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Seven Days: May 14 – 20, 2023 (The Week in Bob Dylan News)

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  • The Blood On The Tracks Piano FOR SALE (Hot Press)
    • ““I was doing an online search using various Dylan keywords and an image of this upright Yamaha piano came up, which a woman in New York said had belonged to him,” Laurence tells us excitedly. “There were also photos of the bond made out to Bob by Yamaha in 1969 and the original invoice from the Ostrovsky piano shop, which had his home 94 McDougal Street address on it.”
  • Revisiting 1963 Monterey Folk Festival (Far Out)
    • “The 1963 Monterey Folk Festival was a significant moment, as Dylan’s set was his first-ever performance on the sunny West Coast. On the Saturday, Dylan played four songs, which according to biographer Clinton Heylin’s Life in Stolen Moments, included ‘Masters of War’, ‘A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall’ and a duet with girlfriend Joan Baez on ‘With God on Our Side’”
  • The Sunglasses Special (Banton Frames)
    • “Observing photos of Dylan’s frame, the shape is indeed very similar. Like the Wayfarer, his Caribbean sunglasses have the same rectangular style featuring slightly tapered lenses with rounded lower corners.”
  • Heaven’s Door Now Has E-Commerce (PR News)
    • “Speakeasy‘s expert web developers launched an infinitely scalable platform to host Heaven’s Door, expanding its market to 34 states, shipping directly to consumers. Inspired by Bob Dylan‘s artistry, the full Heaven’s Door collection, which features highly awarded Straight Bourbon, Double Barrel, Straight Rye whiskeys and limited release Bootleg Series, Decade Collection and Single Barrel selections can now be purchased online.”

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  • GAIBTY/WGW Pt.3 – Riffs, Pieces & Final Verdict (Dylanology)
    • “These are more intricate than they may seem at first sight. One thing to notice is that
      all the three interludes use the same three-string shapes that we have seen in the previous songs. Another is that although the general outline is the same in all three, a closer look will show that nothing is the same from version to version, except that they all start and end on a C.”
  • You All Sing It, I’ll Play It For You (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
    • “Dylan was beginning to launch into the usual next track, “In the Garden,” when a fan hollered for “Lay Lady Lay.” Dylan stops. Then he says, “You all sing it, I’ll play it for you.”
  • A Young Man With An Old Man’s Voice (Peter Stone Brown)
    • “My brother Tony came home from the much hipper camp he went to in upstate New York a couple of days later. He’d been playing guitar a couple of years by then and he came home with all these new songs and told me all about this guy named Bob Dylan and how he was real into Woody Guthrie.”
  • Old Words + New Music = The New Basement Tapes (John Kenyon)
    • “What I found with fresh ears this week is what I left to the side nine years ago: an impeccably recorded, too-often lifeless collection of songs that make me pine for the melodies and arrangements Dylan might have lent these lyrics, or at least a scrappier, less-reverent set of musicians to carry out the project.”
  • The Golden Bird (Bob Dylan at the End of Time)
    • “And the lyric, “Key West is the gateway key.” Why did “the gateway key” ring a bell? I recalled it somehow. Especially the word “key,” repeated so many times. And more: “under the radar, under the gun.” On one hand, I thought it was out of place. What did the phrase have to do with anything in the song?”
  • Not Dark Yet Pt. 2 (Keesdegraaf)
    • ““Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain” may be interpreted in various ways. According to the stoic cosmology, of which the philosopher Heraclitus (about 540-480 BC) was the forefather, there is a unity of opposites which suggests that the unity of the world and its various parts is kept through the tension produced by the opposites.”
  • Jeff Slate, Revisited (Ennyman’s Territory)
    • “I suppose the handwritten lyrics are the most special to me, as are little things like Dylan‘s 60s address book. But I think what impressed me most was the sheer volume and scale of what’s there. We knew Dylan worked a lot and worked hard throughout his career, but seeing the breadth of that in real terms — in all the many items they have from across his 60-plus year career — really brought that home.”
  • Dylan’s Opening Lines: Top 10 So Far (Untold Dylan)
    • “But since no one else seems to have done an index of Dylan’s opening lines, I thought maybe I would re-publish what we did, and then go on and gradually finish it, so there is an index of Dylan’s opening lines on the internet.
  • Black Rider (2020) Pt. 7  (Pt.6) (Untold Dylan)
    • “It perhaps explains the sudden receptivity to unfiltered banalities like sucking off all of the younger men in the lyrics revision for the first live renditions of “Crossing The Rubicon”, and to one of the most remarkable verse lines of the album Rough And Rowdy Ways, and of Dylan’s oeuvre at all, the very undylanesque line The size of your cock won’t get you nowhere.”
  • Cover A Day: Sara (Untold Dylan)
    • “And this version Swedish does create a real sense of emptiness – a feeling of what eventually happened between the couple afterwards, which of course was not there at the start.   There’s a bleakness here which is interesting to hear today.”
  • NET 2012 Pt.2 – The Ivory Revolution Cont. (Untold Dylan)
    • “There are various types of unreliable narrators from the honestly deluded to the deliberately deceptive. In ‘Soon After Midnight’ we have a narrator who can barely hide his murderous intent. The apparent sweetness and gentleness of the melody and sweetness of some of the lyrics fail to hide the homicidal nature of the narrator.”
  • Music & Lyrics: Ballad for a Friend (Untold Dylan)
    • “But Dylan keeps on making subtle changes to the length of time he holds onto each chord.   Quite often these are very subtle changes – just a beat or two – but it gives a real feel in the song for the randomness of life which is really at the heart of the song.”
  • Other People’s Songs: Alberta (Untold Dylan)
    • “I often wonder why we get two versions of the song on the album.  Did Dylan just decide to do versions thinking he would pick one of the two.  And then decided that he couldn’t choose, so both were included? Or was there an argument about which was best, so they agreed to include both?”

