March 26 - April 1, 2023
Seven Days in Dylan News
Bob Dylan On Tour
- Japan Tour: April 6th – 20th (11 Dates)
- European Tour: June 2 – 30 (21 Dates so far)
- Next Shows: Osaka, April 6-7-8
News Items About Bob Dylan
- Recalling The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (Baltimore Banner)
- “Eventually, Zantzinger went to the bar and ordered a drink from Carroll, a deacon and choir member at Gillis Memorial Methodist Church. “Just a minute, sir,” she said politely.”
- Rayland Baxter Credits His Late Father For His Musical Style (Fort Worth Report)
- “(My dad) played every show with me in Nashville in the first couple of years, and after the shows (he’d) give some pointers,” Rayland said. “(I’d say) tell me how Bob did it or Steve Earle … He was always telling me how to listen to musicians, which is like, you’d think it’s an easy thing to do, but it’s not.”
- The Ballad of Railroad Bill (Jstor Daily)
- “His name was Morris Slater, but he was better known as “Railroad Bill.” That’s the kind of name about which they write ballads, the kind of name that starts incredible stories: “Did you hear about Railroad Bill?
- Julliette Lewis and Bob Dylan Meet in NYC Elevator (Billboard)
- ““And then he says, ‘You know Bob, huh?’ Bob De Niro. ‘You were in that movie,’ he says to me,” referencing Lewis’ teenage role alongside Robert De Niro in the 1991 Martin Scorsese thriller Cape Fear. “And I’m like, ‘And you’re Bob Dylan.’”
- Dylan Songs With London In Lyrics (London World)
- “Lyrically references to London are relatively rare – and we pick out just seven mentions of the word ‘London’ its here – but the city certainly has a place in Dylan folklore.”
Blog Posts About Bob Dylan
- The Kingdom Of The Shadowy In-Between (Dylanology)
- “It turns out that Shadow Kingdom is in fact a highly interesting and intriguing work of musical art, especially in the carefully elaborated transitions between the songs – the Kingdom of the shadowy in-between.”
- Ch 3: Stay On The Road: Dylan in Montana (I Don’t Love Nobody)
- “As I have described, that tale began in a somewhat larger field in Britain in 1978. We all know that Dylan can be erratic and idiosyncratic on stage, but every live set by the musician contains the potential for transcendence.”
- Nashville Skyline: One Hell of A Poet Pt.2 (Chris Gregory)
- “Whereas in To Be Alone with You Dylan plays with clichés in a humorous way, in this song he experiments with how it can be used for serious poetic effect. It has a sonorous melody which holdsits heartfelt sentiments steady, creating a beautiful, shimmering and universally understandable expression of regret.”
- An Alt History of Dylan’s London 1995 (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- ” Where there are a few song options listed in a given slot, why did he pick one song over another? Or why did he ignore all the songs listed and play something else entirely?”
- Odds & Ends: How Dylan Outdid The Beatles (Marcschuster)
- “Looking back on this forced blending of Dylan and the Band, I realize that the effect was to make me imagine new entity that was greater (or at least different) than the sum of its parts. They never declare that they’re a different band than who they might appear to be.”
New Reviews & Releases
- Traveling Wilburys Vol 3 (Cult Following)
- “Disappointing but more for the lack of direction than anything else. Four musicians who clearly enjoy working together struggle to come up with either a direction or continuation of what came before. Underwhelming but enjoyable.”
- Listening To Bob Dylan: Spotlight On Composition (No Depression)
- “Combining the passion of a fan with the insights of a musicologist, he asks simply: Would we love Dylan’s music even if the songs did not have lyrics? He contends that we too often focus on Dylan simply as wordsmith, a lyricist, and fail to listen to the entire performance of the song: the music, the composition of the melody and harmony, the arranging, the roles of certain instruments.”
- Author Larry Starr on Dylan.FM.
- The Philosophy of Modern Song gets Japanese Release (April 13)
- New Book: Bob Dylan Mixing Up The Medicine (Best Classic Bands)
- “As the official publication of The Bob Dylan Center, Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is the first wide-angle look at the Dylan archive, a book that promises to be of vast interest to both the Nobel Laureate’s many musical fans and to a broader national and international audience as well.”
- 608 Pages
- Release Date: Oct. 24, 2023
- Pre-Order @ Amazon
- New Book: Am I Pretty When I Fly by Joan Baez (Discover Music)
- “Since retiring from active performing in 2019, Baez has focused her formidable talents on painting and drawing. This new collection shows another side of Baez: lovingly loose and charming sketches on reoccurring themes such as politics, relationships, women, animals, and family.”
- Pre-Order @ Amazon
- New Book: Basement Tales by Andrea Brillo (Amazon.it)
- “Basement Tales goes through and analyzes, in chronological order, the publication on disk of the songs recorded by Bob Dylan & The Band in numerous sessions in Woodstock between the months of March and October of 1967
Bob Dylan Events
- April 9: Nashville Skyline/Planet Waves (Woodstock NY)
- April 9-13: Girl From The. North Country (Dallas)
- April 13: Blowin’ In The Wind – Celebration Concert (Los Angeles)
- April 14-19: Gotta Serve Somebody TRIBUTE (Gothenburg)
- April 14-30: The Movie In Me (Series) Maxxi Rome
- April 19 – Oct 13: Becoming Bob Dylan, Ted Russell 1961 – 1964 (Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa)
- April 23: Dylan & Me Author Louie Kemp (Altadena CA)
- May 14 – June 2: Girl From The North Country Coming to LA
- May 26: Michael Gray presents Dylan’s Greatest Rejected Tracks (Sussex)
- May 20-28:Duluth Dylan Festival (Duluth MN)
- June 2-4: The World of Bob Dylan (Tulsa)
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Did you know we maintain a full list of all upcoming Dylan events?
See it all at: Dylan Events Calendar
The World of Bob Dylan Conference 2023
DATE: June 2-4
- LOCATION: Tulsa OK
- NOTE: World of Bob Dylan now sits within ‘SwitchYard Tulsa’ a larger arts festival
- AGENDA: The WOBD Agenda has not been announced but over 125 Speaker Events plus Keynotes and live performances are expected. This is an incredible chance to learn a ton, meet about 1000 people in the Dylan community, and have a great time. There will likely be some amazing live music performances from headline names during the event.
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