Seven Days: July 8 - 14, 2024
The Week in Bob Dylan
Tour Details
The Latest on Bob's Live Concerts
- Dylan On Tour
- 27 Shows (June 21 - Sept 17)
- 11 Done / 16 Remaining
- Dates/Setlists | Details | BobServe.com | Setlist Summary
- Tour Resumes July 29 in Chula Vista CA
Top News & Links
Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links
- The 1974 Live Live Recordings (Available Sept 20th)
- 27 Disk Deluxe Box ft. all 1974 tour soundboard recordings
- 431 tracks / extensive liner notes / unseen photographs
- Official Press Release
- Order at Amazon
- Third Man Records 3-LP Vinyl 'Best of' Collection (Vault #61)
- Forever Young - Sample Song Released from New Box
- Press
Articles
- Mavis Staples Children's Book Giveaway at Dylan and Guthrie Centers. (BWST) [3]
- "Beginning July 10, the Bob Dylan Center and Woody Guthrie Center will give away 1,000 copies of Mavis Staples’ new children’s book, “Bridges Instead of Walls,” to children 10 years of age and younger."
- The Story and Meaning Behind “Sara" (American Songwriter) [3]
- The Quiet Village of Slane ‘Besieged’ Before Dylan Took The Stage [Irish Independent) [3]
- The Wicklow Teacher Who Sang with Bob Dylan in 1984 (Irish Independent) [1]
- “Tangled Up In Blue” Was Inspired by This Unimpressed Musician (American Songwriter) [1]
- 1971 (The Fourth of Seven Lean Years) (Untold Dylan) [8]
- "Most of the songs (about 70%) from those years simply evaporate. They aren’t played live, don’t appear on compilation albums, are covered remarkably little, are underrepresented in the various “100 best Dylan songs” lists."
- Wallflower Pt.1 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "“Wallflower” does not even end up on a B-side in the end, is never played live by Dylan either, is indifferently passed over for the compilation box Biograph in 1985, and is not released until twenty years later."
- Mike Porco's 61st Birthday Party (Folk City) [8]
- "He took the stage with the Queen of Folk, Joan Baez, for the first time in years. They sang 'One too many mornings' and an old traditional tune."
- Unreal Live (Flagging Down the Double E's) [8]
- "Unreal Live includes entirely songs not on the official Real Live album. With this plus Real Live, you have almost every song he played on the tour in soundboard quality."
- Rory Block Pays Tribute to Bob Dylan and New York Roots (Pop Matters) [5]
- "The biggest surprise is Rory Block’s cover of the 20-plus-minute opus “Murder Most Foul”. She clearly articulates the lyrics, which address everything from the contemporary history of the United States to trends in popular music and culture as myth and truth."
- Mavis Staples Children's Book Giveaway at Dylan and Guthrie Centers. (BWST) [3]
- "Beginning July 10, the Bob Dylan Center and Woody Guthrie Center will give away 1,000 copies of Mavis Staples’ new children’s book, “Bridges Instead of Walls,” to children 10 years of age and younger."
Special Announcement
New Articles
Stories from the press
New Blog Posts
New from fans and other writers
- 1971 (The Fourth of Seven Lean Years) (Untold Dylan) [8]
- "Most of the songs (about 70%) from those years simply evaporate. They aren’t played live, don’t appear on compilation albums, are covered remarkably little, are underrepresented in the various “100 best Dylan songs” lists."
- Wallflower Pt.1 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "“Wallflower” does not even end up on a B-side in the end, is never played live by Dylan either, is indifferently passed over for the compilation box Biograph in 1985, and is not released until twenty years later."
- Mike Porco's 61st Birthday Party (Folk City) [8]
- "He took the stage with the Queen of Folk, Joan Baez, for the first time in years. They sang 'One too many mornings' and an old traditional tune."
- 2006: Modern Times (Together Through Life) [5]
- "Another towering achievement on the record is Nettie Moore. The title and refrain are both inspired by the James Lord Pierpont and Marshall S. Pike’s 1857 composition Gentle Nettie Moore, but the song is pure Modern Dylan."
- Is Bob's Best Outtake "Series of Dreams"? (John Nogowski) [3]
- "But I think Bob wrote this amazingly introspective song, realized what he’d done and felt it too revealing, too intimate to share with the release of this “comeback” album."
