Seven Days: Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2023

This Week in Bob Dylan

This is Seven Days: the top Bob Dylan news, links and more of the week. Paid members get a Bonus Edition with 40 more links this week.

NOW ON TOUR:
East Coast US: October 1 - December 3:

• NOW ON TOUR:
  East Coast US: October 1 - December 3:

  • Past Week: Boston MA, Schenectady NY, Montreal QB (Setlists)

  • This Week: Port Chester NY, Providence RI, Waterbury CT (Upcoming)

Covers and Recordings This Week

• Oct 29: Montreal (Dance Me to the End of Love - Leonard Cohen)

• Oct 30: Schenectady (Goodbye Jimmie Reed)

• Nov 3: Boston MA (Mother of Muses / Every Grain of Sand)

  • Brokedown Palace (Severe Whooo's First Few Seconds)

Tour News

• Dylan's Dance Me to the End of Love Review (Cult Following) [8]

  • "Dance Me to the End of Love then, given a neat Rough and Rowdy Ways spin in a similar style to the other covers of Dylan’s tour lineup, is a real treat. Dylan now has the gruff and thick voice necessary to deliver justice to this piece."

• At the Orpheum, Bob Dylan does Bob Dylan Things (The Boston Globe) [8]

  • "Planted at a piano for the duration — where it was easy to miss the sparkles on his pants, a wink of showmanship from a man who barely addressed his audience the entire night — Dylan at times recalled no one so much as John Lee Hooker, with both his playing and his singing operating on their own primal sense of time.

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News This Week

Our favorite news & reviews from this week.

• A multitude of musical excellence brings Al Kooper into the Rock & Roll Hall Fame (Cleveland_com) [3]

  • "That luck played out during the June 1965 sessions in New York where Kooper found himself creating the organ riff for Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone.”

• How Does Dylan Write His Songs? (Dylanology) [10]

  • "I will break my answer down into three main issues: (a) the general harmonic language of pop song, particularly Dylan’s version of pop song; (b) the specific genres and styles that Dylan relates most directly to; (c) and Dylan’s own particular idiosyncracies, including a full-scale masterclass in songwriting by the man himself."

• Halloween at Philharmonic Hall 50 Years Later (Peter Stone Brown) [8]

  • "Listening to the album today, the thing I noticed is how clearly Dylan articulated each word emphasizing the lyrics. For the past five decades, comics imitating Dylan will mumble incoherently usually in the Blonde On Blonde voice, as well as critics who clearly weren’t paying attention saying they couldn’t understand him when in reality he was making his words quite clear."

• The Story of the Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Musical (Classic Rock) [8]

  • 2006 from Twyla Tharp, Not 'Girl From The North Country'

  • "When he called to suggest that we collaborate on a dance musical, it was clear that I would be filling in most of the dotted lines. And that was a blinking yellow light, for Dylan's catalogue is massive."

• How Heaven’s Door Captured the Spirit of Bob Dylan (Moodie Davitt Report) [8]

  • "Marc got in touch with Bob Dylan’s manager. They began discussing and Marc presented the Heaven’s Door concept, which Dylan loved. That was the genesis of where we are today. So the brand started in 2017 and we started shipping the same year. It has performed exceptionally well, winning numerous awards.

• The Data-Spew About Bob Dylan Never Ends (The Spectator) [5]

  • Book Review: Heylin’s Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol.2

  • "He was also something of a misogynist. ‘I hate to see chicks perform,’ he told Rolling Stone in 1987. ‘Hate it. Because they whore themselves. Especially the ones that don’t wear anything. They whore themselves.’ Rolling Stone omitted that quote. Heylin, to his credit, does not."

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New Podcasts This Week

The latest streaming Dylan shows. Most links to Apple Podcasts

• Pod Dylan

  • Heart of Mine (Mia Tillery)

• The Dylantates

  • Underrated Dylan (Million Dollar Bash Roundtable)

• Penn's Sunday School

  • How Not To Act At The Dylan Center (Penn Jillette)

• The CAT Club

  • The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol.2 (Clinton Heylin)

• Song Lyric Meanings

  • Like A Rolling Stone

• Worst Podcast On Mars

  • Blood On The Tracks

• Living Compass

  • You Gotta Serve Somebody

• Buffalo Happy Hour

  • Heaven's Door Ascension Bourbon Review

• My Back Pages

  • All Perkins on Dobro with Bob Dylan

• The 1937 Flood Watch Podcast

  • Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You

• WTTS In Conversation

  • Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show (Co-Author of Wagon Wheel)

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Upcoming Events

Selection from our constantly updated Bob Dylan Events Calendar

• Nov 6 (Los Angeles CA) - Cat Power Sings Dylan

• Nov 7 (Los Angeles CA) - Cat Power Sings Dylan

• Nov 8 (Los Angeles CA) - Cat Power Sings Dylan

• Nov 10 - Dec 12 (Various Cities) - Last Waltz Tour

• Nov 12 (Woodstock GA) - Tangled Up In Blue New

• Nov 12 (Tulsa OK) - Wings of Night Sky (Film) New

• Nov 16 (Tulsa OK) - Tens Songs - Complete Budakon

• Nov 25 (Philadelphia) Dylan/Petty Tribute Show

• Feb 14 (New York NY) - Cat Power Sings Dylan

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Bob Dylan for Sale

New, Upcoming, Interesting, or On Sale

• PRE-ORDER: The Complete Budakon 1978

  • 4CD Deluxe (Amazon) | Vinyl (CD Japan)

  • 2LP Version (NEW @ Amazon)

• Mixing Up The Medicine (The Bob Dylan Center)

  • SALE: $70 (@ Amazon)

  • Signed Copies via The Dylan Center

• NEW: Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan (Vol.2) (Michael Gray)

  • Yonder Comes Sin: Dylan's Gospel Period And All of His 1980s Work

  • Paperback | Kindle (Amazon)

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Photo Of The Week

Bob Dylan in Boston MA, 2023 - Photo © Duncan Hume.

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