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Seven Days: Oct 1- 7, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Bob Dylan Breaks Out ‘Kansas City’ In Kansas City (Jambase)
    • “Bob Dylan launched the Fall 2023 North American leg of his Rough And Rowdy Ways World Wide Tour 2021-2024 on Sunday with his first of two concerts at Midland Theatre in Kansas City. Dylan opened the show and trek with the geographically-appropriate cover of Lieber-Stoller’s “Kansas City,” last played in 1986, and also tacked on seven new dates to the end of the tour.”
  • Bob Dylan Honors Chuck Berry In St. Louis (Jambase)
    • “Dylan performed a pair of Chuck Berry covers last night at his concert in the late rock pioneer’s hometown of St. Louis.”
  • Bob Dylan Paid Tribute to St. Louis at Stifel Last Night — And He Slayed (Riverfront Times)
    • “Bob Dylan gave St. Louis a hometown surprise at last night’s sold-out Stifel Theatre show by opening with “Johnny B. Goode,” the first time he’s ever played the song at one of his own shows. Dylan’s voice sounded clearer and more nimble than in years, as though his deep dive into Sinatra and American pop standards in the 20-teens renovated and enlivened his singing, and he had a great night interpreting his own songs.”
  • Tonight in Chicago (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
    • “There are a million reasons I wish Dylan would release proper soundboard recordings from the Never Ending Tour, but tonight I thought of a new one: Tony Garnier. In the room, his bass playing is easy to make out, and sounds (no surprise here) terrific, whether he’s grooving on electric or gently caressing the upright. For whatever reason, the hidden recording devices tapers use rarely capture that bass sound as powerfully as it reverberates in the room.”
  • Bob Dylan Delivers The Unexpected (Chicago Sun Times)
    • “Dylan began the show with a song connected to his host city. The six-piece band lashed into Nick Gravenites’ “Born in Chicago,” first recorded in 1965 by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Dylan began the show with a song connected to his host city. The six-piece band lashed into Nick Gravenites’ “Born in Chicago,” first recorded in 1965 by the Paul Butterfield Blues Band.”
  • Bob Dylan is still a musician in command on his Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour (Chicago Tribune)
    • “For good measure and balance, the Minnesota native threw in a bit of romance. And, specifically for Chicago, a pair of well-chosen blues covers to bookend the proceedings. In particular, “Born in Chicago,” a stark commentary on gun violence originally recorded by Paul Butterfield Blues Band.”
  • Bob Dylan to perform two concerts in Baltimore on Thanksgiving weekend (The Baltimore Sun)
    • “The 82-year-old singer brings his tour, named after his 39th album, to Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall Nov. 24 and 25, according to a Baltimore Symphony Orchestra news release.”
  • Bob Dylan to Return to Evansville after 12-year Absence (Courier & Press)
    • “Dylan last blew into the city in 2011, when he was one of the final performers to ever play at Roberts Stadium. He also came here in 2008, when he was one of the final people to play at Mesker Amphitheatre. Hopefully the plaza will have better luck.”

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  • Joan Baez: ‘I Talk to Trees to Get Answers. They Give it to you Cold Turkey’ (The Guardian)
    • “Is it true that you did such a great Dylan impersonation in the 60s that you could fool people over the phone? Yes. It was his early voice. I don’t do the older voice.”
  • 5Q: Girl from the North Country (Lavender)
    • “Bob Dylan’s music is timeless, far-reaching, and, quite frankly, so human. His lyrics give beauty to the simplest and most complicated aspects of human life. His music coupled with this story reminds me that, while we are all different, we all share the same basic needs and desires. It’s so special to tell this story and sing this music in Bob Dylan’s home state.”
  • Joan Baez Reveals How She Found ‘Total Forgiveness’ for Bob Dylan Years After Breakup (People)
    • “She later found “total forgiveness” for Dylan after she painted a portrait of him in his youth: “I put his music on, and I just dissolved into tears. When I was through with the painting, I had no animosity left. None. It’s remained that way.”
  • Joan Baez has Songs to Sing and Secrets to Tell (Associated Press)
    • “Bob Dylan called it her “heart-stopping soprano,” and it’s true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song “We Shall Overcome,” you could believe we would, indeed, overcome.”
  • ‘Dylan broke my heart:’ Joan Baez on How She Finally Shed ‘Resentment’ (USA Today)
    • “Later in the film she says the heartache is gone now, thanks in part to Baez, who is a lovely painter, doing a portrait of Dylan that in essence exorcized his ghost. “I don’t see him or talk to him now, but the times we have chatted were nice,” Baez tells USA TODAY.”

