December 11 - 17, 2022

Seven Days in Dylan News

Cate Blanchett Played Dylan with a Sock In Her Pants (Independent.co.uk)
- “A friend of mine who’s a make-up artist said to me a few days into the shoot: ‘Put a sock down your pants!’” she explained.
Dylan’s Whisky Brand Unveils 10-Year Bourbon (RollingStone)
- “The whiskey is bottled at 100 proof and features notes of maple, poached pear and banana on the nose, with a toffee and bitter chocolate palate. The finish is long and silky, with a hint of leather and earthiness.”
An oral history of Happy Valley (GQ)
- ” I was told that Bob Dylan likes Happy Valley – and whether that’s true or not, I don’t know. I suppose music stars have to watch telly, don’t they?”

Stu Kimball and The Art of Rhythm Guitar (Talkin’ Bob Dylan)
- Excellent retrospective and analysis
Dag Braathen Interview (Boston Harold Podcast)
- Nice conversation with a pillar of the Dylan community.
Opinion: Love Minus Zero/Bob Dylan (Watershed Voice)
- Some simple personal thoughts on Dylan
My Own Version of You Pt.3 (Pt.2) (Keesdegraf.com)
- Lyrical Analysis
Girl From The North Country Pt.3 (Untold Dylan)
- Song Analysis
Dylan Covered: Only A Pawn In Their Game (Untold Dylan)
- Review of covers with YouTube versions of each
Triplicate (The Dylantantes)
- Photo Essay

World Gone Wrong (Cult Following)
- “There is the case to be made for World Gone Wrong as one of the most introspective and reflective pieces from Dylan’s discography.”
Christmas In The Heart (Cult Following)
- “The Voice of a Generation may have a dab hand for protest tracks and contemplative reflection, but Christmas is a struggle for the vocal cords.”
Folk Music – Book by Greil Marcus (MPR News)
- The most resonant part of the book, though, is one of the most counterintuitive. “Desolation Row,” nearly 12 minutes long, ends Highway 61 Revisited as a monument, the first of his big, bank-vault-sized album closers.
Greil Marcus’ Back Pages – Folk Music (Splice Today)
- “It’s not always great writing. What turned me off from Marcus as a college kid is still there—his tendency towards a very specific strain of grandiose prose that seeks to legitimize “low culture” to an imagined gallery of humorless academics, as if the only thing denying Leadbelly or Little Richard greatness is a lack of weepy, embarrassingly reverential essays devoted to them.”

Dylan.FM
- The World of Bob Dylan 2023 with Sean Latham
  - Podcast
  - Full Video (YouTube)
Pod Dylan
- Property of Jesus (Charles Jordan)
Hard Rain & Slow Trains
- Tempest At Ten: Tin Angel
A Headful of Ideas
- S02.14 Red River Shore (YouTube)

Retrospectrum in Rome (Bob Dylan Art Exhibit – Now to April 30, 2023)
- Exhibition Details (E-Flux)
Daniel Kramer Exhibition in Boston (Broadway World)
- The exhibit opens to the public for tours on January 18, 2023, at FARHOF, located in the Boch Center Wang Theatre.