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“Duquesne Whistle” – official first single from Tempest by Bob Dylan

It's Bob Dylan's newest hit record, and you can listen to the whole thing via this post at NPR. I ...

Narrow Way (and The Darkest Hour is Just Before Dawn)

One of the songs on Bob Dylan's upcoming album, Tempest, is called "Narrow Way." I haven't heard it yet, so ...
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The buzz goes on for Bob Dylan’s Tempest

Tempest by Bob Dylan on vinyl LP Update 9/10/2012: My own review of Tempest is here. ... More music journalists ...
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“Early Roman Kings” fiasco!

Alright: "fiasco" is way too strong a word to use for the current situation surrounding "Early Roman Kings," the first ...
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Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone on Tempest

Mikal Gilmore talked to Bob Dylan for Rolling Stone about his forthcoming album, Tempest. I assume that what has been ...
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Writer made up Bob Dylan quotes; resigns from New Yorker

Why make up quotes from Bob Dylan? There are few figures in popular culture of the past 50 years who ...
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World anticipates a Tempest (and also a new Bob Dylan album)

It's a kind of marketing with which we're becoming familiar from the Bob Dylan "camp": rumors of a new album ...
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Tempest by Bob Dylan on vinyl

Tempest by Bob Dylan on vinyl LP As expounded upon before, I'm not an advocate of vinyl purely for its ...
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Tempest: New Bob Dylan album due on September 11th, 2012

The official word on the forthcoming Bob Dylan album, titled Tempest, has come via a press release at BobDylan.com. There's ...
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Bob Dylan makes like Liberace on new tour

The big news from the first few dates of Bob Dylan's current concert tour in Europe is that his main ...
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Shlomi Shaban: Mama, You Been on My Mind

This is something a little different. A pianist and singer named Shlomi Shaban sings Bob Dylan's "Mama, You Been on ...
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Sure was glad to get out of there alive: Bob Dylan receives Medal of Freedom at White House [video added]

There was more than a little bit of "Day of the Locusts" about the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony at ...
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2012 Medal of Freedom ceremony at 3:25 p.m. today on C-Span

[Update: My brief take on how the ceremony went is here.] C-Span now has a page up dedicated to the ...
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Birthday Boy Bob Dylan: King of YouTube?

Today is Bob Dylan's 71st birthday. He was born in 1941; that was the year they bombed Pearl Harbor, and—as ...
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Bob Dylan to receive Medal of Freedom on May 29th

[Update: My brief take on how the ceremony went is here.] Reuters reports that this year's Presidential Medal of Freedom ...
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“I Believe In You” – Sinead O’Connor (1999)

I hadn't seen or heard this particular performance until today. You may think what you like about Sinead—personally I wish ...
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Monterrey, Music and Murder

Bob Dylan just finished up his latest tour—or the latest leg of what people call his Never Ending Tour—with four ...
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Bob Dylan to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

[Update: My brief take on how the ceremony went is here.] Just announced today. Bob Dylan is one of thirteen ...
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“down with you sam” by Bob Dylan

Just for the record, and because I've been asked about it, here are the full twenty-odd lines of the particular ...

God’s Problem with Bob Dylan (and with Us)

Late last year, author Ron Rosenbum gave a lecture at Stanford University titled "Bob Dylan's God Problem—and Ours." More recently, ...
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Blood on the Tracks: The Movie

There's been a story promulgating itself out there for a few days now about how a production company has been ...
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“You’re Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go”: A new standard?

I've just noticed that in the wake of Miley Cyrus's popular (and genuinely quite fine) cover version of Bob Dylan's ...
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Bob Dylan, election night 2008, etc.

Thanks to John W. who forwards me a recent interview with Greil Marcus in a Minnesota paper. He thought this ...
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David Hidalgo reports on new Bob Dylan album

Just the other day there was news of yet another Bob Dylan boxed set to be released in the near ...