Seven Days: October 14 – 20, 2024

October 14 - 20, 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: Nurnberg GY, Frankfurt GY,
- Next Week: Stuttgart GY, Saarbrucken GY, Paris FR
- Tour Schedule | Setlists | BobServe.com

Top News & Links

Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links

The Sabres Think They’ve ID'd The Player Who Randomly Met Bob Dylan (Brobible) [3]
- "People were naturally curious to know the identity of the player in question, and while we don’t have an entirely definitive answer, a top culprit has been identified."
Streisand Enlists Dylan for Historic Collaboration (Showbiz 411) [5]
- "I’m hearing that Streisand has recorded with the most unlikely of duet partners: Bob Dylan."
Heavy Breathing (Letter in the Ether) [10]
- "The music, then, was not neat, it was not orderly, it was not elegant. It was fierce: riding that beat, full of hard-won arrogance, love, and anger."
Timothée Chalamet Can Break A 21-Year-Old Oscars Record With Bob Dylan Movie (Screen Rant) [1]
- "Next year’s Oscars ceremony could see Timothée Chalamet finally break an impressive record after two decades. Chalamet’s upcoming performance in A Complete Unknown, a star-studded Bob Dylan biopic, puts Chalamet in the perfect position to make Academy Awards history by becoming the youngest person to win Best Actor."

Special Announcement

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New Articles

Stories from the press

Heaven’s Door Exploration Series 1 (Bottle Raiders) [1]
"The whiskey is sourced from an undisclosed Minnesota distillery and aged for five years. The whiskey is finished in Calvados casks that previously matured apple brandy from Normandy, France, for at least two years."
When Bob Dylan Won the Nobel (The Free Press) [3]
- "On this very day, eight years ago, Bob Dylan got a phone call that left him 'speechless.'"

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

Heavy Breathing (Letter in the Ether) [10]
- "The music, then, was not neat, it was not orderly, it was not elegant. It was fierce: riding that beat, full of hard-won arrogance, love, and anger."
Highway 61 Revisited (Letter in the Ether) [8]
- "The tape makes clear that nearly everything good I had to say about the performances ought to be raised to the tenth power. The music was wilder than I remembered, and Dylan's singing more exciting. "
Real Life Top 10 (Letter in the Ether) [10]
- But as I pushed my way through the box of CDs, I found, from the start, that it was “All Along the Watchtower” that pulled me in, that made me wonder what it was, where it had been, what was going to happen to it that night.
Rough & Rowdy Ways (Together Through Life) [5]
- "It might even be his best ever; his most complete, most astonishing and beguiling, most impressive and mature. It might be his album with the deepest depths to plunder, threads to unravel and worlds to explore."

I AND I: NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES (Chris Gregory) [5]
- "There is little doubt that Bob Dylan, like many other rock musicians, was influenced by reggae. The way he integrated three black female backing singers into his band was similar to the way Marley and his singers the I-Threes developed a dynamic call-and-response form of vocal presentation."
Dylan & Us: Beyond America: Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "Despite his own good looks, however, there was hardly a tinge of eroticism, while Beatlemania barely rose above it."
The Double Life of Bob Dylan (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "I found myself more and more astounded not just by what Heylin says, but by the issues he utterly ignores, without seemingly even once to realize that he is ignoring the issues."
T Bone Burnett Dishes on Dylan (Star Tribune) [1]
- "Paywall"
False Prophet Pt. 13 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "In line 3, the Prophet knows the ruling stranger well enough to declassify him as a ‘lusty old mule,’ and in the final line, his social status is so low that the Prophet can throw him in jail."
Blackjack Davey is One of Dylan’s Most Iconic Songs (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "Dylan might not always get a lot of credit as a guitarist, but this song is a great example of his multifaceted playing. The guitar acts as a bass as well as playing higher pitched lead parts."
Bob Dylan’s Sunglasses (Untold Dylan) [3]
- "Aside from the classic Ray-Ban offering, he has occasionally been known to tout styles like the original Ray-Ban Caribbean and other rectangular frames."