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Seven Days: Nov 26 – Dec 2, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • David Mansfield Reflects on a Lifetime in Music (NJ Arts) [10]
    • “When I came back to work with him in ’78, I was 21, but I still looked like I was 13. He joked about it onstage. He would introduce me as young and I’d get younger and younger at each show and by the end (of the tour) he’d say, ‘This is David Mansfield on violin. He’s sweet 16 and never been kissed.”
  • Van Morrison: Bob Dylan and I are Worlds Apart (Info Forney) [5]
    • “”Well, I’m just nothing like Bob Dylan, so I guess what I was trying to say was, like, I’m coming from the place that I’m a singer first. I’m a singer. Right? And I write songs.”
  • Tis the Season for #bobdylancore (NSS Mag) [5]
    • “Whatever Gen Z discovers becomes a trend on TikTok. The trend has now extended well beyond the use of the singer-songwriter’s famous suede leather jacket, to the extent that on November eleventh, a Bob Dylan Core-themed party was held at Emerson College in Boston.”
  • Like a Complete Unknown: Bob Dylan’s Time in Madison (Madison Mag) [5]
    • “Dylan’s stay in Madison during the winter of 1960-61 was fleeting, and most of the people he encountered were far from enthusiastic in their reception of him. Nevertheless, Madison became the backdrop for an opportunity that would profoundly reshape his life and, in turn, make an everlasting impact on popular music.”
  • Chuck Prophet & All-Star Band Deliver Impressive Basement Tapes Live (Jambase) [5]
    • “The Basement Tapes Live devotes themselves to the over 100 songs recorded by Bob Dylan and The Band in the summer of 1967. Captured at Dylan’s home studio “The Red Room” and the ramshackle basement studio at the now-legendary Big Pink house near Woodstock, this songbook represents one of modern music’s greatest creative explosions, guys clicking on every gear, vibing hard with each other, and blessed with an over-abundant muse — lightning just hung out in a bottle watching them work.”
  • Rock ‘n’ Roll History of Toad’s Place in New Haven in New Documentary (New Haven Register) [3]
    • “TOAD’S PLACE – the documentary” is currently in pre-production and will begin shooting in three weeks, according to Billman, who has launched a Kickstarter to help fund the project.”
  • Forgotten Star of Swinging 60s Pop Art Finally Gets Solo Show (The Guardian) [3]
    • “She was one of the first people in Britain to spend time with Bob Dylan when he came to the country in the winter of 1962, on the invitation of Boty’s then lover, film impresario Peter Saville.”

