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'Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members' out June 27. many.bio/pledging
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Ray Padgett
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As the first leg of the Outlaw Tour winds down, @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social reports in from Dylan playing Woodstock (sort of) in Bethel, NY last night.
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Jumping back 40 years for another new 'Real Live' anniversary interview. UK superpromoter Harvey Goldsmith talks Tour '84, plus organizing Bob's biggest crowd ever in '78, Live Aid, BobFest, Last Waltz, and the time Dylan busted him sneaking out of a show early.
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My review of last night's Bob show in Mansfield—and, more importantly, Ella's. In which good questions are raised like "Why is the camel frowning?"
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I’ve been obsessed with the story of Arthur Baker’s forgotten remixes for Bruce Springsteen’s BORN IN THE USA & was thrilled to have the chance to do a deep dive (including a chat with Baker) for NPR: www.npr.org/2024/07/02/n...
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Jesse Jarnow reports in from Dylan's Outlaw Tour show last night at Jones Beach! "It was just fun music, fun to play, fun to sing, fun to hear, with no one laughing more than Dylan, seemingly cracking himself up with his own vocal delivery."
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Roy Kelly
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Terrific interview put out there by Mr Padgett who’s a public service, or maybe a Boblic service.
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Last night when the Outlaw Tour hit Syracuse, Bob Dylan brought out what has to be one of his only guest HARMONICA players ever: Willie Nelson's longtime bandmate Mickey Raphael! Stewart Wiseman was on the scene and shares his report and videos:
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My conversation with the late, great Kinky Friedman about all the times he sang, toured, and played chess with Bob Dylan. Some lines in here that couldn't have come from anyone else. RIP
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Many places to buy the book (hardcover/paperback/ebook) here: many.bio/pledging
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Pledging My Time came out one year ago today! To celebrate, I've released one interview from its pages. Bob Dylan's gospel-era guitarist Fred Tackett talks three years of protests, Jerry Garcia sit-ins, and jamming with Dylan on "Rainbow Connection"
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Awful. God love the wayback machine for sure but you need to know the original links. Not a substitute for just paying the relative peanuts to keep this stuff online.
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Our Man in Raleigh Jon Wurster reports in from Outlaw Tour night three! “He’s like your grandfather, but he’s in The Fall.”
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Our Man in Charlotte @adamchicago.bsky.social reports in from a wild second night of the Outlaw Tour. 9 out of 14 songs diff than night one. First “Shooting Star” in a decade, more never-played-before covers, more Tempest. Plus a full tape.
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Wild n crazy Dylan setlist last night. As always, @raypadgett.bsky.social is here with the crucial details. www.flaggingdown.com/p/last-night...
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Meetup in Gilford NH? If you all start walking now you can get there by mid-September. cc @carynrose.bsky.social
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Show report from the plane ride home. Wild covers, surprising originals brought back after years, and a whole lotta Tempest. Easily the most bizarre, unexpected Dylan show I've ever seen.
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Previewed the Outlaw Tour kickoff by looking back at all the times Bob and Willie have sung together, from Django tunes on the Pat Garrett set in Mexico to talking golf with Huey Lewis during "We Are the World." Will we get more collabs this summer?
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Visions of Roseanna
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Dylan/Santana 1984 tour 40th anniversary celebration continues! Today, official tour photographer Guido Harari shares some photos and stories—including how Bob picked the 'Real Live' cover photo from his reject pile
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I interviewed booking agents, tour managers, and other experts about the Black Keys debacle and why some high-profile arena tours are struggling to sell tickets right now. New piece for Stereogum:
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Kicking off a 'Real Live' anniversary series! 40 years this month since Bob's 1984 stadium tour with Santana. First up: An interview with one of the promoters who worked with Bill Graham to put it on—then years later helped tell Dylan he'd won the Nobel:
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John Bull
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In 1994 the Pet Shop Boys were invited to perform 'Go West' at the Brit Awards.
