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• Last Night In Alicante (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “While I loved watching and listening to Charley Drayton on the drums last year, I really enjoyed what new drummer Jerry Pentecost brings to the band. Jerry plays in a more straightforward style than his predecessor, but it’s effective; I particularly enjoyed his swinging shuffle beat on “Goodbye Jimmy Reed.”
• Dylan Performs Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum 1st Time 8 Years (JamBase)
  • “Bob last played “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum” on July 16, 2015 in Lörrach, Germany. The Madrid version was a little more rock ‘n’ roll then the studio version.”
• Dylan’s “Shock” Cover of Van Morrison (Rolling Stone)
  • “Dylan has returned the favor by covering the Morrison tunes “One Irish Rover,” “Carrying a Torch,” “Real Real Gone,” “And It Stoned Me,” “Crazy Love,” and “Moondance” throughout the course of his Never Ending Tour.” So why the shock?
• Dylan At Montreux Jazz (Rolling Stone FR)
• Dylan Dishes Into The Mystic (Relix)
  • “The two iconic musicians have also shared the stage on multiple occasions, notably performing together at Ireland’s Slane Castle in 1984, where they stupefied the audience with their collaborative renditions of “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” and “Tupelo Honey.” Additionally, in 1998, they embarked on a joint tour and also joined forces to perform “Crazy Love” in Athens for a BBC documentary crew.” More reason to not be surprised.

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• 1961 Recording and other Rarities at July 4 Auction (Omega Auctions)
  • “A roll of BASF audio tape (4” spool) containing approx 15 minutes of audio, previously unpublished, of a performance by Bob Dylan at ‘Gerde’s Folk City’ in New York City, September 1961. On the recording which is of very good quality, Dylan is Introduced as “Bob Dylan from New Mexico“. It is believed that this tape contains the only known recording of Dylan performing ‘..T For Texas‘ unaccompanied.”
  • Signed copy of Debut LP
• Interview With Scarlet Rivera (24/7 Valencia)
  • “The words and profound messages of BD awakened me socially while I was still in high school, but I never dreamed I would meet and be chosen to perform with as his right hand person a few years later.  He has been the most singular and important voice to awaken generations of people around the world.”
• Don’t Miss The New 10-Year-Old Rye from Heaven’s Door (Mens Journal)
  • “Simply having an age statement, even 10 years, isn’t enough: It’s got to taste amazing. And the Decade Series Straight Rye meets that benchmark handsomely. This whiskey is all about intensity and complexity—flavor that gets deeper with every sip. Just as you can listen to Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks” over and over again, getting something different from it every time, you can sip this whiskey and never have the same experience twice.”
• Heaven’s Door Heading To The UK (Spirits Business)
  • “When it came to adding a Bourbon into the range, we had to find something which would complement our portfolio of pioneering spirits, specifically a brand that has quality, substance, and a rich story to tell.”
• HMV Vinyl Week with Dylan Exclusives (Retail Gazzette)
  • “Limited edition vinyls from artists including Bob Dylan, Sam Fender and Avril Lavigne will be hitting stores as part of the event’s ‘Exclusives Day.’”
• Uncut Magazine Dylan Ultimate Guide (Uncut)
  • “This is our first 172-page Definitive edition, and in it we review each of Dylan’s albums from the eponymous debut to the newly-released Shadow Kingdom, and reprise his most interesting encounters with the British press. We’ve also included a special eight-page fold-out chronology, taking a sideways look at the six ages of Dylan.”
• Robbie Robertson on his best albums – The Band to Dylan (Uncut)
  • “Oh, I remember the “Judas” night, but we’d heard it all before. We’d toured the US, Canada, Australia, then all over Europe, so by the time we got to England we were hardened veterans of negativity.”
• Tennesee Anti-Drag Bill & Bob Dylan T-Shirt (The Progressive)
  • “My wife gave me my Bob Dylan T-shirt. It’s gray and prominently features a black and white photo of Dylan, circa the 1960s, playing a harmonica. Above the picture it says “Bob Dylan” in pink letters.”
• What Does Like A Rolling Stone Really Mean (American Songwriter)
  • “When you stumble upon those truths, either by mistake or via some gifted wisdom, it can be jarring. Dylan knows this. He lived it, evidenced by the lyrics of this song. When you realize your diamond rings and status are all part of a bigger plan and are man-given, then you realize all that matters is your internal substance. If that’s not there, you can quickly feel hollow.”
• Birthday Bash is One Of My Favorite Knoxville Events (Knox News)
  • “The big winner is the audience. Being a Dylan fan helps. It’s not a requirement. Local artists play a short set of their interpretations of Dylan songs, then yield the stage to the next artist.”

