Seven Days: Jan 8 - 14, 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.

This is the first time every one of our favorites has a quality score of 8 or higher!

• Desire (Pitchfork) [10]

  • "He would never make another record like it—its circumstances being unrepeatable seemingly by design—but in some ways Desire is the most explicit manifestation of the central literary irony of Dylan’s career: that the consummate barometer of social and cultural authenticity can’t be trusted with the facts about anything, least of all himself."

• Hear a Pristine Recording of Bob Dylan’s 1976 Austin Gig That Just Surfaced After 48 Years (Rolling Stone) [8]

  • “I was the audio engineer for this portion of the Rolling Thunder Revue tour,” it read. “While I do not have a complete setlist for both the Mobile, AL and Austin, TX shows, I do have tapes of both shows. However, the songs have been combined into a single tape, so I don’t know which song was performed a…