Seven Days: Oct 7 – 13, 2024

Oct 7 - 13, 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: Erfurt GY, Berlin GY
- Next Week: Nurnberg GY, Frankfurt GY,
- Tour Schedule | Setlists | BobServe.com

News

Bob Dylan in Prague (Brno Daily)
- "It probably doesn’t matter that others might be at a total loss to understand what all the fuss is about. But it’s also disingenuous to pretend that anyone without that hinterland would find much at all to take from an evening like Saturday."
Dylan Performs ‘It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue’ For 1st Time Since 2019 (Jambase) [1]
- "“It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” was last played in public on October 23, 2019, at a concert in Ames, Iowa. Played over 560 times, the song appeared on Dylan’s 1965 album, Bringing It All Back Home."
Does Anybody Play?? (Daily Dylan) [3]
- "It was 4 minutes to 8 when the hall lights went out and the concert began. Bob and the band came out and started with a new arrangement of Watchtower."

Top News & Links

Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links

Dylan Keeps Fans Guessing with Tweets (Star Tribune) [3]
- "That Dylan is a mensch. He often acknowledges the passing of people whose work touched him. But I guess he didn’t monitor the news when he was on tour this summer with Willie Nelson."
Dylan on Billy Lee Riley (The Shelia Variations) [8]
- "Bob Dylan always knew who Riley was. He needed no reminder. Bob Dylan was obsessed with Billy Lee Riley. Dylan was almost like a stalker, trying to find him, trying to get a hold of him."
Dylan's Post-Pericarditis Comeback (Flagging Down The Double E's) [8]
- "Bob clearly wanted to come back with a bang. Rather than just going through the motions, easing back into things, he dusted off two songs he hadn’t played in decades."
Chalamet as Bob Dylan Battles Celebrity Fame (The Hollywood Reporter) [5]
- "There’s also a look at the uneasy partnership between Dylan and Joan Baez, played by Monica Barbaro, as they rise from a singing duo to performing in concert halls and then hitting the top of the charts as the king and queen of folk music."
Three Sides of the Same Coin: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Filmint) [8]
- "A scene that still proves contentious is the death of Sheriff Baker and the use of Bob Dylan’s “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.” The preview cut had the lyrics of the song removed, the 50th anniversary release puts them back in."
Church in Louisville Transformed into Dylan's Bourbon Showcase (WDRB) [3]
- "If you're driving east into NuLu from downtown Louisville, the first thing you might see is a 145-year-old church. The building dates back to 1879 at East Market and Hancock streets, and you could say it's "heaven's door" to one of the city's marquee districts."

Special Announcement

A Complete Unknown - New trailer was released.

