Seven Days: Sept 2 – 8, 2024

Sept 2 - 8, 2024

The Week in Bob Dylan

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Tour Details

The Latest on Bob's Live Concerts

Outlaw Music Festival — Now Playing!
- 21 Done / 6 Remaining
- Dates/Setlists | Details | BobServe.com
- Past Week: Somerset WI, Tinley Park IL, St Louis MO (today)
- Next: Cincinnati OH, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, Burgettstown PA, Clarkston MI
Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour — resumes Oct 4th in Prague

TOUR NEWS

Silvio has returned to the Setlist after a 20 year absence. It was the opener the last two nights.
Last Night in Tinley Park (Flagging Down) [5]
- "While I’m not ready to bestow best-ever honors on it, sure enough Dylan and the band’s performance was easily the best of the three Outlaw shows I’ve seen."
Somerset WI Review (BobLinks) [5]
- "I can feel the energy around me a bit surprised of my reaction, but that's EXACTLY why Bob Dylan left his hometown and changed his name, to be himself, no matter what, no matter who, just be who he is, whoever that is. That's a lesson I can get behind of, but who has not?"
Nelson and Dylan Deliver the Most Momentous Doubleheader of the Summer (Star Tribune) [5]
- "None of those doubleheaders can compare to Friday’s Outlaw Music Festival, aka Willie Nelson and Bob Dylan, here at Somerset Amphitheater. Two American musical treasures, Mount Rushmorian giants who have recorded for decades..."
Did Obama Inspire Dylan to Bring Back Eighties Deep Cut ‘Silvio’ After 20 Years? (Rolling Stone) [5]
- "Obama’s most surprising pick was Bob Dylan‘s “Silvio,” a 1988 song co-written by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter that appeared on Down in the Groove, a strong candidate for the single worst album of Dylan’s 62-year recording career."
Dylan and Willie Have ‘Calmed Down a Lot’ and Help Each Other Stay ‘Sharp’ (Closer) [3]
- "According to the source, the two iconic musicians “feed off each other and pump new life into their daily routine.”
Best Recent Videos from Somerset and Tinley Park
- Here on our Best of New YouTube Page
- Includes great video of Silvio, It Ain't Me Babe, and Hard Rain
- This page is updated regularly - all the best recent Dylan video from YouTube

Special Announcement

Another new track from the upcoming 1974 Box Set was released.

Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Live at Madison Square Garden, New York City, NY - January 30, 1974)
Available on all streaming services

New Articles

Stories from the press

“Blood on the Tracks,” Dylan’s Most NY Centric Album Was Recorded Here 50 Years Ago This Month (Chelsea News)
- "The acoustic songs that he recorded from Sept. 16-19 at A&R Studios boast a kind of toughness. Like the city itself, there is no artifice."
Fifty Years in 60 minutes: A Celebration of Bob Dylan (New School Free Press) [3]
- "The hour-long program covered Dylan’s career from the 1960s as a young rock and roller performing at small festivals to the 2010s, performing in tribute shows seen by millions. Audience members laughed, cheered, and clapped for Dylan’s performances."
Mike Campbell Recalls Breaking Guitar a a Bob Dylan Show (Guitar World) [3]
- "Bob was talking to the audience, going on some important spiel about something, and the strap came loose, and it was wide open, and it went 'bam'."
Dylan’s St. Louis Superfans (The Jewish Light) [3]
- "These St. Louisians aren’t just superfans of the musical icon born Robert Allen Zimmerman. They’re members of a tribe within the Tribe, a cohort whose close study of Dylan’s lyrics and personal history reflect an enduring passion for his work."
Bob Dylan, Prehistoric Whale Bones and Space Aliens (Paper City Mag) [3]
- "n paper, Bob Dylan’s voice, butterfly antennae and prehistoric whale ear bones don’t seem to have much in common. But in each artwork I make, if I can find the connection between the most seemingly strange materials, then it expands..."
Ken Pierce, Master Distiller (Heaven's Door) [3]
- "Ken brings over 40 years of experience in the beverage industry to his role as Master Distiller at Heaven's Door. His journey in spirits began with Barton Brands of Georgia."
Dylan and Willie Have ‘Calmed Down a Lot’ and Help Each Other Stay ‘Sharp’ (Closer) [3]
- "According to the source, the two iconic musicians “feed off each other and pump new life into their daily routine.”
- (What a load of crap.)

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

Dylan Beyond America Pt.2 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "Mr, Dylan presented the first dense example of a completely new, one might add revolutionary type of lovesong to world literature, thus expressing a mentality that would eventually become his artistic trademark: his resolute rejection of ‘love-possessiveness’."
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window (Chris Gregory) [3]
- "It's three verses are crammed with radically striking imagery that shows the influence of surrealism and symbolist poetry."

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

Train of Love (Cult Following) [5]
- "His rugged voice at the time adds a new depth to Train of Love. It has the sound of a reflective lover and the joy possessing Dylan through this performance is infectious. "
The Double Life of Dylan Pt.14 (Untold Dylan) [5]
- "From this and from Heylin’s detailed review of Dylan’s escapades in driving around the country, we can get the feeling that Dylan (again like so many creative geniuses) could not control his creative activities."
Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why Rock Stars Never Retire (Literary Review)
- "Hope I Get Old Before I Die is another triumph for Hepworth. Part whizz-bang storytelling, part social history, part forensic examination of an understudied phenomenon, the book is destined to become the go-to text on a subject we never thought we’d have to survey."