Aug 21 - 27, 2024
The Week in Bob Dylan
Tour Details
The Latest on Bob's Live Concerts
Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour
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- This Week: Stuttgart GY, Saarbrucken GY, Paris FR
- Next Week: Esch-sur-Alzette Lux, Antwerp BG, Bournmouth UK, Liverpool UK
- Tour Schedule | Setlists | BobServe.com
News/Reviews
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue in Stuttgart (Cohenpedia) [5]
- "But Dylan’s vocals, which are much too quiet or badly controlled, don’t sound well mixed, which unfortunately doesn’t improve much in the course of the concert. A circumstance that apparently animates Dylan to less nuance, especially in the quiet songs."
- Watching The River Flow in Saarbrücken (Cohenpedia) [5]
- "When he tries to express the slightest gradations, to make imperceptible differences perceptible and to alternately distinguish, strengthen or diminish his voice, he gives even more expression to the spoken word, sometimes sung or 'crooned'."
- Dylan, in majesty in Paris (DayFREuro) [5]
- "Never being where you expect him to be. And especially not on the same ground as the previous time… Last night in Paris, Bob Dylan did not renounce his principles."
- Bob Dylan delights Paris (Le Monde) [3]
- "PAYWALL - There was no encore, on Thursday, October 24, not even for his comeback to the great concert hall of La Seine musicale, on the Ile Seguin, in the western Paris suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt."
- Storyteller in Action!” – Bob Dylan in Paris, 24th of October 2024 (JohnnyBorganBlog) [8]
- "No, I’m not saying this was the best show I’ve seen, but it was unique and it was different, for me, because I could SEE the working man telling his story, I could SEE how important it was, the whole night, to lean in and really tell us the story, not just by singing the song."
- Dylan in Paris, 25th of October, 2024 (JohnnyBorganBlog) [8]
- "His eyes are still blue, and he is still searching for the great beyond of great poetry, beyond the horizon line, beyond what is possible to know and to say, and he still asks himself what Julius Cæsar would do."
- Two Nights in Paris (Flagging Down The Double E's) [8]
- "On the opening night, he sings softly and with care, considering each line with attention. But perhaps tonight this tenderness is at the cost of the fire and brimstone that often fills Dylan’s best vocal performances."
Top News & Links
Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links
- Dylan surrounded by 'parties all night' as he books into same hotel as Frankfurt Book Fair (The Bookseller) [3]
- "He posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he was at 'the hotel in Frankfurt' while a 'publishing convention' was taking place. He noted that 'every room' in the hotel was booked and that there were parties being held 'all night.'"
- Joan Baez Enters Several Charts for The First Time (Forbes) [1]
- "“Diamonds & Rust” debuts at No. 56 on this week’s Official Singles Downloads chart in the U.K. The same track is new on the Official Singles Sales list at No. 61."
- Mickey Raphael Talks Playing Harmonica with Dylan (Flagging Down The Double E's) [10]
- "It wasn’t like I even focused on the audience. I’m playing it for him, basically. It could have just been he and I in a room. That’s all I focused on, what he was doing."
Special Announcement
There are no special announcements this week.
New Articles
Stories from the press
- Dylan surrounded by 'parties all night' as he books into same hotel as Frankfurt Book Fair (The Bookseller) [3]
- "He posted on X (formerly Twitter) that he was at 'the hotel in Frankfurt' while a 'publishing convention' was taking place. He noted that 'every room' in the hotel was booked and that there were parties being held 'all night.'"
- Dylan Accidentally Visited the World’s Largest Publishing Trade Fair (Literary Hub) [3]
- "The tweet is just jammed with wonderful details..."
- In Praise of Dylan's Cryptic Tweets (GQ) [3]
- "So far, his tweets are less misleading: all the anecdotes line up, date-wise. But they don’t really make Dylan less mysterious. Being only small fragments of disclosure about his life, they tend to prompt more questions than they answer."
- Joan Baez Enters Several Charts for The First Time (Forbes) [1]
- "“Diamonds & Rust” debuts at No. 56 on this week’s Official Singles Downloads chart in the U.K. The same track is new on the Official Singles Sales list at No. 61."