YouTube Video

New Articles

Stories from the press

Dylan Keeps Fans Guessing with Tweets (Star Tribune) [3]
- "That Dylan is a mensch. He often acknowledges the passing of people whose work touched him. But I guess he didn’t monitor the news when he was on tour this summer with Willie Nelson."
Dylan Reveals Run-in with Buffalo Sabres Player (Sportskeeda) [3]
- "The Buffalo Sabres were in Prague to take on the New Jersey Devils in the NHL Global Series on Oct. 4 and 5. Dylan, coincidentally, happened to be performing in Prague during that weekend."
Dylan Tweets About Meeting The Buffalo Sabres (OutKick) [3]
- "But I have no clue why Bob wrote "He invited me to the game…" or why he waited days to mention it because the last game in Prague was played on Saturday morning Eastern time."
Church in Louisville Transformed into Dylan's Bourbon Showcase (WDRB) [3]
- "If you're driving east into NuLu from downtown Louisville, the first thing you might see is a 145-year-old church. The building dates back to 1879 at East Market and Hancock streets, and you could say it's "heaven's door" to one of the city's marquee districts."
Best Actor Watch: Timothee Chalamet Nails it (Awards Daily) [5]
- "He’s not so much trying to deconstruct who Bob Dylan is but rather to take us back to a moment when he almost lost his entire career by deciding to evolve from a folk hero into well, who he is today – one of the greatest ever."
Chalamet as Bob Dylan Battles Celebrity Fame (The Hollywood Reporter) [5]
- "There’s also a look at the uneasy partnership between Dylan and Joan Baez, played by Monica Barbaro, as they rise from a singing duo to performing in concert halls and then hitting the top of the charts as the king and queen of folk music."
‘A Complete Unknown’ : ‘It will be a flop’ (The Mary Sue) [3]
- "One thing I really loved about the trailer is how it highlighted the relationships Dylan had in the music industry. His relationship with Joan Baez is, in a lot of ways, why we even know who Dylan is."
The New Dylan Biopic Has Serious ‘Dewey Cox Vibes’ (Cracked) [3]
- "Mangold has admitted to enjoying Walk Hard, which was primarily a send-up of his previous music biopic effort, Walk the Line. But for some reason, he seems to be leaning into those Dewey Cox-esque elements again, rather than avoiding them."
People Are Up in Arms About The Dylan Biopic (Hunger) [3]
- "I was pretty neutral about ‘A Complete Unknown’ until Johnny Cash showed up in the latest trailer like a Marvel cameo."
Inside Dylan's Ultra-private Life (Hello) [5]
- "Bob met Sara in 1964 while she was a secretary for the film production division of Time Life. Dylan married his backing singer Carolyn Dennis on June 4, 1986, six months after welcoming a daughter."
From Dylan’s Grandson to Chaplin’s Granddaughter (El Pais) [1]
- "They bear the weight of their family legacy, which often brings advantages but can also come with its share of challenges."
Dylan on Billy Lee Riley (The Shelia Variations) [8]
- "Bob Dylan always knew who Riley was. He needed no reminder. Bob Dylan was obsessed with Billy Lee Riley. Dylan was almost like a stalker, trying to find him, trying to get a hold of him."

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

Dylan's Post-Pericarditis Comeback (Flagging Down The Double E's) [8]
- "Bob clearly wanted to come back with a bang. Rather than just going through the motions, easing back into things, he dusted off two songs he hadn’t played in decades."
Dylan Revisited: Blonde on Blonde (1966) - Pt.1 (Dylan.FM) [8]
- "Dylan had a particular sound in his head – a specific quality that would eventually crystalize on Blonde on Blonde’s quintessential pop song, I Want You. But as he prepared for yet another tour, it remained out of reach."
The Strangeness of "Eat The Document" (John's Substack) [3]
- "“Eat The Document” is a cluttered, jittery, mess of a film but nonetheless a valuable — and perhaps painful — document of that difficult moment in Dylan’s career."
False Prophet Pt. 12 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "In the previous seven stanzas we have already heard the Prophet slip from not unsympathetic lone wolf who opens his heart and allows himself to be guided by Miss Pearl and Mary Lou, to a domineering poacher who still doesn’t feel too big for a peaceful stroll in the garden, to an assertive force who announces that he will bring down vengeance."
Lyrics & Music: “Things Have Changed” (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "And then maybe “I hurt easy, I just don’t show it, You can hurt someone and not even know it” is the key to it all, but in the end we are always drawn back to that repeated set of lines…"

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

The 1974 Live Recordings - Several new minor reviews have joined the collection.
The Cactus Blossoms - Bob Dylan Songs Vol. 1’ (Adventures in America) [5]
- "Though it’s only four songs, the EP manages to display an impressive range of Dylan’s songwriting abilities, showing how he can skillfully render simple, classic themes as well as create poetic masterpieces where every word seems to add a dozen possible meanings to the song."
Side Tracks Review (Cult Following)
- "The best of a best of compilation collection. It sounds like barrel-scraping, but in the case of Dylan, it is a collection of rare and essential efforts."
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Pt. 19 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "It’s the same with Dylan. Some could appreciate what he was doing with his experiments, some couldn’t. There was, shall we say, a certain level of disharmony within the audience."
Three Sides of the Same Coin: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (Filmint) [8]
- "A scene that still proves contentious is the death of Sheriff Baker and the use of Bob Dylan’s “Knocking on Heaven’s Door.” The preview cut had the lyrics of the song removed, the 50th anniversary release puts them back in."
Dylan & Us: Beyond America. Pt. 2 (Untold Dylan) [3]
- "The Dylanologist makes use of every scrap of paper that Dylan has ever left lying about and that has been eagerly collected by others. I cast aspersions here neither at the Dylanologists nor the collectors of these snippets, but rather at those who publicly distribute them."