Dylan News Event Of The Year #1: The Bob Dylan Center Opens
A 2022 Year End Countdown From Seven Days in Dylan
Tomorrow we’ll release The Year in Bob Dylan - an annual summary the Seven Days weekly newsletter we started in March of this year. We’ve been previewing this week with a look at the Top Five Dylan News Events of 2022, ranked via our humble and entirely non-scientific opinion.
Our criteria included the amount of press coverage and Dylan community chatter they inspired, their long term impact, and the amount of ‘Nobody But Bob Dylan’ could pull this off that they contain. (The comments on this post are open for discussion and debate.)
#1: The Bob Dylan Center Opens
The world first heard about The Bob Dylan Archives in 2016, but just seven months ago on May 10th The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa opened its doors.
The Bob Dylan Archives opened to academics and researchers a few years ago, and we know that Terry Gans, Clinton Heylin, Anne Margaret Daniel, and John Lewis, and certainly others, have leveraged these resources to share information that was previously unknown. The TU Institute for …