December 18 - 24, 2022
Seven Days in Dylan News
NEW DYLAN INTERVIEW
- The Bob Dylan 2022 Interview by/Jeff Slate (BobDylan.com)
- “You’re the master of your fate. You manipulate reality and move through time and space with the proper attitude. It’s not an easy path to take, not fun and games, it’s no Disney World. It’s an open space, with concrete pillars and an iron floor, with obligations and sacrifices. It’s a path, and destiny put some of us on that path, in that position. It’s not for everybody.”
- 20 Odd Questions – Dylan Answers (Wall Street Journal – Paywall)
- The shorter version of above as printed in the WSJ “Lockdown was a very surrealistic time. Like being visited by another planet or by some mythical monster.”
- The Aftermath(Global news inspired by the interview – small sampling)
- Dylan Offered Coronation Street Part (RTE)
- Dylan is Wrong: There Are New Standards (The Times of London)
- Inspired Playlist – Apple Music
- Inspired Playlist – Spotify
- I Read Scriptures a Lot – Church Leaders
- Dylan was Right To Praise Arctic Monkeys (The Times UK)
- Is Dylan A MetalHead? (Ultimate Guitar)
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
- Ramblin’ Jack Elliot Spins Tales of Dylan and More (Marin Independent Journal)
- “Elliott has had a long and complicated relationship with Bob Dylan. Rather than see this young wannabe as an interloper or threat, getting between himself and Guthrie, he was big hearted enough to take him under his wing, going so far as to get him into the musicians’ union.”
- Bob Dylan and the Never Ending Grift (MotherJones)
- “This summer, Dylan put on a show in Denver so abysmal that it would have sent audiences fleeing had the performer been anyone else. The lyrics were unintelligible, the harmonica shrill, the voice mistakable for Scooby Doo’s.”
- Nine Best New Museums of 2022 (Inside Hook) feat. Bob Dylan Center
- “Basically Graceland for Bob Dylan diehards, the three-story museum contains more than 100,000 items from the singer’s illustrious career, including photos, art, videos, films, instruments, handwritten manuscripts and never-before-heard studio recordings.”
- Memories of Metro Club in Chicago (Chicago Reader)
- “For Metro’s 15th anniversary, we had Bob Dylan [on December 13 and 14, 1997]. It was really exciting. I knew how important it was, and I wanted to make sure that everybody was on their complete A game….We ended up really filling the room. People were coming from New York and LA. [Dylan] had the smallest hands I have ever shook. They’re beautiful hands.”
Blog Posts About Bob Dylan
- Gypsy Dylan (Shadow Chasing)
- Graley Herren on the Gypsies in POMS
- Country Pie Pt.1 (Untold Dylan)
- Jochen Markhorst starts weaving his magic on another Dylan song.
- The Path to Highway 61 Revisited (Paltry Sum)
- “Dylan exists in multiple realities: is as much the boy from the North Country as he is the ‘thin wild mercury’ antique who defined the music scene of New York City for an entire generation. He is both that earnest young man holding onto Joan Baez for dear life, like she is the life raft, and he is lost at sea, and also the supremely confident poetic voice of Gates of Eden, Girl from the North Country, and all those other numerous instant classics of his first four albums.”
- Apocalypse Now and Then: Dylan’s Engagement with End Times (Cultural Politics)
- “From Bobby Zimmerman’s Iron Range roots, with cultures of radical unionism set alongside Christian evangelical radio broadcasts, through the political twists of his Guthrie years and the civil rights/folk revival era, to Dylan’s brief but intense mid-career explorations of Judaism and Christianity, to his late in life confrontations with mortality, and with many other transformations along the way, apocalyptic lines run throughout his catalog of several hundred songs.”
- The Bob Cats Newsletter (PDF)
- “Welcome to another edition of the Bob Cats Newsletter. It’s night time in the big city. It’s the day before Christmas. A street car named Young Street rolls down Main Street, passengers in their Sunday best, bags and boxes.”
- Christmas In The Heart and the Kobler-Ross Model (Boston Harold – Archive)
- “When there is some sort of shock in one’s life, there is a theory that one goes through five stages of grief, also known as the Kubler-Ross model. These stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.”
New Reviews & Releases
- The Bob Dylan Albums (2nd Edition) – by Anthony Varesi (The British Columbia Review)
- “Careful to avoid the hagiographic zealotry of the hard-core fan, Varesi in his observations presents a balanced portrait of his idol. Along with praise for the classic material, great performances and inspired collaborations, there are plenty of critiques of lousy concerts, inferior recordings, and simply bad songs.”
- Amazon Link
- Bootleg Series Vol.5 – Live 1975 (Tinnitist)
- “Somehow, as Dylan always seems to do, he managed not only to circumvent disaster, but to engineer an artistic triumph.”
- Christmas In The Heart (Tinnitist)
- “The only thing weirder than the concept of Zimmy sincerely croaking holiday hymns over sincere seasonal strains? How unexpectedly enjoyable the reality turns out to be.” (That’s the complete review)
- Blonde on Blonde (Cult Following)
- “Dylan outshines his earlier work and pushes forth as one of the greatest lyricists of his, or any time. That is the impact Blonde on Blonde has, but beyond that, it is simply a perfect album.”
- Blonde on Blonde – NEW VINYL RELEASE (Vinyl Me Please)
- 2LP “Blonde on Blonde” colored vinyl from AAA lacquers cut from the original mono master tapes by Ryan Smith, with Listening Notes from Michael Simmons and an art print by Elio Moavero.
- NEW BOOK/DYLAN FORWARD Hugues Aufray (Come Writers and Critics)
- French singer/songwriter ‘souvenir album’
- This Machine Still Kills Fascists / Dropkick Murphys play Woody Guthrie (Paste)
IMAGE OF THE WEEK
Christmas In The Heart, German Box Set w/Xmas Cards
Christmas In The Heart, German Box Set w/Xmas Cards
NEW PODCASTS
- Pod Dylan
- I’m A Fool To Want You / Night We Called It A Day (Prof Chuck Coletta)
- Hard Rain & Slow Trains
- Man & God & Law
- NEW: Chronicles Part II
- (Archive Shows)
- Holiday Special Pt.1 Hannukah (2020)
- Festival of Lights (2021)
- American Shakespeare
- Is It Rolling Bob?
- Start Making Sense
- Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s Christmas Album (TheNation)
- Part of the full show (Apple Podcasts)
- Just the Dylan bit (Podchaser online)
- The Most Swell Supreme Storytelling Time
- KFAQ Radio
- Jazz, Blues & Beyond
- Al Kooper (with some Dylan stories)
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Retrospectrum in Rome (Bob Dylan Art Exhibit – Now to April 30, 2023)
- Dylan at Maxxi – Romeing
- Dylan at Maxxi – FSNews (Italian but with pictures)
- Daniel Kramer Exhibition in Boston (Grateful Web)
- The exhibit opens to the public for tours on January 18, 2023, at FARHOF, located in the Boch Center Wang Theatre.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
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