They agreed and brought with them 3 separate choirs of miners. Some of those miners had marched with the gay and lesbian members of LGSM in the 1980s. It is one of the great, near-lost music moments
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Another real esoteric newsletter today, for true heads only. Songs Bob Dylan ALMOST covered—even wrote 'em on his stage setlists—but never actually did. Like an alternate-universe history where he's belting "City of New Orleans" down in South America
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Figures. No escaping them up here.
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Thanks! Digging the TAB posts. Didn’t know Russ Lawton was in the band, he’s constantly popping up at shows here. I like this organ-drum dup Soule Monde he’s in that plays around a lot
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How did Bob Dylan end up on this lineup?
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Debuted a new series today, looking at a Dylan song's changing live arrangements over the years. Wanted to start with a relatively easy one: "Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum." Only a few rearrangements—but some quite dramatic. Other songs I should tackle?
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Saving this real screen my real television I paid real money for as a reaction image
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Jeff Slate
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27 years today since we lost Jeff Buckley. I remember sharing the stage with him at Sin-e in the East Village like it was... Well, a lifetime ago. Safe travels to a one of a kind.
A few years ago I remembered him for Rock Cellar Magazine.
rockcellarmagazine.com/jeff-buckley...
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Tim Onion
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oh my god
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Happy 'Hard Rain' anniversary to those whose celebrate! My new interview with the show's production director, featuring the immortal line: “Who the fuck cut up Bob Dylan's paintings of Christ?”
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Bummer! What happened?
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30 years ago today, Dylan plays backed—for the first time ever—by a full orchestra. In Japan alongside Joni Mitchell, Bon Jovi, INXS, and a host of Japanese stars.
Dylan told EP Tony Hollingsworth it was the best he'd sung in years. New interview: www.flaggingdown.com/p/bob-dylan-...
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For Bob's birthday week, two new interviews about two historic performances headed to your inbox Tell your friends to subscribe! (or upgrade your own subscription to support the cause?)
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Michael O’Donoghue’s guide to parenting
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'Blood on the Tracks' in the 90s, today in the newsletter (Reminder: A perk of being an annual subscriber is you can assign me a show to do!)
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Zach Schonfeld
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Up until the end, he was still fighting like a motherfucker against music industry greed and corporatization
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JonT
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And I quote, "THAT IS COMMENTARY, MOTHERFUCKER."
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Where do I find a payphone that accepts Chinese Traveling Wilburys phone cards?
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Franz Nicolay
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Thrilled to say that my third book, "Band People: Life and Work in Popular Music," is coming Sept. 10 on University of Texas Press. Pre-orders are available wherever you buy books (some links in the comments)!
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On this date in 1976, the Rolling Thunder Revue played Mobile (you'll never guess what song Bob busted out for the occasion). New soundboard dropped a few months ago:
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Jerry Lee Lewis seems thrilled by the label’s idea to promote his new single
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Wow William has really upgraded his stage set
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Happy birthday Jim Keltner! 82 and still kicking ass.
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Today's newsletter on a reader-requested show from right after Dylan finished recording Time Out of Mind (but before anyone knew about it). Plus Larry's 8th show and the live debut of "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" 30 years after he wrote it
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"The first word out of Bob's mouth was, 'Where did you go Dickie?' I said, 'Well, Tony Garnier--' He said, 'This is MY band. Don't leave the stage again.'" At a New Orleans show 21 years ago today! (and my first ever interview with a Dylan collaborator for the newsletter)
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New interview: Joe Romersa talks recording Dylan (singing backup vox on a cover of his own song) and helping Bob audition new guitarists alongside Heartbreakers bassist Howie Epstein. Also the time Bob thought he met the ghost of Elvis
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PS. Note the "Photo by" credit
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Love how for the Creem feature where musicians were supposed to show off their cool cars Devo posed with the Akron city bus
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Just realized this place is literally called Bluesky. We’ll call it an inadvertent Dickey tribute.
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