Seven Days: Oct 30 – Sept 6, 2024

Oct 30 - Sept 6, 2024

The Week in Bob Dylan

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Tour Details

The Latest on Bob's Live Concerts

Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour
- This Week: Prague I - II - III
- Next Week: Erfurt GY, Berlin GY
- Tour Schedule | Setlists | BobServe.com

News
- Setlists: Dignity added
- Tonight in Prague (Flagging Down) [8]
  - "Jim Keltner pushes the band on in the uptempo numbers, and especially on the ‘classic’ songs, but on all of the slower tracks he never quite seems to find the pocket, never quite seems to find the groove, and seems to go astray, to get lost in musical time..."
- Fragments and Stolen Moments from Prague (Flagging Down) [5]
  - "The dramatic swing of the arm that Tony Garnier used to count the band in for Dignity, and then the committed, spirited and powerful vocal performance that Dylan gave throughout the song."

Top News & Links

Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links

Bob Dylan Barely Misses Out On Scoring Another No. 1 (Forbes) [5]
- "The 1974 Live Recordings debuts on five different charts in the U.K. On one of them, Dylan barely misses out on running the show, as he nearly captured another No. 1 bestseller."
Bob Dylan Is Now a Freewheelin’ Tweeter (Vulture) [3]
- "Here’s some shock and awe for the digital age: Our favorite iconoclastic weirdo, whose interview frequency is so rare it lends itself to its own type of subterranean blues, is now tweeting random musings and stories from his official account for the first time."
Dylan Just Found Out Bob Newhart Died, and He’s Heartbroken About It (Cracked) [3]
- ""In many ways, Bob Dylan was the Bob Newhart of guitar-and-harmonica tunes, and upon learning of the passing of his artistic twin soul, Dylan paid tribute to Newhart yesterday..."
The Time Kris Kristofferson Stood Up For Sinéad O’Connor (Whiskey RIff) [3]
- "Kris was “pissed” at the entire situation. He said that he believed that Sinead had “good intentions” and that the stunt was a misunderstanding."

Special Announcement

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New Articles

Stories from the press

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

Dylan in Prison (Shadow Chasing) [8]
- "Paradoxically, some of the best expressions of this creative freedom comes in the form of prison songs. For the present post, I want to examine three in depth: Brendan Behan’s “The Auld Triangle,” Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues,” and Dylan’s own “I Shall Be Released.”
Lyrics and Music: You’re a Big Girl Now (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "However the much simplified second version with its B minor to A minor chord sequence, retains all the sadness (minor chords tend to sound sad to Western audiences, especially when in an unusual combination as with B minor to A minor at the start of a song), but it removes the uncertainty."
False Prophet Pt.11 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "Whereby the switch from plural (“you girls” in the third verse) to singular in this verse (“You don’t know me darlin’”) suggests that the prophet is now addressing someone else in his audience."
Kris Kristofferson (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
- "Kristofferson convinced Bob Dylan to take a role in the film – his acting debut – and Dylan also wrote the soundtrack, some of which was recorded with members of Kristofferson’s band."
What's Up with Bob Dylan's Beard? (Flagging Down) [5]
- "I’d maybe go a year later than Isle of Wight, when he accepted his honorary degree at Princeton (the occasion that inspired “Day of the Locusts”). He’d let that Isle of Wight neckbeard grow out even longer."

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

Geoff Dyer on Bob Dylan: The 1974 Live Recordings (The Guardian) [8]
- "Actually, nothing has changed since he evidently had trouble caring about anything – ’cept you – by 1974. Dylan became disillusioned, it seems, without experiencing illusions in the first place. "
Dylanesque ‘Girl from the North Country:’ Glowing in the Mind (Charlotte Ledger) [3]
- "The doctor who narrates the show may be big-hearted and gentle but is awfully casual about illegal drug use, including his own.