[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” css=”.vc_custom_1654295754149{margin-top: -40px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}”][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_custom_heading text=”July 9 – 15, 2023″ font_container=”tag:h2|font_size:38|text_align:left|color:%23aaaaaa” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:300%20light%20regular%3A300%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1689454648663{margin-top: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”Seven Days in Dylan News” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:38|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%3A300%2C300italic%2Cregular%2Citalic%2C600%2C600italic%2C700%2C700italic%2C800%2C800italic|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal” css=”.vc_custom_1671990723380{margin-top: 5px !important;}”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/3″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row full_width=”stretch_row” gap=”35″ css=”.vc_custom_1669589654602{margin-top: -20px !important;border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}”][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1689547122483{margin-bottom: 20px !important;}”]Note: Slow week, so all of SEVEN DAYS is in this one edition.[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_custom_heading text=”News Items About Bob Dylan” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:26|text_align:left” google_fonts=”font_family:Open%20Sans%20Condensed%3A300%2C300italic%2C700|font_style:700%20bold%20regular%3A700%3Anormal”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1689547185176{margin-top: 20px !important;padding-left: 30px !important;}”]THE TOUR ENDED: Rome – July 9th

• Double Dose of Dead at Tour Closer (Jam Bands)
• Dylan Takes A Break from R&RW Tour (Setlist.FM)
• Dylan at Umbria Jazz (Breaking Latest News)

LISTEN

• Truckin’ ROME (Grateful Dead Cover) YouTube Audio
• Only A River ROME (YouTube Audio)
• FULL SHOW – ROME (YouTube Audio)
• Bad Actor MERLE HAGGARD COVER – Milan July 3 (YouTube Audio

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• My Mortgage’s In The Highlands – Bob Sells Scottish Castle
  • BBC
  • The Times
  • Scottish Daily Express
  • Ultimate Classic Rock
  • The Scottish Sun
  • Mansion Global
  • “The 16-bedroom A Listed property was purchased by Dylan and his brother, David, in 2006, for £2.2m.“They bought it as a base. They’ve not been able to use it in recent years and that’s the reason for the sale. Up until about pre-Covid times, Bob and his brother would normally go there for a few weeks a year.”
• Inside The Making of Masked and Anonymous (Uproxx)
  • “When I told Charles this last week during a Zoom call, he shared a surprising revelation: What I have seen truly is the straightforward version of Masked And Anonymous. The actually bonkers incarnation is the original three-and-a-half-hour cut culled from a sprawling 155-page screenplay that Dylan insisted — against the pleas of the film’s producers — that Charles shoot in its entirety.”
• Remember When Dylan Went Electric? (American Songwriter)
  • “Some say the boos Dylan heard that night were not from the crowd booing his music, but rather the poor sound quality on hand. Folk icon Pete Seeger didn’t like what he heard, and also blamed sound quality, saying in the 2005 Dylan doc, No Direction Home, “Get that distortion out of his voice … It’s terrible. If I had an axe, I’d chop the microphone cable right now.”
• Best I’ve Ever Seen or Heard – Arlen Roth (Acoustic Live) PDF
  • “The first time I saw Dylan was when Eric Andersen told me to go down to Gerde’s Folk City in the Village, where, ‘Tonight, the survivors of the ‘70s’ were going to be decided!” Roth exclaims. “Little did I know Dylan was gonna show up and that it was a kind of kickoff to his Rolling Thunder tour.”
• Dylan Adds Bourbon to Heaven’s Door Whiskey Range (The Spirits Business)
  • “Ascension Kentucky straight Bourbon joins the brand’s Tennessee straight Bourbon, double barrel whiskey, and straight rye whiskey in the core range.”
  • More @ Whisky Raiders
• New 10-Year-Old Rye Packs A Punch (Robb Report)
  • “Bob Dylan’s Heaven’s Door whiskey brand has proven to be one of the best in the crowded celebrity field, with a solid core range of rye, bourbon, and American whiskey. The latest release, part of the brand’s Decade Series, is pretty straightforward for a limited-edition bottle—a 10-year-old rye whiskey—but this is one for those who crave the assertive, spicy notes of a bigger, bolder rye.”

