Seven Days: March 24 – 30, 2025

March 24 - 30, 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
- Last Week: Tulsa OK, Little Rock AR, Springfiled MO, Wichita KS (setlists)
- Next Week: Topeka KS, Omaha NB, Sioux City IA, Mankato MN, Green Bay WI
Outlaw Music Festival (2025) (tour info)
- 34 Shows: May 13 - Sept 19 (details)
- Across the USA: 21 States in the West, Midwest, and East

Recordings

Every Grain of Sand Tulsa 3/25 (Video)
When I Paint My Masterpiece Tulsa 3/25 (Audio)
Full Show Tulsa OK 3/25
Full Show Little Rock 3/26
Full Show Springfield MO 3/28

Articles

Last Night in Tulsa (In 15 Snapshots) (Flagging Down) [8]
- “Bob Dylan continues his Never Ending Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour with a vibrant performance that captivated fans in Tulsa.”
Bob Dylan Live In Tulsa Reviewed: A Magnificent Resumption Of The Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour (mojo4music.com) [8]
- “Dylan’s using his harmonica much more these days, creating an intimacy that he clearly appreciates as much as the audience.”
Show Review: Bob Dylan In Tulsa (Americana Highways) [5]
- “Bob Dylan kicked off the first date of his 2025 Rough & Rowdy Ways/Never Ending Tour smack dab in the middle of the American Heartland.”
Listen: Bob Dylan Welcomes New Drummer During 2025 Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour Opener in Tulsa (relix.com) [5]
- “On Tuesday, March 25, Bob Dylan commenced the latest leg of his ongoing Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour at the 2,800-capacity Tulsa Theatre in Tulsa, Okla.”
Bob Dylan Stuns At 2025 ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour’ Kickoff (Rolling Stone) [5]
- “Dylan never made a single public appearance during the months leading up to the tour, but he surprised fans with a reinvigorated performance kickoff.”
Bob Dylan Kicks Tour Off In Tulsa With Wacky Samba, Folk Noir Spookiness (The Pickup) [5]
- “Ghosts haunt downtown Tulsa, and I think Bob was talking to them.”
Bob Dylan Delivered An Intense, Stripped-Down And Mesmerizing Show At Robinson Center (Arkansas Times) [5]
- “Dylan was all business, taking his audience on a tour of both the back catalogue and a healthy helping of tracks from his latest album.”
Bob Dylan Fans React To Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour As Legend Returns To Stage (express.co.uk) [5]
- “Bob Dylan returns to the stage in 2025, sparking excitement among his fans.”

Special Announcement

There are no special announcements this week.

New Articles

Stories from the press

Former SC Journal Reporter On Bob Dylan’s Musical Legacy (Sioux City Journal) [5]
- “Matt and Jennifer Steichen met at Bob Dylan concert, got engaged at a Bob Dylan concert and danced to his music at their wedding.”
Dylan Asked Joni Mitchell About Painting A Room (In Focus) [5]
- “If you were going to paint this room,” he asked, “what would you paint?”
The Ballad of Ira Hayes: Who Was the Native American War Hero Immortalised by Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan? (faroutmagazine.co.uk) [5]
- “Just as in life, Hayes was immortalised in the famous Joe Rosenthal ‘Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima’, in his death, he was commemorated by songwriter Peter La Farge in the 1962 song ‘The Ballad of Ira Hayes’.”
Shop Around: A Q&A With Jeanne Fromer on Copyright Law and the Song Catalog Mega-Deals That Are Shaking Up the Music Industry (NYU Law) [5]
- “Each are among the dozens of recording artists who sold rights to their music catalogs—or significant stakes in those holdings—to private equity firms, record labels, investment companies and other corporate ventures in the past five years.”
Bob Dylan’s Bizarre Star-Studded Silent Dinner Party: “It Was Just Surreal” (faroutmagazine.co.uk) [5]
- “It was just surreal,” Hansard recalled of his date with the stars.”

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

Farewell to the Great Tony Brown (1949 to 2025) (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [8]
- “Tony is perhaps most well known for his mythical contribution to Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks.
Exploring Daniel Botkin’s Visual Tribute to Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man (pioneerproductions.blogspot.com) [5]
- “Daniel Botkin’s painting Mr. Tambourine Man is a captivating visual tribute to Bob Dylan’s iconic song of the same name.”
The Songs Got Longer The Form Started To Bend, We Needed Patience (Untold Dylan) [5]
- “I have in recent articles, such as the two listed at the top of the page, I have been attempting to look at the form of Dylan’s songwriting as he slowly moved away from straight strophic songs.”
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (1965) Part 3: La Petite Morte (Untold Dylan) [8]
- “The spirit of Casey Jones and the spirit of Robert Johnson mould the form as well, or so it seems.”
How Bob Dylan Turned The Entire Notion Of How A Song Should Be Written, Upside Down. (Untold Dylan) [8]
- “Bob was, from the start, challenging the entire concept of how a song could be structured, and this I think is utterly amazing.”
Dylan’s Songwriting: Does It Matter Who Wrote The Music (And Were We Missing A Deeper Meaning?) (Untold Dylan) [8]
- “Bob Dylan’s songwriting often incorporated existing music, raising questions about originality and meaning in his work.”
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry Part 2 : The Ghost Of Casey Jones (Untold Dylan) [5]
- “Dylan learns the song from John Koerner, as he writes in Chronicles (‘I learned a lot of songs off Koerner.’)”
It’s Alright Ma Part 5: 1999 – 2004. Stuffed Graveyards, False Goals (Untold Dylan) [5]
- “The song is full of hope. There are better things to come. Resist, push back, don’t give up.”
Bob Dylan, Truth And Fiction From 1963 To 1995. The Restless Farewell. (Untold Dylan) [5]
- “Over the years I’ve obviously come to learn that some people do tell the truth and some don’t, and I reach the conclusion that I prefer the company of people who tell the truth because the truth seems important to me.”

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

Positively 4th Street: Non-Album Tracks Review (cultfollowing.co.uk) [5]
- “This never-ending supply of Bob Dylan bootlegs will, unfortunately, run dry soon.”