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Seven Days: Nov 12 – 18, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Dylan’s Rolling New England Revue: An Analysis of Dylan’s Fascinating Six-Show Run (Boston.com) [5]
    • “I was nervous at first when I couldn’t make out one word of “River” — I can usually at least pick up a phrase from his gruff first song — but he quickly warmed up. By his third song, he was clear-voiced on the close-to-the-bone “I Contain Multitudes” (“I’m a man of contradictions and a man of many moods”) and by his fourth, “False Prophet,” he was standing at the piano, cowboy hat firmly on.”
  • Last Night in Springfield (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “As I’ve noted several times, Bob’s playing has taken huge strides this tour. He sounds great, but seeing his hands illustrates how idiosyncratic his playing remains. He never spreads his fingers much, whether by choice or necessity. As a result, he doesn’t really play normal piano chords. It looks like he’s hammering away with two little claws, but it doesn’t sound clunky or rudimentary. His left hand often darts left to pound out some bass notes a couple octaves down, then shoots back just as quick.”
  • Last Night in Brooklyn (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [5]
    • “The band is so incredible. I couldn’t stop marveling over the internal vibe they had, picking up on every cue and making such complex music. They manipulated time; they made us feel every second of it, having us mourning when a song would end, shocking us with a tempo change.”
  • Dylan Returns To New York City: Review (Ultimate Classic Rock) [5]
    • “To be touring the globe at 82 is, of course, a testament to his mastery. But for all of the jokes made about his singing voice or shadowy identity, it’s worth acknowledging the candor Dylan represents, the kind that inherently comes along with writing songs and presenting them to the public, and particularly at the age he is now.”
  • Bob Dylan Tells NY Audience He Wants to Get Jann Wenner Back in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Showbiz 411) [3]
    • “After introducing his incredibly talented band, Dylan said, “Jann Wenner is here tonight. Anyway, he got booted out of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. We don’t like that. We’re trying to get him back in.” (The audience applauded.) He also complimented the band saying, “These songs aren’t easy to play.”
  • Bob Dylan is Flourishing by Acting His Age (Our Town NY) [3]
    • “Something feels different to me this time around. Dylan seems more relevant than he has in recent years. His singing voice, often maligned for its roughness, has been singled out for its depth. His repertoire, which once relied on his most popular songs, are no longer a part of the set, having been replaced with rather obscure and easy-rolling Sixties chestnuts like “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” and “To Be Alone with You.”
  • A Fanatics Review of The Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour (Her Campus) [5]
    • “I find it important to note that he didn’t play the songs as they were recorded. I don’t know very much about music theory, but the melody was different, the pace was different, and the delivery was different, which usually made me think I was listening to a totally unknown song until he sang the lyrics of the chorus. I will specify, it wasn’t an unwelcome or bad change.”

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  • That Bob Dylan Album Everybody Hated is Better Than You’d Think (Forward) [8]
    • “Some Dylan reviewers have accused Dylan of intentionally sabotaging these songs, which I don’t hear at all — sure, he stumbles a bit over the lyrics of “Mr. Bojangles” at one point, but he never sounds less than engaged, or like he’s operating with any kind of agenda beyond “Let’s try recording this song and see what happens.”
  • What Is Bob Dylan Core? Inside the Hot New TikTok Trend of … Braving the Cold in a Thin Jacket (RollingStone) [3]
    • ““Jacket that’s not warm enough” was on the list for six months before he shot his video; it now has nearly 250,000 likes.”
  • New Dylan Album Elicits Travel Memories For David Mansfield (Forbes) [5]
    • ““It was my first trip, and there was plenty to learn,” recalls Mansfield, who also recorded three albums with Dylan, was part of Dylan’s earlier Rolling Thunder Revue tour and is an award-winning film and television composer.”
