• Buddy And Julie Miller’s New Bob Dylan Co-Write ‘Don’t Make Her Cry’ (Spin)
  • “Don’t Make Her Cry’ were the words Regina McCrary’s father, Reverend Sam McCrary, said to Bob when they met at a Nashville show in 1978 shortly after she joined his band,” Buddy Miller tells SPIN. “Three decades later, they finally wrote lyrics to the song together in Huntsville, Al. When it came to writing the music, Bob said to Regina, ‘give it to Buddy Miller.’ I then passed it to Julie, who added more lyrics, moved others around, and set it to music.”
• Biopic on Tom Wilson, Unsung Bob Dylan Producer (Variety)
  • “The roster includes a long-in-the-works authorized biopic on the enormously influential but unsung producer Tom Wilson.”
• The X-rated life of Bettye LaVette (The Telegraph)
  • “In 2018 LaVette recorded an album of Bob Dylan covers called Things Have Changed which received rave reviews. But she’s livid that Dylan “never took the time to say how good it is. And when you’re as big as he is, that can make a huge difference to sales.” She finds his silence all the more maddening because of an encounter in Spain a few years earlier.”
• NET Highlights: Idiot Wind (1992) (Untold Dylan)
  • “You can tell from the very start that this is a different approach – there is all the sadness and desperation, and yet it is more reflective than aggressive, with the music suddenly taken right down at the end of the opening sequence of lines.”
• Review: Street-Legal (Subjective Sounds)
  • “Sonically, Street-Legal has a full-bodied sound and while it would be nicer if the soundstage had a little more width and depth, the shallowness adds to the sonic presentation. While a broader soundstage sounds good in theory, it would likely dramatically shift the album, most likely resulting in a less-than-stellar sonic presentation.”

There are 14 more news items, blog posts, & reviews, plus a bonus video link – in the Bonus Edition this week. Join us.

• Pod Dylan
  • Blind Willie McTell (Stephen Daniel Arnoff)
  • 22 Min Preview Episode / 1:17 Extended Available to FM+ or Premium Subscribers
• Hard Rain & Slow Trains
  • Highway of Diamonds: Dylan in May/June 1963
• Kreative Kontrol
  • Ray Padgett – Pledging My Time Book
• Definitely Dylan
  • Oh Mama w/Rebecca Slaman

• Aug 17 (ZOOM) – An Evening with Ray Padgett
• Aug 17 (Lakewood OH) – Tribute Concert with Chrome Horse
• Aug 20 (London UK) – Bob Dylan London Walks  NEW
• Aug 25 (Palatine IL) – Bob Dylan Tribute Concert  NEW
• Aug 30 (Pleasantville NY) – An Evening With Bob Dylan Center
• Sept 15 (South-West France) – Michael Gray’s Dylan Discussion Weekend
• Sept 16 (Tulsa OK) – An Evening with Bernie Taupin
• Oct 13 (Vancouver BC) – Highway 61 Re-Imagined NEW
• Oct 29 (W. Yorkshire) – Bob Dylan’s Greatest Rejected Tracks

Complete List of Worldwide: Bob Dylan Events Calendar

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Books

• NEW: Bob Dylan: Forever In Flux (Amazon)
  • Released July 8, 2023
• PRE-ORDER: Murder Ballads Old and New
  • Amazon
  • Release Date Sept 12, 2023
• PRE-ORDER (US): The Joker & The Thief (Peter Stone Brown)
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  • Release Date Aug 1, 2023
• PRE-ORDER: Blood in the Tracks: The Musicians Behind Dylan’s Masterpiece
  • Amazon
  • Release Date: Sept 12, 2023
• PRE-ORDER: Material Wealth: The Personal Archives of Allen Ginsberg
  • Amazon
  • Release Sept 27, 2023
• PRE-ORDER: My Greenwish Village: Dave Bob Me (Terri Thal)
  • Amazon
  • Release Oct 5, 2023
• PRE-ORDER: I’m Not There (21st Century Film Essentials)
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  • Release Nov 14, 2023
• PRE-ORDER: Play A Song for Me
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  • Release Nov 17, 2023
• Book: Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan (50th Anniversary) Vol. 1
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• Book: Pledging My Time: Conversations w/Bob Dylan’s Band Members
  • Amazon
• Book: I Contain Multitudes (Jochen Markhorst)
  • Amazon
• Book: Mixing Up The Medicine (The Bob Dylan Center)
  • Amazon

Recordings

• SALE: Chrissie Hynde – Standing In the Doorway Vinyl
  • Amazon  ($12 – 56% off)
• SALE: Lucinda Williams: Bob Dylan’s Back Pages Vinyl
  • Amazon ($18 – 42% off)

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