• “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.”

• “(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.”

• “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?

• ““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.’”

• “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.”

• “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.”

• “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.”

• “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.”

• ” 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?”

• “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.”

• “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.”

• “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.

• “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.”
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• Release Date: Oct. 24, 2023
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• “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.”
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• “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

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