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Review by David G. Walley, Zygote, 1971
TARANTULA: twenty-five year-old visions of reality/letters to himself and posterity, now here in some other form from miracle xerox. Tarantula--visions of Aretha, soul singer in ...
Bob Dylan: Enter Good-Time Bob
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, October 1997
Bob Dylan: Bournemouth ...
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Interview by Mick Brown, Rock's Backpages Audio, Summer 1984
On how he won't be understood for 100 years, always moving on, Woodstock and wisdom.
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Bob Dylan: The First Interview
Press Release by Billy James, (Columbia Records), October 1961
DYLAN: Well, let me say that I was born in Duluth, Minnesota – give that a little plug. That's where I was born and, uh, ...
Report by Penny Valentine, Disc Weekly, June 1965
IT IS A QUARTER to eight at the BBC studios in London. There is an audience of 300 but the place is very quiet as ...
Bob Dylan: 'Like A Rolling Stone' (CBS)
Review by Penny Valentine, Disc Weekly, August 1965
AND NOW A SIX-MINUTE TREK THROUGH DYLAN-LAND ...
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (American Columbia)
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, September 1965
THOUGHT I'D jump the gun and tell you all about this LP, just issued in the States but not here. Side one starts off with ...
Essay by Al Aronowitz, New York Herald Tribune, December 1965
Bob Dylan picked himself up from the revolving turntable; staggered into an armchair, waved his hands above his head and sat down to watch the ...
Report by Keith Altham, NME Annual, 1966
BOB DYLAN – the undisputed King of Folk. He causes as much controversy personally as do his records. ...
Report by Keith Altham, NME, May 1966
HAIR BRISTLING about like a Fijian suffering from a severe electrical shock, wearing a blue suede jacket and white striped trousers, Bob Dylan meandered into ...
Bob Dylan: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, June 1966
With A Mixture Of Folk, Rock And Comedy, Dylan Shows He Can Take Every Insult But Not A Compliment ...
Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde (CBS)
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, August 1966
"GUILTY UNDERTAKERS sighed..." sings Bob Dylan, somewhat prophetically on his latest folk-rock-rhythm-blues-smash-top-twenty hit. And now, as Bob is lying in hospital with a broken neck, ...
Tom Paine Himself: Understanding Dylan (July 1966)
Book Excerpt by Paul Williams, Outlaw Blues, 1967
PERHAPS THE FAVOURITE indoor sport in America today is discussing, worshiping, disparaging, and above all interpreting Bob Dylan. According to legend, young Zimmerman came out ...
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding (U.S. Columbia)
Review by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, January 1968
BOB DYLAN'S LATEST LP JOHN WESLEY HARDING – A REVIEW IN DEPTH BY NORMAN JOPLING ...
Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding
Review by Charlie Gillett, Anarchy, May 1968
THE PARABLE ON the sleeve of Bob Dylan's new LP should have dissuaded me and all the others who've presumed to discuss the songs on ...
Bob Dylan: We May Never See Him Perform Again
Report and Interview by Karl Dallas, Melody Maker, August 1968
BOB DYLAN is unlikely ever to appear in concerts again. This is my considered opinion after two weeks talking with his friends and business associates ...
Essay by Michael Gray, International Times, October 1968
FROM ROCK to Acid Rock is first a ride to freedom, second an illusion. Rock, the kind of music for which Rosko still does extravagant ...
Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, April 1969
WARMTH INVADES DYLAN RECORDINGNashville Skyline Reveals a More Polished Singer ...
Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)
Review by Mick Farren, Oz, May 1969
SOMEBODY ONCE said that when Bob Dylan first started his career he wanted to be Elvis Presley much more than he wanted to be Woody ...
Bob Dylan: Nashville Skyline (CBS)
Review by Miles, International Times, May 1969
PART THREE of the new-style Dylan saga Is a direct continuation from the previous two albums: Kenny Buttrey (drums) and Charles McCoy (bass) have both ...
Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Geoffrey Cannon, Guardian, The, September 1969
The gospel according to Dylan ...
Bob Dylan, The Band: Isle of Wight Festival
Live Review by Miles, International Times, September 1969
VISITORS to the 2nd Isle of Wight Music Festival at Godshill near Ryde more than doubled the population of the Island, outnumbered the 130 local ...
Local Jew Boy Makes Good: Bob Dylan’s New Morning
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Oz, 1970
NEW MORNING is a breath of clean air in a darkly polluted musical environment. With the prevailing sound being the grinding urban paranoia of the ...
Hyped By Your Heroes: Bob Dylan, Randy Newman
Comment by Charlie Gillett, Record Mirror, July 1970
THE SUMMER of 1970 will go down in the history books as the time when the music of the period finally let loose the truth ...
