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Seven Days: March 4 – 10, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • The Mind’s Eye: Ebet Roberts (Memphis Magazine) [8]
    • ““Bob Dylan was one of my heroes and I’d always wanted to photograph him, so I said, ‘What time does he go on?’ He said ‘Four o’clock this afternoon. Just jump on a shuttle at LaGuardia and I’ll meet you at the backstage gate.”
  • Timothée Chalamet Goes Acoustic (GQ) [5]
    • “Timothée Chalamet has been preparing to play Bob Dylan for what feels like an eternity—or at least since 2020, when he hunkered down in rural Woodstock, New York to “practice his guitar and harmonica in peace” during the throes of lockdown.”
  • Dylan Biopic to Film in NJ (NJ 105) [3]
    • “The fact that New Jersey has such physical diversity with mountains and forests and farmland not far from beaches and the ocean, not to mention cities and suburbs and rural communities, is helping shape New Jersey as a burgeoning filmmaker’s paradise.”
  • Chalamet Carries a Guitar on Set of His Bob Dylan (Daily Mail UK) [5]
    • “‘I’ve basically been working with his entire Elvis team for my Dylan prep,’ Timothee dished.”
  • From Bob Dylan to This? Surviving a Shrinking Cambridge Arts Scene (Harvard Crimson) [3]
    • “Joan Baez got her start here, playing every Tuesday night. Bob Dylan strummed for free during an intermission, just to say he had played Passim. Tracy Chapman wrote a New Years card to the club before jetting off to Argentina. “
  • The Mysterious Man Behind the Musical ‘Girl From the North Country’? Bob Dylan Himself. (Boston Globe) [5]
    • “From the moment McPherson heard from Dylan’s office, he had no inclination to try to tell Dylan’s life story onstage. “I don’t know how anyone could,” he said. “First of all, I don’t think it’s very clear who the hell he is. The odyssey he’s been on, there’s been 20 Bob Dylans.”
  • Shane MacGowan: They Gave The Walls A Talking Exhibition Opens in the Bob Dylan Center (HotPress) [5]
    • ““It was a special kind of occasion last night,” Hot Press editor Niall Stokes said this morning. “The team at the Bob Dylan Center have been brilliant throughout and the exhibition truly looks amazing – not least residing alongside the fantastic presentation of the work of the great songwriting maestro Bob Dylan himself, at what is a unique celebration of fearless creativity.”
  • The Golden Age of American Jews is Ending (The Atlantic) PAYWALL

