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Seven Days: July 30 – August 5th, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • 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.”
  • A Bob Dylan Oddity (LA Times)
    • “On the Masked & Anonymous Screening: “It is one of the very, very few things in the Bob Dylan universe that is kind of under-discussed and underappreciated,” said Grant. “Like everything else has been very established and very talked about. And this is one of vanishingly few things that hasn’t.”
  • 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.”
  • Owner of Dylan’s Newport Guitar Offered over $1 Billion for Collection (Guitar World)
    • “The purchase offer, which it seems Irsay has turned down, would have reportedly seen the collection moved in its entirety to Dubai. “I was offered by a middle east element – kind of like what’s been going on in golf a little bit – 1.150 billion dollars for the collection,” Irsay tells Trunk. “They wanted to move it to Dubai and they wanted it in totality.”
  • Warren Haynes on Performing With Bob Dylan: ‘I Was as Nervous as Possible’ (UCR)
    • “I think the first time I sat in with Bob Dylan was a very special thing for me just because I’m the hugest fan. I’ve played with Bob a few times, but the very first time when we did ‘All Along the Watchtower’ and ‘Highway 61,’ I was just, like, on another planet.”

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  • 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.”
  • NET 2015 Pt.3: It Doesn’t Get Better Than This (Untold Dylan)
    • “I missed the moment Dylan began to break his concerts into two halves, taking a ten-minute break, but it has allowed the two sections to develop a character of their own, a momentum, an arc. I have seen the two halves described as Act 1 and Act 2 of a ninety-minute Dylan drama. You can see it that way.”
    • Pt.2
  • Bob & Brutus Hit the Road (Flagging Down Double E’s) PAYWALL
    • “At today’s show, August 4 1989, a lightning storm knocked out the power four songs in. The band jammed on drums (or, at least, that was the only instrument still audible) until the power kicked back in ten minutes later. Bob returned with—what else—“Shelter from the Storm.”
  • 15 Questions for Bob Dylan, Plus an Anecdote (Ennyman’s Territory)
    • “15 questions I would ask Bob Dylan if I could.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Search for the Holy Grail (Dylan At The End of Time)
    • “In this couplet, Bob, by using the same song, counterpoints the tragic demise of Marilyn — unable to find lasting love on Earth— with the dying president and his faithful wife. And here, remarkably, he includes himself directly — an aged troubadour, making his last circuits of the world, confessing his faith, still singing Amor, and going down slow.”
  • I Contain Multitudes Pt.12: They’re Not Metaphors (Untold Dylan)
    • “Whether Dylan also places a wink in the continuation of this verse, with and all the old queens, is less demonstrable. More obvious is that the rhyme king was looking for a rhyme word for red blue jeans, and queens would quite easily pop up even among less gifted pop poets.”
  • Dylan Covers: Mary Ann (Untold Dylan)
    • “According to Wikipedia “Mary Ann” is a folk song originating from at least as far back as the ethnomusicology of Marius Barbeau, a Canadian folklorist, and perhaps as far back as the mid-19th century.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Cover Down Pray Through (Untold Dylan)
    • “So there are many reasons why the song might fail; it is repetitious and it has a message we have heard so many times before. And maybe Bob did think it has failed since it wasn’t put on an album, and hasn’t even made it onto his official site.  But it is the music that drives it along.”
  • Dylan Covers: A Simple Twist of Fate (Untold Dylan)
    • “With a song such as this which has well over 50 established cover versions, and goodness knows how many other obscure ones, my tendency is to start by listening to some recent recordings, for musicians who take on a song that is almost 50 years old not only have the task of creating a performance that is different from the original but also of offering something new to say.”
  • Dylanesque: Kinky Friedman (Untold Dylan)
    • “Let’s look at another one of the albums that spun out of the Rolling Thunder Revue. This time it is “Lasso from El Paso” by Kinky Friedman.”

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  • NEW DYLAN SONG: Don’t Make Her Cry – Buddy & Julie Miller
  • 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. “
  • Review: Pledging My Time (Critical Conditions)
    • “Padgett is an active, close listener, who knows many things that his interview subjects have forgotten, so he can prod recollections. Dylan does have a consistent approach to putting together a band for a tour, but even this is wrapped in enigma.”

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