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Seven Days: Nov 19 – 25, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Two Nights in Newark (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “There are some great ensemble set pieces where the band really rave it up and get cooking (“False Prophet,” “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight,” “Serve Somebody”). These guys are another in a long list of sympathetic collaborators that have backed him over the years.”
  • Bob Dylan looks sharp, salutes Jersey greats at ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ NJPAC show (App) [3]
    • “It was Dylan being Dylan, especially with the lack of hits on Monday. No “Like a Rolling Stone” or “Blowin’ in the Wind.” The faithful at NJPAC, which included Patti Smith and Elvis Costello, didn’t seem to mind as they were locked in for the hour and a half performance, which sounded pristine.”
  • Bob Dylan At The Fillmore (WMMR) [1]
    • “No phones were allowed inside the venue! We had to live in the moment. But I liked it that way. We got to snap a few shots outside the venue before heading in for the amazing show.”
  • Rough and Rowdy’ and Full of Grace in Fishtown (Philadelphia Inquirer) [5]
    • “Bob Dylan took a seat at the piano at the Fillmore Philadelphia and claimed to be at a loss for words. “What’s the matter with me?” he asked. “I don’t have much to say.” Of course, Dylan was being ironic.”
  • Last Night in Philadelphia (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • “The differences are subtle. But that’s an advantage of going a lot: You notice them. His delivery of lines shifts from night to night; certain lines in “False Prophet” got positively barked last night, sharper than I’ve ever seen them. The crowd’s response to certain lines shifts too.”
  • It Ain’t His, Babe: Bob Dylan Has Been Playing City-Specific Covers (New York Times) [5]
    • “Which is why Dylanologists have been so surprised and charmed by a feature of his current Rough and Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour, which is named for his 2020 album: geographically appropriate covers.”

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  • What I Thought About Albert Grossman (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [10]
    • “While Grossman is usually portrayed especially in Dylan lore as the bad guy, there’s a bit more to it than that. He was one of the creators of the mystique that for better or worse engulfs Dylan to this day and he made sure that same mystique extended to The Band.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Bandmates Recall the Best Song They Ever Played with Him (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [10]
    • “Ultimately, the reason we all care is the music itself. And these snippets are all about just that. Bob and the people he invites in, making the music we hear on stage and on record. So listen to the embeds as you read. And, to quote the man himself, “Play it f***ing loud.”
  • The Powerful Message of “Murder Most Foul” (Life & Letters) [5]
    • “Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul” is a deeply disconcerting hymn of associative and dissociative memory and memorialization. It is grounded in Dylan’s own intense experiences of personal loss and menacing social hatred during 1963, the year he celebrated his twenty-second birthday.”
  • Dylan Revisited: The Gaslight Tapes (1961-62) (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • “Next comes one of the two originals that Dylan did include on his debut album. It’s interesting to hear how Song to Woody developed from the slow, almost plodding version he plays at the Gaslight to the more affirming, upbeat recording he cut in November.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Numbers (DamianBalassone.com) [8]
    • Here’s a list of numbers mentioned in Bob Dylan lyrics (and titles). The list is by no means exhaustive.
  • Cover a Day: Things Have Changed (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “There seems to be not only a growing number of covers of Things Have Changed but a growing number of really interesting cover versions. So although we’ve already done an article on the covers of this song once before, I’ve had no trouble with finding another set of songs, and from them, some further thoughts.”
  • NET 2018 Pt.2 The Return of the Master Harpist (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “I was happy, then, to see a revival of the instrument in 2018, even if tightly restricted to four or five songs scattered across the setlist. They are all ballads rather than rock songs. We don’t get a return of the mid to fast tempo, blistering blues solos we’ve been treated to over the years. What we do get are exquisite meditations on the theme of love.”
  • NET Extended: Masters of War (1978 to 2000) (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Gusto” is the word that comes to mind, and the comment by Bob at the end about his lead guitarist shows how very much he appreciated how the song written in 1963 was still utterly relevant and could be played in that simple arrangement used in his acoustic days, or with this total drive and force, with the electric band, and it still worked.
  • Goodbye Jimmy Reed (2020) Pt.11 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The analysts and interpreters so eager to lay Dylan’s biography over his lyrics cannot escape the conclusion that the elderly Dylan, on the eve of his 80th birthday, is apparently seeking to reconnect with the religion of his youth: after all, “G-d” is an eminently Jewish spelling.”

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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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