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Seven Days: Oct 22 – 28, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Bob Dylan and His Band Took Toronto to Unexpected and Rewarding Places (Exclaim.CA)
    • “It was, in fact, a glorious night for a band that doesn’t have it easy, corralling already wild songs, almost all of which seem to be living in their most challenging arrangements yet. And at centre stage was Dylan — the songs’ mastermind, either seated or standing behind his baby grand piano, singing with a strength and beauty completely his own.”
  • At 82, Bob Dylan retains the element of surprise as he returns to Montreal (Montreal Gazette)
    • “Think about Bob Dylan in 2023, days away from his Place des Arts show on Sunday, and you can’t help but think about the passing of time. He is 82 and remains a vital artistic and commercial force. That’s a fact worth contemplating at length.”
  • Bob Dylan surprisingly sharp in sold-out Rochester concert (NYUp)
    • “Bob Dylan wasn’t rough or rowdy on Tuesday night at the Rochester Auditorium Theatre, treating nearly 2,500 fans to a spectacular 18-song performance that featured surprisingly sharp vocals.”
  • Hear Bob Dylan Perform Poignant ‘Stella Blue’ Cover For 1st Time In America (Jambase)
    • “Bob Dylan didn’t play “Stella Blue” at the last few stops in Europe following Barcelona or during the first 14 shows of the current leg. Dylan finally gave American fans a chance to witness his delightful version of the Hunter/Garcia classic on Tuesday night at Auditorium Theatre in Rochester, New York and then played “Stella Blue” again last night in Canada at Toronto’s Massey Hall.”

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  • The Best Last-Minute Halloween Costume of 2023 is… Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan? (Spy)
      • “The too-chill-to-be-comfortable urban couple from the Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan album cover suggests that Dylan was used to bundling himself against the wind on his way to The Bitter End (and his collaborations with Barking Irons confirms it).”
  • “I Wanted To Be You”: Joan Baez, in Conversation with Jane Fonda (Interview)
    • “When the two of you are singing “It Ain’t Me Babe” together, you look like you’re goosing each other behind your backs, or like you just finished making love, because your faces are so full of sex and desire and secrets. It’s just juicy and priceless. Did you stay close to him? You say in the movie that that breakup really just broke your heart.”
  • 60 years ago, Bob Dylan recorded The Times They Are A-Changin’. (Music Radar)
    • “Writing a song like this can be deceptively easy,” Bob Dylan wrote in 2022. “First you assemble a list of things people hate. For the most part, people are not going to like war, starvation, death, prejudice and the destruction of the environment…” Dylan was writing about the Temptations’ Ball Of Confusion, written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong, but maybe it gives us some insight into how he now views the songs of his younger self.”
  • 40 Years Ago: Bob Dylan Makes A Mainstream Comeback On ‘Infidels’ (Ultimate Classic Rock)
    • “Luckily, the final track listing included the stand-out song “Jokerman,” which found Dylan using themes both Biblical and secular to tear down political charlatans. Or was it a dark reflection on Judaism? A rumination on false messiahs? A cutting indictment of his own career missteps?”
  • 40 Years Later: Dylan Rebounds with 80’s Period Gem Infidels (Glide)
    • “And then there was the latent sexism tainting “Sweetheart Like You” and the otherwise fitting melancholy mood of the closer “Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight,” themes that would belie the self-righteous and accusatory tone of the album title.”
  • Ray Padgett Discusses “Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members (WAMC)
    • “Bob Dylan is reclusive. He almost never gives interviews. When he does, they are both fascinating and dissembling. Half the stuff he says may or may not be true, right? So, it’s kind of an interesting way to look at someone like him.”