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  • Burning CDs and Printing Lyric Sheets for Bob Dylan (Flagging Down} [10]
    • “He works hard. He doesn’t need the money. I know about more about Weir than I know about Dylan, and I don’t think he likes to be home. Weir likes to be out playing music and living that life. And I assume Dylan is the same way. That’s the life he’s choosing to live, to be out on tour.”
  • Poem to Joanie (Shadow Chasing) [8]
    • “Dylan begins as a solitary and angry child, ripping up grass beside a railroad track near his aunt’s house. Before he becomes a singer or poet himself, he already begins to form certain artistic values in relation to beauty and ugliness. He rejects the conventionally beautiful in favor of what many consider ugly, but which he considers gritty authenticity.”
  • Dylan’s World Gone Wrong (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “This album is no attempt to cash in on the so-called “unplugged” craze – it’s way beyond that. The point is the songs, Real songs, valid ones that have been around for years, which Dylan makes live again.”
  • A Masked & Anonymous Special (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “This complete unedited interview with Larry Charles is also one of the most illuminating on Bob Dylan the artist ever published from a collaborator who worked so closely with him and was willing to go to great lengths to explain the work and his relationship with Dylan and Dylan’s creative approach.”
  • The Grandfather Dylan And The World Gone Mad (Peter Stone Brown) [5]
    • “Good – or more accurately, innocence – versus evil is constantly hammered over pounding drums, raw whining slide guitars and cascading organs, while Dylan – his voice craggier and hoarser than ever – nonchalantly tosses off-the-cuff lyrics, alternately ranting and crooning.”
  • The Bootleg Series, Volumes 1 -3 (Peter Stone Brown) [5]
    • “To their fascination and frustration, these collectors discovered long ago that these tapes – culled from alternates and outtakes, publishing demos, live performances and rehearsals (while of dubious sound quality) – often turn out to be as good as and sometimes better than the official releases.”
  • High Water Pt. 20 (Untold Dylan) [8]
    • “The second line we initially know as Got pulled in Vicksburg but they wouldn’t let him off the train (something like that, anyway) from the other draft version, but in the definitive version only “Vicksburg” survives. Rosedale, though mentioned in Charley Patton’s “High Water Everywhere”, we won’t see again in Dylan’s oeuvre, nor the claustrophobic train experience.”
  • Cover a Day: Went to See the Gypsy (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “The harmonies, the strings, the piano, and of course Martha’s voice, are just so wonderful for this song, I could cry at the way the rest of the instrumentation is added. But still, it remains worth hearing and appreciating. It turns what was for me another Dylan song from a not overwhelmingly inspired moment into something beautiful – but then has it removed by the arrangement.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Highway 61 Revisited (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Writing this little piece I asked a few friends who are Dylan fans if they could quote me the first verse of the song, and each one could. Because no one has ever written a line like “God said to Abraham kill me a son” in a rock song before, let alone as the opening line. But then I asked them for the second verse.  And yes a couple of pals got it – but it took a bit of time.”
  • NET Extended: “Forever Young” 1987 to 2011 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “This first performance that we have on record is indeed most curious. There is one of the longest instrumental introductions I can remember to a song on tour, followed by Bob destroying the melody by calling out the lyrics in two word bursts with only a cursory relationship with the melody.  The chorus still retains the melody but otherwise… what on earth was he thinking about? “
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour part 7: “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Now I don’t mean to say that all music should slavishly follow the style and tone of the lyrics, nor indeed vice versa, but as a general rule that is not a bad starting point. Then if there is a good reason, and ideally a novel approach, one can do something different, and sometimes that can work. But here it just seems to me that Bob is simply declaiming the song above a rock arrangement while singing.”

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  • Dimitrios Naskos on Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize (The National Herald) [3]
    • “‘And the Nobel Prize in Literature Goes to… Bob Dylan?’ by Dimitrios P. Naskos is a unique book, highlighting the fascinating life story of the famous songwriter and singer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016 and including a short story by Naskos inspired by the lyrics from a Dylan song, essays, the Dylan discography, and a timeline of history.”
  • Standing by God’s River Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • Standing by God’s River does not the Fall 2002 tour is not just old standards and covers though, the appearance of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, in an unrecognisable form, is a crucial part of understanding where Dylan takes his live material. Reinventing it on the fly, changing his range and tempo, it is all part of keeping these songs interesting – more to the artist on stage than those in attendance.”
  • Only a River Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Dylan is in fine form for this performance let alone Only a River. He suits the lyrics well, the river of love running through a life well lived and reflected on neatly by Dylan, whose twilight years are a time for reflecting on the songs which shaped him.”
  • Biograph Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “Tremendous it is to hear some unreleased bits and pieces added to this selection, Biograph comes across as annoying more than anything. The format, copyright issues and rereleases from this piece are all part of the struggle which comes from piecing together the best bits.”
  • Cat Power Plays Dylan (Shepard Express) [3]
    • “Kicking off the electric set with “Tell Me, Momma,” the ultimate Dylan cypher—a killer song that only appeared on bootlegs and was never released on a studio album. This was the “thin wild mercury sound” that lived in abandon where rockabilly and rhythm & blues merged seamlessly. In hindsight and on Saturday it sure seems to be protopunk.”
  • Cat Power’s Legendary Life Lessons and Homage to Bob Dylan (American Songwriter) [5]
    • “Following her recent live homage to Dylan, Marshall has recorded five songs for a new album. “Get your tissues,” she jokes, hinting at more somber and contemplative subject matter to come.”

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Article/Link Quality Ranking

Each link has a ‘quality score’ listed as [#] with a 1-3-5-8 after the publication name. This is designed to help you choose articles and links worth reading.

Simply put, higher numbers reflecting better content and writing. At each of these levels, the quality should be more than twice as high. One way to translate the values is:

1 = Limited Value
3 = Minor
5 = Substantial
8 = Outstanding

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