  • Duluth Could Cash in on Bob Dylan Connection (Duluth News Tribune) [3]
    • “I am so excited to be living here in the hometown of such a great artist. So should all the people here. But many maybe don’t even know of the connection. Duluth could do more, including concerts, murals, museums, and the restorations of important places like his home or the Duluth Armory. “
  • Broadway Musical Spotlighting Dylan to Make Iowa Debut (Radio Iowa) [3]
    • “And also, many of the songs that you hear, they’re going to be done in a completely different way, almost to the point where you’ll get like 30 seconds into the song and then you’ll go, ‘Oh my gosh, I know what this song is!’”
  • ‘Mind-numbingly ambitious’ show celebrates music of The Traveling Wilburys (The Savannahian) [5]
    • “A remarkable and unprecedented assortment of about 40 local musicians, ranging from the well-known to hidden gems, will play an extended, whimsical “Last Waltz” style show celebrating the music of The Traveling Wilburys.”
  • Buy Bob Dylan’s Master Tapes at Auction (Live Auctioneers) [10]
    • “Bob Dylan’s Original Recording Session Master Tapes for his first album, “Bob Dylan” 3 Scotch 190 full reels of magnetic 1/2” tape, 10 1/2” diameter metal reels, each with original cardboard slipcase and inner cardboard reel holder.”
    • UPDATED: With more details of the tape’s history and two studio excerpts

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  • Madison Square Gardon 2001 (Peter Stone Brown Archive) [8]
    • “And then it was time for the masterpiece, the song like no other that came before, the song that held all the songs he didn’t think he’d have time to write, the song that announced there’s a new Poet in town, a song that was terrifying then and perhaps more terrifying now, and even though he’s been singing it at other stops on this tour and has been singing it across the world and back for four decades, you knew he had to sing it tonight in the city that’s been ten thousand miles in the mouth of a graveyard.”
  • Dylan Covers: The Wicked Messenger (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Patti Smith gives us a feeling of the wind blowing across the plains (or maybe the desert) and the feeling of impending doom is now to the fore. But I really don’t think the half-spoken half-said end of every other line quite works.”
  • NET Extended: Like a Rolling Stone 1988 to 2002 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “These 1988 performances create an ambivalent effect. On one hand Dylan’s voice is as powerful and expressive as ever, on the other hand he seems to want to tear the heart out of the songs. His voice is a shock, too, for those used to his clear high mercurial tones; he grunts and snarls and vocalises in a hoarse, breathless, broken style like a man at the end of his tether.”
  • Cover a Day: Times They Are a-Changin’ (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Das Lied von der Moldau is originally from one of Brecht’s later pieces, Schweyk im Zweiten Weltkrieg, and is also translated and edited by Tabori for Brecht On Brecht. It is a short song (three verses of four lines, the third verse being a repetition of the first) and especially the second verse rings a bell…”
  • Other People’s Songs: My Blue Eyed Jane (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “There are subtle differences here in the rhythm and melody which I didn’t hear in the original version: I guess they were added because most listeners would have known the original and catching people out with the odd amendment is something arrangers of later versions love to do.”
  • Bob Dylan, The House of Blues, and Those Olympic Days (Jeff’s Substack) [3]

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  • The Zaniest Live Album By Bob Dylan (Or Anybody) Finally Gets Its Due (Uproxx) [8]
    • “But in its own bizarre, idiosyncratic way, Bob Dylan At Budokan represents Bob Dylan as well as any record he ever put out. The listeners who were most outraged by this album in the late ’70s, at heart, felt that Bob Dylan was not treating his songs with the same seriousness with which they had invested in his work.”
  • ‘The Complete Budokan 1978’ Captures Bob Dylan in Metamorphosis (Exclaim.ca) [8]
    • “Expanding upon its predecessor, The Complete Budokan 1978 is an immersive treasure trove that brings us into the storied space for two nights with Bob Dylan. He was a bit restless, heartbroken and perhaps even a little angry, and that got him searching for new muses and new sounds.”
