Seven Days: Jan 1-7, 2024

This Week in Bob Dylan

This is Seven Days: the top Bob Dylan news, links and video of the week.

News This Week

Our favorite news & reviews from this week.

• Bob Dylan and the Band Launched Their Reunion Tour 50 Years Ago This Week (Rolling Stone) [5]

  • "Dylan had been off the road for eight very long years at this point, and demand to see his return was so intense that promoters received 5.5 million ticket requests via a cumbersome mail-order system. To put that in perspective, that was four percent of the entire population of America."

• Going Show-By-Show Through Bob Dylan's 1974 Comeback Tour with The Band (Flagging Down The Double E's) [10]

  • "The very first song they performed on Tour ’74, though, was not a hit. It was the deepest cut they performed across all 40 shows. You could argue it’s the deepest cut Bob Dylan has played ever. And that song was…“Hero Blues,” a Freewheelin’ outtake."

• Interview Magazine 1992-2008: Bob Dylan's Heart (Letter In The Ether) [8]

  • "Earlier this year he recorded a new album, his first c…