months at a time.”
  • Dylan Revisited: The Times They Are a-Changin’ (1964) (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • “This disillusionment with the potential for change was probably not new. Dylan had finished recording his third album on the last day of October. If the title and opening song gave people the hope they wanted, the rest of the record resolutely did not.”
  • Complicated Shadows: Bob Dylan, John Ford, Warren Beatty, and Elvis Costello (Jeff’s Substack) [3]
    • “Bob Dylan seemed comfortable speaking with journalist Cameron Crowe. It was September 1985 when Dylan took part in several interviews for his box set, Biograph. A lot was covered.”
  • The First Tour ’74 Soundboard (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [5]
    • “The tape also delivers pristine versions of the four songs that, at this early stage, are emerging as the nightly knockouts. Two of them are acoustic-to-electric reinventions, like they did on the ’66 tour, but with different folk-era songs: “It Ain’t Me Babe” and “Ballad of Hollis Brown.”
  • A Rolling Stone Sit-Down in Montreal (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “Dylan, in Montreal, responded: “They just don’t understand.” He shrugged his shoulders. “It’s got nothing to do with that kind of atmosphere. What the critics expect is what they expect. It concerns me more with getting it to the people.”
  • Review: Darkness & Dylan songs abound in ‘Girl From The North Country’ (The Times) [5]
    • “With her behavior ranging from child-like impishness to foul-mouthed discontent, Mrs. Burke’s scenes often are jarring. The Burkes’ young adult children, an excessive-drinking son Elias pining to be a writer, and unwed pregnant daughter Marianne complicate matters, as do the boarding house’s guests including a sketchy Bible salesman, and a bickering married couple with a learning-disabled teen son who have lost their once comfortable way of life.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “”Normally we associate sad songs with two things: one is a slow speed and the other is a melody and accompaniment that we can immediately associate with a feeling of mourning.  But “Don’t think twice” has none of this.  It reflects the singer getting up and charging off down the long and lonesome road. He’s sneaking out – and fast.”
  • High Water Pt.9 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “”It’s tempting to grant this George Lewes a misspelled name-check in “High Water”, true. But alas, that bridge really is far too shaky. After all, we’ve never been able to catch Dylan on such a mistake tending towards dyslexia.”
  • Other People’s Songs: Mutineer, Warren Zevon and Jenna Mammina (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “I think Bob performs it with real feeling, a feeling that so many great artists had for Warren Zevon. “
  • NET Extended: Rainy Day Women (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “And still after all these years that introduction is pretty much the same, but the melody has really gone now, and as far as I can tell, so have some of the lyrics. The key part that we now have is the bounce.”
  • Dylan Cover a Day: To Ramona (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Leoni Jansen gets the feeling as I think it should be, keeping that singular lilting 6/8 time (which runs 123,123 throughout).  And as the accompaniment grows it stays in keeping with the song, and with the chosen approach. I think it’s a marimba that is brought in around 1’23” – and for me although it is repetitive, it is highly effective and totally in keeping.”
  • NET 2019 Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “In most respects it’s pretty much the same as the 2018 Setlist, which has its origins back in 2014. There is, however, one significant change. ‘Things Have Changed,’ which has been the opening song since 2014 begins, in 2019, to give way to ‘Beyond Here Lies Nothing,’ a somewhat prescient choice given that this will be the NET’s final year.”
  • Peter’s Top Ten Bob Dylan Albums (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]

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  • Desire (Pitchfork) [10]
    • “He would never make another record like it—its circumstances being unrepeatable seemingly by design—but in some ways Desire is the most explicit manifestation of the central literary irony of Dylan’s career: that the consummate barometer of social and cultural authenticity can’t be trusted with the facts about anything, least of all himself.”
  • Bob Dylan: Tempest. On-Purpose and Determined (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [8]
    • “It is an album that is like everything he’s ever done and at the same time like nothing he’s ever done. It takes quite a bit of magic to pull that off, and Dylan is a magician and a trickster and it is this unpredictability that has kept his fans, no matter when they came in along the journey entranced.”