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• Sailing The Caribbean Wind to Key West (Bob Dylan At The End of Time)
  • “In this chapter I continue this line of inquiry with a close read of “Caribbean Wind.” I aim to show that Dylan presents several ideas and images that are mirrored, and then reconciled, in “Key West (Philosopher Pirate).”
• Twist Love Songs of Street Legal (Chris Gregory)
  • “In the five ‘twisted’ songs Dylan immerses himself in a ‘blues persona’, expressing his own uncertainties through the voices of narrators who sometimesseem to be uncaring or unpleasant, especially towards the women being addressed.But as with the songs of so many Delta Blues singers, this show of ‘machismo’ only exposes the narrators’ own insecurities.”
• Matt Steichen Pull Back The Curtain (Ennyman’s Territory)
  • “Not only did he expand our understanding of why and how Dylan has been so influential, Matt demonstrated in no uncertain terms how much Minnesota has been in Dylan’s DNA and the values that formed the foundation of his career — and has never forgotten his roots.”
• No Time To Think – Mercenary as Metaphor (Ennyman’s Territory)
  • “The first verse of the song describes the narrator as a mercenary soldier who is constantly on the move. In a world of death you “face life”but you also have a family, a wife and child. This wife “sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.” There’s a suggestion here that she’s possibly been deeply traumatized. The narrator is angry and bitter about their situation.”
• Richard Thompson on Dylan Covering “Vincent Black Lightning” (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “We had to get to the next date, wherever that was, and in order to do it we had to leave pretty much after our set and then drive 600 miles or something. It was a necessity, so I missed it.
• I Contain Multitudes Pt.8 (Untold Dylan)
  • “Dylan articulates the insight that most of us do reach, sooner or later: that the Great Truths of all religions, cultures and times overlap. We hear an expression of that insight here, in the key line of the fourth verse, also one of Dylan’s Eternal Themes: Everything’s flowin’ all at the same time. “
• NET2014 Pt.2 (Untold Dylan)
  • “With ten songs down and only one from the 1970s, the audiences must have been happy to hear ‘Simple Twist of Fate’ at slot eleven. I’m always in awe at the subtlety of this song, how it captures the feeling of being caught between desire and fate. ‘Another blind man at the gate,’ that’s us whatever gender we might be.”
• NET Highlights: Love Minus Zero -1992 (Untold Dylan)
  • “Here it is the melody that is different from the original recorded version from the second line onward, and it works perfectly.  It doesn’t sound like the piece has been changed for the sake of change: if this had been the original version, we would surely all have marveled about it just as many of us did with the version delivered on the LP.”
• R&RW Tour Covers Pt.4 (Untold Dylan)
  • “A set of nine recordings of Dylan’s covers of other people’s songs appears at the end of the article.”
• Lyrics & Music: Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Untold Dylan)
  • “This song was played lived just once (1 October 1965) and appeared first as a single and then 20 years later on Biograph. It has always felt to me as one of the most, if not the most, awkward of Dylan songs – a song for which the overwhelming emotion seems to be nastiness.”
• Dylan Covers: Sign On The Window (Untold Dylan)
  • “It appears that Dylan has never performed “Sign on the window” in any concert – at least according to the official site. And yet despite Dylan’s non-performance, and its notorious modulation, it has not escaped the attention of the cover artists.”

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• Pat Garrett & Bill The Kid at 50 (Rock & Roll Globe)
  • “He’s a mystery Peckinpah never solves, in part because he cast Dylan in the film after hiring him, on Kristofferson’s insistence, to compose the score. Though Alias plays as fiction, Garrett had first mentioned him in his 1882 book, The Authentic Life of Billy, the Kid. Roger Ebert, for one, wasn’t impressed by Dylan’s take on the guy, writing, “His screen presence makes him look as if he’s the victim of a practical joke involving itching powder.”
• Dylan’s 5-Star Albums (AllMusic)
  • “Few artists have had the cultural impact of Bob Dylan, and his discography is filled with terrific albums. While there are additional highly-rated compilations, Bootleg Series, and boxed sets, in honor of Bob Dylan’s birthday (May 24th), we’re highlighting all of his 5-star main albums as indicated by the AllMusic editors.”
• Magnolia Pictures Picks Up Joan Baez I Am A Noise (Deadline)
  • ““Neither a conventional biopic nor a traditional concert film, this immersive documentary shifts back and forth through time as it follows Joan on her final tour and delves into her extraordinary archive, including newly discovered home movies, diaries, artwork, therapy tapes, and audio recordings.”
• Bob Dylan in Minnesota – Barnes & Noble Book Talk w/Marc Percansky and Matt Steichen (YouTube)
  • Video
• Four Local Writers Contribute to Dylan in Minnesota (American Jewish World)
  • “The reader learns about the mysterious rabbi who appeared in Hibbing to serve as Bobby Zimmerman’s Bar Mitzva tutor.”
• Growing Up With Visits from Dylan (Sun Sailor)
  • “He recalled Dylan stopping by in 1982 to give Marilyn a hat. In 1983, he said Dylan called one of his Minnesota friends when Percansky had been over. Dylan asked for a call for local artists to draw a cover for an album to be titled “A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothes.” The album later had been released as “Infidels” and included a back cover drawing Dylan drew himself of a man kissing a woman on the cheek. Percansky wrote, “The woman had a striking resemblance to my mother.”

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• Pod Dylan
  • Like A Rolling Stone (Rebecca Slaman)

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