Seven Days: July 23 - 29, 2023
This Week in Bob Dylan
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Top News & Posts
The very best news and posts and reviews and links of the week.
How Bob Dylan inspired, and angered, Sinead O’Connor (Duluth News Tribute)
“O’Connor first remembered hearing Dylan in 1977, when she was 10 years old. “I see from the album cover he’s as beautiful as if God blew a breath from Lebanon and it became a man,” she wrote.”
The Many Sounds of Bob Dylan’s Voice (PopMatters)
“In 2018, Dylan premiered an unadorned ballad version of “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right”. For the first few minutes, Dylan is practically unaccompanied at a piano before a pizzicato double bass and snare-brushed-drum lift and borne the arrangement to its bittersweet coda.”