Seven Days: Sept 9 – 15, 2024

Sept 9 - 15, 2024

The Week in Bob Dylan

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Tour Details

The Latest on Bob's Live Concerts

Outlaw Music Festival — Now Playing!
- 26 Done / 1 Remaining
- Dates/Setlists | Details | BobServe.com
- Past Week: Cincinnati OH, Cuyahoga Falls, OH, Burgettstown PA, Clarkston MI (today)
- Next: Buffalo NY
Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour — resumes Oct 4th in Prague

TOUR NEWS

Dylan Broke Out His Most Played Song After Six Years (Stereogum) [-3]
- "“All Along The Watchtower” has been performed more than any other song by Bob Dylan over the years, so we were shocked when he brought it out".
Outlaw Tour Hits Tinley Park with Industry’s Oldest Touring Artists (Lansing Journal) [3]
- "Both of my sons caught on to what a special thing it was to see these legends in concert as they texted their friends with stories of John Mellencamp’s humor and profanity, Bob Dylan’s god-like presence, and Willie Nelson’s 92-year-old crystal-clear singing voice.”"
Outlaw Music Fest is a Night of Legends and Classics at Star Lake (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) [3]
- "And how weird a choice is “Under the Red Sky”? Dylan’s penchant for messing with the arrangements and cadences of his songs has only gotten more exaggerated in recent decades as he’s continued to strip out the melodies and sing in a halting fashion."
Last Night in Cincinnati (Flagging Down) [5]
- "...some asshole will feel entitled to yank on about frisbee golf while one of the great musical artists of several generations performs one of his most indelible compositions in his eighth decade."

Top News & Links

Our favorite Dylan-related stories and links

Bob Dylan and The Band, The 1974 Live Recordings (Hot Press) [10]
- "On 'Like A Rolling Stone', the cascade of keyboards before the vocals even begin always made me see Manuel and Hudson in my mind’s eye; and as the men’s voices join Dylan’s on the choruses, the song is fresh and new and exciting, over and over again."
Washing the Spit Out of Dylan's Microphone (Flagging Down) [8]
- "My job was to take care of all the microphone cables, all the microphones, check on the inventory, make sure Bob’s mic had been washed out and cleaned."
Never Seen No Place Like This Before — Dylan Fall ‘99 (Peter Stone Brown) [8]
- "I contemplated leaning over and saying, "Are you aware you're waltzing to a song about a mobster getting his head blown off in a clam bar, but didn't."

NEW RELEASE: OutThis Friday Sept 20th

Bob Dylan & The Band: The 1974 Live Recordings
- 27 CD Box Set
- 431 tracks (417 previously unreleased)
- Order Box Set Via Amazon

Special Announcement

No announcements this week.

New Articles

Stories from the press

Why Have Rockstars Stopped Retiring? (GQ) [3]
- "Old records used to be cheap. The new stuff was the exciting stuff. But what they found with the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series and the Beatles Anthology was that old [music] can be really exciting to people."
39 Movies to Watch This Fall (The New York Times) [1]
- "Timothée Chalamet has the hair to play Bob Dylan; all he needs is the voice. James Mangold (“Walk the Line”) directed this biopic, which also stars Elle Fanning."
5 Most Anticipated Drama Movies of Fall 2024 (Yahoo!) [1]
- "#4 - The film chronicles Dylan’s rise, leading up to his controversial switch to perform with electric instruments in 1965."

New Blog Posts

New from fans and other writers

Jimmy Carter Walks the Talk and the Slow Train (Jeff's Substack) [3]
- "Here was the great bard of rock and roll not only proclaiming the divinity of Christ, but also clarifying how Christians should live — how they should be strong in the faith."
Dylan & Us: Beyond America. Pt.3 (Untold Dylan) [3]
- "What fascinates me most is the meaning that his art can bring to the personal, day-to-day lives of people like you and me – a metric for which, alas, no Nobel Prize exists."
Remembering Dylan's "Special Delivery" (John's Substack) [5]
- "And that voice, coming from the smallish man with the brown curly hair, standing at the center of the stage at Boston Garden and he wasn’t so much singing as delivering."

New Releases & Reviews

News about new music or reviews

Joe Bonamassa Reinterprets "Scarlet Town” (Grateful Web) [5]
- "Originally written and performed by Bob Dylan on his 2012 album Tempest, “Scarlet Town” brings listeners into a mysterious and evocative landscape with its powerful lyrics and masterful instrumentation, offering a more introspective side to Bonamassa’s artistry."
The Birth of the Greenwich Village Music (The Spectator) [3]
- "Albert Grossman, about to become Dylan’s manager, soon floats through Browne’s pages, guided by his informed intuition that folk music might soon be as lucrative as jazz."
How Dylan’s ‘Blowin’ in the Wind’ Blew Up the New York Folk Scene (Rolling Stone)
- Book Excerpt (Paywalled)