This is our roundup of everything important that happened in the world of Bob Dylan over the last seven days. Here’s what you need to know:.
Best Dylan Links This Week
Rare Photos of Baby Bob Dylan Surface (Duluth News Tribune)
"Readers have submitted two rarely seen photos, including one of young Bobby Zimmerman with three generations of his mother's family."
Dylan Learns To Lead A Band (Peter Stone Brown)
"When Dylan finally decided to drop the background singers and all that excess and go out with a little four-piece band, at first with G.E Smith, there was stuff to like and some interesting transitions happened like going right from Most of The Time into Watchtower."
What You See is Not What You Get - Shadow Kingdom (Johnny Borgan)
"In Plato’s allegory of the cave, trying to explain the human condition, he describes the prisoners who are forced to just look at the shadows at the wall to understand what’s happening, not being able to see what’s really going on behind them, neither the fire nor the puppets used to make the shadows. One could possibly say that they are living in a shadow kingdom? "
Best Served Naked: Bob Dylan's Art (PopMatters)
"The musical revolution that Dylan led in the mid-’60s had its roots in the Beat culture of the ’50s and its principles of free expression. However, Its first stirrings date back to New York City during World War II."
Talking With Dylan's Mom (Powerline)
"As it turned out, we had better seats than Bob’s mother, Beatty Rutman, who was sitting with our friends the Applebaums about two-thirds of the way back in the auditorium. I wondered what she was thinking when Bob played “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” that night. I later got a chance to chat with Mrs. Rutman at a party Sid and Lorraine Applebaum threw at St. Paul’s old Hillcrest Country Club in the mid-1970’s. Beaming with a mother’s pride, she gladly talked about Bob."
New Review: Bob Dylan (Brutally Honest Album Reviews)
"Perhaps the most committed vocals of this entire discography. There would be times in the future when he would affect a cool detachment in his singing. There would be times fifty years later when his vocals would be little more than a gruff croak. But his singing inhabits these songs in a way they wouldn’t in any of the many albums to come."
Top 10 Dylan Releases By Value (Goldmine)
"Released worldwide in 1973, the rarest of all the single’s international incarnations is probably the Thai EP which, incredibly, included the song alongside hits by the DeFranco Family, Conway Twitty and Marie Osmond, inside a full-color sleeve depicting Dylan alone. But even novelty cannot push its current value beyond $150."
Songs Requests For The Upcoming European Tour (Pt.2) (Untold Dylan)
"Ring Them Bells: Dylan himself has not performed this song live as much, nor so recently as Lightfoot did. He did it about 25 times live and the last time in 2005. That last performance was also in
Europe."
Bob Dylan Birthday Media
Dylan’s birthday is no longer just creating birthday concerts, it’s a press event now too.
May 24 Horoscopes for Bob Dylan (The Reporter)
"Cover as much ground as possible.)
82 Comic Book Dylan References (CBR)
"We pay tribute to Bob Dylan's 82nd birthday by spotlighting 82 times that comic books have referenced Bob Dylan over the years."
Talking With Dylan's Mom (Powerline)
"As it turned out, we had better seats than Bob’s mother, Beatty Rutman, who was sitting with our friends the Applebaums about two-thirds of the way back in the auditorium. I wondered what she was thinking when Bob played “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)” that night. I later got a chance to chat with Mrs. Rutman at a party Sid and Lorraine Applebaum threw at St. Paul’s old Hillcrest Country Club in the mid-1970’s. Beaming with a mother’s pride, she gladly talked about Bob."
Charlie Daniels Did It Dylan Style (Cowboys & Indians)
"Back in 2014, country music icon Charlie Daniels tipped his Stetson to another legendary artist, Bob Dylan, by recording Off the Grid — Doin’ It Dylan, a well-received and irresistibly entertaining album featuring The Charlie Daniels Band’s unique takes on ten Dylan-penned songs."
Dylan Places (Smithsonian)
"In celebration of his 82nd birthday this May 24, here are 11 landmark Bob Dylan sites you can visit."
His War on Power Echos (Empire Diaries)
"Dylan’s dismissive answer to the most pertinent question one could ask him at that time defined his character and philosophy – disdain for the corporate press; disrespect for the social order; suspicion of the elite; and extreme anger towards Empire."
His 10 Most Jewish Songs for His Birthday (Forward)
"Ha-Va-Na-Gee-La"
Happy Birthday Bob Church Service (Dylanology)
"Ten years ago today, the local church where I was living in Copenhagen at the time arranged its first Dylan service, where the priest and the organist stepped aside and left the stage to local musicians and their interpretations of Dylan’s songs."
Happy Birthday Mr. Dylan (Johnny Borgan)
"So, one more year has already passed, and we can still be happy to be alive as the same time at this very special artist, busy being born, not busy dying. There are surely more masterpieces waiting, just around the bend."
Unravelling Dylan Impossible (Telegraph Online)
"As Bob Dylan turns 82, the questions keep piling up. Why is he still on the road? And why is he hiding behind a piano on stage while singing his songs? Why, why, why? Who? When? Will we ever know? No."
The Best Albums Became Possible (Fatherly)
"Believe in Zimmerman! On May 24, 1941, the best thing that ever happened music, ever, was born.
The Best Dylan Song For Every Decade (The Hindustan Times)
"Along the way, he’d change his name, move to New York, redefine protest songs, anger a lot of people by going electric, introduce The Beatles to Mary Jane, jam for a newly-born Bangladesh, find Jesus, ignore Woodstock in his backyard, star in ads, inspire Bengali atheists to use his lyrics for alpana.."
82 Reasons Why Dylan is The Greatest (Far Out)
"You see, Mr Mozart might be considered a virtuoso akin to the Albert Einstein of the arts, but aside from a microscopic coterie of the European elite between 1761 and 1791 (his first and last concerts), nobody ever heard the little pompous prodigy with the pompadour play."
Listen To 10 Songs Dylan Rejected (Telegraph India)
"Dylan’s habit of leaving out some of his best songs from his studio albums has agonised and befuddled fans for ages. The reasonsbehind these exclusions are known only to him."
18 Covers for Dylan's Birthday (Greg Mitchell)
Billy Strings Delivers Three Dylan Covers (Jam Bands)
Image Of The Week
81 Years Ago, A 1-year old Bob Dylan pictured with his Mother, Grandmother and Great-Grandmother (newly discovered photo),
New Podcasts
New Dylan Streams
Dylan.FM
Pod Dylan
Baby Stop Crying (Rhodri Evans)
Hard Rain & Slow Trains
Upcoming Events
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June 2-4: The World of Bob Dylan (Tulsa) NEXT WEEK!!
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New Video
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Album:
Books
Mixing Up The Medicine (The Bob Dylan Center)
Retrospectrum - Dylan's Painting, Drawing Sculpture (Amazon)
Bob Dylan in Minnesota (K G Miles & Co-Authors)
12 Rounds With Bob Dylan (Richard Westlein)
Full Weekly Link List (By Category)
Below are all the interesting Dylan links from the last seven days. Divided into News, Blog Posts, Reviews & Releases. We look at everything filter out anything old, toss everything low quality, sort, and include samples from each article.
This week there are 29 additional links this week. 8 More News Items. 13 More Blog Posts. 6 More Reviews. 1 More Video. Members get ‘em all.