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan and the Hawks Live At Albert Hall, 1966
Review by Dave Marsh, Creem, June 1971
IT IS THE MOST supremely elegant piece of rock'n'roll music I've ever heard. ...
George Harrison et al: Concert for Bangla Desh, Madison Square Garden, New York NY
Live Review by Mike Jahn, New York Times, August 1971
Raga and Rock Link 2 Cultures ...
Essay by Dave Marsh, Creem, February 1972
PICKS OF THE WEEK: BOB DYLAN, 'GEORGE JACKSON' (Ram's Horn, BMI). Bringing it all back home, the ever-relevant Dylan, who watched the river flow for ...
Essay by Greil Marcus, Let It Rock, March 1973
In the November issue of Let It Rock, Tony White offered some rather hysterical opinions in his Dylan bootleg discography, and Tony Scaduto, author of ...
Column by Mark Shipper, Phonograph Record, December 1973
WELL, 1973 IS gone and a new year is upon us. The only reason I mention that is because some of you are so dunced-out ...
The Flood: Dylan and The Band on Tour ’74
Report by Michael Lydon, unpublished, 1974
"The air was filled with music." – Raymond Chandler ...
Bringing The Garbage Back Home: A.J. Weberman
Report by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, January 1974
A.J. WEBERMAN sprang into the limelight some five years ago, around the time that students and banana-smoking intellectuals everywhere loved to argue about Bob Dylan. ...
Bob Dylan & The Band: Night of the Zimmerman
Report by Barbara Charone, NME, January 1974
CHICAGO, ILLINIOS – land of Lincoln, booming metropolis of the Mid-West, heart of Middle America. Not as sophisticated as New York, nor as small as ...
Bob Dylan: Planet Waves (Asylum)
Review by Loraine Alterman, New York Times, January 1974
Dylan Is His Own Dilemma ...
Review by Nick Kent, NME, February 1974
Planet Waves has so far been received with resounding critical acclaim. Robin Denselow in The Guardian describes it as "an album that ranks with Blonde ...
Bob Dylan & The Band: Knocking On Heaven's Door
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, February 1974
THEY CHEERED and clapped and waved for fifteen minutes even though the house lights were up and 'Greensleeves' was playing through the PA system and ...
Remember Those Fabulous Sixties? An NME Consumer's Guide to Bob Dylan
Guide by Mick Farren, NME, February 1974
Enigma, prophet, fink or sell-out? MICK FARREN looks back over Dylan’s recorded career at a time when argument over the artistic worth — or lack ...
An NME Consumer's Guide to Bob Dylan, Part 2
Guide by Mick Farren, NME, February 1974
CONTINUED FROM PART 1 ...
Review by Simon Frith, Let It Rock, March 1974
WHEN IT COMES to the critical crunch it ain't necessarily the Dylanologists who as the right questions. Sure they knew about Dylan when they were ...
Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, March 1974
HE'S NOT ONLY trying to sing like he used to, he's even surfaced with some more stoned sleeve notes and two or three lines actually ...
Dylan and The Band Return with Planet Waves
Report by John Swenson, Circus, April 1974
When Dylan took the lid off the box he was hiding in, he made the conditions for peeping in very difficult. Now Bob Dylan doesn't ...
Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, April 1974
ME, I LIKE IT. I don't accept the much-aired view that if it had been up to Dylan, he would never have issued an album ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, June 1974
AN APPOSITE QUOTE from Mel Brooks' Blazing Saddles (the town preacher talking): "Oh Lord, can we truly accomplish this great task – or are we ...
Bob Dylan/The Band: Before The Flood (Asylum)
Review by Tom Nolan, Rolling Stone, August 1974
THROUGHOUT BOB DYLAN'S performances on this in-concert album there is evident an effort to match the material – nearly all from much earlier in his ...
Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks (CBS)
Review by Nick Kent, NME, January 1975
Fate on the Skates ...being an exclusive peekaboo into the head of R. ZIMMERMAN via his latest LP of pop songs. Consultant Psychiatrist: NICK KENT ...
Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
Review by Michael Gray, Let It Rock, April 1975
I DON'T KNOW HOW, but some adjustment in our consciousness must now follow from the fact that it is Bob Dylan who has produced, in ...
Nick Kent – A Limey in LA #2: The Day I Shook Bob Dylan's Hand And Other Weird Tales
Report by Nick Kent, NME, April 1975
ALSO INCLUDES: The Dog That Ate The Dog That Ate Los Angeles ...
Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes (CBS)
Review by Mick Farren, NME, April 1975
THE STORY goes that Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the fastest gun of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, distraught at the death of his beloved Lizzy Siddons, had a ...