  • Before the Flood Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Certainly, one of the best live offerings available to fans of The Band and Dylan. It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) could not sound better here than it does. Moments of real perfection and keen understanding of the live process, the back and forth of Dylan and the wilder side of The Band flowing through and creating a masterful piece in parts.”
  • The Bootleg Tapes Vol. 2 (Rare & Unreleased) Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Rare and Unreleased Vol. 2 is a necessary part of history and listeners should feel lucky to hear it in this state and with this level of quality to the package. An essential period of work which sees Dylan work through some of his hardest and harshest material.”
  • Bootleg Series Vol. 4 – The ‘Royal Albert Hall’ Concert Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Joined by the likes of Robbie Roberston and legendary bass guitarist Rick Danko for this plunge into the depths of electric music, Dylan is in fine form and hits the ground running for a new era.”
  • Comin’ Home Late Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Let it go to your head – have an honest half-hour of reflection here. Dylan allows for it on this laid-back approach to mixing through the American Songbook. It is more an exercise in learning studio stylings and getting a firmer grip on how he hopes for original material to sound in the future more than anything.”
  • Portsmouth 2000 Live Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “This is from an era where Dylan shook up his lyrical style and led some in attendance to this confused state of waiting to hear some words they could pick up on and later identify as the track they thought it was. Instrumental changes and a real turn from Dylan in this one mark the September 25 show as a legendary one, consistent and stuffed full of hits.”
  • Something Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Something provides a stellar reminder of how classic and important Charlie Sexton is to Dylan, either in the studio or live. Dylan’s nod to his longstanding guitarist to riff away on his own accord, to match the energy found in the interspersed and individual charted course of this lyrical dissolvement, is wonderful.”
  • What Kind of Love Is This? (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Where audience members may be dazzled or even confused by the pace changes and vocal parts from Dylan in his modern era, What Kind of Love is This? serves not only as an exceptional collection of performances but a timeline of changing voices. Why it changed, where it started to get interesting for Dylan to develop his voice in a far-removed style to his earliest works and where it has led him can all be heard here.”
  • ‘Life is about creating yourself’: on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine (The Guardian) [5]
    • “The size of the museum’s collection and the heft of this new Dylan encyclopedia are reminders of the huge scope of the enterprise. A two-page spread at the beginning of the book shows the covers of 50 of Dylan’s albums produced between 1961 and 2023 on his way to the Nobel prize for literature but that leaves out Wikipedia’s count of a 17-volume bootleg series and 22 boxed sets.”
  • Tangled Up in Blew By You (Town Topics) [5]
    • “And so wrapped up is Dylan in his five-page commentary that he once again skips the customary second-person fireworks display, adds a photo of Albert Einstein playing his own old violin, and closes with a gracious appreciation: “This is as gallant, generous, and faithful a performance as you’ll ever hear.”
  • When Bob Dylan Made It All Official by Starting His Bootleg Series (American Songwriter) [5]
    • “To say the reaction was unanimously fawning would be an understatement. The three discs included 58 tracks, and not a one of those songs had been part of an official release before. While there were a handful of live tracks, the vast majority of these songs were studio recordings that hadn’t seen the light of day.”
  • Dylan’s Music Fuels ‘Girl From The North Country’ Tour (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) [3]
    • “Their many individual and interpersonal struggles are soundtracked by 19 Dylan tunes including 1974’s “Forever Young,” 1979’s “Slow Train,” and 1983’s “Jokerman” and “License to Kill.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Legacy 60 Years On From Iconic Album The Times They Are a-Changin’ (Mirror) [5]
    • ““I went into went into the kitchen and there was Dylan, who she’d met at a party. I mean, who’s gonna spend the night with me when you can spend it with Bob Dylan?”
  • Bob Dylan’s ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ Turns 60 (Albumism) [5]
    • “The album cover matches the traditional sounds: a black and white portrait of a scowling Bob. The Times They Are A-Changin’ has no vanity. Dylan would grow into his own brand of narcissism later in the ‘60s, but he was still a folk hero in 1964 because of this LP. The Times They Are A-Changin’ tackles racism, poverty, and social changes: the America brand.”

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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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