May 7 - 13, 2023

Seven Days in Dylan News

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Dylan in Japan 2023 – Johnny Borgan
- A wonderful recap and summary of the recent shows in Japan.

News Items About Bob Dylan

Is Ratso Leaving New York (Forward)
- “Sloman quickly embraced his new nickname and his gig covering the Rolling Thunder Revue for Rolling Stone. Once that assignment was over, Dylan allowed him to stay on and chronicle the tour, which he did in his first book, On the Road With Bob Dylan. It is said to be Dylan’s favorite Dylan tome.”
Why Fans Are Flocking To Tulsa (Star-Tribune)
- “There are likely to be no such controversies at the $10 million Bob Dylan Center. Its 29,000 square feet are packed with Bobabilia: performance footage and interviews, posters and paintings, articles and essays, bootleg LPs and outtakes.”
Tight Connection To My Heart Video Director Paul Schrader (Screen Anarchy)
- “Dylan, not the best actor, has to emote and sell a convoluted storyline. You know how out of character this video is, when Dylan even does some choreographed moves at the end. It’s not a good look.”
Did New Danville Girl Predict Battle For Woman’s Rights (Forward)
- “In light of the events in Danville last week, a few lines from “New Danville Girl” resonate loudly nearly 40 years later. In the song, Dylan sings the lines: “And everything that’s happening to us/ Seems like it’s happening without our consent.”
Al Kooper on Dylan and Hall of Fame (Best Classic Bands)
- “Michael and I met on the “Like a Rolling Stone” session. I had read about him in Sing Out Magazine, and saw a picture of him where he looked a little more rotund than he was when I met him. We really hit it off, and we played together on that.
Brian Wilson Met Dylan In The Emergency Room (Uproxx)
- ““Once I was in the Malibu emergency room getting a weigh-in and this guy walked up to me. He had curly hair and was on the short side. ‘Are you Brian Wilson?’ he asked. ‘Yeah,’ I said.“ Hi,” he said. ‘I’m Bob Dylan.’”
Four Songs Dylan Wrote For Others (American Songwriter)
- “Originally, Dylan sang lead on the song but he later asked U2 to not include his voice due to his commitments with the all-star band, The Traveling Wilburys, Dylan was also working around that time.”
How Heaven’s Door Landed in Louisville (Courier-Journal)
- “”We love that property, and we love Nashville,” Bushala said. “But it makes sense to keep our brand experience and our distillery in the same market.”