Bob Dylan & The Band: The Basement Tapes
Review by Ken Barnes, Phonograph Record, September 1975
WHAT WE HAVE here is the most enjoyable Dylan album yet released. ...
Bob Dylan and the Band: The Basement Tapes
Review by Mick Gold, Let It Rock, September 1975
On Blonde on Blonde, Dylan gave us his metaphysical, amphetamine dreams from some smoke-filled apartment in midtown Manhattan. On John Wesley Harding, he synthesized a ...
Dylan's The Basement Tapes – The Best Of The Bootlegs Goes Establishment
Overview by Michael Gross, Circus Raves, October 1975
BOB DYLAN'S ART is his body of work. There are close to twenty legitimate Bob Dylan albums. There is a book, Tarantula, and another of ...
Bob Dylan: Plymouth Memorial Hall, Mass. USA
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
BOB DYLAN'S ROLLING Thunder Revue hit the Plymouth Memorial Hall at 8.20 p.m. on Tuesday November 4.That's Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, by the way, and it ...
Bob Dylan: Million Dollar Bash
Live Review by Barbara Charone, Sounds, December 1975
Bob Dylan and The Rolling Thunder Review: Madison Square Garden, NYC ...
DYLAN does his first radio interview in eight years, and still manages to say nothing
Report by Miles, NME, December 1975
THE NEWS OF A RADIO interview with Bob Dylan, who rarely does such, caused Dylanologists, fans and degenerates to take up their trannies recently to ...
Review by Mick Farren, NME, January 1976
THE RECORD came into the office round about lunchtime. At approximately three forty-five, I went into the review room, turned on the stereo and put ...
Review by Simon Frith, Street Life, January 1976
DESIRE begins with ‘Hurricane’, Dylan’s account of how black boxer Reuben Carter was falsely charged and jailed for murder. I don’t know how many cut ...
Jacques Levy: Dylan's Write Hand Man
Interview by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, January 1976
THOSE WHO have already acquired a copy of Dylan's new album, Desire, will have noticed at least one difference between this and other Dylan records ...
Tom Wilson: The Man Who Put Electricity Into Dylan
Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, January 1976
TOM WILSON is an elegant, very tall (6ft 4in) black American, a former Harvard man who talks a little like Bill Cosby but whose pencil-thin ...
Review by Mick Farren, NME, September 1976
AS SOME OF you regulars out there have probably long suspected, I have a certain difficulty in being strictly objective about the work of Bob ...
Bob Dylan: Journey To The Centre Of The Psyche
Essay by Mick Farren, NME, December 1976
Blonde On Blonde ...
For Dylanologists Only (Otherwise v Boring)
Interview by Miles, NME, July 1977
LAST YEAR Thrills (NME's news pages – RBP Ed) ran a transcript of Bob Dylan's first interview. It was done by Billy James of Columbia ...
Renaldo Zimmerman and the Cubist Movie
Report by Miles, NME, December 1977
WHEN THE ROLLING THUNDER Revue ended two years ago, Bob Dylan took the 400 hours of film footage that had been shot during the tour ...
Book Excerpt by Mark Shipper, Paperback Writer (New English Library), 1978
THE FIRST few months of 1966 were pleasant ones for the Beatles. Meat The Beatles remained at the top of the charts all over the ...
Bob Dylan: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, June 1978
THE CAMERAS panned over a line of deck chairs and sleeping bags sprouting people grinning and flashing peace signs and the man in the ticket ...
Bob Dylan: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, June 1978
MY THEORY was that this Bobby the Zee concert was strictly for nostalgia-lovers, music fans keep clear. ...
Bob Dylan: The View From Seat BB59
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, June 1978
THE FIRST NIGHT it rained, and it seemed that the atmosphere would be nostalgic to the last: all of us in our massed thousands gathered ...
Blackbushe Festival - Nice To See Ya, Bob
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, July 1978
...OR RATHER, IT would have been, but at least we heard him and that made the hassles worthwhile, reports our survivor of the million dollar ...
Bob Dylan: The Forum, Los Angeles
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, Sounds, December 1978
THE 18,000 people who presumably didn't pitch tent early enough to make Dylan's sold-out summer date in L. A. but packed into the Forum this ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, July 1979
AFTER 16 YEARS IN the public eye, growing and developing, quick-cutting and dodging, Bob Dylan carries his catalogue of songs behind him like a bevy ...
Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming (CBS)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1979
THE RELATIONSHIP between rock and religion has always been fraught and filled with tension: back at its Southern rural roots, there was always a serious ...
Bob Dylan: Slow Train Coming (CBS)
Review by Chris Bohn, Melody Maker, August 1979
DYLAN HAS switched roles once too often. We've followed him patiently through his phases as rebellious folk singer, rock and roll outlaw, musing mystic, contented ...
