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Seven Days: May 6 – 12, 2024 (Bonus)

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  • Time Out Of Mind – Bob Dylan (Together Through Life) [8]
    • “This is the debut album by the modern Bob Dylan. This is the starting point of the Bob Dylan character that we still see on stage today. The cowboy. The gambler. The rambler. The risk-it-all trickster. King of the leering and the lurid. King of the violent, bloody, gruesome and threatening.”
  • Dylan Revisited: Bringing It All Back Home (1965) (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • “Yet, day one of the Bringing It All Back Home sessions was just Dylan in the studio with an acoustic guitar and a harmonica. Though he and Wilson recorded ten complete songs that day, none would feature on the final album.”
  • Real Life Rock Top 10: May 6, 2024 (Letter In The Ether) [8]
    • “They remain as unknown as if they only surfaced yesterday and don’t have titles yet, which allows this anonymous collective the ability to play them as if they’re not by Dylan or anyone else, just stuff they found in a dumpster that looked like songs.”
  • Ask Greil: May 10, 2024 (Letter In The Ether) [8]
    • “Listen to the grains of sand that make up Good as I Been to You and World Gone Wrong in the early ‘90s, the albums that set the stage for Time out of Mind, and you’ll hear what a grain of sand looks like when it gets up and walks and says its piece and then sits down and keeps its mouth shut.”
  • A Blood on the Tracks Three-Pack (Flagging Down) [5]
    • “Hearing Dylan devoting such a sizeable chunk to Blood on the Tracks made me curious to hear the two other album songs he performed in 1994. Maybe he was digging back into Blood 20 years after he recorded it.”
  • The Rough and Rowdy Ways: Love Sick / It Takes a Lot to Laugh (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “The opening staccato chords are enough to tell us what the song is going to be. And the accent Bob puts on words such as “brain” tells us that this is going to be a re-run of the recorded version with what has by now become the variations limited to the vocals rather than within the music.”
  • Once or Twice: How “Spanish Harlem” Frightened Bob (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “After this one performance, Spanish Harlem Incident was left – at least by Dylan, and by most cover artists.  But do spare a moment if you can to listen to Dion’s version from 1978, which tackles every single one of these issues, and shows us what the potential of the song really was.”
  • NET Extended: Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “It’s a jolly rocker with a really lively backing, and that rather hard-to-play guitar solo after each line in the latter part of the song. This is also a perfect example of Bob not wanting to put anything into the instrumental version by the way of extensive virtuoso solos. What we get is the music without the voice, not much more.”
  • When I Paint My Masterpiece Pt.6 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Slightly less reducible but still imaginable are the next stops on the train of thought. Train wheels runnin’ through the back of my memory could just be an autobiographical interlude – perhaps even a memory of his Rome visit in January ’63.”
  • Cover a Day: You Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • “This idea goes even further, and with even greater musical effect in a remarkable cover by Isballea Lundgren, the remarkable Swedish jazz vocalist. She has the voice to carry this through, but she also has an arranger who has achieved absolute wonders with the song.”
  • Daniel Kramer Bringing It All Back Home, 1932-2024 (Govinda Gallery) [5]
    • “It was a great pleasure and honor for me to “discover” Daniel Kramer and present the first exhibition of his Bob Dylan photos at Govinda Gallery in 1999. Just a few months later, I brought that same exhibition to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, Ohio. Daniel was so pleased to see his work exhibited in those venues.”
  • The Rough and Rowdy Way Tour 18: Watching the River Flow (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • ““River” was written in 1971 in a year of what seems to have been an artistic struggle for Dylan, and suggests that the essence of life is that life just moves on, rather than life being an opportunity to change the world and leave a mark upon the world.”
  • Once or Twice: Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “There is also the notion from Paul Williams that, “we hear Dylan struggling to put into words the melody that haunts him” but again I don’t hear that. I hear music that is clearly constructed, and to which the lyrics fit perfectly.”

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  • Rory Block Celebrates Bob Dylan On Positively 4th Street LP (Tinnitist) [8]
    • ““I remember the hat, and the youthful face. He was not yet famous, so at that point he was among the many interesting people stopping by. He may have recently been signed to a label, but I don’t think his first album had come out yet.”
  • Miller on Nashville Skyline (The Solute) [5]
    • “But the rest of the album goes back to words and specifically words about women. Bob Dylan is horny! And sometimes having fun with it, like the casual swing and slide of “Peggy Day” or the outright raunch of “Country Pie”.
  • Wicked Messenger Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “Wicked Messenger collects performances from 2003 and makes the case for an underrated year of touring for Dylan. He is crisp, clear and croaky – his very best performances from the early 2000s can be heard here.”
  • Rolling Thunder Revue, May 12 Review (Cult Following) [3)
    • “What this recording serves as then is a reminder of Dylan as an artist who, even when going through the motions of a show which does not excite him, still sounds exceptional.”
  • Another Night: Unreleased Recordings, 1961 – 2016: Volume 1 (Cult Following) [3]
    • “With it comes the expectation of crackling quality yet the slick live recordings collected on this piece, from the earliest days of Candy Man in 1961 through to High Water in 2016 mark surprise after surprise on this sixteen-track selection.”
  • Once Upon a Time: Volume 2 Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “Not many can hold a candle to his dedication to exploring new sounds, which he did within the confinements of a legendary status frequently because he knew in these latter periods, he could do what he wanted, when he wanted, and everyone would lap it up. Rightly so. Pieces within this, particularly Make You Feel My Love, are masterclasses.”
  • Johnny B. Goode Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “What a rare treat it is to hear such quality. Dylan is clearly moved by it too and covers it during this performance on the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. St. Missouri never knew what hit them.”
  • Once Upon a Time: Volume 1 Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “An unofficial collection of 2017 performances, returns to the roots of the emotional outpour which made his earliest works his best. These are the discomforting and wonderful tones of a man heading onto smaller stages, of an artist with his head buried in the American Songbook.”
  • Pressing On Review (Cult Following) [3]
    • “An unofficial compilation of performances around the time of Slow Train Coming, at least highlights the more pressing urgencies of Dylan at the time – and does it well.”

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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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