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News This Week
Our favorite news & reviews from this week.
Two Nights in Nashville (Flagging Down) [8]
"I usually focus on the individual songs, “Watching the River Flow” through “Every Grain of Sand.” This song was better on night one. That song he mumbled the lyrics of. I preferred the 2022 arrangement. Et cetera. But that’s not really how Dylan presents them live. It’s more like one 115-minute composition. One big song."
Two Nights in Memphis (Flagging Down) [8]
"These shows were special for many reasons. Hearing Dylan sing “Big River” on the banks of Mississippi right near Sun Studios where Cash recorded it and the spring tour new arrangements were certainly highlights. However, what stood out to me in particular was Dylan’s voice—the tenor, clarity, emotion, and strength."
Nashville Skyline: Dylan at Brooklyn Bowl, March 26 & 27 (Jukebox Graduate) [8]
"Both shows were very very good but Tuesday’s was definitely at a different level than Wednesday’s; there was a buzz and an electricity on Tuesday I can still conjure when I close my eyes; it’s still real, it’s still tangible."
Timothée Chalamet’s 60s-Inspired Chelsea Boots Help Him Channel Bob Dylan for ‘A Complete Unknown’ (Footwear News) [5]
"Chalamet’s outfit was spot on for the 1960s, which is when the film is set. Though the Chelsea boot was trendy as recently as the late 2010s, dubbed by some communities as the “Brunch shoe,” it’s more inextricably linked with its time as a menswear staple of the 1960s."
Real Life Rock Top 10, March 25, 2024 (Letter In The Ether) [5]
"In this ten-and-a-half-minute video, Buckley dramatizes one of the many things “Ain’t Talkin’,” from Dylan’s 2006 Modern Times, might be: a nihilist Western, a dead-man-walking version of the 1967 spaghetti Western God Forgives . . . I Don’t! except that in “Ain’t Talkin’” God is dead."
Being Bob (Literary Review) [8]
Chronicles Review "Quite how much his audience wanted him to be their man, and the toll their passion exacted upon him, is the theme of the second section. Here is Dylan holed up in Woodstock, trying to find some semblance of domestic happiness with his young family, while interlopers, spooks, trespassers and moochers clamour at his door, demanding that he ‘stop shirking [his] duties as the conscience of a generation’."
New Podcasts This Week
The latest streaming Dylan shows. Most links to Apple Podcasts
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Twenty Questions (Jason Emde)
The Dylantantes
Watching The Covers Flow
Stars Over The Prairie
The Dylantantes
Word In Your Ear
Phil Manzanera Dylan Story (at 31:00)
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
Listening To Greatness
The Audio Book Show
The Dylan Hours
Upcoming Dylan-Related Events
Selection from our constantly updated Bob Dylan Events Calendar
Apr 5 Columbia MD The Bob Band
Apr 6 (San Pedro CA) Jack of Hearts w/Scarlet Rivera
Apr 27 Greenbelt MD The Bob Band
May 17 (New York, NY) Birthday Bash (Jeff Slate)
May 24 (Marlboro, NY) Birthday Bash (Jeff Slate)
May 24 Cumberland MD The Bob Band
May 21-26 (Duluth MN) Dylan Fest
May 23 (St Kilda AU) B-Day Tribute
May 23 (Donnerstag GY) B-Day Tribute NEW
May 24 (Bendigo AU) B-Day Tribute
May 24 (Cumberland MD) B-Day Tribute NEW
May 25 (Rockville MD) B-Day Tribute NEW
May 25 (Upway AU) B-Day Tribute
May 26 (Warrnambool AU) B-Day Tribute
May 30 (Toronto CAN) B-Day Tribute
May 31 (Dublin IR) Bob Dylan Roadshow NEW
Through Mar 24 (Adalaide AU) A History of Bob Dylan
July 4 (Lyme Regis UK) The Songs of Bob Dylan
Through Aug 18 (Various Cities) Girl From The North Country
Chrome Horse - Tribute Shows - Regular Dates in US
Simply Dylan - Tribute Shows - Regular Dates in UK
Photo of The Week
Complete outtakes from Dylan's contribution to We Are The World now available.
New Dylan-Related Video
Timmy as Bob Photo/Video Compilation
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Thanks as always for bringing all the news together in one place, although I did notice that there’s one podcast missing from this round up 😉