Seven Days: February 17 – 23rd, 2025

Feb 17 - 23rd, 2025

The Week in Bob Dylan

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Tour Details

The Latest on Bob's Live Concerts

NEW Spring & Summer Tours (ALL DATES ON SALE)

Rough and Rowdy Ways (2025)
- 20 Shows: March 25 - April 22 (details)
- Midwest USA: 14 States from Tulsa to Minnesota to Pennsylvania
Outlaw Music Festival (2025) (tour info)
- 34 Shows: May 13 - Sept 19 (details)
- Across the USA: 21 States in the West, Midwest, and East

Special Announcement

A Special Edition on 'A Complete Unknown' is coming out later this week to celebrate the streaming availability.

New Articles

Stories from the press

Chalamet’s Reaction To His Big 2025 SAG Awards (Screen Rant) [3]
- “Timothée Chalamet’s startled reaction to his 2025 SAG Award win for A Complete Unknown highlights one of the harshest realities about the film industry and awards shows.”
The Genesis Of Bob Dylan, Part 1 (Weekly View) [8]
- “Even though it happened 57 years prior, Dylan remembered the experience of standing a few feet away and making eye contact with Holly like it was yesterday.”
The Myth Of The Solitary Genius Of Dylan And Shakespeare (Folger Shakespeare Library) [8]
- “The film ‘A Complete Unknown’ depicts Dylan as an isolated loner, ultimately leaving the character unchanged from the beginning of the movie to the end.”
Dylan’s Lost Chicago Month Set Him On A History-Changing Path (WBEZ) [5]
- ”‘A Complete Unknown,’ which is nominated for eight Oscars, including Best Picture and a Best Actor nod for Timothée Chalamet, documents Bob Dylan’s origin story in New York.”
Tom Rush: Reflections Of Bob Dylan (What’s Up Newp) [5]
- “We talk about those years, his impressions (and stories) of Bob Dylan, of promising young singer/writers, many of whom he spotlights on his Rockport Sundays.”
Bryan Ferry: Bob Dylan Wrote Songs “Singers Love To Sing” (Clash Music) [5]
- “Great songs, great words, that singers love to sing.”
Richard Prince Exhibition - A Trio Of Large-Scale Dylan Paintings (FAD Magazine) [5]
- “The three striking ten-foot-square paintings on view in Beverly Hills…”
Folk, Pop And Agit-Prop: Baez, Dylan And Seeger (The Hollywood Reporter) [5]
- “Dylan’s farewell to the folk club is set in relief against the sympathies of two kindred and soon-to-be subaltern performers in his orbit: Pete Seeger and Joan Baez.”
God Bless The Grass In New York And Ireland, And Spring’s Busy Awakening (The Irish News) [5]
- “Reflecting on this very enjoyable snapshot of Dylan’s burgeoning career, I was drawn to the songs and music of one of his earliest supporters, Pete Seeger.”
Drawing From Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons In Mortality (The New York Times) [5]
- “Ordinarily, the actor-writer-musician Todd Almond is a pretty unflappable stage presence. But normal rules do not apply when you discover at intermission that Bob Dylan is in the audience.”
The Tulsa Center Bob Dylan Fans Won’t Want To Miss (Trip Well Gal) [5]
- “I confess – I wasn’t always a big Bob Dylan fan but that changed during a chance encounter at the Tulsa Center Bob Dylan selected for his archives.”
Catching Up With…Tim Olsen (Union College) [5]
- “Bob Dylan’s ‘You Ain’t Going Nowhere’ certainly doesn’t apply to fellow Minnesotan Tim Olsen, born 20 years after the legendary folk artist.”
Folk Singer Paul Clayton Was A Mentor To Dylan And A WBSM Host (WBSM) [3]
- “Paul Clayton arrived on the folk music scene before Bob Dylan and in fact taught the ‘unwashed vagabond’ a few tricks of the trade.”
Andrea Pappas At Symposium In Venice (Santa Clara University) [5]
- “Her paper elucidated Raeben’s position in Jewish social and artist networks in the New York art world in the 1930s.”