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  • NEW REVIEW: Shadow Kingdom (Mojo)
    • “Shadow Kingdom the album, then, turns out to be an extremely useful addition to the Dylan catalogue, and very much of a piece with his current manoeuvres.”
  • NEW REVIEW: Shadow Kingdom (Uncut)
    • “The musicians who mimed along with the singer — Alex Burke, Buck Meek, Joshua Crumbly (guitars), Shahzad Ismaily (accordion) and Janie Cowan (upright bass) — were not those who had actually played on the tracks.”
  • NEW REVIEW: John Wesley Harding (Popmatters)
    • “In this sense, John Wesley Harding is an album of absences. It signified the beginning of a long period of Dylan’s absence from life as a performing musician, yes, but it’s an album full of holes. Holes left by the absent Hawks, off forming the Band. There are no Nashville studio aces like Al Kooper and Mike Bloomfield, aside from the bare minimum—a rhythm section. No Bobby Neuwirth, sidekicks, or entourage accompanied Dylan on this recording. And there were no requests to please crawl out your window. There were holes where all of Dylan’s words (and hostility) used to go.”
  • NEW REVIEW: Masked and Anonymous (Comic Watch)
    • “When someone says maybe some angels got together to release Jack Fate (Bob Dylan) from prison, we accept that it may literally be some angels. When Jack Fate and Prospero (Cheech Marin) talk about an eagle killing a pregnant rabbit, Prospero says the rabbit must have done something, and we are primed to accept the possibility that this is sardonic, this is ironic or sarcastic.”
  • New Book: Bob Dylan, My Rabbi (Canadian Jewish News)
    • “Her latest poetry collection is titled Bob Dylan, My Rabbi, because she believes Dylan functioned as a spiritual guide for her journey of self-discovery.”
  • New Book: Whole World In An Uproar (Socialist Worker)
    • “One of the most powerful voices of protest was the young Bob Dylan, who wrote some great songs condemning racism and militarism and celebrating resistance. Talkin’ John Birch Paranoid Blues, which attacked the US far right, was pulled from his Freewheelin’ album (1963) by the record company.”
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  • New Dylan Center Book: Book On Bob Dylan Archives To Be Published (Tulsa World)
    • “Nearly all the materials found in the Bob Dylan Archive are unique, previously unavailable or previously unknown. The book, created with the full participation of the Bob Dylan Archives, contains some of the best of the archive, with never-before-published images of carefully curated Dylan draft lyrics, writings, drawings, photographs and other ephemera.”
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    • New Book To Features Hundreds of Rare Images (Japan Today)
    • “Callaway Arts & Entertainment announced Thursday that the 600-page book will come out Oct 24. The founder of Callaway, Nicholas Callaway, said in a statement that “Mixing Up the Medicine” will “introduce the full scope of this artist’s monumental creativity and achievements to a new generation.”
  • Show Review: Musicians Enrapture Audience With Dylan (LL LongfordLive)
    • “Pauric Fitzpatrick, aka Alias Fitz, and Shane Kennedy presented a show that bubbled with life. Kennedy provided context to track list, explaining certain selections, while Alias Fitz was more inclined to let the music do the talking.”
  • Movie Review: Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Bleeding Fool)
    • “It goes wrong and Baker ends up mortally shot in the stomach. He walks off to the nearby river and looks out as his wife rests beside him and Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (written for this film) plays. Dylan’s music is a big part of why this movie’s small moments like this work. They’re a perfect fit.

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See our full list of all upcoming Dylan events at: Dylan Events Calendar

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  • New Book: Mixing Up The Medicine (The Bob Dylan Center)
  • Book: Retrospectrum – Dylan’s Painting, Drawing Sculpture
  • Book: Bob Dylan in Minnesota (K G Miles & Co-Authors)

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