Dylan’s Conversion: We Name the Guilty Men
Essay by Steve Turner, NME, September 1979
Nothing guarantees more scorn in rock’n’roll circles than a man who gets religion. I mean, we pay these guys to visit hell and bring us ...
Bob Dylan: Getting in Touch with Christ (You Know It Ain’t Easy)
Interview by Steve Turner, NME, January 1981
BECAUSE HE DIDN'T preach in between numbers during his recent West Coast concerts and because he sang ‘Like A Rolling Stone’ and ‘The Times They ...
Bob Dylan: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Philip Norman, Sunday Times, June 1981
HE WOULD not be Bob Dylan if he did not make us constantly fear the worst. ...
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, November 1981
BOB DYLAN AND Lenny Bruce once shared a taxi for about a mile and a half. According to Dylan, the ride felt as though it ...
Robbie Robertson: Between Trains
Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, May 1983
QUALITY IS something that Robbie Robertson definitely understands. ...
On Common Ground: Bob Dylan live in Rome
Live Review by Richard Williams, Times, The, June 1984
Richard Williams gets a taste of Dylan as his tour makes its way towards Britain ...
Live Review by Mary Harron, Guardian, The, July 1984
ALL SUMMER, Christians have been performing in football stadiums; first we had Luis Palau, then Billy Graham, and now Bob Dylan. But as it turned ...
Bob Dylan: 'Jesus, Who's Got Time to Keep Up with the Times?'
Interview by Mick Brown, Sunday Times, July 1984
This week Bob Dylan comes to Britain. The folksinger-cum-folk hero of the 1960s has not always had a good reception here. In 1965 purists attacked ...
Bob Dylan: Biograph; Sandy Denny: Who Knows Where The Time Goes
Review by Richard Williams, Times, The, December 1985
NOTHING AS simple as a "greatest hits" collection from the Bob Dylan of 1985, of course. ...
Glitches add spontaneity to Bob Dylan and Tom Petty show
Live Review by Charles Bermant, Globe and Mail, The, 1986
BOB DYLAN FORGOT a lot of the words to his own songs. He blew the payoff line of 'The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll' completely. ...
Gates of Eden Revisited: A Conversation with Bob Dylan
Interview by Toby Creswell, Rolling Stone (Australia), January 1986
IT DOESN'T REALLY matter now whether Bob Dylan is a fundamentalist Christian, anymore than it mattered whether he was going to the Synagogue when he ...
Review by John Mendelsohn, Creem, March 1986
HEARING ABOUT how Stevie I Wonder had to coach him on how to sing like himself on ‘We Are the World’ or watching him and ...
Bob Dylan In Concert - An HBO Special
Film/DVD Review by Geoffrey Himes, Columbia Flyer (Maryland), July 1986
THE RECENT HBO cable TV special, Bob Dylan in Concert, gave us a sneak preview of what we can expect when Dylan arrives in Washington ...
Bob Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded, the Band of the Hand soundtrack, and Peter Case’s debut album
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, The, July 1986
THE POOR SOUND wasn’t the only problem with Bob Dylan’s recent concert in Washington. A far more fundamental problem was the overbearing preachiness and unrelenting ...
Bob Dylan: Times A-Changin’ for a Prophet Who Just Wants to Play
Profile by Steve Turner, Sunday Times, August 1986
When Bob Dylan takes to the stage today at the National Film Theatre in London to face the press, he is unlikely to repeat the ...
Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead: Dylan and The Dead
Review by Edwin Pouncey, NME, February 1989
THIS COULD be a marriage made in heaven or hell, depending on which side of the critical fence you might be sitting. The majority of ...
Review by Andy Gill, Q, October 1989
Prophet in an anorak: Dylan delivers at last. ...
Elizabeth Thomson & David Gutman (eds): The Dylan Companion
Book Review by Mark Cooper, Q, May 1990
DESPITE THE CRITICAL and commercial success of Oh Mercy and the recent Hammersmith shows, the reverence with which Bob Dylan was regarded in the '60s ...
Report by Nick Kent, Vox, October 1990
HIS HOUSE IS FALLING DOWN, HE FREAKS OUT HIS BANDS MAKING UP SONGS MID-GIG, AND HE SPORTS A NICE LINE IN HOODED ANORAKS. BUT WHEN ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Q, October 1990
ONE EASY WAY of telling who the record industry considers to be this year's hot producer is to check the credits of the latest Dylan ...
Bob Dylan: The Song Talk Interview
Interview by Paul Zollo, SongTalk, 1991
"I've made shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot"(‘I and I’) ...
