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Seven Days: Sept 3 – 16, 2023 (Bonus)

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  • Olof Björner (1942–2023)
    • Peter Stone Brown Archives: “I am very sad to share with you all that Olof passed away last night. He fell asleep quietly and peacefully. He was a good friend and, as you all know, a tireless chronicler of Dylan’s career. He was, though, much more than his appreciation for Dylan’s music. His generosity in sharing his work with others for decades speaks to his love of humanity, which always shown through in his smile.”
    • Dylanology: “One of the great men in the Dylan world has passed away. Casual fans may not have been fully aware of his work and the impact it has had, but I think it’s fair to say that without Olof Björner, the little section of the Internet which is devoted to Bob Dylan, would have looked quite different.”
    • Michael Gray: Posted the lengthy entry on him from the Bob Dylan Encyclopedia.
  • Len Chandler, Musician Who Performed Alongside Bob Dylan, Dead at 88 (Parade)
    • “Chandler previously sang alongside Dylan, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and more stars at civil rights marches and anti-war protests, including the 1964 March on Washington.”
  • Bob Dylan Center plans gala weekend for ‘Medicine’ release (Tulsa World)
    • “The weekend will also feature a number of live performances by artists such as Sarah Lee Guthrie, daughter of folk music legend Arlo Guthrie, who will perform with her trio Oct. 20 at the Woody Guthrie Theater; and Hurrah for the Riff Raff, with opening act Bedouine, performing Oct. 21 at the Cain’s Ballroom.”
  • Heaven’s Door VIP Experience Giveaway (Men’s Journal)
    • ENTER TO WIN – 3 day, 2 night trip for 2 to Pleasureville, Kentucky / VIP guided tour of Heaven’s Door Distillery on bourbon trail + meet Heaven’s Door master distiller.
  • Tales from Oxnard’s Teatro: Shooting pool with Bob Dylan (VC Star)
    • “Sometime in 1995, Mark Howard, a recording engineer who worked frequently with the producer Daniel Lanois, was on a road trip from a meeting in Los Angeles to his home in San Francisco. On his way through downtown Oxnard, he passed an old movie theater with “Teatro” on the marquee and a “for lease” sign in the window.”
  • Celebrating 100 years of the Historic Hibbing High School auditorium (WDIO)
    • “When the school was originally built in 1920, the cost of the building was roughly $3,900,000. Today it would cost over $50 million to replace.”
  • Dylan’s Highlands Mansion Sold (Daily Record)
    • “Bob Dylan has sold his Highland estate after it was put on the market for more than £3m.”
  • Dylan Inducted Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame
    • “Solo Living Artist – Bob Dylan”
  • McConaughey Had A Dream Of Bob Dylan (Fatherly)
    • “I woke up at 2:30 in the morning and wrote it all down, and I thought, in my mind, it was a Bob Dylan song! So I wrote it and sorta said in that style of Dylan. And it rhymed, and it had the little simple lilt.”
  • Bob Dylan’s Ionic Discs: A Sound Evolution at Christie’s (Salon Privé)
    • “These extraordinary, recently recorded Dylan tracks, produced during exclusive studio sessions with the multi-Grammy award-winning producer T Bone Burnett, are the second, third, and fourth recordings ever to harness the revolutionary Ionic technology developed by Burnett’s company, NeoFidelity, Inc.”
  • Three Bob Dylan Re-Recordings to Go Up for Private Sale Via Christie’s (Variety)
    • ” Bob Dylan has made of his classic songs with producer T Bone Burnett are also now being put up for sale via Christie’s: “A Simple Twist of Fate,” “Masters of War” and “Gotta Serve Somebody.” But this time, the purchase of the unique discs containing the songs will happen via a private sale, rather than a public auction.”
  • Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis Names 10 guitarists Who Shaped His Sound (Guitar World)
    • “”I’ve always liked Bob Dylan as a guitar player. As far as acoustic stuff goes, Bob is very underrated as a player. His rhythm playing, the sound he got, the way he can accompany himself, and his strumming are all very cool. He’s obviously not much of an influence on me as an electric guitar player, but Bob Dylan definitely influences me on the acoustic side.”

