Dylan News Event Of The Year #5: The Ionic Original Recording

A 2022 Year End Countdown From Seven Days in Dylan

On Saturday December 31, 2022 we’ll publish a special Year-End Edition of our ‘Seven Days’ newsletter, highlighting the most interesting Bob Dylan news, blog posts, new releases, podcasts, videos, and more.

Building to that, on Monday through Friday this week, this series of posts will count down the top five news events in the World of Bob Dylan (in 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.)

#5: The Ionic Recording of Blowin’ In The Wind

Anytime Bob Dylan goes into a recording studio, it's important. But when he goes in at the age of 80, with T Bone Burnett, to re-record five of his most classic songs it's a huge deal. And when all of this is done with the intent of changing the technology on which we listen to recorded m…