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• Forever Young and Daily Growing (Johnny Borgan)
  • “The vocals of “Black Rider” gives both me and my friend goosebumps, and then the new arrangement of “My Own Version of You” tonight really shows its full potential, Dylan delivering his impressive percussive rap in an exceptional effective way – he is almost dancing by the piano, attacking the microphone with the moves of a snake that bites.”
• Dylan Keeps Adding Surprising Songs to Setlist (Ultimate Classic Rock)_
  • “But Dylan isn’t just finding new ways to his old songs; he’s also been covering cuts from artists like Grateful Dead and Van Morrison. And he keeps adding surprise songs to his live shows, several of which he’s never performed before. We take a look at some of those 2022-23 tour highlights below.”
• Dylan Grateful Dead Streak Continues with Stella Blue (Rolling Stone)
  • “PRIOR TO A couple of months ago, Bob Dylan had only played covered four Grateful Dead songs (“Friend of the Devil,” “West L.A. Fadeaway,” “Alabama Getaway,” “Black Muddy River”) throughout his entire career as a live performer.”
• Last Night in Longroño (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
  • “After adding yet another layer of paint to his “Masterpiece,” the band goes on with the new versions of “Black Rider” and “My Own Version Of You,” which, alongside “Key West” and “Every Grain of Sand,” might be seen as the concert’s highlights.”
• Dylan Puts Longroño on the Map (Trend News)
  • “The cradle of Spanish is today the center of the universe of songs in English. Bob Dylan, one of the most influential musicians in modern history, is playing this Wednesday in Logroño in front of three thousand people who will almost fill the Palacio de Deportes.”
• Dylan in Donostia (Breaking News)
  • “Chance has willed that the same day that “Rough and rowdy ways” turned three years old, its author will present it at the Kursaal in Donostia.”
• The Last Trick of The Great Escapist (World Nation)
  • “Oh old bob. Always so predictably elusive, even now that it’s melting into its own twilight. He screams more than he sings, he cuts his lyrics showing any dotted lines and hides his old classics to reveal the most recent style, bluesy and proud. A liquidation truck driver? no way. If anything, a gambler on the edge of the abyss. A bard with a tiny body and watery eyes, who not only gathers crowds: he manipulates them as he pleases and punishes them for almost two hours without a mobile phone.”
• I’ve Been To 500 Dylan Concerts (ES Euro)
  • “The Frenchwoman, for her part, Laurette Maillet, is a 72-year-old painter who has more than 500 Dylan concerts behind her and almost the same number of paintings dedicated to Dylan. She has been following him since 1963, she told us at the gates of the Palacio de Deportes.”
• About Stella Blue (Dean.Net)
  • “This Robert Hunter / Jerry Garcia song seems to me to constitute the apex of their joint songwriting partnership. If it were possible for me to choose one song about which I could have a focused conversation with Robert Hunter, this would be the one, without a doubt. I can think of many questions I’d like to ask him, but as always, I would fear that asking the questions and getting the answers would not be such a great idea.”

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• Dylan’s New ‘Deep Focus’ Art Series Released (Castle Galleries)
  • “Referring to a cinematic technique that communicates narrative through the foreground, middle, and background, rather than focusing on one visual plane over another, Deep Focus captures four remarkable scenes; available individually or as a portfolio set of four.”
• Heaven’s Door Introduced Decades Series II (BevNet)
  • “Building on the success of the inaugural 10-year-old straight bourbon release, which received Double Gold at the prestigious 2023 San Francisco World Spirits Competition, Decade Series II was recently awarded 93 Points at the 2023 Ultimate Spirits Challenge, further demonstrating Heaven’s Door’s commitment to exceptional small batch whiskeys.”
• From Dylan to Beiber: Catalog Sales Take Over (Washington Post)
  • “I’m not Bob Dylan, so I didn’t get $400 million, but I got a very, very large chunk of change,” said Lindsey Buckingham.”
• Is Richard Thompson Britain’s Bob Dylan (Spectator)
  • “In other ways the comparison makes no sense at all. For one, Thompson is a consummately gifted guitar player, and Dylan isn’t, while songs such as ‘Woods of Darney’ and ‘Words Unspoken, Sight Unseen’ – two highlights of this show – are musically far more knotty and complex than anything Dylan has ever written.”
• Meet The Vocal Coach Turning Chalamet into Dylan (GQ)
  • “There will come a time in many young actors’ lives when they are asked to sing. Perhaps they get cast in a musical. Or a big, anticipated music biopic. And when that time comes, there is one man they go see.”
• Judge Who Freed Hurricane Carter Dies (Click 2 Houston)
• Bob Dylan and Coming of Age (El Pais)
  • “This was the case with Dylan, whose success was based on the assumption that he was conveying a religious, political and moral message of liberation to his listeners. Undoubtedly, an artist’s audience becomes captive to the idol it worships and is ready to applaud them freely, but not unconditionally. The artist-turned-star also falls captive to this audience, which they have to fuel with the message of salvation, which is expected of them.”
• Dylan Cafe in India (The Guardian)
  • “The theme was a natural choice: Shillong is Dylan-mad, holding celebratory concerts each year on his birthday; and 69-year-old musician Lou Dajaw is a living local legend thanks to his renditions of Dylan’s songs.”
• When Duluth Named then Un-Named a Street for Bob Dylan (Duluth News Tribune)
  • “The News Tribune conducted its own poll, and found that only four out of 436 respondents favored the idea of Bob Dylan Drive.”