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  • Beatty Zimmerman Talks Bob Dylan’s Early Years and Road to Fame (Peter Stone Brown) [10]
    • “Bobby is very much like I am. You either do or you don’t. Remember, we bought the piano and gave Bobby lessons. Harriet came – that was our cousin, Harriet Rutstein. He said, “No lessons for me.”
  • Abe Zimmerman Talks Bob’s Early Years and Road to Fame (Peter Stone Brown) [10]
    • “I do remember when Bobby was going to enrol at kindergarten he wouldn’t go with Beatty. I do remember that I was the only man enrolling a child at the kindergarten. I left my job to come home because he wouldn’t go unless I went with him. Then he was happy.”
  • I Want You (1994) Unplugged & Unreleased (Letter To The Vatican) [5]
    • “Inexplicably, even with three known presentations, “I Want You” was overlooked. For me, this song may just be the ultimate highlight of the entire Unplugged sessions. Dylan and the musicians slow the urgent plea from Blonde on Blonde down to a meditative love prayer.”
  • High Water (for Charley Patton) Pt.1 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • ““Joe Turner is always surprising me with little nuances and things,” Dylan tells Jeff Slate in the Wall Street Journal interview in 2022. The declaration of love is not really surprising; we have known Dylan’s appreciation for Big Joe Turner since the 1960s.”
  • Dylan Cover: This Wheel’s on Fire (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The harmonies are perfect, the instrumental break at the end is beautiful, the accompaniment is sublime, and as ever with Richard Thompson’s recordings I feel he really has worked and worked on what the essence of the piece in order to get an arrangement that makes musical sense.”
  • NET Extended: It’s All Over Now Baby Blue (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “”In this series we look at the way Bob has transformed certain songs over time in his live performances, in particular looking for the progression in his feelings about, and his understanding of, what the song offers, what the song says, where it can be taken next, and even on occasion how he can reinterpret the past.”
  • Other Songs: Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Now we are back to the original style and approach of the song, and I do think the piano accompaniment is emotionally appropriate and at the same time inventive. Yes, I’ll go with this completely as the instrumental verse also fits in with the whole essence of the piece.”
  • Goodbye Jimmie Reed Pt.12 (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “This sixth verse is the only verse with a clearly recognisable dialogue. A dialogue that is unmistakably the beginning of a conversation, and thus the promise of a story. First a neat greeting plus the interested question about what the antagonist has come here to do, then – coherently and logically – the antagonist’s answer. The answer, moreover, is intriguing.”
  • Dying Crapshooters Blues: Blind Willie McTell Revisited (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Blues, country, R&B, folk… the tombstone is a popular piece of scenery in every genre and in every period. In 1965, the young Dylan undoubtedly can sing along with Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love”, Merle Haggard’s “Nine Pound Hammer”, Johnny Cash’s “The Ballad Of Boot Hill” and the Kingston Trio’s “Jug Of Punch” (“Tura lura lu, tura lura lu”). And with a hundred other songs, presumably.”
  • The Many Incarnations of Bob Dylan (Patheos) [3]
    • “And looking back at all that Dylan and his peers wrote and sang about it doesn’t take a weatherman to tell that the wind has blown in the direction they charted. Sadly, the greater society (The Establishment) tends to catch on slowly.”
  • Brief Thoughts on Charlotte ’78 (Peter Stone Brown) [3]
    • “And the whole time I’m driving (about a 35 minute drive) I kept thinking about how it was more or less the same show he played in Philly minus the crazy stories and “Love Crazy.”

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  • Stabler Arena 2013 (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
    • “What a difference six days, a better hall, much better seats and frankly a more cultured audience can make. The Bob Dylan concert tonight in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania was superior to Friday’s show in Newark, Delaware in every way.”
  • The Best Gig the Singer Never Played – Shadow Kingdom (FT) [5]
    • “The film is an unabashedly nostalgic, elegiac tribute to the past. While the aesthetic is redolent of a Prohibition-era dive bar, the cramped, smoky setting might also be seen as a kind of homecoming to Greenwich Village’s Gaslight Cafe where Dylan first broke through. Fittingly, the note-perfect set is dominated by early career tracks that are alternately raucous and plaintive, ironic and sentimental, beloved and unknown.”
  • Bob Dylan Makes His Greatest Comeback with ‘Time Out of Mind’ (American Songwriter) [5]
    • “But there was one occasion when we could indeed, to paraphrase LL Cool J, call it a comeback. That was in 1997, when Dylan released the towering Time Out of Mind, an album that stands toe-to-toe with the other masterpieces in his catalog.”
  • The Spotlight is On Bob Dylan – Shadow Kingdom (Newsletter) [3]
    • “However, we should know what we’re in for with the first programme tonight, Bob Dylan: Shadow Kingdom. which was shot in 2021. As you may remember, not many acts were hitting the road at the time – even Dylan had to halt what fans have dubbed his ‘Never Ending Tour’ due to the pandemic.”
  • Complete Budokan 1978 (Flood) [5]
    • “Yet in 1978, a world tour wasn’t something Dylan did too often, his oddball, overly snazzy arrangements at the time only being surpassed by the amount of people he had willing to help him execute his schmaltzy sonic assault on older material.”
  • Standing Up For Live at Budokan (Sour Surmise) [3]
    • “As Bob looks back and around for his Budokan muse so too he looks forward. The female Gospel vocals would become the major feature of the next few years of Dylan’s live shows. Where he is with Jesus at Budokan is anyone’s guess but the Gospel singers are ready!”

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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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