- Journalism School Offers Course on Bob Dylan (The Daily Mississippian) [3]
- "The School of Journalism and New Media is launching a new Journalism 350 course that takes a deep dive into the history and culture of the South through legendary songwriter Bob Dylan’s work."
- Hey, when are you going to sell me that ’64 Jazzmaster? (Guitar World) [5]
- "Cut to show four and Bob asks, ‘Why ain’t you boys playing Sweet Marie?’"
- A Rare-Book Dealer Tries to Rewrite His Own Ending (The New Yorker) [3]
- "He sold the archives of Gabriel García Márquez, J. M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, and Bob Dylan."
- Bob Dylan was an endearing young scallywag!’ - Barbara Dane (The Guardian) [5]
- "A Dylan blurb graces the cover of her 2022 autobiography: 'Barbara is someone who is willing to follow her conscience. She is, if the term must be used, a hero.'"
- Charles Lloyd talks about Bob Dylan (Star Tribune) [3]
- "Bob wanted me to record on 'John Wesley Harding,' but I didn’t think he needed me. I often visited him and the Band up in Woodstock — we were all friends.
New Blog Posts
New from fans and other writers
- Dylan Revisited: Blonde on Blonde (1966) - part 2 (Dylan.FM) [8]
- "The man who most helped to mix this musical cocktail was Charlie McCoy, who directed Rainy Day Woman’s impulsive brass section and made another unique horn-based contribution to Blonde on Blonde."
- 5 Surprising Facts About Bob Dylan’s ‘Highway 61 Revisited’ (That Eric Alper) [3]
- "Bob Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited is widely regarded as one of the greatest albums of all time, but there are plenty of lesser-known details about its creation and legacy."
- Breaking Down Bob Dylan's Harmonica Solos (Flagging Down The Double E's) [5]
- "So today I wanted to celebrate one of Dylan’s wildest harmonica tours by showcasing every different song he played it on over those two months in Fall 2001."
- False Prophet - Pt.14 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "The Prophet’s elusiveness is not lifted in this last verse either. Indeed, with I’m nobody’s bride, the narrator suddenly insinuates that he is female – or at least genderless, anyway."
- Mickey Raphael Talks Playing Harmonica with Dylan (Flagging Down The Double E's) [10]
- "It wasn’t like I even focused on the audience. I’m playing it for him, basically. It could have just been he and I in a room. That’s all I focused on, what he was doing."
New Releases & Reviews
News about new music or reviews
- Better Than Jail
- Margo Price Covers Hurricane
- Lucas Nelson covers I Shall Be Released
- The 1974 Live Recordings (Uncut) [5]
- "Never again would an audience’s expectations take precedence over his own instincts. It’s worth the investment to hear him reaching that career-redefining conclusion, on which so much further controversy would hang."
- The 1974 Live Recordings (Under The Radar) [3]
- "The opportunity to aurally join Dylan and The Band for dozens of 1974 shows and to track the tour’s performance evolution over every single surviving soundboard recording is a jaw-dropping treat that would have been unimaginable in earlier years."
- The Double Life of Bob Dylan: vol 2 (Pt.1) (Untold Dylan) [3]
- "It is quite extraordinary that having spent the entire first volume of his two volume epic on Dylan, that Clinton Heylin opens volume two 'Far Away from Myself' with a review of how drugs can change a person."
- Dylan & Us: Beyond America (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "A clear understanding of Dylan’s art also necessitates some general observations regarding the traditional love song and its global appeal."
New Podcasts
The latest episodes focusing on Bob Dylan
- The Dylantantes
- Nothing is Revealed
- Elegant Ramblings
- What About Bob (Catalog Sale)
- Medicine Via myPod
- Dylan's Journey Through Creativity (Spotify)
- The Bourbon Daily
- Checkin' in With Hein & Johnny
- The Agency
- Headful of Ideas
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- Nov 14 (London UK) Ten Rare Objects
- Nov 17 (Tavistock UK) Tribute to Joni & Bob
- Nov 12 (Belfast IR) Dylan's Greatest Rejected Tracks
- Dec 25 (United States) A Complete Unknown Movie Opening
- Jan 17 (UK/Europe) A Complete Unknown Movie Opening
- Jan 23 (Australia) A Complete Unknown Movie Opening
- Jan 21 (New York) Mary Lee's Corvette - BOTT
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