January 15 - 21, 2023
Seven Days in Dylan News
FRAGMENTS: Bootleg Series 17 PREVIEWS
- Mississippi (Version Two) – 1/11/97 Criteria Studios
- The third official track from The Time Out Of Mind Sessions is now streaming.
- Listen on YouTube
- Listen on: Apple Music – Spotify – Tidal
- Not Dark Yet Video features Magnum Photographers (ItsNiceThat.com)
- “Not Dark Yet also features the work of photographers including Chien-Chi Chang, Elliott Erwitt, Alex Webb, Hiroji Kubota and Nikos Economopoulos and Thomas Hoepker.”
- FULL ALBUM REVIEWS
- Anne Margaret Daniel (Hotpress)
- Johnny Borgan
- Seth Rogovoy (Forward)
- The Boston Harold Podcast
- Greil Marcus – Real Life Rock Top 10 (Paywall)
- We’re Aggregating All FRAGMENTS Reviews
- Visit this page to see all the latest reviews everyday
- 9 so far (as of this writing)
Pre-Order: FRAGMENTS – Bootleg Series 17
- Order now to get yours of Friday Jan 27
- 2CD: $27.98 at Amazon (US)
- 4LP: $99 at Amazon (US)
- 5CD DELUXE: $139.98 at Amazon (US)
- 10LP DELUXE: $230 at BobDylan.com (Numbered, Limited to 5000)
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
- Don Was Shares Stories of Bob Dylan (Yahoo Entertainment)
- “Time slowed down. I flashed on the time I tried to sell my car to get a ticket to go see the concert for Bangladesh. George and Bob. Here they are, three feet away from me, saying, ‘What do you think?’.”
- Dylan Bloody Sunday Tribute (Old ThemeTime Clip) (The Irish Times)
- Paywalled
- Brother Of Teenager Shot on Bloody Sunday Moved By Dylan (Belfast Telegraph)
- “It means a lot,” he told the Irish Times. – The fact Bob Dylan recognized the horror of the day itself and all those innocent people murdered by the British.”
- Website Hypes Trivial Podcast Conversation to Hype Bob Dylan Movie (Fandom Wire)
- “Jeff Sneider revealed on the podcast that Christian Bale was being eyed for to play Pete Seeger, but nothing was confirmed. It was probably for a reason because now Benedict Cumberbatch is being sought for the role.
Blog Posts About Bob Dylan
- Dylan and Obama (Shadow Chasing)
- “The Obama family hosted a regular music series in the White House, and on this occasion the theme was “Music of the Civil Rights Era.” Dylan closed the set.”
- Tangled Up In Blue III (Dylanology)
- Is it the concrete notes that are being played? The pace? the attack? The phrasing? The relationship to tradition? etc. What exactly is it about the riff? That is what is missing in most rock journalism.”
- Tangled Up In Blue: Different Points of View (Chris Gregory)
- “This links the song with Jack Kerouac’s beat masterpiece On the Road, in which characters frequently ‘take to the road’, despite their lack of funds, in a quest for a peculiarly American kind of freedom.”
- Isis: You Mystical Child (Chris Gregory)
- “Perhaps the most dramatic moment of all in this extreme expression of poetic angst occurs near the end of the performance as Dylan acts out a conversation between his narrator and the object of his love – the ‘mystical child’ Isis herself. “
- Bob Dylan Featuring Van Morrison (Flagging Down Double E’s)
- “here’s the timeline of Bob-Van duets I worked out, with audio or, even better, video of each…”
- Chronicling Every Detail of Rolling Thunder Tours (Flagging Down Double E’s)
- “Whenever new information emerged, I would add it into my Word documents. Sometimes I would go back and add something new that I didn’t do initially, like include the Bobtalk for the 74 tour, or do a song chart for the RTR shows.”
- Other People’s Songs: “It Hurts Me Too” (Untold Dylan)
- “But what we really notice is the addition of the swing beat which allows for all the laid-back fun in the instrumental verse. That swing beat gives us 16 bars of bouncy 4/4 rhythm and a totally different feel.”
- NET Highlights: It’s All Right Ma 2001 (Untold Dylan)
- “What he brilliantly does here is give us a gentle accompaniment. The speed of the song is just a fraction slower than the album, but above all we have that gentle percussion along with a second acoustic guitar.”
- Bob Dylan In The Land of Where or When (Town Topics)
- “Does it really matter whether Dylan is composing or fabricating or simply remembering a vision of Chloe half a century after the fact “wearing a Japanese kimono over a red flannel shirt” as she cooks up some steak and onions?”
- ExpectingRain is on Mastodon
New Reviews & Releases
- Love Sick / Cold Irons Bound – 2023 Rolling Stone Exclusive 7″ Single
- Both Songs from FRAGMENTS
- Flashback: Dylan Releases Blood On The Tracks (MyRadioLink)
- “Costello: Blood On The Tracks, which is a very harrowing record in many ways emotionally — but it isn’t a better record if you were to be possessed of the idea that that was an exact representation of Bob Dylan’s life at that time…”
- Bringing It All Back Home (Gaslight Records)
- The deep scarring in my soul at the hands of the opening track could have only been made worse by one thing: “Maggie’s Farm”—a tune that boasts a horrific pop inspired jig atop the edifice of topical songwriting.”
- Together Through Life (Cult Following)
- “Those charming mandolin and accordion charms that crop up on most of the tracks, especially If You Ever Go To Houston, feel resplendent. They reminisce about easy-going times.”
- NEW BOOK: Bob Dylan in the 2020’s (Francois Guillez)
- NEW BOOK: Blood In The Tracks (Preorder)
- The Minnesota Musicians Behind Dylan’s Masterpiece
- Amazon
IMAGE OF THE WEEK
NEW PODCASTS
- Is It Rolling Pod
- Man God Law
- Pod Dylan
- Going Going Gone (Jonathan Kehew)
- The Dylantantes
- What Is It About Bob (Craig Danuloff)
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Now to April 30, 2023
- Retrospectrum in Rome (Bob Dylan Art Exhibit)
- La Mostra A Roma Dedicata A Bob Dylan
- Jan 18, 2023 (not sure when it ends)
- Daniel Kramer Exhibition in Boston (Grateful Web)
- Boston.- Boch Center Wang Theatre.
- Jan 23, 2023
- Pip Upton’s One Man Dylan Show
- Javea Valencia Spain
- Jan 26, 2023
- The Defining 10 with Sid Griffin
- Worthing UK – Tickets
- The Defining 10 with Sid Griffin
- Jan 27, 2023
- Bob Dylan Tribute (Pat Tierney)
- Edmundi QLD AU – Tickets
- Feb 5, 2023
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