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  • Live Never Seen 1993 (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
    • A series of posts with amazing new live bootleg concert recordings.
  • Dear Mrs Roosevelt (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “On January 20, 1968, Bob Dylan stepped onto a stage and played before an audience for the first time since May 27, 1966, the final stop of his world tour at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The stage was that of Carnegie Hall, where Dylan had last appeared in October of 1965, his last appearance in New York City.”
  • This Wheel Shall Explode! (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “Dylan’s version of “This Wheel’s On Fire” was a revelation. It was slower than the other version set to a sort of ominous marching beat. It was scary the way Robert Johnson’s “Hellhound On My Trail” is scary, as if he’d been separated from time and space, almost a voice coming from the skies.”
  • Bob Dylan and the Royal Canal (Peter Stone Brown Archives)
    • “Bob Dylan probably learned “Royal Canal” from either Liam Clancy or Ian and Sylvia. He was friends with both, and the latter’s Four Strong Winds album also included the first cover of his song “Tomorrow Is A Long Time.” It is also quite possible that Dylan as I did heard Behan’s album somewhere along the line as well.”
  • BROWNSVILLE GIRL: If There’s An Original Thought Out There…  (Chris Gregory)
    • “Brownsville Girl is an extraordinarily experimental song which is a unique amalgam of lyrical, cinematic and theatrical elements. Its use of fractured internal and external narratives and time frames links it to earlier songs like Tangled Up in Blue and Visions of Johanna. But it uses language in a very different way.”
  • Bob Dylan, Harvard Square, 1963 (All Your Days)
    • “When Dylan performed the song that day, the reel-to-reel in the basement of Club 47 captured it all. And though the tape has never been available to the public, about ten years ago, it was restored and transferred to digital by audio experts at Harvard University.”
  • I Contain Multitudes Pt. 18: Thou art at last—just what thou art (Untold Dylan)
    • “Dylan and Heisenberg are kindred spirits. His “philosophical treatise” The Philosophy Of Modern Song (2022), his autobiography Chronicles (2004), and interviews over the decades show that it continues to fascinate him – the inadequacy of language, the pitfalls of ambiguity and its mysterious camouflage capacities.”
  • The Never Ending Tour – Extended (Untold Dylan)
    • “Delving a little further and comparing some of the recordings from the Never Ending Tour, based on the comprehensive NET series by Mike Johnson.”
  • Other People’s Songs: Blackjack Davey (Untold Dylan)
    • “In this ballad, a lady abandons her husband and children to go with the gypsy. She is pursued by her husband, but refuses to return home, preferring the life with her new found love.”
  • Lyrics and Music: Gates of Eden (Untold Dylan)
    • “What happens is that the third line stands alone – different melody, different chords. And then the fourth line then is repeated at the end of each verse – there is no attempt at rhyme for the last two lines and although the fourth line varies, it always ends “of Eden” – which gives us that anchor point before we venture into the uncertainty of each new verse.”
  • Dylan Covers: Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again (Untold Dylan)
    • The North Mississippi All Stars take a different route through the melody, and a very effective one it is.  What we’ve got is a new song using the old lyrics, and those two chorus lines.  It is harder to do than you might think – or rather it harder to do well.  Quite an extraordinary video too – I don’t know the city so it took me completely by surprise.”
  • Other People’s Songs: The Usual (Untold Dylan)
    • “The Usual was written by John Hiatt, and appeared as the opening track on his 1985 album Warming Up to the Ice Age.”
  • A Dylan Cover a Day: Standing in the Doorway (Untold Dylan)
    • “Jenny Lewis places all the emphasis, in contrast, on the beautiful melody and the exquisite lyrics of pain, torment, despair and to a degree hope.  There is of course the opportunity for the guitarist to overdo his part when we get to “I’m strummin’ on my gay guitar Smokin’ a cheap cigar” and yes that doesn’t help to my ear, but it is an interesting arrangement.”
  • Music and Lyrics: Foot of Pride (Untold Dylan)
    • ““Foot of Pride” is quite a problematic piece to tackle in terms of this series of articles on the music AND the lyrics.  After all, the music that we have consists of a non-changing beat, guitar parts that only marginally change as the piece continues, and chord changes based on the traditional 12 bar blues with a couple of extra chords added into the “no going back” chorus at the end of each verse.”
  • Work Covers Black love, Music of Bob Dylan and Chinese Literature (uChicago)
    • “While Rings did not begin as a Dylan fanatic, he admits to becoming one over the course of his research, intrigued with Dylan’s ever-changing music and his encyclopedic knowledge of styles and genres. Rings wants his forthcoming book “Sounding Bob Dylan: Music in the Imperfect Tense” and its accompanying website, with recordings of Dylan’s music, many of them bootlegs, to provide a more complete portrait of the artist.”

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  • Bob Dylan’s next archive release is… (Uncut)
    • “The deluxe box set celebrates Dylan’s 1978 world concert tour and the 45th anniversary of hisfirst concert appearances in Japan. The Complete Budokan 1978 presents two full shows originally recorded on 24-channel multitrack analog tapes at Tokyo’s Nippon Budokan Hall on February 28 and March 1, 1978.”
  • Joan Baez Gets Personal in New Documentary “I Am a Noise” (American Songwriter)
    • “Folk icon Joan Baez has a new documentary dedicated to her life called Joan Baez: I Am a Noise, set to hit screens in New York on October 6. In the new trailer for the film, Baez recalls her 60-year career along with the challenges that came with it, including the deterioration of her mental health.”
  • Cat Power Announces Live Bob Dylan Album / Los Angeles Shows (Brooklyn Vegan)
    • “Cat Power announced a new live cover album, Cat Power Sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert, due out on November 10 via Domino.”
  • Bob Dylan Book, With Deep Dive Into His Archives, Gets Companion Album (Best Classic Bands)
    • “The centerpiece of Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine is a carefully curated selection of nearly 1000 images including never-before-circulated draft lyrics, writings, photographs, drawings and other ephemera from the Dylan archive.”
  • Hear the New Jimmy Buffett Song (Rolling Stone)
    • “Equal Strain on All Parts features guest appearances by Paul McCartney, Emmylou Harris (on a version of Bob Dylan’s “Mozambique,” which Harris originally sang on)…”
  • An Open Letter from Clinton Heylin (Route)
    • “What I delivered was exactly what I said I would deliver. Before I wrote a word, I told US editor #3 it would be 300,000 words and if that was too long, to tell me now and we’d go our separate ways. I gave him an out. He insisted he wanted to see it. The book I delivered was 299,726 words.”

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