November 6 - 12, 2022
Seven Days in Dylan News
Bootleg Series 17 Officially Announced
BOB DYLAN – FRAGMENTS – TIME OUT OF MIND SESSIONS (1996-1997): THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 17 TO BE RELEASED IN DELUXE 5 DISC SET ON COLUMBIA RECORDS/LEGACY RECORDINGS FRIDAY, JANUARY 27 - BobDylan.com
- News Links:
- Our Post With *EVERYTHING* About The Release
- Includes track listings
- Includes front/back cover shots
- Includes full press release
- Includes links to all streaming platforms
- Includes production details
- Press Release at bobdylan.com
- The Time Out Of Mind Sessions (SuperDeluxe)
- Time Out Of Mind Focus on Latest BS (Rolling Stone)
- Fragments Come Together (Tinnitist)
- Dylan Reveals Bootleg Series (Consequence of Sound)
- Prior Cover Versions of TOOM Songs (Cover.Me)
- Old Interview with New Engineer Michael H. Brauer (gearspace)
- Some Dylan talk in the middle
- Liner Notes writer Stephen Hyden Shares Some Thoughts (Evil Speakers)
- Our Post With *EVERYTHING* About The Release
- Love Sick (Version 2) Now Available
PRE-ORDERS
The box set can be ordered now for Jan 27, 2023 delivery.
- 2CD: $27.98 at Amazon (US)
- 4LP: $99 at Amazon (US)
- 5CD DELUXE: $139.98 at Amazon (US)
- 10LP DELUXE: $230 at BobDylan.com (Numbered, Limited to 5000)
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
"The Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal, which bills itself as “the World’s Most Beautiful Bookshop,” plans to keep the archive of 42 handwritten letters totaling 150 pages complete and available for Dylan fans and scholars to study, auctioneer RR Auction said in a statement Friday." -- Hollywood Reporter
- The RR Auction Results (RR Auction)
- Photo Candid – Sold for $2276
- Photo Candid – Sold for $3670
- Photo Candid – Sold for 24,361
- 24 Handwritten Poems – Sold for $249,563
- 42 Love Letters – Sold for $669,875
- Signed Photo – Sold for $19,721
- See link above for others.
- Dylan Lover Letters Auction for $670K (Hollywood Reporter)
- Dylan Collection of Love Letters Sells (Billboard)
- Steve Forbert Interview (bobdylan.com)
- Asked about Time Out Of Mind and Later Dylan
- Chalamet Ready To Be Bob; Says Movie On Track (Variety)
- Christian Bale to Play Pete Seeger (Latestly)
- Archive of Newport Folklorist Heading To Smithsonian (YahooNews)
- “McCormick said he pulled the plug on Dylan during his rehearsal with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band because he needed the stage so a group of former inmate singers he’d assembled, who’d never performed together, could rehearse.”
The Philosophy of Modern Song
We’ve now collected 70 REVIEWS of The Philosophy of Modern Song.
- Some of the better / more interesting recent reviews:
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- Roadmaps for the Soul: Dan Chasen (New York Review of Books)
- A Response To Dylan’s POMS: Amanda Petrusich (The New Yorker)
- The Jokes On You: John Carvill (PopMatters)
- Bob Dylan Has No Philosophy: Geoff Dyer (Unherd)
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- The New York Times Best Seller List: 11/20/22 – POMS #5
- Buyers Question Dylan Signatures (iHeart Radio)
- Buyers To Get Refunds (iHeart Radio)
- Simon & Schuster put ‘hand signed’ copies of the book on sale for $599 but people quickly determined they were signed by machine. After much dust, S&S has agreed to issue refunds and the books are no longer for sale.
- A 76 Page Discussion of the Matter (Autographs Live)

Writing About Bob Dylan
- Heaven’s Door Spirits Decade Series Release #01 (The Whisky Mash)
- A Talk with Rolling Thunder’s Designer (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- 20 Years of Dylan Posters and Ticket Stubs (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- Wanted Man (Pt.2) (Pt.3) (Pt.4) (Untold Dylan)
- Dylan Covers: Sooner Or Later (Untold Dylan)
- Other People’s Songs: Highway 51 (Untold Dylan)
- Drawn Blank in Provence (Steve and Carole in Vence)
- Lovely photos in this post of the Provence exhibit
Reviews & Releases
- New Blonde on Blonde Liner Notes (Vinyl Me Please)
- New Review: Oh Mercy (Cult Following)
- Review: Girl From The North Country (Luton Today)
- Warning: Books Made From Wikipedia Articles (Come Writers and Critics)
- TODAY: Is the 50th Anniversary of the first serious book on Bob Dylan – Michael Gray’s SONG & DANCE MAN: The Art of Bob Dylan
IMAGE OF THE WEEK
Prior Weeks
NEW PODCASTS
- Dylan.FM
- Pledging My Time with Dylan’s Band Members (Ray Padgett)
- Pod Dylan
- Tombstone Blues (Dereck Daschke)
- Jokermen
- Travelin’ Thru (Jenny Eliscu)
- Definitely Dylan
- Love Sick + Cat Power (Patreon Only)
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
THEY'RE SELLING POSTCARDS
Here are some new (or new-ish) Bob Dylan items you might want to order. We're going to be pulling together a fuller Dylan gift guide soon. Some are affiliate links that earn us a few pennies.
- Signed ‘Outtakes on Bob Dylan’ by Michael Gray (Route Online)
- Huge Kindle Dylan Book Sale – All $0.99 to $4.99 (Amazon)
- The Philosophy of Modern Song – Book (Amazon)
- The Philosophy of Modern Song – CD (Amazon)
- Pledging My Time by Ray Padgett – Pre-Order With Bonuses (Indiegogo)
- Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography by Greil Marcus (Amazon)
- The Dylan Tapes: Talkin’ Early Dylan by Anthony Scaduto (Amazon)
- Bob Dylan Fragments: The Time Out Of Mind Sessions (Bootleg Series 17)
- 2CD: $27.98 at Amazon (US)
- 4LP: $99 at Amazon (US)
- 5CD DELUXE: $139.98 at Amazon (US)
- 10LP DELUXE: $230 at BobDylan.com (Numbered, Limited to 5000)
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