- Dylan Prophet Without A God (Penn Today) [3]
- NEW BOOK: "When Dylan practices individual self-reliance, it is without the self-satisfaction of believing he is also adequately fulfilling his social responsibility or abiding by an individualism that everyone is equally free to practice if they wish."
- NET Extended: Gates of Eden (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "Bob emphasising the horror side of the song. Every aspect of the performance emphasises the decline and destruction of humankind."
- Music and Lyrics: One Too Many Mornings (Untold Dylan) [3]
- "Through this change of the chord sequence and melody the entire song changes from sadness and tiredness to one of anger at a life where things went wrong and an anger over wasted time."
- Covers We Missed: “As I Went Out One Morning” (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "You can’t say that the cover artists have really explored this space. Most of them have started tentatively into their expedition, decorating and expanding the original a bit without giving us any new insights."
- Once or Twice: Talkin New York (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "One of the great problems with putting a talking blues on an album, is that one of the key elements of the talking blues is that each performance can be slightly different, with new jokes, and slight variations in the music played between each line."
- Bleachers Out In The Sun (Darmstadt Dylan Days) [3]
- "On the Outlaw Festival Tour, one could almost say that Dylan is playing with the alienation effect that is so sympathetic to him."
- Lyrics and Music: Simple Twist of Fate (Untold Dylan) [3]
- "For much of the time the bass is descending suggesting not so much that the life of the person portrayed in the song is in decline but rather that it is just progressing along in its own path."
- NET Extended: Not Dark Yet 1997 to 2019 (Untold Dylan) [3]
- "The deep resignation that is at the heart of the original is now once more the dominant force in Dylan’s vocals, and I can just sit here and take this in. I’m not too sure about giving the bass the lead solo in the instrumental section – although the audience give some applause."
- Dylan as a Modern-Day Prophet (Penn Today) [3]
- A Far Off Sweet Forever (Series of Dreams) [3]
- An Ode to the Man in Me (VioNolaVie) [1]
- Back Through the Kitchen (Folk City) [1]
New Releases & Reviews
News about new music or reviews
- Rory Block Pays Tribute to Bob Dylan and New York Roots (Pop Matters) [5]
- "The biggest surprise is Rory Block’s cover of the 20-plus-minute opus “Murder Most Foul”. She clearly articulates the lyrics, which address everything from the contemporary history of the United States to trends in popular music and culture as myth and truth."
- Unreal Live (Flagging Down the Double E's) [8]
- "Unreal Live includes entirely songs not on the official Real Live album. With this plus Real Live, you have almost every song he played on the tour in soundboard quality."
- The Double Life of Bob Dylan 3: Getting Noticed (Untold Dylan) [3]
- BOOK REVIEW: "Thus while Heylin criticises Bob’s way of forcing his way into the folk music world, I remain rather pleased that he did this."
- Somebody Touched Me Review (Cult Following) [3]
- Stone Walls and Steel Bars Review (Cult Following) [3]
- Folsom Prison Blues Review (Cult Following) [3]
- I Walk the Line / Blue Moon of Kentucky Review (Cult Following) [3]
- Forever Young (Seattle Center Coliseum) (Cult Following) [3]
New Podcasts
The latest episodes focusing on Bob Dylan
- The Dylantates
- Infinity Goes Up On Trial
- The Music and Movie Podcast
- The Roy H. Pomeroy Podcast
- The 500
- Modern Times (James Austin Johnson)
- Moncrieff Highlights
- Rock of Ages
- The Dylan Hours
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Upcoming Events
From our complete Dylan Events Calendar
- July 16 (Knoxville TN) Birthday Bash
- July 15-16 (Ellison Bay WI) How Many Roads (Class)
- July 18 (Online) Dave, Bob and Me
- July 19-21 (Surrey UK) Visions of Dylan
- Aug 2 (Del Norte CO) Nashville Skyline LIVE
- Nov 7 (Dublin IR) Dylan's Greatest Rejected Tracks
Multi-Date Events
- Through Aug 15 (Cooperstown NY) Remastered (Original Art)
- Through Aug 18 (Various Cities) Girl From The North Country
- Chrome Horse - Tribute Shows - Regular Dates in US
- Simply Dylan - Tribute Shows - Regular Dates in UK
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