January 8 - 14, 2023
Seven Days in Dylan News
FRAGMENTS: Bootleg Series 17 PREVIEWS
- Not Dark Yet (Version One) – 1/11/97 Criteria Studios
- The second official track from The Time Out Of Mind Sessions hit the streets like a janitor sweeps this week.
- Video on YouTube – Video at BobDylan.com
- Listen on: Apple Music – Spotify – Tidal
- Press Coverage
- Dylan Unearths Original Not Dark Yet (Rolling Stone)
- Hear Radically Different Not Dark Yet (StereoGum)
- Not Dark Yet Version 1 Review (Cult Following)
- Article in Print Version of New Uncut Magazine
THIS WEEK'S NEWS
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The Inner Life of Transcendent Genius (Quilette)
- “Transcendent genius is not only measured by the extent to which it transforms its chosen medium, but also by its intrinsic quality. The genius cannot only be an iconoclast, he must also be a master. In the case of Dylan, this is a difficult issue, because the oeuvre is not yet fully formed, and there is no indication that his best days are behind him.”
- Daniel Kramer Interview & Photos (The Boston Globe)
- “His poetry. I hadn’t heard that kind of fresh poetry in years. When he was finished, I said: “I want to photograph him.” I called his office; they told me he wasn’t available. I called every day for almost six months.”
- Conner McPherson Interview (The Sunday Times)
- “McPherson went to see Dylan perform in Dublin last November. Yet, bizarrely, the two have never met. Is he OK with that? “I think so. I don’t need to meet him. I’ve spent time on Planet Bob Dylan.”
Blog Posts About Bob Dylan
- Country Pie Pt.7 (Pt.8) (Untold Dylan)
- “I was packing my gear up, I was fixing to leave, and Dylan asked Bob Johnston: where’s he going, and he said he’s leaving, I got another guitar player coming, and then Bob Dylan said nine words that changed my life. He said, I don’t want another guitar player, I want him.”
- Never Ending Tour Classics: When He Returns (Untold Dylan)
- “But fortunately there exists a totally different live version – and this is the piece which if I were convertible to Christianity could be used to convert me.”
- Never Ending Tour Highlights: High Water (Untold Dylan)
- “In fact, this recording operates at so many contradictory levels that it is neigh on impossible to write about (not that this is going to stop me).”
- Cover A Day: Positively 4th Street (Untold Dylan)
- “There is something here about the continuity of the two guitar parts which adds to the sadness and sense of desolation, and the sudden arrival of vocal harmonies in the “come out once and scream it” line, really is a great touch.”
- Cover A Day: Political World (Untold Dylan)
- “Now a sudden key change is often an utterly naff thing to do since it basically says “sorry can’t think of anything else to do” but here, making it the instrumental section in contrast to no overt chord playing before, it works. A clever idea and one that really does add to the whole piece, rather than just being a clever idea.”
- The Wildest Bob Dylan Bootleg Covers (Flagging Down The Double E’s)
- “So, continuing our theme of getting a little weird in January, here are a handful of the more surprising, silly, odd, or wackadoo fan-created covers I found.”
- CDRchive: Dublin 2005 (Flagging Down the Double E’s)
- “His Irish fans didn’t get any setlist shockers on the “Million Dollar Bash” level, but universal acclaim followed the performances nevertheless. “
New Reviews & Releases
- Man In The Long Black Coat (Play The Slow Stuff)
- “The fiery sermon by the preacher, ranting about how conscience is a wayward guide, tries to clue us in. But we’re also told that the stranger quoted scripture as well; maybe he was a little more charismatic about it.”
- Good As I Been To You at 30 (PopMatters)
- “Good as I Been to You breathes more easily than World Gone Wrong. It has more of a spring in its step and a wink in its eye. The performances occupy a more diverse tonal range. They’re multi-dimensional. They bite deeper.”
- Time Out Of Mind (Cult Following)
- “Reverence for Dylan is to understand the intent of his work. Time Out of Mind feels not biographical, but certainly linked with the man behind the music.”
- NEW BOOK: Bob Dylan in the 2020’s (Come Writers & Critics)
- ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS, SHADOW KINGDOM, AND ALL THAT PHILOSOPHY, Tangible Press (10 January 2023), softcover, 192 pages.
- Amazon Link
- Whirly Gig: Inside The Time Out Of Mind Sessions (Book Review – Dylan.FM)
- “Author John Lewis had two secret weapons. First, he was a long-time friend of musician Jim Dickinson, who played a vital role in the recording of Time Out Of Mind. Secondly, he spent several weeks in The Bob Dylan Archives in Tulsa, OK listening to the raw session tapes from the Time Out Of Mind sessions.”
IMAGE OF THE WEEK
NEW PODCASTS
- Tony Garnier on The Bass Shed
- Pod Dylan
- Dreamin of You (Matt Steichen)
UPCOMING EVENTS
- Now to April 30, 2023
- Retrospectrum in Rome (Bob Dylan Art Exhibit)
- Dylan at Maxxi – Romeing
- 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
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Prior Weeks
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