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

Lenny Kaye’s Opening Act Tour Diary (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]
- “In 1998, Patti Smith and Her Band opened for Bob Dylan and His Band.”
Daughter Takes Dad To Dylan Concert (Substack) [8]
- “When my daughter Liz, then a junior at Binghamton University, called about six weeks ago to say that Dylan was performing on her campus Nov. 17, I jumped at her invitation.”
I Was So Much Older Then, I’m Younger Than That Now (Reformed Journal) [8]
- “People may be surprised to learn that Bob Dylan’s first number one hit on the Billboard charts came during COVID.”
Those Irreplaceable Replacements (Substack) [8]
- “Apparently, you don’t sorta like The Replacements. Which, I think, is a testament to a band that did what it wanted when it wanted.”
Meet Your New Favorite Band: Inhaler (Coog Radio) [5]
- With their third album ‘Open Wide’ releasing very soon, this is the perfect time to dive into their discography.”
Bob Dylan En Español: Covers Of Dylan Songs In “The Loving Tongue” (Cuba On Record) [5]
- “I was imprinted with early Dylan songs when I was a girl, and I love them for what they are and for the many things they represent to me.”
What Bob Dylan Means To Me (2013) (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [5]
- “How Bob Dylan provided the roadmap to the soundtrack of my life.”
Klipschutz’s Top 10 Bob Dylan Non-Album Tracks (Poetic Justice) [5]
- “Bob Dylan is well recognized as perhaps the most poetic songwriter of our times, so we thought we should ask a poet for some advice.”
I Don’t Love Nobody (Substack) [5]
- “Bob Dylan is mirroring my manuscript on Instagram because ‘I Don’t Love Nobody’ tells the hidden story about the poetics of his last album, Rough and Rowdy Ways.”
Bobdolatry Or, When Praise Becomes Meaningless (Substack) [5]
- “What I’m saying here is, these, and many others, are our great songwriters. To put one over another denigrates the one under and falsely elevates the other.”
Bob Dylan’s Instagram Posts Part 3A (Substack) [5]
- “I’m discovering that it’s hard to concentrate on much else when Bob Dylan is messing with you.”
Non-Threatening Boys*: Timmy Goes Electric! (Substack) [5]
- “What a fitting vessel for Timothée Chalamet found in Bob Dylan.”
Aaron Neville Sings Bob Dylan’s ‘Shooting Star’ And Other Songs (The Joker And The Thief - Newsletter) [5]
- “Dylan said, ‘I could always imagine him singing that song.’”
Like A Rolling Stone (1965) Part 16: Beauty In Sound (Untold Dylan) [5]
- “Dylan’s lyrics are poetic and multi-layered. Isn’t it fundamentally difficult to translate them?”
Dylanology (Anderson Valley Advertiser) [3]
- “In short, as Ginsberg wrote in the liner notes to Desire, Dylan has periodically returned to writing ‘songs of redemption.’”

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

As Dylan Basks, Baez Protests: Inside Her Star-Studded Charity Concert (The Daily Californian) [8]
- “Few living artists can conjure up such vivid images of the intoxicating excitement of the 1960s Free Speech and anti-war movements as Joan Baez.”
Nihilistic, Anarchic, Repugnant: Sam Peckinpah’s 10 Best Films – Ranked (The Guardian) [5]
- “The revered but divisive American director, who died in 1984, would have turned 100 this week.”
Coming From The Heart Review (Cult Following) [8]
- “Coming from the Heart has the look of an essential piece for those wanting another slice of late-1970s Bob Dylan.”
I’ll Keep It With Mine – Non-Album Tracks (1964) Review (Cult Following) [8]
- “Even a passing fan of Bob Dylan will know just how many songs he has.”
This World Can’t Stand Long Review (Cult Following) [5]
- “A wider context piles on. This is as strong and immovable a song as ‘Masters of War’ or ‘Tramp Down the Dirt.’”
Rolling Thunder Rarities, Part 1 (1975) Review (Cult Following) [3]
- “Rolling Thunder Rarities, Part 1 is filled with what you would expect: rare cuts from the time.”