Feb 10 - 16th, 2025
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Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links
- Cold-Calling Bob Dylan (Flagging Down the Double E’s) [10]
- “One was Steve Epstein, who got up onstage at a show in Poughkeepsie a few months prior.”
- University Students Have Bob Dylan Fever (Western Gazette) [8]
- “Dylan’s music is back and as popular as ever since the release of his biopic starring Timothée Chalamet.”
- The Times They Are A Changin’ At Bob Dylan’s Former House In Cairngorms (Strathspey Herald) [5]
- “The new additions will include a cinema, gym, spa treatment rooms, snooker and table tennis room and golf simulator as part of a second floor leisure area.”
- Joan Baez: “I Feel As Though I Found My People When I Came To Ireland And The Troubles” (Hotpress) [8]
- “Seriously, I feel as though I found my people when I came to Ireland and the Troubles.”
- Who Wrote ‘Blowin’ In The Wind’? Not Lorre Wyatt (The Joker and the Thief - Newsletter) [8]
- “Everyone in the town at that time believed, and many people still believe his story – that he was the real writer of ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’.”
- The Songs Bob Wrote And Then Ignored: ‘Abandoned Love’ And ‘Up To Me’ (Untold Dylan) [5]
- “In this little series of articles about songs Bob Dylan put onto an album, but then didn’t play in concert, we have reached the songs from Biograph.”
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New Articles
Stories from the press
- Dave Stewart Recalls His First Meeting With Dylan (MusicRadar) [8]
- “It’s been a long road and these lyrics and melodies have kept me company through the best and the worst of times.”
- Bob Dylan 1965: The Columbia Connection (Columbia Magazine) [10]
- “The year 1965 was a banger for pop: the Beatles played the first large-venue rock concert, at Shea Stadium; the Four Tops and the Rolling Stones scored their first US number-one hits; and Bob Dylan went electric.”
- Like A Rolling Stone, Dylan Returns To Kansas. For Me, He Never Left. (Kansas Reflector) [5]
- “Now 83, Dylan is touring to promote his Rough and Rowdy Ways album, released five years ago.”
- Farm & Food File: ‘Left Wing, Right Wing, Chicken Wing; It’s All The Same To Me’ (Telegraph Herald) [5]
- “Folk singer and songwriter Woody Guthrie is undergoing a welcomed revival with the success of the new Bob Dylan biopic, A Complete Unknown.”
- Hollywood Flashback: Sam Peckinpah Put Bob Dylan Through The Wringer (The Hollywood Reporter) [3]
- “A casual onlooker might have assumed Sam Peckinpah didn’t know who Bob Dylan was when they met during preproduction on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid.”
- Almanac Music: Dylan Cover Songs – Aussie Style: YouTube Missing In Action (Footy Almanac) [5]
- “In this final Dylan Covers – Aussie Style article, I will offer up my wish list of Dylan cover songs by Aussie artists that are missing YouTube song clips.”
- Why Bob Dylan’s Relationship With Irish Folk Music Was A Complex One (The Irish Post) [3]
- “Dylan isn’t the only one to flex his songs and sing them differently.”
- Dylan’s Faith Doesn’t Fit In A Box (The Sun Chronicle) [3]
- “James Mangold’s film captures the elusive quality of Bob Dylan’s religious and spiritual identity, which has undergone many transformations.”
- The Day Pye Records Unveiled The “British Bob Dylan” (Far Out Magazine) [5]
- “The truth is that the movie was always going to struggle with truly showcasing the magnitude of Dylan’s impact as a musician.”
- Like A Rolling Stone: The Song Bob Dylan Has Spent Over Nine Days Playing (Far Out Magazine) [5]
- “By now, 60 years after the song’s release, Dylan has played it live around 2,075 times.”
- The Weberman Tapes: The Strange Tale Of Bob Dylan And His Biggest Fan (Far Out Magazine) [8]
- “It was some morning in 1970. Bob Dylan had only recently moved back to New York City after a few years of being a recluse upstate.”
- Why Dylan Doesn’t Do Interviews (Noise11) [3]
- “So many dickheads have interviewed him over the years that Bob has just given up on the media.”
- Kendall Jenner Is In Her Bob Dylan Era (Vogue) [5]
- “In a departure from her usual clean-girl attire, Jenner is leaning into A Complete Unknown territory.”
New Blog Posts
New from fans and other writers
- Joey Gallo (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]
- “He was not a typical mobster; he had an awareness of things outside the mob, such as philosophy, art, and literature.”
- Bob Dylan’s Instagram Posts Part 2 (Substack) [5]
- “Bob Dylan’s recent Instagram posts reflect his artistic prowess and engagement with deeper meanings and hidden stories.”
- The Artist Who Had An Influence On ‘Every Move’ Bob Dylan Made (Cult Following) [5]
- “Dylan shares in Chronicles just how big an impact Woody Guthrie had left, informing his songwriting and everything around it.”
- Dylan’s ‘Uneasy’ Meeting With Carter (Cult Following) [5]
- “Dylan recounted his first meeting with Carter, recalling how the governor reciting his song lyrics put him at ease.”
New Releases & Reviews
News about new music or reviews
- On This Day In 1964: Bob Dylan Released The Times They Are A-Changin’ (Hotpress) [8]
- “Time hasn’t dimmed its urgency or power.”
- Bob Dylan’s Idiot Wind: Kiss Goodbye To Howlin’ Beasts… (chrisgregory.org) [5]
- “In Idiot Wind, Dylan combines all these methodologies and influences in a new way.”
- Like A Rolling Stone 15: ‘I Had No Idea What The Hell He Was Singing About’ (Untold Dylan) [8]
- ”‘I had no idea what the hell he was singing about,’ Mr. Endo said in a recent Skype interview.”
New Podcasts
The latest episodes focusing on Bob Dylan
- Songs of Experience
- Man of Peace (Matt Simonsen)
- Nothing is Revealed
- Hitchhiking Highway (NEW DYLAN POD)
- Pod Gave Rock & Roll
- The Bad Decisions Podcast
- Take This Pod & Shove It
- Beyond The Skyblue Horizon
- The Overexamined Life
- Commonweatlth Club
- The Greatest Ever
- Great Moments in Weed History
A Complete Unknown
- WTF
- James Mangold (Highly Recommended)
- The Film and Furniture Podcast
- Designing Dylan's World (Recommended)
- Variety Awards Circuit
- The View
- I'll Buy The Popcorn
- A Filmistines Podcast
- The Next Track
- Maximum Film
- Bill & Tony's Excellent Adventure in Music
- ACU
- Primal Screen
- The Fifth Star
- Cini Club
- The Cine-Files
- The Deep Cinema
- The Album Atmosphere
- The Book Review
- Cinema Effect
- Bina007 Movie Reviews
- The Agency
- Missing Frames
- The Wrap Beers
- Elon Jim Turano Captain Podtastic
New on YouTube
The Best New Videos
- New 1980's Dylan Interview (Patrick Crosby)
- Forever Young (Lucinda Williams @ Baez Tribute)
- Farewell Angelina (Rosanne Cash & Joan Baez)
- Restless Farewell - Sinatra's 80th (New Version)
- Dylan in Minnesota (KG Miles & Mark Percansky)
- Randy Newman on Dylan (Bob Costas)
- Rebuilding BobDylan.com
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