Blog Posts About Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan in Italy (Ennyman’s Territory)
- “Bob Dylan’s presence was everywhere I went.”
Dylan on Dharma and Greg (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- “Bob gets in a couple jokes – totally unable to keep a straight face – but much of his appearance is simply the band jamming. It feels especially odd in context; 20 minutes of snappy sitcom editing followed by a few minutes of musical ambling.”
Street Legal: Dylan Trapped in Time (Bob Dylan At The End of Time)
- “In Street-Legal, the world is sexual, magical, unpredictable, violent, and deceptive, and your next step might land you in a place you only imagined, or feared, existed.”
A Visual Guide to Key West (Bob Dylan At The End of Time)
- “Here I offer a visual companion to “Key West (Philosopher Pirate),” without reference to the claim that animates this book.”
Pete Maravich & Bob Dylan (Jeff’s Substack)
- “Pistol Pete hadn’t played professionally for a while, and he was thought of as forgotten. I hadn’t forgotten about him, though. Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”
Users Cheater Six Time Losers (Jeff’s Substack)
- “For the new collection of greatest hits, an original multi-track recording of “Dignity” from the Oh Mercy sessions was given to Brendan O’ Brien, an up-and-coming producer, for remixing. What O’Brien came up with was most unfortunate.”
Dylan’s Favorite Songs: Join Me In LA (Untold Dylan)
- “Just one of the four writers Dylan selected to make up his list, had four entries to his name: Warren Zevon.”
NET Highlights: I&I (Untold Dylan)
- “Why should not lyrics be more about sound rather than meaning? Of course I have now meandered into the world of sound poetry, of which I am absolutely not in any way an expert, but which is there and has some highly praised practitioners. Just because poetry with meaning dominates, it doesn’t mean that sound poetry isn’t of equal merit – or at the very least worthy of contemplation.”
NET 2012: The Ivory Revolution (Untold Dylan)
- “A decade after that, 2012, Dylan abandoned his little electronic keyboard to get in behind a real piano, a grand piano no less, and so laid the foundation for the sound we hear now, if we tune into the Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour.”
Black Rider Pt.5 (Untold Dylan)
- “Riffs or chords he does not seem to have borrowed for “Black Rider”. The music under the lyrics is remarkably complex, as a delighted Eyolf Østrem argues and demonstrates in his brilliant, comprehensive analysis “Black Rider – Dylan’s most complex song ever” on his site things twice.”
Other People’s Songs: Lilly of the West (Untold Dylan)
- “No one knows who wrote this, but it appeared in 1839 for the first time. What it must be like to have a time machine and travel back to then, find the person who created the song, and tell that person that we are still listening to it in the 21st century, and still appreciating all the emotions within.”
More Than Blood & Flesh (Untold Dylan)
- ““MORE THAN FLESH AND BLOOD CAN BEAR, a 1978 song by Bob Dylan and Helena Springs, newly recorded by Bob’s ex-band member Billy Cross with Danish band Dissing Las & Cross, included in their November 2022 Bessie Productions Denmark album “Copenhagen Skyline”.”
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New Reviews & Releases

New Book To Feature Hundreds of Rare Images (MSN)
- “Hundreds of rare photos and other images from the archives of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan will be featured in “Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine,” coming out this fall. The new release also will include dozens of essays, with novelist Michael Ondaatje, critic Greil Marcus and former U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo among the contributors.”
Panoramic New Book on Bob Dylan (The Bookseller)
- “Callaway Arts and Entertainment has snapped up a “panoramic” book on Bob Dylan, featuring nearly 1,000 rare images from his archive as well as draft lyrics and drawings plus dozens of essays, including contributions from novelist Michael Ondaatje and critic Greil Marcus.”
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NEW REVIEW: New Morning (Far Out)
- “Backed by a band who send these songs to strange places with a welter of textures, New Morning has a gorgeous sense of power. So, even when things feel a touch corny on tracks like ‘Three Angels’ and the culturally appropriated pastiche of soul on ‘If Dogs Run Free’, you can forgive these blemishes because they seem to ride the same wave of artistic liberation.”
NEW REVIEW: Hearts of Fire (Comic Watch)
- “Dylan’s Billy Parker is never not Bob Dylan, but he takes surprising offense at the violence of casual sexism, has Everett’s James Colt mirroring his semi-long hair, cocking his head up, both of them kind of doing what Prince would really perfect.”
NEW BOOK: Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence
- “…explores the influence of Dylan’s work through the lens of Danish Philosopher and Theologian Søren Kierkegaard. By establishing a theoretical approach to Dylan’s multifaceted compositions, the book helps readers better understand his music and its significance today.”
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BOOK REVIEW: New Dylan In Minnesota Book Full of Facts (Duluth News)
- “It’s the third book in what Miles calls a “trilogy of guide books” pointing Dylan fans to points of interest in three locations that have been crucial in the artist’s career: London, New York and our fair Gopher State.”
Street Rock: Dylan and Curtis Blow (Cult Following)
- “His collaboration with Kurtis Blow is a strange and fascinating addendum to Dylan, and Blow’s careers. Street Rock brings them together, a one-take rap from Dylan who expands his discography with an appearance on Kingdom Blow.”
The NET and Pre-NET Covers Collection (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- “One version of every song Dylan covered in concert, every year he covered it. That means just one version of one-off covers, of course, as well as of covers he played a bunch but only within a single calendar year. But for covers that he played multiple years, you get one version from each.”