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• NOW: European Tour: June 2 – 30 (25 Shows)
• This Week: Porto Portugal (Setlists)
  • Mother of Muses from Porto (YouTube)
• Next Week: Lisben Portugal, Madrid Spain, Seville Spain (Details)

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• Panel Covers Dylan’s Connection to Comix (TulsaWorld)
  • ““Because so many baby boom people wrote and drew comics, both mainstream and underground, there are a lot of references to Dylan and Dylan lyrics and Dylan’s song titles in comics,” Fingeroth said.”
• Using AI To Uncover Dylan Treasures (Forbes)
  • “The company got started by working with the Bob Dylan Music Company. Dylan had left thousands of artifacts, like photos from old tours, but there was no easy way to find what was relevant for contemporary uses. Starchive created a way.”
• 35 Years Ago Down In The Groove (KOOL1079)
  • “Fans still reeling from general disappointment over Bob Dylan‘s 1986 album Knocked Out Loaded found little comfort when Down in the Groove arrived on May 30, 1988. If anything, Dylan’s 25th LP was an even bigger disappointment than its predecessor.

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• Day 8 of Dylan Fest (Ennyman’s Territory)
  • “It began with 2-time singer/songwriter winner Danny Fox channeling Dylan the folk artist. Then it was followed by an information-packed talk by Matt Steichen as part of our John Bushey Memorial Lecture Series.”
• Black Diamond Bay – Another Hard Luck story (Chris)
  • “The action of the song takes place in a suitable film noir location – a hotel with a casino attached, located on a small tropical island. The name ‘Black Diamond Bay’ is taken from Joseph Conrad’s novel Victory, in which it refers to a disused coal station somewhere in the East Indies which contains a hotel, a casino and a steaming volcano. “
• Foster Poe Dylan (Shadowchasing)
  • “In Chapter 24 of The Philosophy of Modern Song, Dylan focuses “Nelly Was a Lady,” composed by Stephen Foster in 1849. Like many chapters, this one is very brief, consisting of a 5-paragraph riff followed by a 2-paragraph commentary, accompanied by one full-page and two half-page pictures.”
• Ask Greil (Letter In The Ether)
  • “Bob Dylan had a desert just as long as Van Morrison’s, maybe longer. Both kept at it, pounding their heads against the wall of their own failures, trying to find a way under or around or over the wall, even trying to build a house at its foot and live there as if it were a town.
• World Gone Wrong (Letter In The Ether)
  • “As he does on World Gone Wrong, he came to life as a singer on Good as I Been to You; then as now, as a singer, in the hesitations and elisions of his phrasing, he came to life as a philosopher.”
• Dylanesque: Desolation Row (Untold Dylan)
  • “While Dylan takes a single graphic image (postcards of the hanging) and (most certainly on the original recording) a very gentle relaxed musical style in contrast to the lyrics, Strummer uses multiple images and music that at times seems to strive to represent the chaos and catastrophe of everything.”
• New Wine in Old Bottled (cont) (Untold Dylan)
  • “I have argued in these articles that the post-1966 performances of ‘Visions of Johanna’ mostly fail to convey the song’s bleak grandeur. Dylan performed the song twenty-eight times in 2012, and these performances have not convinced me to change my mind. Nevertheless, I’m glad he didn’t abandon what may be his greatest-ever song. This one from Toronto, with strong support from the piano, is as good as they get…”
• Dylan Covers: Senor  (Untold Dylan)
  • “It appeals to those who like to cover Bob’s work, and while many do take the song and simply add an accompaniment in their own preferred style, a few have explored where else the song might lead.”
• Multitudes Pt. 2 (Untold Dylan)
  • “Interesting, as it offers some insight into Dylan’s creative process. He analyses himself, and credibly, that the one line I contain multitudes opened the floodgates to “trance writing”, that this one Walt Whitman line, which, incidentally, we also heard him quote in Martin Scorcese’s Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story (2019), is the catalyst, “the kind of thing where you pile up stream-of-consciousness verses.”
• Other People’s Songs: Sitting On Top of The World (Untold Dylan)
  • “After playing this I went back and played the Mississippi Sheiks version, and for me there is an elegance in that original version that is not only lost by Cream, but is lost and not replaced by anything else.”