Bob Dylan: 30th Anniversary Concert at Madison Square Gardens
Live Review by Wayne Robins, Newsday, October 1992
BOB DYLAN'S SONG catalogue is so varied and vital that Friday's four-hour concert at Madison Square Gardens barely got the key in the door of ...
Bob Dylan: Acoustic/Good As I Been To You
Review by Mat Snow, Q, December 1992
PERHAPS AN even bigger shock than his 1965 electrification, in 1992 Dylan goes acoustic. And whereas back in '65 the spokesman for his generation was ...
Bobfest: Bringing It All Back To Dylan
Retrospective by Larry Jaffee, High Times, February 1993
He's a pop-culture icon who gave the 1960s counterculture an attitude, a look and a song, 'The Times They Are A-Changin'', that became the anthem ...
Eyewitness: Dylan Turns The Beatles On To Dope
Essay by Al Aronowitz, Q, May 1994
History ahoy! In the second of our new series, journalist Al Aronowitz recalls introducing Bob Dylan to The Beatles and how His Bobness turned the ...
Bob Dylan: Warner Theatre, Washington D.C.
Live Review by Geoffrey Himes, Washington Post, The, October 1994
BOB DYLAN'S show at the Warner Theatre last night was rapidly going down the tubes when the singer suddenly focused himself and turned the second ...
Bob Dylan's back in Britain. Again. Just like he was last year. And the year before that
Profile by Peter Silverton, Daily Express, 1996
John Lennon once said he felt that he'd been born half-American. These days, it seems, Bob Dylan has become a semi-Brit. ...
Bob Dylan: University of Hartford Sports Center, Connecticut
Live Review by Jeff Apter, nyrock.com, April 1997
"BOB'S IN THERE," I overhear some reefer-chugging Dylanspotter in the parking lot say, nodding towards a darkened touring van. Getting a little closer, I couldn't ...
Comment by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, October 1997
WHEN BOB DYLAN hovered briefly between life and death last summer, his heart seemingly about to give in, his condition reported in headlines round the ...
Drop-kicked by Jesus: Bob Dylan's Conversion
Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, December 1997
In which the eternal sceptic did a Damascus and managed an unlikely artistic rebirth. Phil Sutcliffe takes confession... ...
Essay by Paul Williams, Uncut, March 1998
"Oh honey, even after all these years, you're still the one!" – Bob Dylan, 'Can't Wait', December 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20, 1997, El ...
Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison at the Pauley Pavilion, UCLA, Los Angeles
Live Review by Dave DiMartino, MOJO, July 1998
Set List Van Morrison: Sweet Thing/You Make Me Feel So Free/Burning Ground/It Once Was My Life/Cleaning Windows/Vanlose Stairway/That's Life/Days Like This/Sometimes We Cry/Moondance/This Weight/Tupelo Honey/Why ...
Dylan Album Revives Interest in 2 Old Films
Report and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Denver Post, October 1998
IT'S 1966 ALL over again in the world of pop music - and theDenver International Film Festival, which just concluded, was inthe center of it. ...
Bob Dylan: Live 1966 - The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert
Review by Richard Williams, MOJO, November 1998
SO HERE it is, the Holy Grail of rock'n'roll, famed in song and story for a generation, finally on sale at your local record store. ...
Bob Dylan: Live 1966 (Columbia/Legacy)
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore City Paper, November 1998
CALL IT the triumph of the bootleggers. ...
Memoir by Happy Traum, Guitar World, 1999
IN OCTOBER OF 1971, I got a call from Bob Dylan asking me if I'd like record some songs with him for his Greatest Hits, ...
Book Excerpt by Lenny Kaye, David Dalton, Cooper Square Books (reissue), 1999
"I SEE THINGS OTHER PEOPLE DON'T," Dylan once said about himself. "I dissolve myself into situations where I am invisible." Dylan's progress has been a ...
A Crown Jewel of a Show: King Bob and Queen Joni
Essay by Al Aronowitz, Blacklisted Journalist, The, March 1999
I REALLY WOULDN'T know what to say to Bob Dylan if I bumped into him again. I suppose I could talk about our one-time mutual ...
Essay by Andria Lisle, Oxford American, The, Summer 1999
"Oxford Town in the afternoon,Ev’rybody singin’ a sorrowful tune.Two men died ‘neath the Mississippi moon,Somebody better investigate soon.Oxford Town, Oxford Town,Ev’rybody’s got their heads bowed ...
Overview by Gene Sculatti, Scram, 2000
The All-Time Top 10 'Next Dylans': Monkee, Punkers, Bubblegum King: They Wished That For Just One Time They Could Stand Inside His Shoes ...
