Aug 19 - 25, 2024

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Tour Details

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Outlaw Music Festival — resumes Sept 6th in Somerset WI

Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour — resumes Oct 4th in Prague

  • New Steel Guitar Player REVEALED (Daily Dylan) [5]
    • Rumor: "Greg Leisz is going to be the new steel guitar player in Bob’s band!"
  • Dylan Cancels Appearance in New Hampshire due to 'unforeseen circumstances'
    • The Outlaw Festival date will go on without Bob
  • Music Legends Perform Together for First Time (Times Standard) [3]
    • "“Bob called up Maria Muldaur and got my number, and then the next thing you know, there we are,” Bishop said."

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  • Bob Dylan Recorded Music for Ronald Reagan Biopic (NME) [5]
    • "“I was honoured to have Bob join our film. “We gave him the freedom to do any song he wanted to do, whether an original or a cover, and he chose ‘Don’t Fence Me In.’"
  • Early Word on James Mangold's ‘A Complete Unknown' (World of Reel) [5]
    • "I’ve now spoken to three people who saw James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” and the reactions so far are not that great."
  • ‘A Complete Unknown' Reshoots Currently Underway (World of Reel) [5]
    • "Reshoots have been called on the film and they will probably last for a few weeks. Timothee Chalamet and a “good chunk” of the cast are said to be back on the set in New Jersey for these reshoots."
  • What I Love about Dylan’s Least Favorite Song (The Boston Globe) [5]
    • "It recounts in detail his painful breakup with Rotolo, his first serious girlfriend, whom he fell in love with when he was 20 and she 17."
  • New Dylan Photo (Right) - From about 1953 (Dylan Age 12 or so)
    • Shared by Louis Kemp on Facebook

 

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  • Ask Greil: August 19, 2024 (Letter In The Ether) [5]
    • "I’ll listen to the whole thing, in a row, as I did with the 1966 compendium. I hope the sound isn’t thinned out as it was there, where bootlegs from the UK remain where you have to go to hear what happened."
  • Greeting Fans During a Blackout (Flagging Down) [8]
    • "One poster notes that Dylan bailed pretty quickly when one crazy lady started asking him questions like “Can I give you a makeover?” and “Were you breastfed?” "

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

  • Faith in the Face of Disconfirming Evidence (Brutally Honest Reviews) [8]
    • "But for being a Christian album, there is precious little Christianity in it – Dylan focuses a lot on exhorting us to believe and warning what will happen if we don’t, without really paying much attention to what we are supposed to be believing."
  • Is “False Prophet” About Jesus? (Manifest Propensity) [5]
    • "The overall portrait only makes sense if this person is Jesus, but particularly Jesus in a Christian trinitarian sense wherein Father, Son (Jesus) and Holy Spirit together are somehow (and confusedly so to us mere humans) one God."
  • False Prophet Pt.4: Sing To Me (Untold Dylan) [5]
    • "Not a tight, straight bridge, but still. Preachers, Dylan argues indirectly, bring light into the light. Great songwriters, on the other hand, bring light into darkness, drive out darkness in other words."
  • Slow Train Coming (Subjective Sounds) [3]
    • "Whether you agree with Dylan’s inferred Christian values on Slow Train Coming, or not, there is little doubt that this is musically one of his greatest creative achievements and is one of the greatest albums released in 1979."
  • Dylan Gets His “Preach” On With Slick ‘Slow Train Coming’ (Glide Magazine) [3]
    • "Without the on-stage sermonizing and avoidance of familiar material in the setlists, it’s arguable songs like “When You Gonna Wake Up” world garner so much attention for the didactic lyrics."
  • Dylan & The Band “Forever Young” – Live (Americana UK) [3]
    • "Of course it is Dylan singing to his child, but fifty years on there is a tendency to project the song back onto Dylan, particularly in that live communion, as a wish that the greatest singer-songwriter should remain eternally young and eternally touring."
  • The Double Life of Bob Dylan Pt.11 (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • "One can only assume that Heylin just writes his books and never goes back to re-think what he has said – and thus expects other people to do the same when creating artistic works."

 

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