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• Just Like Nina Simone’s Blues (Shadowchasing)
  • “Simone paid Dylan the highest compliment one musician can give another by performing several of his songs, and doing so with profound sensitivity. Late in life, her esteem for Dylan was unequivocal. Please tell my public that there aren’t many of us geniuses still living. Hardly any of us left at all. It’s down to Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, and Frank Sinatra, except Frank’s already dead””
• The Impact of Dylan (Alaska Commons)
  • “The artist who has become a star is also held captive by that public that he has to feed with the message of salvation that is expected of him. Dylan’s rebellion against that captivity marked the entry of the popular music audience into modern times and, therefore, into the coming of age of those who have to learn to free themselves from their tutors and to think for themselves. “
• Non-Self, Fixed Identity and Bob Dylan (William Routhier)
  • “But this isn’t mere hucksterism, in Dylan it’s the recognition of there being no static self. If he didn’t actually have those adventures he embellished and placed himself in, he could have, in the capacity of his thinking. That to him was enough.”
• Bob Dylan and the Music of Juneteenth Jamboree (Fred Bals)
  • “At the Juneteenth Jamboree there’s no shirking, no one’s working… if you really want to spree, chicks galore I guarantee. Grab your duds and come with me, to the Juneteenth Jamboree.’” ~ Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour, Episode 10 — “Summer” July 5, 2006”
• The Annotated Themetime Death and Taxes (Fred Bals)
  • “Let’s start things off with a man who has a record 5 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and that doesn’t even include being a baseball team owner or a television tycoon. Here’s the original singing cowboy, Gene Autry, with a song written by Irving Berlin called, “I Paid My Income Tax Today.”
• NET 2013 Pt. 4 (Pt.3) (Untold Dylan)
  • “Yes, there is a certain pathos in the purity of that defiant young voice, yet a different kind of pathos altogether hearing a cracked-voiced seventy-two year old sing it. Now there is a world of experience behind those apocalyptic lyrics, but the vision, and the passion behind it, haven’t changed.”
• Dylanesque – Inspired By Bob Dylan (Untold Dylan)
  • “First is Neil Young with Days That Used to Be from his awesome 1990 album Ragged Glory. Young revealed that the song is inspired by Bob Dylan’s “My Back Pages”.
• I Contain Multitudes Pt.5 (Untold Dylan)
  • “And this we know again thanks to this same interview, which apart from this excerpt is of course a brilliant, telling account – the elder Dylan is open, articulate, vulnerable, sharp and, well, wise is the word. The honest part, or rather: the sensible part of Dylan’s thoughts on the merger of Anne Frank with Indy and the Stones is that the creation of that merger occurs in a “trance state”.”
• Cover A Day: Seven Days (Untold Dylan)
  • “Do try Born 53’s version of the song, if for nothing else, then for the fact that they’ve changed the beat and so changed the meaning of the entire song.  Suddenly it’s bouncy and a fun celebration of what is going to happen.  It really does work.”
• The Transmutation of Blind Willie McTell (Untold Dylan)
  • “The guitar comes in, and then the electric piano, but the piano joins in a very disjointed way on the half-beat at the end of the bar before giving us the first sound of the opening melody.  It is indeed a singularly tentative start and we are not quite sure what’s what until we get to “Jerusalem” by which time the beat is established and we know we have a variation of “St James Infirmary” being played.”

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• Bob Dylan 69: Shadow Kingdom (Everybody’s Dummy)
  • “Any Dylan concert is a crapshoot, since one never knows what kind of mood or voice he’ll be in. Shadow Kingdom is an intimate evening with Bob, equal parts greatest hits and new interpretations, flowing neatly from song to song with nary a break. Besides being his first new live album since 1995, it’s a nice reminder that when he’s good, he’s very, very good.”
• Shadow Kingdom: A Ghostly Narrative for Our Post-Pandemic World (AIr Mail)
  • “Where does the magic come from? Dylan said, “It’s not me, it’s the songs. I’m just the postman. I deliver the songs.” Under lockdown, in the sanctuary of the studio, Dylan hid with his masked band and conjured this wonderfully spooky music and delivered it to us. Turn the lights down, play it end to end, and when a word or phrase or line hits you with the thrill of unexpected recognition, wonder how could he know, once again, that this is exactly what you needed to hear right now.”
• Uncle Dan Reviews Shadow Kingdom (YouTube Video Review)
• Excerpt: The World in An Uproar (HistoryNews)
  • “While most writing on Dylan in this period focuses on his personal decisions and behavior, what is clear in looking at the concentrated events in his most political period is that he confronted a considerable amount of scrutiny and hostility. He was ridiculed in the media, kept from performing certain material on television, and had his spontaneous remarks used to justify the opening of an FBI file. Dylan, in other words, was up against more than he realized.”
• Jeff Symonds – 2 Track Dylan Covers EP
  • AppleMusic Link
• Review: Thirsty Boots (Cult Following)
  • “From the delicacy of Dylan’s instrumentals to his powerful and clean-cut adaptation of a civil rights son with folk roots, it is no surprise Thirsty Boots feels right at home with the tambourine man himself. Stained and smeared clothes looked on with honesty by Dylan, a softer, soothing tone taken by Dylan, who sounds heartbroken in parts of this song.”
• New Book: Holding The Note: David Remnick (w/Dylan Profile)
  • “Dylan’s recorded output from 1963 to 1966 represents “one of the great explosions of creativity in the twentieth century,” just as Franklin’s album “Amazing Grace” is “perhaps her most shattering and indispensable recording.”

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• Dylan’s Bootleg Series Part II (Lightwood)
  • “…let’s begin this totally subjective retrospective with the bootleg series release lowest on my ranking: Volume 16: Springtime in NY.”

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