Bob Dylan: Something Was Happening, But I Didn’t Know What It Was
Retrospective by David Dalton, Gadfly, September 2000
In the spring of 1970, I saw Les Blank’s lush, lyrical intimate documentaries about the blues singers Lightnin’ Hopkins and Mance Lipscomb. They’re amazing films ...
Bob Dylan: Vicar St, Dublin *****
Live Review by Sean O'Hagan, Guardian, The, September 2000
THE 800 TICKETS for this suddenly announced "intimate" show supposedly sold out in 15 seconds. For the select multitude, then, this was a night of ...
Dylan and The Band: Obviously Five Believers
Retrospective and Interview by Andy Gill, Q, October 2000
He took them round the world – to endless booing. They settled in Woodstock, separated, and then reunited for the highest grossing tour of the ...
Bob Dylan: The Point Depot, Dublin
Live Review by Gavin Martin, Uncut, November 2000
YOU CAN trust in Bob, the magnificent minstrel and incredible icon, the prime preserver and arch plunderer of 20th century Americana, to pull a surprise ...
Bob Dylan: September 2000 UK Tour
Live Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, November 2000
"MY HEART'S in the Highlands, where the Aberdeen waters flow," sang Bob Dylan on 1997's gloriously gloomy Time Out Of Mind, "I'm gonna go there ...
Bobquest: In Search of Zimmerman
Book Excerpt by Jill Furmanovsky, Rock's Backpages, 2001
‘Quest’: a search, especially an arduous one, for something that is greatly desired. Example: quest for life's meaning. ...
Rockumentaries on the Biography Channel
Film/DVD Review by Mark Pringle, Mat Snow, Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, March 2001
Not long ago, any glimpse on the box of a great musician was like catching sight of the lesser spotted grebe – all the lovelier ...
Bob Dylan: Well, How Does It Feel?
Profile by Sean O'Hagan, Observer, The, March 2001
There's only one person in pop who is not fascinated by the myth of Bob Dylan – and that's Bob Dylan. Now approaching sixty and ...
The Art of the Ageless Bob Dylan
Retrospective by Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, April 2001
Bob Dylan is approaching his 60th birthday on a tide of adulation. Michael Gray, a long-time Dylan chronicler, considers his lasting appeal. ...
Live Review by Nick Hasted, Uncut, May 2001
'THE PROBLEM OF an artistic life that now moves forward like a shark is there's no time to think' ...
Wild Mercury: A Tale Of Two Dylans
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2001
"Lotta people seeing double tonight.From the disease of conceit"– 'Disease Of Conceit' (Oh Mercy, 1989) ...
Bob Dylan: In My Time Of Dyin'…
Essay by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, June 2001
ON ITS RELEASE IN 1962, BOB DYLAN'S FIRST ALBUM BLEW MINDS ALL OVER THE WORLD. IAN MACDONALD RECALLS ITS IMPACT ON HIS OWN TEENAGE YEARS ...
Bob Dylan: Life Among The Dead
Comment by Richard Williams, MOJO, June 2001
I SUPPOSE you would have to say that 1987 was not a great year for Bob Dylan, or for Bob Dylan's fans. He played harmonica ...
Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
Retrospective by Andy Gill, MOJO, June 2001
AFTER HIS EXTRAORDINARY ACHIEVEMENTS OF the '60s, there should have been no doubt about Bob Dylan's position in the rock firmament. After all, he had ...
Bob Dylan: The End Of Innocence
Retrospective by Jon Savage, MOJO, June 2001
WHAT AFFECTS you in your early teens goes very deep. By the time that you're 18, identity construction is already advanced, but at 11 you're ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2001
IN THE mid-1960's Irwin Silber was editor of Sing Out! magazine, the leading folk periodical in the United States. Here he talks about his personal ...
Bob Dylan: Love And Theft (Columbia/Sony)
Review by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, September 2001
BOB DYLAN turned up unannounced at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Toronto in 1972, looking for Leon Redbone. Redbone was a singer and guitarist who ...
Dylan Hits The Road In An Old Cadillac
Comment by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, September 2001
On his first album of new songs in four years, Dylan's still got plenty to say ...
Review by Wayne Robins, MSNBC.com, September 2001
HOW DO YOU tell the difference between a great new Bob Dylan album and one that's more ordinary? You can't stop playing the great ones ...
Review by Andy Gill, MOJO, October 2001
IT'S BEEN a long time since Bob Dylan released two consecutive albums of top-drawer original material – probably as far back as 1975's Blood On ...
Bob Dylan: Love And Theft (Columbia)
Review by Ian Penman, Uncut, October 2001
ON 1997’s Time Out of Mind, Bob Dylan sounded like a man coming to accounts with himself, with the fact that anything from this point ...