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  • How Bob Dylan Blurred the Boundaries Between Literature and Popular Music (Literary Hub)
    • “It documents the time when Dylan was turning away from the expectations of the folk-protest crowd. He was writing pop songs, although he was employing the free-associative methods and collage use of the folk-lyric that had marked his work since the beginning.”
  • Bob Dylan, Danny Kalb, Jeff Chase (Greil Marcus)
    • Excerpt from Mixing Up The Medicine
    • “When Dylan returned to Minneapolis from New York in the spring of 1961, people were shocked at the change. In Martin Scorsese’s 2005 No Direction Home, the Twin Cities harmonica player Tony Glover, who died in 2019, recounts how it was like “Tommy Johnson, Robert Johnson”—“like he’d gone to the crossroads,” made his deal with the devil, came back better than anyone in town ever thought of being.”
  • Mixing Up The Medicine – Book Review (Pt.1) (Dylan.FM)
    • “A book is an interesting part of a solution. It can share huge amounts of information and if done right might combine memorabilia with photos with essays with manuscripts with an organizational structure with introductions and explanations in ways that weave together and make a big and complex story interesting, approachable, and digestible to people with a very wide range of levels of interest. Plus of course it’s easily distributed around the world.”
  • Mixing Up The Medicine – Book Review (Pt.2) (Dylan.FM)
    • “I’ve come to think of Mixing Up The Medicine as a scrapbook built by professionals. In fact, the closest thing to it that Dylan fans might own is something put out in 2005 called “The Bob Dylan Scrapbook 1956 – 1966”.
  • Bob Dylan Center Reveals a Trove of Treasures (Best Classic Bands)
    • “If you can’t make the long trek to Tulsa (it’s worth it), the next best thing is Mixing Up the Medicine, a 608-page, five-pounds-plus book that exhaustively chronicles the contents of his visual and written vault. The giant tome sells for a lofty price tag, (but it’s worth it). The pages are packed with images, lyrics, history and memorabilia. Thirty Dylanologists contribute separate essays, making the book nearly as immersive as the exhibit.”
  • Why a New Book May Be Key to Understanding the Faith of Bob Dylan (MSN)
    • “While Dylan’s embrace of Christianity and subsequent Christian records seemed sudden to the public eye, the new book sheds some light on how Dylan changed over time. One of the book’s editors, Mark Davidson, explained to Fox News, “The surprise of Dylan becoming a Christian and then creating this trilogy of gospel records may seem like sort of like a shocking left turn. … But in the book, we show how those seeds were planted.”
  • Artifacts and Essays Converse to Tell Bob Dylan Story in ‘Mixing Up the Medicine’ (No Depression)
    • “In the book’s final essay, historian Douglas Brinkley captures culture’s enduring fascination with Dylan: “As assuredly as Dylan has been reimagining himself since he recorded the original ‘Song to Woody’ in 1962, future musicians will be forever reinterpreting his timeless standards. Dylan changed the landscape of American popular music by melding his literary vision with folk tradition, blues, gospel, and rock idioms. Wherever Dylan performs live or records in the studio, mysterious music falls from the starry sky.”
  • Mixing Up The Medicine (The Moshville Times)
    • “Ah, the photos. The benefit of having so many sources of imagery is that the whole book comes across as a wonderful scrapbook, nicely eclectic. From posed promo shots, to behind the scenes images, to family photos and scans of setlists, liner notes and lyrics… there is so much variety here that the book just begs to be picked up and flicked through.”
  • Bob Dylan : Mixing Up The Medicine (The Eye of Photography)
    • “Bob Dylan : Mixing Up The Medicine is a career-spanning magnum opus that is the most comprehensive book yet published on the work of Nobel Prize-winning singersongwriter-poet and cultural icon Bob Dylan.”
  • Dylanism (The Rest is Noise)
    • “Anyone who loves Dylan is going to experience similar feelings of discovery all through the book; dozens of pages of drafts are reproduced, with more of Dylan’s serpentine creative process revealed in the essays. A tiny example: in some early lyrics for “Tombstone Blues,” Dylan wrote “complex vibrato” and then replaced it with “useless knowledge.”
  • Bob Dylan Recalls Moment He Met Jesus: ‘I Felt It’ (Movie Guide)
    • “’Slow Train Coming’ is exactly that, the moment of him getting the crucifix, which sets in motion this…embrace of Christianity…He’s recording exclusively gospel music, but these were themes he was exploring long before that cross was thrown on the stage in San Diego. If you look at his drafts written in stationery from hotel rooms, in between or after gigs, it predates that,” Fishel said.”
  • Mixing Up The Medicine Preview (The Boston Harold Podcast)
    • YouTube
  • Dans le secret des archives de Bob Dylan (Le Figaro)
    • <French Language>

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  • Bob Dylan Mosque Theatre Remembered (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “I knew leaving the show that this was a concert unlike any I’d previously attended. The person onstage was looser, funnier and wilder than anyone I’d seen up to that point. What I couldn’t have possibly imagined that night as 12-years-old, was that 50 years later I’d still be going to see him and that I’d still be excited at the end of the night. Back then I couldn’t have imagined seeing anybody more than 100 times.”
  • Bob Dylan Comics (The Drawing Book)
    • “It’s no coincidence that Bob is singing the line, “Her sin is her lifelessness.” It’s a line from a song called Desolation Row, about (among other things) a young woman called Ophelia, who, “on her twenty-second birthday… already is an old maid.” I had just turned twenty-three when I drew this picture, and I wasn’t feeling great.”
  • NET 2017 Pt.3 (Untold Dylan)
    • “In 2017 Dylan was still drawing heavily from Tempest (2012), with five songs regularly played. Before turning to those, however, let’s catch up with a few other regulars. ‘Love Sick’ and ‘To Make You Feel My Love’ are, in this year, the only songs from the groundbreaking Time out of Mind (1997).”
  • Other People’s Songs: Two Soldiers (Untold Dylan)
    • “As for the song, this takes plaintive sadness to such a new level of desperation, I find it hard to take. It’s not that I am unhappy in my world in 2023, it’s just that is so powerful, I’d like to have someone with me to listen to it again, so we could share a few words and recover from the rendition.”
  • The Late Gregg Sutton Remembers Bob Dylan’s 1984 ‘Real Live’ Tour (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
    • “It seemed particularly shocking because, when we spoke over two lengthy phone calls in early October, he seemed so full of life, telling wonderful and funny stories of his time on the road with Dylan. He laughed about shenanigans and mishaps, and went into music-nerd detail about specific shows and songs.”
  • Bob Dylan’s hymns Pt.3: Every Grain, Released and Chimes of Freedom (Untold Dylan)
    • “He adds later, “Some are Born to sweet delight,/ Some are Born to Endless Night.” This Blake lyric elaborates on the wholeness of the world, incorporated in a grain of sand. While containing great sadness and injustice, Blake also embraces the possibility of joy and delight when openly facing this world and all its elements.”
  • Goodbye Jimmy Reed Pt.5 (Untold Dylan)
    • “However, when writing “Goodbye Jimmy Reed” in 2020, Dylan seems to be mainly inspired by the religious component, by the oppressive, narrow-minded fanaticism of the creationists in the village of Hillsboro, the short-sighted reverend and prosecutor Brady.”
  • Goodbye Jimmy Reed Pt.6 (Untold Dylan)
    • “With – coincidentally – yet again religious signifiers in every line (missionary – prayers – cross), but in Dylan’s oeuvre other themes provide motifs just as often. Like “weather conditions” in “Jokerman”, or “traveling” (“Lo And Behold!”), “fairy tales”, “card game”… it is in itself not too surprising that a poetic songwriter, freely associating, allows himself to be carried away on the waves of his stream-of-consciousness while staying within the shores of a chosen theme.”

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