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Seven Days: Nov 5 – 11, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Bob Dylan Nods to Capitol Theatre’s Grateful Dead History on “Stella Blue” (Relix) [5]
    • “Light and playful piano shortly shifted to recognizable notes with the start of “Stella Blue,” evoking a crowd reaction as the song developed and Dylan crooned, “All the years combine/ They melt into a dream.” The sweet and subtly run-through conjured added noise with the first gust of the title, which trickled through the storied venue like dancing figures from concerts past.”
  • In Boston shows, Bob Dylan Keeps the Focus Squarely on the Music (WGBH) [5]
    • “It was just an honor to be in the presence of a legend. It was not a concert for the whole flower child thing. He didn’t do a lot of the old songs. Everything was from ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’”
  • Bob Dylan and his Band – Rochester Auditorium (Talk From The Rock Room) [5]
    • “After the opening two songs of the concert, two new Rough and Rowdy Ways tracks stretched their legs. “I Contain Multitudes,” originally a drumless drift on the studio record was played as a mid-tempo ballad that recalls previous Dylan rearrangements like “Trying to Get to Heaven.” Dylan left room for the verses to breathe with a focus on the story. “
  • Hear Bob Dylan Unveil Tender Merle Haggard Cover In Boston (Jambase) [3]
    • ““Footlights” is the latest cover debut from Dylan on the North American leg of his ongoing tour this fall. Unlike others, there doesn’t seem to be a connection between the song or artist and city where Bob played. “Footlights” is the second Merle Haggard song Dylan has covered for the first time in 2023.”
  • Two Nights in Port Chester (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • The crowds in generally were much rowdier (and a little rougher) than I’ve seen in those theater shows. In many ways, this added welcome energy. Many lines got big laughs or cheers.”

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  • 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.”
  • Joan Baez on her legacy, Bob Dylan and ‘I Am a Noise’ (LA Times) Video [5]
    • “Her first three albums all went gold and by 1962, she was folk royalty, landing on the cover of Time Magazine. In 1963, she introduced the world to a then unknown Bob Dylan, often dragging him up on stage during her shows. Their two-year relationship ended in 1965, but the love affair inspired one of her biggest hits: 1975’s “Diamonds and Rust.”
  • When Cambridge put Bob Dylan on the Curriculum (Varsity) [3]
    • “Why bother studying Dylan then? Whether Dylan ascribes any meaning to his lyrics or not, we can find our own unique significations. After all, students did sign up for the Cambridge course and I will be citing Dylan as a source for my dissertation.”
  • “Bob always follows his path…” an eyewitness account of Dylan in Japan (Uncut) [5]
    • “On February 17, 1978, Bob Dylan arrived at Haneda Airport in Japan, and on the next day, February 18, the green light was lit to record a live album at the Budokan.”
  • Every Great Actor Gets Really Scared’: Todd Haynes on Heath Ledger and Cate Blanchett (The Guardian) [8]
    • “But I stalked her, really. She was scared: it was a big thing to take on, to play Dylan, especially that Dylan. But I knew it.”
  • Conan O’Brien After His One Shot With Bob Dylan (FandomWire) [5]
    • “Dylan was fairly famous at the time of the incident, leaving O’Brien slightly starstruck and at a loss of words. However, Dylan took one look at O’Brien, and in his iconic style said: “Hey, I know you from the TV!”
  • Bob Dylan Just Dropped a Bold New 18-Year-Old Bourbon (Robb Report) [5]
    • “The whiskey, which is bottled at 114 proof, is a deep ruddy brown color. On the nose it reads like an older Dickel whiskey, full of grain, fruit, and nutty notes. The palate is immediately drying and tannic, but not in an unpleasant way.”
  • Heaven’s Door Annouces The Fifth Volume of Its Bootleg Series (Cocktails Distilled) [3]
    • “Bootleg Vol. V showcases Dylan’s painting titled “No Vacancies” (2019) from The Beaten Path collection. The road, a recurrent and central theme in Dylan’s creative journey, takes center stage in this painting, symbolizing the endless possibilities and adventures that have fueled American art, literature, and music for generations.”
  • In the Footsteps of Bob Dylan in a New York Basement (Clarin) [1]
    • “After all, the Nobel Prize in Literature had debuted here with his harmonica at the age of 19, having just arrived from his native Minnesota, and shortly after this former horse garage was converted into a bar, in 1959.”

