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Seven Days: Oct 8 – 14, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Dylan Gravitates Toward City References, Debuts and Bust Outs (Jam Bands)
    • “Over the weekend, Bob Dylan pulled out a cover of The Nick Gravenites John Cipollina Band’s “Born in Chicago” during his Windy City performance. At the end of the night, he added a live debut of Muddy Waters’ “Forty Days and Forty Nights,” which was recorded in Chicago in 1956. Recently, the musical bard has been cleverly placing a song with a city’s name in its title at the start of his set, forging a thoughtful connection between the selection of material, the artist and his audience.”
  • Bob Dylan in Chicago (Second Hand Thoughts)
    • “I think Dylan’s concerts – static set list and all – serve a similar social function as religious ceremonies: it is a secular ritual and the audience is a congregation. Rituals bring us into harmony with other people, they also offer contexts where we can coordinate with others independent of our social and political values.”
  • Bob Dylan Is Mixing Up His Setlist to Honor Local Heroes in Every City He Hits (Rolling Stone)
    • “But when the tour headed to St. Louis on October 4, he honored local legend Chuck Berry by opening with “Johnny B. Goode” and closing with “Nadine.”
  • Dylan Debut Songs From Blues Greats In Chicago (Jambase)
    • “The weekend saw the legendary singer-songwriter continuing to honor greats associated with the cities he’s rolled through on the 2023 fall leg of his Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour with premieres of songs from blues legends Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf along with a debut cover of Nick Gravenites’ “Born In Chicago.”

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  • Sinead O’Connor Artist Badge Worn at Bob Dylan Concert Goes Under Hammer (Irish News)
    • “Sinead O’Connor’s access-all-areas personal artist credentials/badge laminate worn on stage during her performance at a Bob Dylan anniversary concert is to be sold at auction.”
  • How Bob Dylan Saved a Minneapolis Theater (Travel Mole)
    • “A lesser-known Minneapolis-Dylan fact: the historic Hennepin Avenue theatre could’ve been lost to demolition in the late 1970s if not for Dylan’s help. He purchased the theater in time for a reopening on July 3, 1979, with the three-week run of the National Touring Company of “A Chorus Line.”
  • One Of Bob Dylan’s Biggest Singles Is Still Hitting New Billboard Charts 50 Years On (Forbes)
    • “Dylan’s “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” debuts on the Rock Digital Song Sales chart this week. The tune comes in at No. 20 on the 25-rung tally that ranks the bestselling rock tracks in America.”
  • When Bob Dylan Won the Nobel Prize for Literature (Best Classic Bands)
    • “Bob Dylan, often called the spokesman for a generation, was a surprising, but worthy choice, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 13, 2016, “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” Two months later, the then-75-year-old singer-songwriter ended up not attending his own ceremony.”
  • Photo Diary: Bob Dylan Center, Tulsa (Daily Kos)
    • “Today, the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa OK is the archives and repository for over 100,000 items from Dylan’s life, including letters, hand-written lyrics, musical instruments, and photographs. Fittingly, it is located next to the Woody Guthrie archives.”
  • Who’s That Girl (7th Ave, 1963) (Maggies Farm EU)
    • “The mysterious woman in the photo and incorrectly identified as Karen Dalton was Eva Hesse, (Düsseldorf, 11 January 1936 – New York, 29 May 1970), an american sculptor of German origin, known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiber glass and plastic. She is one of the artists who inaugurated the postminimalist art movement in the 1960s. In October 1969 she was diagnosed with a brain tumor and she died on Friday 29 May 1970.”