  • A Guide to the New Songs on the ‘Complete Budokan 1978’ Box Set (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • ““Dylan goes Vegas” was the dig at the time of a show complete with backing singers, sax solos, and flashy white jumpsuits. But I’ve been an At Budokan defender for years now, and a number of the selections on this new set are every bit as good as the songs on the original record.”
  • “Big in Japan!” – The Complete Budokan 1978 (Johnny Borgan Blog) [8]
    • “I’m thinking of the fact that this was about just sixteen years into this artisanship, sixteen banners united over the field, while we now are looking back on over sixty years of endless search and creative work, hunting for new ways of performing a song, of new songs to perform, always tangled up in blue, heading for another place to sing his songs.”
  • The Complete Budokan 1978 (Louder Than War) [8]
    • “Yes, I’ve heard great unofficial recordings from later in this tour suggesting that there may have been better performances that could have been captured and released. But the band membership did inevitably evolve as the tour progressed so it was never going to stay the same, so lets focus on what we have and not what we have not.”
  • Bob Dylan Would Love You to Love “The Complete Budokan 1978” (Boston Harold) [5]
    • “There were some highlights, though. There was a new song, “Am I Your Stepchild?” and the “Street-Legal” material. Early on the second set, he played one song, solo, on an acoustic guitar. The song he chose? “It Ain’t Me, Babe.” In this context, it felt like a protest song. Protesting what? His audience and their expectations. In other words, me.”
  • Unlikely to Convert Dylan Doubters, An interesting Curio (Louder Sound) [3]
    • “Bob Dylan At Budokan took a critical kicking when it was released in 1979. While a jaunty Mr Tambourine Man complete with Steve Douglas’s dancing flute is still disconcerting, perhaps the press were being a bit hard on Bob, although what those same writers would make of a previously unreleased supper-club instrumental of A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall is anyone’s guess.”
  • Bob Dylan’s ‘The Complete Budokan 1978’ Box a Welcomed Release, Flute and All (ABC News) [5]
    • “It can be jarring for those not already well-versed with the original 1979 live release. But for Dylan fans who have eschewed this period of his career, there are hidden gems here worth uncovering.”
  • Cat Power Sings Dylan (Oslo Konserthus) [5]
    • “All throughout Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, that rarefied intimacy with Dylan’s material illuminates every moment—from the very first seconds of the set-opening “She Belongs To Me,” Marshall creates the strangely charmed sensation of sharing songs that have lived in her heart for decades.”
  • Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Pitchfork) [5]
    • “The postmodern presentation of Sings Dylan does not interfere with the power of the music: Marshall, like her hero, understands that irony and sincerity can coexist without contradiction. The acoustic portion is often breathtaking, Marshall’s multivalent intimacy with her material restoring chestnuts like “Mr. Tambourine Man,” whose luster may have dimmed from overexposure.”
  • Cat Power Song-by-Song Re-Creation of Bob Dylan’s Royal Albert Hall Concert (NPR) [5]
    • “Cat Power Sings Dylan” is, in a sense, a sort of drag show, demonstrating what Shakespeare knew – how artists can reveal truths about gender and romance through cross-dressing. The album is also a mash note to a fellow singer-songwriter and a torch passing to one of our great torch singers.”
  • Sunday Conversation: Cat Power On Revisiting A 1966 Bob Dylan Show (Forbes) [5]
    • “But when I met Bob in 2007, one of the first things he said to me was, “I got all your calls.” So, I’m sure that he’s aware of what’s going on and I know that he listens to everything. He’s very observant.”
  • Celebrating The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: Play a Song for Me! (Dylantantes) [5]
    • NEW BOOK (See below)
    • “These essays, from various disciplinary perspectives, illustrate how the concert setlist can be used as a source to explore many aspects of Dylan’s public life. Finally, this collection provides a new method to examine other musicians across genres with an interdisciplinary approach to setlists and the selectivity of performance.”

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Each link above 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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