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• Dylan, Rawls, McTell… (I Went Down To St. James Infimary)
  • ““Blind Willie McTell” is a magnificent piece of songcraft in which both the poetry and the music carry us into broad terrain. Dylan accomplishes this not through conventional narrative, but through a series of vignettes, a cascade of images that, coupled with a compelling melody, conveys a landscape of conflict and despair. “
• 30 Misc. Dylan Clippings (Ennyman’s Territory)
  • “While trying to get some facts straight for the book Bob Dylan In Minnesota I enjoyed a leisurely afternoon scanning through clippings from our local newspapers and tabloids. It was especially funny to come across a few things I myself had written.”
• On Mystery Street in Key West (Dylan At The End of Time)
  • “To get there, we need to follow Bob’s directions, and you know, he can be funny with those. In this chapter I discuss the clues hidden beneath the surface of the stories of the real people, places, and songs named in the lyrics of “Key West (Philosopher Pirate).”
• Dylan’s 114 Greatest Opening Lines (Untold Dylan)
  • “When you consider that the alphabetical index of songs that Dylan has written and which appears on this site has 627 songs finding over 100 that to me have amazingly memorable open lines that is quite extraordinary. “
• Other Songs: Let It Be Me (Untold Dylan)
  • “I am always a bit suspicious of people who take songs and then slow them down for vocal flourishes and extra emotion.  I think that a significant part of the song is the continuing rhythm, and here, with the piano accompaniment that doesn’t seem to have too much to do with the varied melody line, it all becomes a bit broken – at least to my ear.”
• NET 2013 Pt.2 (Pt.1) (Untold Dylan)
  • “In his late songs Dylan sometimes shifts focus, and can hide one thing behind another. I may be drawing a very long bow here, but behind the figure of John Lennon I see another John, John of Patmos, author of the Book of Revelations.”
• I Contain Multitudes Pt.4 (Untold Dylan)
  • “More musical and funnier then is the closing line, the varying refrain line – in this stanza I rollick and I frolic with all the young dudes… I contain multitudes. In the 1980s, Dylan once built an entire lyric on frenzied rhymes on the name “Angelina” (concertina, hyena, subpoena), and by now it’s becoming clear that Dylan still finds it a fun finger exercise in 2020.”
• Dylanesque 2 – Rhymin’ Dylan (Untold Dylan)
  • ““Rhyming doesn’t have to be exact anymore,” Bob Dylan told Paul Zollo of American Songwriter magazine in a 2012 interview. “It gives you a thrill to rhyme something and you think, ‘Well, that’s never been rhymed before’. Nobody’s going to care if you rhyme ‘represent’ with ‘ferment’, you know. Nobody’s gonna care.”
• Dylan Covers: Series of Dreams (Untold Dylan)
  • “Now I obviously don’t know if you ever get that feeling of shivers and temperature change just from listening to a piece of music, but as I write this while I am listening to Bob’s version for the first time in years, I am getting exactly that.”

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• Review (City A.M)
  • “Geniuses never do what we want them to: if they did, they’d be just like us. There’s recompense for the dismay we sometimes feel at the trajectory of our heroes. After the initial confusion comes comprehension, forgiveness, and awe – followed by amnesia about the traversal of that progression. Soon you forget why you ever struggled; they’ve normalised a place you’d never have got to under your own steam.”
• Review (Elsewhere)
  • “The stripped back musical setting here – no drums or keyboards – is wonderful in the sparseness where small filagrees of guitar add colour or drama at the end of lines, the accordion bringing emotional exoticism where required.”
• Review (All Music)
  • “The key to Shadow Kingdom is that he’s not performing any of these songs like he did at the time they were written. They’re given inventive arrangements that are right in the vein of the pan-American roadhouse music he’s been making since the dawn of the 21st century: they’re blues and rockabilly, they’re soul and country, they’re standards meant to be crooned in a saloon.”
• Review (Flood)
  • “Like Miles Davis and Lou Reed, Bob Dylan is not here for you—not here for that. Staying on the road endlessly has meant endlessly improvising, revising, and recommitting himself and his bands to his modern-day standards. Shadow Kingdom just happens to be a fantastic screen capture of that process—a magnificent, elastic set of renditions of his most beloved (and least played) mini-epics of ache, revenge, and recall.”
• Review (Rock & Roll Globe)
  • “Bob Dylan – on Shadow Kingdom and in his extraordinary live performances for most of this century – is having none of that. In doing so, he is engaging in a late-in-life miracle, as so very, very few artists have. Dylan is actively committed to performing and releasing music that is creatively thrilling and emotionally relevant.”
• Review (Rhythms)
  • “It’s a kind of folk-rock, but a very low-keyed, mostly acoustic folk-rock that has nothing to do with the Byrds or Dylan’s electric mid-’60s recordings. No drums. No piano or organ. Just guitars (both acoustic and electric), bass (upright and electric), accordion, harmonica, pedal steel guitar and mandolin.”

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• 45 Years Later – Street Legal (Glide)
  • “If it were not for the more imagistic likes of “Changing of the Guards” and “Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)”–both of which are brimming (overfull?) with religio-mystical word-play–Street Legal would be little more than a bitter rant. Yet the challenging density of that verbiage can on occasion provide a distraction from the often near-immobile musicianship.”
• Review: The Double Life of Bob Dylan – Heylin (Critics At Large)
  • “So I’m delighted to report that Heylin also realizes, even more expansively than I, that Dylan’s storytelling prowess reflects the ancient origins of all literature, and that every enigmatic song he ever crafted is also a novel capable of embodying the literary essence of Cervantes, Melville and Hemingway: his words tell the tale of the times we live in.”
• Dylan In Minnesota Offers New Insights (Electric Review)
  • ” Dylan In Minnesota is a unique undertaking in that it focuses on the town where Dylan came from, offering us a glimpse of what that place looked like during the years before he was a star. The Minnesota these authors recreate is the same one the singer himself references in two early masterworks, “North Country Blues” and “Restless Farewell.”

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