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  • Peggi Blu on Singing with (and Cooking for) Bob Dylan (Flagging Down Double E’s)
    • “But she logged more studio time with him, singing backing vocals on Empire Burlesque, Knocked Out Loaded, and Down in the Groove. And, it turns out, even more time “off the clock.” She was close friends with Carolyn Dennis, Dylan’s backup-singer-turned-wife. Indeed, she was one of the few people who knew about their marriage at the time.”
  • Bob, Buddy Holly and Time Out of Mind (Muddy Water)
    • “Bob Dylan has long been haunted by the ghost of Buddy Holly. As a young man in Duluth, Dylan was affected by Holly’s death in such a way that it branded him with his first jarring sense of mortality. “I was burned with death all around me,” Dylan said in 1965 of those early years in Duluth, after Holly’s plane crash.”
  • The Al Kooper Interview (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “At that point in my life, it was no big deal to play with Bob, and so I sat back and kind of watched all the other people get that buzz. I enjoyed it for that reason. I was very comfortable. Bob and I had become like really good friends, we understand each other perfectly well.”
  • The Never Ending Tour: 2017 Pt.1 (Untold Dylan)
    • “It was in 2017 that another chapter was written in the extraordinary evolution of perhaps the greatest of all NET songs, ‘Tangled Up in Blue.’ The last major change in this song was in 2014 when Dylan presented a cut-back version with completely new lyrics for the final two verses.”
  • NET 2016 Pt. 3 – Enter the Nobel Laureate (Untold Dylan)
    • “We could go deeper into this and consider attitudes to permanence and impermanence, a fixed versus a shapeshifting view of reality and how that might affect the construction of the lyrics themselves, but that will have to wait for another occasion. For the moment let’s turn to some final performances from 2016, starting with what I have called a deadly little ballad ‘Soon After Midnight,’ a fixture in the Setlist that would remain through to 2019.”
  • NET Extended: Blind Willie McTell 1997 to 2006 (Untold Dylan)
    • “We come to Blind Willie McTell.  This was performed between 1997 and 2017, during which time Bob and the band played it 226 times.  But as we can hear in the following four recordings made between 1997 and 2006 there was a clear progression in the way Bob and the band explored the song; a searching to see what exactly was there and what it could be made to reveal.”
  • Cover a Day 142: Tears of Rage (Untold Dylan)
    • “Coming back to it after many years I’m struck by how much of this original version I have forgotten. It really is a truly remarkable song – made all the more so because the music does things that we wouldn’t expect from Bob. What makes the song so unusual is that the music (not being written by Bob) modulates, changing from G major temporarily to B, and then quickly back again. Really, that’s not Bob at all.”
  • Bob Dylan, Jack White, Ball & Biscuit (Untold Dylan)
    • “Technically in classical western music there are three basic scales in terms of form (major, harmonic minor and melodic minor). There is also a pentatonic scale which takes the five black notes of the piano keyboard and makes a scale out of them, but because the pentatonic scale doesn’t have the variety that the major and minor scales do, it is not generally considered one of the basic scales on which classical, pop and rock music are all built.”
  • Goodbye Jimmy Reed (2020) Pt.3: An amazing ability (Untold Dylan)
    • “Like Dylan himself, this narrator is good at keeping things vague – he does suggest that he shares intimate information, but then does not tell, say, 125 Hyndford Street or 87 Randolph Street, but limits himself to a somewhat anonymous designation. His home is in a (former) Catholic neighbourhood, that’s about all the information he is willing to share.”

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  • ‘The Last Waltz’ Returns to Theaters for 45th Anniversary (Variety)
    • “Scorsese’s adoration of Robbie is noticeable throughout the film. Robertson is the author of the songs and he’s also the handsome guitarslinger that the camera loves. For Scorsese to shoot past his greatest visual asset and the genius behind that songbook would have been foolish.”
  • A Life in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus (Against Gray)
    • “Living legend of American music and cultural journalism, Greil Marcus tells the story of Bob Dylan through six of his original songs and one cover of a folk song. It presents the artist’s sixty years of work and its roots in American folk music and history, and also explores Dylan’s enormous influence on the world art scene.”
  • Untold Stories of “Blood in the Tracks”: A Review of the Book That Uncovers the Minnesota Musicians Behind Bob Dylan (New City. Lit)
    • “The core of the book is the two chapters that put you in the room for the magical sessions, which took place on December 27 and 30. At least four of the six, though young, were already deeply accomplished pros by this time; all were gifted. These guys were friends who’d played together in multiple permutations for years. They were friends with Dylan’s brother, David Zimmerman, the organizer of the project—he was even acting as Odegard’s manager.”
  • Looking Back at Nashville Skyline (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “A lot of people were wondering what happened to Bob’s voice, as it had turned from well, Bob’s voice into this smooth, crooning baritone or something. Now some people, myself included, had already been through that shock a month or so before when National Educational Television aired the documentary, Johnny Cash, the Man & His Music. Midway through the film, a gum chewing Bob Dylan suddenly appears behind a barricade of microphones and let loose with that voice on the second verse of “One Too Many Mornings,” causing Dylan fans everywhere to say, what the hell was that?”
  • Diamonds From the Deepest Ocean : Bob Dylan | Peco’s Blues (Aquarium Drunkard)
    • “Most of the soundtrack LP was recorded a month later, in February 1973, at two sessions on a soundstage in Burbank, California. By then, Dylan was finished with filming and had the opportunity to gather a more simpatico group of musicians, including Jim Keltner and Bruce Langhorne, Roger McGuinn and Byron Berline.”
  • Review: GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY (Broadway World)
    • “Girl From The North Country” is a stellar production, blending a captivating narrative, outstanding musicality, and a stellar cast. I wholeheartedly recommend experiencing this extraordinary show.”
  • Review: Bob Dylan jukebox musical ‘Girl from the North Country’ is a grim dud (TwinCities Pioneer Press)
    • “To be sure, there are aspects of the production worth admiring. Its often creative staging offers some visual delights, and the cast excels at singing songs familiar to Dylan fans around the world. Beyond that, however, it’s puzzling that the pandemic-interrupted Broadway run earned such rave reviews.”

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