Aug 26 - Sept 1, 2024

The Week in Bob Dylan

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Tour Details

The Latest on Bob's Live Concerts

  • Outlaw Music Festival — resumes Sept 6th in Somerset WI
  • Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour — resumes Oct 4th in Prague

Top News & Links

Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links

  • Don't Fence Me In - New Dylan Song
    • (Leaked iPhone Recording)
  • Scarlet Rivera on Dylan Dreams: The Fiddler On Her Roots (Hot Press) [5]
    • "The last of her Dylan covers is 'Where Teardrops Fall', one that did make it onto Oh Mercy. It, too, is a dream-song, a celebration of the past and memory, floating into a possible, gentle future."
  • Huckfelt Produces Original Dylan Documentary (KAXE) [5]
    • "Dylan: The North Star is a two-hour documentary funded by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota. Included in the project is music journalist Martin Keller, who interviewed Bob Dylan in 1983 for an unprecedented four-and-a-half-hour interview."
  • Sweetheart Like You (Shadow Chasing) [8]
    • "Dylan in drag would reinforce a recurring pattern where he identifies so closely with a woman that distinctions between them blur and he sees himself reflected in her."
  • Bob Dylan at Massey Hall, 1964-2023 (Flagging Down) [8]
    • "Here are all the times Bob Dylan has played Massey Hall..."

Special Announcement

It turns out The Dylan Article Database (Premium Edition) had a bug and was only displaying the last two months of data. If you're a Paid/Premium member, go check it out it now includes 60 years of over 2500 articles (Not yet comprehensive but growing...) Everyone can access the regular version that does (and is supposed to) include only 60 days of data.

And The Movie Poster dropped

New Articles

Stories from the press

  • Clem Burke's Stories of Dylan and More (Louder Sound) [8]
    • "“Bob was just amazing. It’s no surprise that those people are what they are. I don’t really subscribe to ‘everybody is the same’, because they’re not. There’s a reason that Robert De Niro is Robert De Niro. He’s not like the plumber down the road, he’s fucking Robert De Niro. I mean everybody’s human, but Dylan…”

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

  • The Transformation of “Blood in My Eyes” (Untold Dylan) [3]
    • "Certainly the lyrics are utterly amazing – not in the normal way that we speak about Dylan’s incredible lyrics on songs like “Visions” but amazing in the simplicity of the lyrics. The magic of the song comes from the fact that such limited lyrical material makes such a fantastic and fascinating track."
  • "I'm Not There" - The Sequel (John Nogoswski) [5]
    • A Nice summary of events since the movie's 2007 release.
  • False Prophet (2020) Pt.6 (Untold Dylan) [8]
    • "“If Lovin’ Is Believin’” is the B-side of Billy Emerson’s first single “No Teasing Around” from 1954. The differences from “False Prophet” are minimal, as acclaimed musicologist and Dylanologist Eyolf Østrem points out in his wonderful article “False Prophet” vs. “If Lovin’ is Believin’” – Greedy Plagiarism or Lovin’ Recycling?”
  • The Wildest Bob Dylan Bootleg Covers – Part 3 (Flagging Down) [3]
    • "This is as dumb as it gets, and you’ll probably end up dumber for having read it. Let’s go!"

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