Life and Life Only: Bob Dylan at 60
Retrospective by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, October 2001
HE'S BEEN RECORDING FOR 40 years, 43 albums, never-ending tours. There’s something Shakespearean about the complexity of his work: so many points of view expressed ...
George Harrison et al: Concert for Bangla Desh
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, MOJO, March 2002
The first hi-profile multi-star benefit concert of the post-psychedelic era. Harrison, Dylan and Shankar strut their stuff alongside Clapton, Ringo and Leon Russell. ...
David Hajdu: Positively Fourth Street (Bloomsbury)
Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, April 2002
NOW OUT in paperback, this engrossing account of the intertwined lives of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Mimi Baez Fariña and Richard Fariña from the late ...
Report by Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, April 2002
THE OMENS ARE bad from the start. Take the Stockholm subway to Globen, the stop for the stadium, and you alight in a postmodern mega-estate, ...
On the trail of the Bobcat: Bob Dylan
Live Review by Michael Gray, Daily Telegraph, April 2002
THE OMENS are bad from the start. Take the Stockholm subway to Globen, the stop for the arena, and you alight in a postmodern estate, ...
Book Review by Tim Clifford, Rock's Backpages, May 2002
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (Black Swan)Isis: A Bob Dylan Anthology, edited by Derek Barker (Helter Skelter) ...
Live Review by Richard English, Rock's Backpages, May 2002
Bob Dylan: Brighton Entertainment Centre 4th May LOZZA AND I are in the Standing Area in front of the Brighton Conference Centre ...
Live Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2002
THE PA IN THIS grim, dispiriting venue – outright winner of the industrial-estate self-storage-unit-impersonating-lkea-during-the-sales lookalike contest – has started, somewhat disconcertingly, to blare out 'Fanfare ...
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue
Review by Michael Goldberg, Neumu, December 2002
At long last we get to hear the 24-track recordings from the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue. ...
Bob Dylan: Just Bend Your Mind A Little…
Retrospective by Andy Gill, MOJO, December 2002
BOB DYLAN WAS NOT THE FIRST SONGWRITER to write about – or under the influence of – drugs, though you could be forgiven for assuming ...
Music at Sundance: Dylan, Atlantic and Shane MacGowan
Overview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, May 2003
Bob Dylan’s long awaited Masked and Anonymous debuts at Sundance ...
Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series, Volume 4: Bob Dylan, Live, 1966
Review by Gary Pig Gold, Cosmik Debris (cosmik.com), September 2003
IT SEEMS EVERY time Our Boy Bob scores big with a contemporary piece of new work, he feels secure enough to bless us with another ...
Comment by Martin Colyer, Guardian, The, November 2003
LAST SATURDAY IT was forty years ago that JFK was assassinated. Yet by November 1963, Bob Dylan had already been performing in Greenwich Village for ...
Million Dollar Bash: Dylan and The Band
Retrospective by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, Fall 2003
A LOT OF MUSICIANS have played with Bob Dylan over the last forty-odd years, but none of them has quite had the special relationship with ...
Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde (CBS, 1966)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Uncut, 2004
RADICAL AND then some: a double album in ‘66, with a blurred vertical Bob running horizontally across the sleeve and Nashville sessionmen playing behind a ...
Bob Dylan's Blood On The Tracks: A Critic's Obsession
Essay by Andy Gill, Independent, The, March 2004
TODAY, IN MINNEAPOLIS, a group of musicians will assemble at the Pantages Theater to perform Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks in its entirety. ...
Is It Rolling Bob?: A Reggae Tribute to Bob Dylan
Review by Michael Gray, Observer Music Monthly, August 2004
THE SUBTITLE CONFESSES that all we have here is a concept album – that despite the liner notes claiming that "Jamaica was into Bob Dylan", ...
Bob Dylan: Chronicles: Volume One
Book Review by Toby Creswell, Sydney Morning Herald, November 2004
THERE'S NO WAY that Bob Dylan, after all this time, is going to spill the beans on his life. The high priest of protest makes ...
Bob Dylan: Confessions of a Traveling Tzaddik
Book Review by David G. Walley, New Partisan, December 2004
Bob Dylan: Chronicles, Volume 1 New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, pp. 293, $24 ...
An Interview With The Blacklisted Journalist Al Aronowitz
Profile and Interview by Gary Pig Gold, inmusicwetrust.com, February 2005
Gary "Pig" Gold meets the Man Who Invented the Sixties. ...
Bob Dylan: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Paul Morley, Sunday Telegraph, June 2005
A NIMBLE, SECRETIVE Bob Dylan stares deep into the nowhere he's come from under the brim of a showman's black bolero. He seems to be ...
