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• LIVE: Philosophy of Modern Song @92nd St. Y (The FM Club)
  • “André De Shields did the first parts – in 2019 he won the Tony and the Grammy for his role in Hadestown – sharply dressed and expressively reading with the skill one would expect of a performer of his stature. The songs and passages chosen (all the readings felt like excerpts and not the full text from the book) highlighted the most insightful and interesting of Dylan’s observations.”
• The Philosophy of Modern Song – Live (Bawker)
  • “The songs were given beautiful arrangements by the five person band and Ms. Ndegeocello. Eyes closed, she oscillated between even, mellifluous tones and rhythmic spoken word. Another vocalist quietly riffed around her in tenor gospel. I felt the whole audience being affected, our brains attuned together to the songs.”

[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1690141666313{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]After the 10 readings and performances from the book, Meshell Ndegeocello played this Dylan song.

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• Bob Dylan ‘Likely’ To Retire From The Road After Rough & Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour Wraps In 2024 (JamBase)
  • “‘Tis the season for farewell tours and could Bob Dylan be among the artists done with the road? The New York Post’s sources told the paper Bob’s current tour is “likely Dylan’s final tour.”
• Barack Obama Shares 2023 Summer Playlist (Ft. Everything is Broken)
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• A farewell to Banner’s, the restaurant I have loved for 30 years (Evening Standard)
  • Restaurant where ‘World Gone Wrong’ cover was photographed during ‘Blood In My Eyes’ video shoot
    • “Banner’s is closing and, as I walked out of the door after Juliette, the owner, had called me in to give me the news, I found my thoughts turning to cherished institutions whose imminent disappearance would have caused me less distress.”
• The Interior Design/Furniture in Dylan’s Highlands Home Wins Praise (Home and Gardens)
  • “A look inside the house shows that, despite renovations, the Edwardian spirit of the home is very much alive. Dylan’s home is full of period details like marble fireplaces, intricate molding on the ceilings and walls, and sleek hardwood floors. However, what stands out to our experts is the sheet functionality of the spaces in the home.”
  • Yahoo.Life
• MJ Lenderman Blends Surreal Pixar Visions and Bob Dylan on New Song ‘Rudolph’ (Rolling Stone)
  • “There’s even a cheeky Bob Dylan interpolation for good measure, with Lenderman nodding to “Blowin’ In the Wind” as he sings, “How many roads must a man walk down til he learns/He’s just a jerk who flirts with the clergy nurse til it burns.”
• Bob Dylan: Cultural icon, influential songwriter and UMN alum (The Minnesota Daily)
  • “Dylan lived in a Dinkytown apartment during his time as a University student in a building that, at the time, housed Gray’s Campus Drug and would later be occupied by Loring Pasta Bar and recently Gray’s Restaurant.”
• Culture That Made Me: Martha Wainwright on Bob Dylan, Annie Lennox and Succession (Irish Examiner)
  • “As a songwriter, I can’t deny that I was pretty obsessed and listened to a lot of Bob Dylan. It was always the thing that I went back to, an album like Blood on the Tracks. If I was playing records throughout the evening with my friends and we were going in different places, in the end, if we wanted to top it off, or bring it down, it seemed all roads led to Bob Dylan”
• Why mean-spirited songwriter Jason Aldean should take a lesson from Paul Simon and Bob Dylan (Forward)
  • “Nobody expects Jason Aldean to write as politically and poetically as complex a song as Dylan did; no one is nominating Aldean for a Nobel Prize for Literature any time soon.”
• 3 Famous Song Lyrics That Got Historical Facts Wrong (Ultimate Guitar)
  • “But one statement in the song is objectively wrong. The song describes Carter as the “number one contender for the middleweight crown”; according to the May 1966 issue of The Ring, he was ranked ninth around the time of his arrest and had never been ranked higher than third.”
• Why are there so many famous people from Hibbing? (Star Tribune)
  • “The city’s unusually long list of prominent one-time residents includes musician Bob Dylan, former Gov. Rudy Perpich, basketball star Kevin McHale, baseball great Roger Maris, wine magnate Robert Mondavi and food industry pioneer Jeno Paulucci.”

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• Tonight As I Stand Inside the Rain (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “Today’s show, on July 17 1994, ended after only nine songs. The reason: Extremely heavy rains in Krakow, Poland flooded the stage, making it dangerous for the musicians and eventually shorting out the power. Because of those rains, Dylan almost bailed on the show entirely. His friend-turned-road-manager Victor Maymudes talked him out of it.”
• Never Ending Tour 2014 P.3: The survivors (Untold Dylan)
  • “Some readers might be familiar with the urgent, sharp-edged performances from The Rolling Thunder Tour, 1976. What a contrast to this slow, soft version. He’s abandoned the sprightly tempo that has driven this song and turned it into a gentle, thoughtful ballad.”
• NET Highlights: Spanish Boots in Prague (Untold Dylan)
  • “The softness and gentleness of the singing and the accompaniment is, for me, utterly in keeping with the entire essence of the song. It doesn’t that we can’t understand the lyrics here, for surely we all know them off by heart. But what this first version delivers is a perfect delicacy, and that is maintained and indeed even enhanced as the double bass comes in for the instrumental break.”
• From Duluth to St. Paul to “Key West” (Bob Dylan At The End Of Time)
  • “After a set at the Purple Onion, returning to his room above Grays’ Drugs in Dinkytown, Bob might have walked west on University Avenue through Midway, a route that led most directly through the rail yards of the Burlington Northern, on the other side of the new I-94 freeway from my leafy neighborhood. “
• The Never Ending Tour: The Absolute Highlights – the Levy’s Gonna Break (Untold Dylan)
  • “I think the clue to what Bob has found is the bounce of the rhythm, and counteracting bounce in his voice. Also, he’s dropped the emphasis that the lead guitar had on the recording with the two notes at the end of each line. Instead, we get a guitar pattern, but then in the non-vocal verses, it is played against that repeated short pattern that we know from the recording. It’s a variation that makes the whole thing extra interesting, extra fun and ever more enjoyable.”
• Born In Time: How His Birthdate Helped Define Bob Dylan (The FM Club)
  • “None of this is news – we’ve all known where and how Dylan sat and interacted with all of these people and their art – but the fragility of the timeline, and the fact that had he been born five years earlier or five years later the swell of cultural influences he would have been swimming in would have been profoundly different, is a realization that I hadn’t made before.”

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• Ray Padgett’s Top 10 Dylan Live Tracks (Poetic Justice)
• Another Self Portrait Review (Cult Following)
  • “Take those lonely valleys of Pretty Saro, and how they document the vocal change Dylan exposed himself to at the time. Another Self Portrait, granted, does benefit from plucking the best bits and pieces from a few years of work, but they were a cluster of madness for the man at the centre of it all. “
• Lyrics and the music. Caribbean Wind (Untold Dylan)
  • “But there is that very strange instrumental section after each verse, which comes after the very fluid and classic blues construction, which starts with “nearer to the fire” which itself is slightly odd, as it leads into the next verse. It is a section which is very unDylan and completely unexpected. Indeed even after listening to the song multiple times, that instrumental section still sounds very odd and indeed ill-fitting after the perfectly constructed chorus.”

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