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• Reviews (MetaCritic)
  • “84” Universal Acclaim
• Review (Rolling Stone)
  • “What makes his intimate new release, Shadow Kingdom, a triumph is that it’s the ultimate version of both sides of Dylan’s late career. It brilliantly reinvents some of his most iconic songs, while also feeling like a definitive recording itself.”
• Review (Hot Press)
  • “The emphasis is on the acoustic instruments and the feeling is light, almost playfully so in places. You’re listening for a while before you notice the absence of anything even resembling a drum.”
• Review (Down At The Crossroads)
  • “Here with the backing of a young band playing largely acoustically – double bass, acoustic guitars, mandolin, accordion, occasional electric guitar and no percussion – the songs sounded fresh, instantly recognizable and utterly captivating. Especially with the man in such good voice, at times strumming a couple of arch-top acoustic guitars and blowing a tasteful harmonica.”
• Review (The Line of Best Fit)
  • “These performances – liberally sprinkled with accordion – render 13 vintage Dylan tunes in the style of 2020’s triumphant Rough and Rowdy Ways: contemplative, often gentle of touch, but not afraid to boogie, shimmy and shout with an elegant timelessness when a more raucous tone is called for.”
• Review (Chris Gregory)
  • “Another surprising facet of the show is that for the first time in nearly twenty years Dylan never touches a keyboard, sometimes playing acoustic guitar but otherwise concentrating on his singing, standing firmly at the side of the stage with his hands by his side, sometimes gesticulating to illustrate his lyrics.”
• Review (SuperDeluxeEdition)
  • “Shadow Kingdom is a record for Dylan diehards to treasure – the latest of several releases by him that are essential purchases. Unlike some acts who, when they choose to revisit and rerecord songs from their back catalogue, simply churn out inferior acoustic versions, or rope in an orchestra to add some strings and horns, Dylan has expertly reinvented some of his well-known and lesser-known numbers, taking them into new territory and never sounding once like he’s going through the motions.”
• Review (Clash)
  • “Now presented in full as an audio document, it emerges as a fascinating take on Bob Dylan’s history, picking apart old truths and laying out something that feels a little more at ease with who he has become.”
• Review (Exclaim!)
  • “Unlike some of his recent proper albums, Dylan’s voice sits lower and untreated by reverb in the mix, and he sings with true grace, beauty, and grit.”
• Review (Far Out)
  • ” This sense of Dylan being at one with his creativity is a feast to behold throughout the album. It turns ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ into a continental sounding epic akin to a croaky Scott Walker tune. That divergence highlights the brilliant depths of Dylan’s imagination above all else. These old tracks are reborn as stirring new efforts almost entirely dissociated from what they once were in a strange allegory for the shifts of time that proves to be a constant theme in the welter of the record.”
• Review (Cult Following)
  • “Shadow Kingdom feeds off the mood of a listener. It is a live piece which can shift the feelings of the day. Anxieties and fears that bubble to the surface are ripped through by something as good as this. Sincerely, an album which takes itself front and centre and brings about an essential, moving experience.”
• Review (AP)
  • “Shadow Kingdom” also stands as a good retort for all the naysayers who have argued, seemingly from day one, that Dylan can’t sing. The subdued arrangements are perfect for Dylan’s well-weathered, unfairly maligned voice.”
• TV Schedule (PBS)
  • The Shadow Kingdom video will be on PBS
• Apple TV
  • The Shadow Kingdom video can be streamed (or purchased)

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Scenes from World of Bob Dylan Conference 2023

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• Pod Dylan
  • Jokerman (Mark Copley)
• Hard Rain & Slow Trains
  • Bob Dylan in April 1963
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