• How Bob Dylan inspired, and angered, Sinead O’Connor (Duluth News Tribute)
  • “O’Connor first remembered hearing Dylan in 1977, when she was 10 years old. “I see from the album cover he’s as beautiful as if God blew a breath from Lebanon and it became a man,” she wrote.”
• The Many Sounds of Bob Dylan’s Voice (PopMatters)
  • “In 2018, Dylan premiered an unadorned ballad version of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”. For the first few minutes, Dylan is practically unaccompanied at a piano before a pizzicato double bass and snare-brushed-drum lift and borne the arrangement to its bittersweet coda.”
• Why Dylan Should Not Have Received the Nobel Prize (Dylanology)
  • “Giving Dylan the Nobel Prize of Literature is an error of categories: Dylan can not be awarded a Literature prize, because what he is doing is not literature. He is a singer: he writes songs and sings them, and even though those songs partly consist of texts, and those texts are of an outstandingly high level, and for many are what define their image of Dylan, all of this is not enough to call him a “literature guy”.”
• PhilosopHer of Modern Song: Brooklyn Baby (Bawker)
  • “Except I’m a barista, I’m just out of college, I live in in bushwick with 3 roommates I hate, and I like to go thrifting on my days off. Every day people treat me like I’m not a person. I have no concept of the future.”
• Exploring Two Newly Unearthed Dylan/Petty Soundboards (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “Today, a look at a magnificent new tape of a show in Bonner Springs, just outside Kansas City, on July 24, 1986.”
• Unpacking “Oh Mercy” for live performance (Untold Dylan)
  • “Let’s start with the guitars. Lanois, in his account, has Dylan playing the rhythm parts on a butterscotch (‘52) Telecaster. My Harley Benton black-and-white is decidedly non-vintage, but pushed through a Fender amp with the reverb on 11, it provides that shimmering curtain of sound you’ll recognise even if you have no idea what I’m talking about when I talk about guitars.”

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• Aug 4 (Los Angeles CA) – Masked and Anonymous Screening
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• Sept 15 (South-West France) – Michael Gray’s Dylan Discussion Weekend
• Sept 16 (Tulsa OK) – An Evening with Bernie Taupin  NEW
• Oct 29 (W. Yorkshire) – Bob Dylan’s Greatest Rejected Tracks NEW

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