• 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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• Pre-Sale Ticket Discount ENDS March 15
  • Register for SwitchYard AND World of Bob Dylan ($225)
  • Register only for World of Bob Dylan ($200)

• Japan Tour: April 6th – 20th (11 Dates)
• European Tour: June 2 – 30 (19 Dates so far)
• Next Shows: Osaka, April 6-7-8
• European Tour Rumors (Not Officially Announced)
  • Dylan to Grace Spanish Shores (Softonic)
  • Map of Dylan’s Spain Tour

• Dylan Still Gives The Camera What It Wants (New York Times)
  • “Like the images shot in the ’60s by Mr. Avedon, Mr. Hunstein and Mr. Schatzberg, Mr. Slimane’s portraits allow Mr. Dylan to hang on to his essential enigmatic quality. Wearing a Celine leather jacket that catches the light, his eyes hidden behind dark sunglasses, his expression neutral, he seems to give nothing away.”
• Dylan Has This ‘Cool Guy Style’ Figured Out (Esquire)

  • “Usually, dropping an older guy into a bunch of cool-kid clothes does him no favors. It reads as try-hard, as clinging to something that’s long gone. It inspires mantras like “you should dress your age.” But Dylan doesn’t do that. Instead, his elder statesman gravitas is only magnified by the shades, the leather jacket, and the black trousers.”

• Photographing Bob Dylan (United Nations of Photography)
  • “I chose Bob Dylan because of his continually evolving persona and continued sense of mystery, even now aged 81 – Bowie had similar qualities, but is obviously no longer with us – two elements that are both attractive and disconcerting for any portrait photographer.”
• Dylan Stars in Celine Homme Campaign (Town & Country)

  • “In the black and white images, Dylan is seen holding a set of guitars, one acoustic and another a Gibson electric, as if he’s strumming away. Though photographed in an intimate setting, his appearance remains elusive, as Dylan dons a set of dark-shaded sunglasses.”

• Bob Dylan Core Is Here, and TikTok is Falling In Love (Yahoo!)
  • ““Bob Dylan core” refers to a part of TikTok that sees users replicating how he walks — right down to his posture. As the second verse of Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” kicks in, TikTokers walk into frame with hunched shoulders and hands in their jacket pockets.”

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Additional articles but less essential

• Dylan Moving His Brand; Now Kentucky Bourbon Maker (Lexgo Eat)
• County Gives Blessing to Distillery for Bob Dylan (Heaven’s Door)
• Dylan’s Changing Music Reveals How We Can Make Our LIves Beautiful (Aleteia)
• 7 Guitars You Didn’t Know Dylan Uses (American Songwriter)

• Introduction: Inside The Mirror (I Don’t Love Nobody: Bob Dylan at the End of Time)
  • “This book is my answer to Dylan’s call to “stay observant.” Because, while listening to the new album, in that first pandemic summer of 2020, I noticed something bizarre. I observed something that astonished me, and delighted me, and made me question my sanity.”
• Down in the Groove with Bob Dylan and Arthur Alexander (Jeff Chochran)
  • “Arthur Alexander is the only songwriter to have his songs covered by The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan.”
• Nonsense Songs From The Basement Tapes Pt.1 (Pt.2) (Chris Gregory)
  • “The first song to be recorded in the basement of Big Pink which displays these characteristics is the bizarre Tiny Montgomery. The song does not have a chorus as such but Dylan’s vocals are backed by high pitched harmonies by Manuel, Helm and Robertson which act as a counter melody to the main tune. This is highly rhythmic and infectious and is driven mainly by Dylan’s acoustic guitar.”
• I’ve Made Up My Mind, Part 9 (Untold Dylan)
  • “After that classic life metaphor by which the narrator articulates that he has now gone all the way, from the source to the mouth, from birth to the end, he utters the wish I hope the gods go easy with me.”
• Dylan’s Favorite Songs: He Went To Paris (Untold Dylan)
  • “The accompaniment is simple and delicate, the melody is beautiful, the lyrics evocative in every line and the story is heart-breaking.”
• Other People’s Songs: Melancholy Mood (Untold Dylan)
  • “I think the success of Dylan’s version is that he retains that notion of an instrumental introduction as per the Kenny Baker version above.  And most of all Bob doesn’t pretend to be he’s a natural crooner – he just sings it as Bob Dylan.”
• The Tarantula Files Continued: Nadine And The Censor (Untold Dylan)
  • “Only some of the Spaniard’s bodily images that walk on the vile side of the street are replicated in words of the American singer/writer/musician, and then apparently only for humorous or shock value.”
• Dylan Cover A Day: Queen Jane Approximately
  • “As a total contrast, Muscle & Bone: a way of playing with the melody and finding the delicate harmonies which are appropriate to the lyrics.   And that harmony over the chorus line suddenly gives it a reason for that line to be there twice, after each verse.”
• NET Tour Highlights: Don’t Think Twice 2000 (Untold Dylan)
  • “Wistfulness: that is what Bob captures here more than in other versions.  He really wanted it to work but it isn’t working and she won’t change so he’s off without saying goodbye. And that is what this rendition captures utterly and totally.”
• A Troubled, Transcendent Baby Blue (Strost Vatican)
  • “He wrote that even though Dylan came down with the flu and his three-night stand had to be delayed by one day, the shows were magical. (Prague 1995)

• Grand Coulee Damn SONG REVIEW (Cult Following)
  • “Dylan is joined by The Band and those keys and funky, upbeat and shining basslines are all part of the upbeat enjoyment here. Of course the vocals are on point, Dylan coasts through a track he is no doubt intimate with and brings a more than credible cover to the front.”
• New Book: Dylan Is Art (Come Writers and Critics)
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• New Book: Dylan And The Spheres Of Existence (Come Writers and Critics)
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• New Book: Keith Green, Bob Dylan, and the Gospel Season of Rock 1977-1982 (Come Writers and Critics)
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• Bono and Dylan Enter The Audiobook World (America – The Jesuit Review)
  • “What he delivered instead with this book was an idiosyncratic and impressionistic rumination on over 60 songs. The audience is left to assume his choices of music are important or consequential for some reason, but that reason is never articulated.”
• Meet The Writers Behind Wagon Wheel (American Songwriter)
  • “Rucker, who had embarked on a solo career as a country artist after fronting rock band Hootie & the Blowfish, got his hands on the track and released it as a single in 2013 featuring background harmonies by Lady A. Rucker sent it flying up the charts where it reached No. 1 on both the Billboard Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts.”

• March 14: Bob Dylan and the Arts (Rome Maxxi)
• March 15: Early Registration Ends (The World of Bob Dylan 2023)
• March 28: The Philosophy of Modern Song (Rome Maxxi)
• March 30: Neidecken Reads & Sings Dylan (Rhien Germnay)
• April 9-13: Girl From The. North Country in Dallas
• April 14-19: Gotta Serve Somebody TRIBUTE (Gothenburg)
• 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)

• Did you know we maintain a full list of all upcoming Dylan events?
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