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  • Anticipating Dylan (The Song Seekers)
    • “It’s become one of my pet peeves of music fandom: when people try to anticipate their favorite artist’s next moves and then hoist their own expectations on them, only to be disappointed when they don’t get what they wanted/expected. It’s particularly galling to approach a Dylan concert/Dylan new release like this, in my humble opinion, because he’s already given all of us so much.”
  • In Defense of “Wiggle, Wiggle” (Dylanology)
    • “Another line that has been pointed out as overly foolish is “Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a pail of milk”. Like the “bowl of soup” line, it is nonsensical, but it is also an allusion to one of Aesop’s fables. In the fable a woman carries a pail of milk on her head and dreams about all the riches she is going to get when she sells it.
  • 1981: The Last Really Great Dylan Tour? (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “Then Dylan and King, their voices perfectly melding launch into an astonishingly beautiful Jimmy Webb song, I’d never heard before (or since by anyone else) called “Let’s Begin.” While I’d heard and seen Dylan sing with many other people before and since, I don’t think I’ve ever heard him sing quite as carefully as he did with Clydie King that night. At the end, Dylan said, “I hope we did it alright, Jimmy.”
  • Bob Dylan: No Direction Home (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “One of first things “No Direction Home” hits you with is the bleak vast whiteout nothingness of a Minnesota blizzard and it seems like time stops and it seems like the film stops and at first you’re not even sure what it is and you have to stop and think about that, and then it moves back and forth in time to on-stage madness and back to this ’50s town in the middle of the bleak whiteout nowhere.”
  • Lyrics and Music: God Knows (Untold Dylan)
    • “To go back to the Red Sky version, the music makes it clear musically around the 25-second mark that there is something very odd going on (at the “ain’t anybody”). It is not very clear in that first verse but you can hear it again in the second verse with “no more water, but fire next time.”
  • NET Extended. Blowing in the Wind 1991-2001 (Untold Dylan)
    • “The earliest recording that we have featured in of “Blowing in the Wind” from the Never Ending Tour series is one that sounds utterly different from the way the song sounded on “Freewheelin” 28 years earlier.  We’ve got a new melody and a real beat to the music as if to say, “The future really is going to be better than this” – which is certainly not how things sounded in 1962 when Bob composed the piece.”
  • Cover a Day: Tangled up in Blue (Untold Dylan)
    • “It was five years ago that Jochen suddenly sprung the Indigo Girls version of “Tangled up in Blue” on me (and maybe some other people too – although it is quite possible that it was just me who was unaware of it at the time.)  And I’ve been enjoying it ever since.  And just in case it doesn’t grab you, do keep going to listen to that violin solo.”
  • Other People’s Songs: Diamond Joe (Untold Dylan)
    • “Bob keeps the mournful approach of the song, although the distinguishing held notes at the end of the lines are shorter.  But Bob’s voice here is very much in keeping with the lyrics – he has that ability to do “mournful” and make it sound absolutely real, and this really is a mournful song.”
  • Goodbye Jimmy Reed (2020) Pt.2 (Untold Dylan)
    • “Over the years, Jimmy Reed pops up occasionally in Dylan’s working life. He plays “Big Boss Man” with Eric Clapton at the Crossroads Benefit Concert in June 1999 in New York City, and again with Grateful Dead in 2003; he tries “Baby, What Do You Want Me To Do?” during a rehearsal for Farm Aid (1985); as a DJ, he plays two songs by Jimmy Reed (“Going To New York” and again “Big Boss Man”); in interviews and in Chronicles, Dylan keeps mentioning the name as an example of an admired artist.”

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  • Jack White to Release Bob Dylan Collaborative Performance of “Ball and Biscuit” (Consequence Sound)
    • “The Dylan collaboration, pressed on 7-inch vinyl alongside The White Stripes’ first-ever performance of the song from 2002, will be released as part of the latest installment in Third Man Records’ Vault subscription program. The package also boasts a 3xLP recording of The White Stripes’ 2003 concert in Las Vegas.”

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