No Direction Home: Gary Pig Gold meets N.Y. Driven Women # 12 & 35
Report by Gary Pig Gold, earcandymag.com, September 2005
BOB DYLAN'S EX-WIFE sits on the bleachers in a smoky little Hoboken nightclub watching her latest son-in-law belting out his latest demo tape to an ...
The Last Supper Club: On Bob Dylan’s Late Style
Essay by Steve Redhead, Rock's Backpages, 2006
"GOOD EVENING, ladies and gentlemen. Would you please welcome Columbia recording artist, Bob Dylan." ...
Bob Dylan: International Arena, Cardiff
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, Times, The, June 2006
THE CULT OF Bob Dylan stands at its highest point for decades, bolstered by the singer's highly regarded US radio show and superb memoir Chronicles. ...
Bob Dylan: Modern Times (Columbia) ***
Review by Stephen Dalton, Times, The, August 2006
ARRIVING IN THE afterglow of Martin Scorsese's laudatory No Direction Home, Dylan's first album in five years carries the burden of great expectations. But behind ...
Retrospective by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, September 2006
Following Chronicles, the Martin Scorsese documentary and his satellite radio show Bob Dylan's stock in 2006 couldn't be higher. But it's been a long time ...
Knockin' on Dylan's Door: Bryan Ferry
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Flaunt, March 2007
HIPPIES. PERHAPS no other collective of modern countercultural revolutionaries has left a more ambiguous imprint. Dada, Situationism, Punk—all boast fairly intact legacies, the original philosophical ...
From Dylan to The Who: Film-maker Murray Lerner
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, November 2007
Murray Lerner on his new The Other Side Of The Mirror – Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 DVD and the just ...
Bob Dylan's John Wesley Harding
Retrospective by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, December 2007
ON DECEMBER 27, 1967, Columbia Records released the Bob Johnston-produced Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding long player. In January of 1968 it was one of ...
He's Not There: Todd Haynes' Dylan
Essay by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, December 2007
"THE MINUTE you try to grab hold of Dylan, he's no longer where he was. He's like a flame: If you try to hold him ...
Bob Dylan: Stories and Questions
Comment by Kirk Silsbee, Life after 50, March 2008
Well I'll be damned; here comes your ghost again... (Joan Baez, 'Diamonds and Rust') ...
Looking Back At Don't Look Back: Dylan and D.A. Pennebaker
Retrospective and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Cincinnati CityBeat, March 2009
FOR D.A. Pennebaker, the time has come to look back. For the new digitally-remastered "deluxe edition" DVD of his classic documentary Don't Look Back, which ...
Bob Johnston on Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Nashville Skyline
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, May 2009
JUNE 17th MARKS the 40th anniversary of the original Columbia Records release of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album, produced by Bob Johnston. ...
Good As He's Been To You: Bob Dylan's Best Albums
Guide by Mick Gold, Isis, December 2009
Mick Gold makes a personal selection of Dylan's Finest Works. A slightly modified version of an article for the Bobzine Isis. ...
Mike Bloomfield and Bob Dylan: Two Jews Blues, Chapter XI
Book Excerpt by Steve Roeser, unpublished, 2010
Author's note: This is my writing, but the work is mine and Barry Goldberg's together. It is Barry's story of his friendship with Michael (Mike) ...
Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde Vinyl Icon
Retrospective by Johnny Black, Hi-Fi News & Record Review, January 2010
NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, lies 750 miles south west of Bob Dylan's first stomping ground, New York City. It's just a two-hour plane ride but, when Dylan ...
Bob Dylan: 'Bob Knew There'd Be Butting Of Heads'
Retrospective and Interview by Michael Simmons, MOJO, July 2010
HOW DYLAN'S FIRST ALBUM OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL SINCE 1990 BECAME A WAR OF WILLS, AND AN ARTISTIC TRIUMPH. AS TOLD TO MICHAEL SIMMONS. ...
Al Kooper on Bob Dylan's record producers Tom Wilson and Bob Johnston
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, October 2010
"In 1966 Dylan went down to Nashville for Blonde On Blonde He stayed out in the studio 10 or 12 hours. Bob never left it. ...
Izzy Young: The Man Who Made Bob Dylan
Retrospective and Interview by Kris Needs, MOJO, December 2010
NOVEMBER 4, 1962: Bob Dylan is invoking the time-honoured image of the out-of-town rambler lost on New York's convoluted subway system as he nervously attempts ...
Live Review by Mick Gold, Rock's Backpages, November 2011
BOB-CATS PUSHED relentlessly forward against the bar at the front of the former Hammersmith Odeon, hats on their heads. Mark Knopfler was caressing liquid guitar ...
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