• Five minutes of Walk Hard scared the Bob Dylan out of Timothée Chalamet (AV Club) [3]
  • "Chalamet revealed that he “made the mistake of watching five minutes of [Walk Hard]” before starting A Complete Unknown and went, “Oh my God, I’ll never be able to do this.”"
• Why Is the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa? (Racket) [3]
  • "The decision may stem from the fact that Dylan still reveres Woody Guthrie as much as he did when he visited the ailing Oklahoma folk legend at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in 1961."
• Chalamet Learned to Play 30 Bob Dylan Songs In Preparation (Teen Vogue) [3]
  • "He also worked with a harmonica coach, learning to play the instrument for five years, as well as a movement coach called Polly Bennett."
• Chalamet Trained With A Harmonica Coach For Five Years (People) [3]
  • "Chalamet did not attempt to exactly replicate Dylan’s singing on classic recordings: 'This is interpretive. This is not definitive. This is not fact.'"
• Is this Bob Dylan’s last hurrah? (The Jewish News) [3]
  • "There’s a rule in improvisation that you don’t think twice. Not only has the expression proved useful as a song title for Dylan but it also seems to sum up his entire weltanschauung."
• When A Complete Unknown met Joan (Entertainment Weekly) [5]
  • "'Bob is the center of the movie, and all the other characters intersect, crisscross, and cross-pollinate,' writer-director James Mangold says. 'But what unites them all is their relationship to Bob.'"
• Nigel Russell on the significance of Jim Marshall's 1963 photograph of Bob Dylan (Antique Trader) [3]
  • "The black-and-white composition adds to the timelessness of the image, emphasizing the gritty urban backdrop of New York, a city that was integral to Dylan’s early career."
• Bob Dylan 101: Where to Start (Advice To The LoveLorn) [3]
  • "'Is he everyone’s cup of tea? Obviously not. No artist is everyone’s cup of tea. But, it would be inaccurate and disingenuous to say that Bob Dylan’s impact on music isn’t still felt today, more than six decades after he released his debut self-titled album.'

Additional Tour Reviews

• The End of Rough And Rowdy Ways? (Mojo) [5]
  • "This last night at one of Dylan’s most notorious London hangouts, then, is freighted with a sense – projected, sure, but no less moving – of an artist bidding farewell to a batch of songs and savouring every last syllable of them."
• Rougher and rowdier (take 2) (The Blue Moment) [5]
  • "The sound was perfect, the vocals were clear and perfectly balanced against the instruments, Dylan’s piano-playing was always relevant to the song, he made each note of every harmonica solo count, and in the moody lighting of those old tungsten lamps the musicians clustered around him as if they were playing together in someone’s front room."
• Bob Dylan, Royal Albert Hall, London, November 13, 2024 (Uncut) [5]
  • "It’s an example of tonight’s other dominant mode, with Dylan’s voice and words front and centre, and the band in barely perceptible support. The song hangs suspended outside time, adjacent to its mystical Florida 'horizon line,' as Dylan lays out lines with quiet inevitability."
• On Getting Very Angry at Bob Dylan (A Writer’s Diary) [5]
  • "‘I don’t usually leave a gig angry,’ the man said. ‘But I couldn’t recognise any of the songs. I couldn’t hear the words. The woman next to me was eighty, and she couldn’t hear any of the words. Why does he do it?’"
• Dylan at the Royal Albert Hall: the best he’s been in years (The New Statesman) [5]
  • "Nowadays they lock into set parts, something that becomes more obvious as the show goes on, when their crazy rock ’n’ roll train slows to a halt – so subtly, you barely notice – and the musicians drop back one by one."
• Bob Dylan Review – Melancholy, Reflective, But Still Utterly Unpredictable (The Guardian) [5]
  • "Best to stick close to the guy in charge and keep your eyes peeled for clues as to where he’s headed."
• Bob Dylan – Royal Albert Hall, London (Clash) [5]
  • "While Dylan’s voice may lack the bombastic force he once had, in its place he’s mastered something measured, and understated. ‘To Be Alone With You’ is divine, while ‘Crossing The Rubicon’ has a playful sense of adventure."
• Royal Albert Hall, Night One (Peter Stone Brown Archives) [3]
  • "Doug Lancio is probably the new hero of the band for me, he sways and steps and rides to the music always delivering driving guitar lines whether it’s acoustic or electric. Bob Britt is cooler than cool."
• Royal Albert Hall, review: Confounding, poignant and a privilege (Jewish Chronicle) [3]
  • "A sped-up 1965 masterpiece Desolation Row showed his vocals at their sharpest. It ended with a piano section, when he pounded ripples of dissonance with such passion and enthusiasm that his band had to race to catch up."
• A Night of Reinvention (XS Noise) [3]
  • "Instead, he chose the path of humility and grace. Dylan took the stage alongside his band, which had no flashy screens, just minimal and understated lighting. This unadorned entrance was met with palpable respect from the packed house—a reminder that, at 83, he still prefers substance over spectacle."
• Dylan Ends 3-Year Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour In London (Jambase) [1]
  • "Bob Dylan hasn’t addressed the retirement rumors, but the potential of the 83-year-old artist saying goodbye to the road was in the air at Royal Albert Hall on Thursday."
• Bob Dylan – Civic Hall, Wolverhampton (God Is In The TV Zine) [1]
  • "Yet for all of these apparent missteps and human frailties this is still Bob Dylan and the unquestionable genius of the man means he is still more than capable of producing moments of sheer magic."