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  • Has Dylan Become Multi-Religious? (KeesDeGraaf) [5]
    • “When we read this we had to rub our eyes. Is this really true? Has Dylan become a multireligious person? Has Dylan indeed finally come to the conclusion that something like the truth does not exist and that “the Great Truths” as Markhorst calls them– overlap and can be found in all (world)religions?)
  • Revisiting: Bob Dylan (1962) (Dylan.FM) [8]
    • The critic had also wondered who Dylan was, mentioning in his review that the singer was “vague about his antecedents and birthplace”. Around this time, Dylan had a habit of enhancing, exaggerating and even outright inventing the details of his past (including his name).
  • Ask Greil: November 10, 2023 (Letter In The Ether) [5]
    • “Let’s look at them as amusement park rides. “The Groom” is a whirligig. “Tell Me Mama” is a loop-de-loop roller coaster that while you’re on it you can’t believe will ever stop, and when it does you stumble off wobbly and confused.”
  • Dylan in Cincinnati: July 1999 (Shadow Chasing) [8]
    • “I was shut out at the box office Saturday morning, but my pal Byron Russell later came through for me with a single general-admission ticket. I made it down to Bogart’s the afternoon of the concert and wormed my way close to the stage by showtime. It was my first Dylan concert in Cincinnati.”
  • Cover a Day: The Man in Me (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Here’s the one that does stand out for me – but we’ve covered it before… Emma Swift doesn’t do that much to the song, but her voice is so pure and without an artifice that it just feels right for this song.”
  • Goodbye Jimmy Reed (Pt.8 – Pt.9) (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “While with some tolerance you could still maintain that Dylan is building a Jimmy Reed memorial in this fourth verse too, there are more counter-arguments. They threw everything at me, everything in the book is a complaint of a narrator who has stumbled through life tripping over justice, fate and bad choices.”
  • Other People’s Songs: Pretty Boy Floyd (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “The problem with the song for contemporary audiences is that it is so repetitive musically it is harder for a listener who is used to change within the song, to keep a focus. Joan gets around this by taking it at quite a speed, having the occasional guitar break and varying the guitar part occasionally as she goes, with even a bar or two of strumming rather than finger picking.”
  • Did Dylan Predict Media and Entertainment’s Future? (Media Village) [1]
    • “This column might seem a bit like a Dylan song — meandering along, seemingly random, maybe even confused.”
  • ‘Infidels’ in the ’90s (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
    • In the ‘90s, though, Bob Dylan loved Infidels. He played five of its eight songs at various points across the decades. That’s more Infidels songs than he played in 1984, on the tour ostensibly promoting the album.
  • Cover a Day: The Man in Me (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • “Here’s the one that does stand out for me – but we’ve covered it before… Emma Swift doesn’t do that much to the song, but her voice is so pure and without an artifice that it just feels right for this song.”

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  • Bob Dylan, The Complete Budokan 1978 (Hot Press) [10]
    • “Hold onto your hats, the opening number says. You thought you knew Dylan’s greatest hits by heart? Think again. From the first song to the last, he’s rearranged everything you once held dear, and asks you to roll with him, accepting the changed tunes and even new words just as you’ve cherished the originals.”
  • With a New (old) Album, a Tour, and a Giant New Book, Bob Dylan Remains a Juggernaut (Forward) [5]
    • “The volume spans Dylan’s entire life and career, featuring over 1,100 images from the archives — everything from concert ticket stubs to handwritten lyric sheets to rarely seen backstage photographs — all duly captioned by editors Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, both curators at the Dylan Center.”
  • Mixing Up The Medicine – Treasures From The Bob Dylan Center (All About Jazz) [5]
    • “Well-intentioned is the idea to include the essays of choice by Clinton Heylin, Terry Gans and Greil Marcus, it is equally so to make room for the efforts of Joy Harjo, Lucy Sante and Tom Piazza. The comparably informal nature of the latters’ writing contrasts the solemn work of the aforementioned Dylan scholars and as such, mirrors the widely-varied tone and the plethora of styles in the original songs comprising their subject’s songbook.”
  • A Bob Dylan Museum in Book Form (Indo NY) [3]
    • “There are images by photographers like Richard Avedon and Annie Leibovitz, essays by companions, authors and artists who were allowed to choose things to write about from the huge collection at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. There are also interview excerpts and countless background information on songs – famous ones like “Mr. Tambourine Man”, but also the less well-known, no less moving ones.”
