Seven Days: Aug 13 - 19, 2023
This Week in Bob Dylan
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Top News & Posts
Our favorite news, posts, reviews (w/links) of the week.
Bob, Robbie, & Robert (Spectator)
"They became the voice of the sequestered Dylan, the Dylan of the post motor bike accident work which saw the first version – rhapsodic and blending the different traditions of country and rock music – of ‘I Shall be Released’."
"It was 1962. “I had wanted to make a painting for him, to put out into the world to help his career,” Marden recalled in an interview for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2015. “By the time I got this painting finished, Bob [Dylan] was, like, very, very famous. He didn’t need my help.”
Bob Dylan's "Blood"-y Minnesota Musicians Finally Get Their Flowers (Houston Press)
"Now, imagine you were part of a group of studio musicians who appear on half of the album’s ten tracks, but your name appeared on no o…