  • The Biggest, Most Comprehensive Bob Dylan Book Ever (Showbizz 411) [3]
    • “This is no small tome: 608 pages, 4.4 pounds, bursting with minutiae, color photos and graphics, essays by experts, unseen treasure troves, designed within an inch of itself to be the ultimate holiday gift for the Dylan freak in your realm.”
  • Cat Power on Her Brilliant New Live Album of Dylan Covers (Vouge) [8]
    • “I hope that baton gets passed on and shared, because, yes, it’s Dylan, the Mount Everest of songwriting—but the wealth of music that he has loved his whole life is so vast. I hope that this helps them listen to all of his amazing songs and to how his voice can change on certain songs—you can hear how he’s feeling, and on certain songs you can feel his loss.”
  • Cat Power on the World-Changing Spirit of Bob Dylan’s Landmark 1966 Show: ‘It’s Needed Now’ (No Depression) [8]
    • “Discussing how Dylan’s stylistic change came at a moment when folk music had a passionate, yet niche, audience and the 1960s counterculture was still gestating, she adds, “Others in the movement needed to be shepherded, to get out of their 1950s boxes. I associate this show with Bob expanding the movement. So I decided, off-the-cuff, I wanted to do this record.”
  • How Cat Power became a Bob Dylan Fan (Line of Best Fit) [8]
    • “But the first song I think that made me have critical thinking – I was probably nine when I heard it and it clicked – was “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. I didn’t understand what the hell he was talking about with Jonny in the basement, mixing up the medicine. And the sound of that circus horn, or whatever that is.”
  • Cat Power Sings Dylan (Line of Best Fit) [5]
    • “When the renditions feel like skilled yet dutiful replicas, it’s hard not to long for the bolder interpretative ethos that characterised, say, Lucinda Williams’s recent set of Dylan covers – or indeed the crackling abandon that elevated the electric half of Dylan’s 1966 shows.”
  • Cat Power Sings Dylan (Folk Radio UK) [5]
    • “After the show, which happened in November 2022, Chan admitted she has “such respect for the man who crafted so many songs that helped develop conscious thinking in millions of people, helped shape the way they see the world. So even though my hands were shaking so much I had to keep them in my pockets, I felt real dignity for myself. It felt like a real honour for me to stand there”.”
  • Cat Power Revisits Bob Dylan’s Historic 1966 Tour With Nuanced Accuracy (American Songwriter) [5]
    • “As a one-off project, this is an enjoyable romp, especially for Cat Power fans. Chan Marshall applies her stamp on material she loves, the live atmosphere enhances the enthusiasm, the audio is crisp and the show successfully accomplishes what it sets out to do.”
  • Cat Power Sings Dylan (Consequence of Sound) [3]
    • ““In a way, Dylan is a deity to all of us who write songs,” she explains in a press release. In songs like “She Belongs to Me” and “Ballad of a Thin Man,” Power’s singing voice is certainly much different than Dylan’s, but her covers are just further proof of the brilliance in his songwriting.”
  • Cat Power Replicates Bob Dylan’s Infamous 1966 Electric Concert (Associated Press) [3]
    • “Cat Power could never replicate that combative energy, but she doesn’t have to. While remaining faithful to the songs and the live arrangements, she shines a light on Dylan’s genius and the beauty of the music nearly 60 years after the original concert, while leaving her own mark.”
  • 35 Great Box Sets of 2023 (Fragments) (Ultimate Classic Rock) [3]
    • “1997’s Time Out of Mind has become a favorite with Dylan fans over the years, so it was welcome news that the album would be featured as a Bootleg Series entry. The five CD/10 LP collection pulls out all of the stops as well, presenting a full remix of the album, plus two discs of outtakes and alternate takes.”
  • Spuriously Seventeen Windows Review (Cult Following) [5]
    • “It is all still listenable, that is the Dylan guarantee, but much of it gives away the magic of how these songs are constructed and pieced together. From slick basslines jutting out a little more to the intense electric instrumentals scattered throughout.”
  • Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (Aquarium Drunkard) [8]
    • “To be fair, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte is worthy of its conversation-shaping reputation. The sound quality is quite good for a 1978 cassette capture, but it’s the performance and voice that makes you take notice. It’s a tape that compels you to turn up the sound as loud as your stereo or your neighbors will tolerate.”

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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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