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Bob Dylan: 31 October 2009 - Chicago

by David Masciotra

[20.Nov.09] :. On Halloween night when Bob Dylan and his band took the stage at the Aragon in Chicago, the audience members, some of whom were clad in costume, erupted in wild applause.

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Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart

by Joshua O'Neill

[19.Oct.09] :. Bob Dylan goes awassailing.

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Column: Busted Headphones

The Messengers

by Quentin B. Huff

[12.Oct.09] :. K'naan's The Messengers series is a trilogy of episodes designed to highlight the genius of Nigeria's Fela Kuti, Jamaica's Bob Marley, and the United States' Bob Dylan.

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Bob Dylan + Willie Nelson + John Mellencamp: 28 July 2009 - Durham, NC

by Wilson McBee

[11.Sep.09] :. Who would deny the appeal of the Willie Nelson/John Mellencamp/Bob Dylan ballpark tour, even after we agree that Mellencamp doesn't belong with such a distinguished duo?

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Capsule Reviews

Jay Brannan: In Living Cover

by Jer Fairall

[20.Aug.09] :. On In Living Cover, Brannan wisley scales back to a low-pressure coffeehouse setting where he is free to test out his own material amidst a selection of his well-worn favorites.

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Books Review

So Long as Men Can Breathe by Clinton Heylin

by Kevin Shaw

[21.Jul.09] :. It’s entirely refreshing to read about Shakespeare without the hushed tone of literary sanctity, while preserving the rigors of good research.

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Just Say No to Dylan

by Joseph Kugelmass

[4.May.09] :. Dylan's new album of rough-and-ready love songs, Together Through This, is proof that he needs a little nudge back onto a darker path.

Bob Dylan catches a 10-song case of the blues

by Dan DeLuca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[27.Apr.09] :. Back in 2006, when everybody else was pretending that everything was OK, Bob Dylan knew better. “The buying power of the proletariat has gone down,” he croaked on...

Bob Dylan: Together Through Life

by Michael Metivier

[27.Apr.09] :. If older artists have a tendency to look backward and most young ‘uns to aim grasp at the future, Dylan’s gift has been to make hay of those distinctions and set himself apart from either generational trend.

Forever Young: Bob Dylan’s book for Jonah

by Kirby Fields

[24.Apr.09] :. Kirby Fields shies away from adding celeb-authored books to his brand new baby's library. Until he spies "Dylan" on one very important kid-lit spine.

The Felice Brothers: Yonder is the Clock

by Zach Schonfeld

[15.Apr.09] :. The Felice Brothers’ latest effort is a looser affair -- far more The Basement Tapes than Blood on the Tracks -- yet still mirrors their self-titled in both its strengths and flaws. Where’s the growth?

Bob Dylan Never Ending Tour Diaries: Drummer Winston Watson’s Incredible Journey

by Guy Crucianelli

[7.Apr.09] :. If, as Kris Kristofferson said of Bob Dylan, "The guy's got so many sides he's round", this new DVD release shows what it's like to be in Dylan's orbit.

Waltzing with Wilco

by Ben Rubenstein

[7.Apr.09] :. As any experienced concert-goer knows, a lively audience can mean the difference between a lackluster event and a memorable night. Sometimes, it’s more important than the band's actual performance.

“The Dust of Rumors Covers Me”

by Justin Brooks

[16.Mar.09] :. Cryptic hints and odd rumors ramping up to a bizarre, rushed release. When you think about it in the context of Bob Dylan, maybe it isn’t so unusual after all.

My Chemical Romance covers Dylan’s “Desolation Row” (video)

by Lana Cooper

[4.Mar.09] :. My Chemical Romance condenses Bob Dylan’s legendary 11-minute opus into a tidy three minutes of chugging neo-pop/punk with their cover of “Desolation Row”.  It’s only...

Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric by Bob Dylan

by Guy Crucianelli

[16.Jan.09] :. Dylan is such a prodigious cultural presence that any artist is bound to suffer a little next to him. For the most part, Barry Feinstein holds his own.

Off the Radar - The Top 30 DVDs of 2008

by PopMatters Staff

[13.Jan.09] :. Oddly enough, while the major studios continue scratching their heads over how to sell yet another new format (Blu-ray) to disinterested consumers, several outside distributors made sure that this would be a digital year to remember.

A Fan on the Never-Ending Tour: 18 Years of Bob Dylan Live

by Kirby Fields

[5.Jan.09] :. For those of us who follow the set lists online, Bob Dylan songs are like currency: They accrue or shed their value based on the number of times they are played on tour.

POV: Johnny Cash: The Man, His World, His Music

by Cynthia Fuchs

[5.Aug.08] :. With his life and career in one of their several turnarounds, Cash is here an ideal documentary subject, self-aware, passionate, and glad to take the crew along on a tour of places and people that matter to him,

Part One: The Icons

by PopMatters Staff

[28.Jul.08] :. With DETOURS, the PopMatters staff is celebrating the strange, bizarre, lovely, and funny albums that have emerged from an artist’s desire to try something different. Some of these detours have lead to modern-day classics. Some have lead to laugh-inducing commercial disasters. And others... others are just plain weird.

Bob Dylan: 1978-1989 [DVD]

by Tom Useted

[8.Jul.08] :. Someone, somewhere could make a fantastic film about this period. This is not that film.

Director Todd Haynes rediscovers Bob Dylan

by Rene Rodriguez [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[26.Nov.07] :. NEW YORK—It was in the year 2000 that filmmaker Todd Haynes rediscovered Bob Dylan all over again. “I had always admired Dylan—I was a fan in high school—but then I kind of...

Bob Dylan: The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 [DVD]

by Jonathan J. Levin

[21.Nov.07] :. An exploration of Dylan's three historical performances at the Newport Folk Festival, The Other Side of the Mirror covers old ground with a fresh eye for detail.

‘I’m Not There’ uses a mix of actors to depict Bob Dylan’s life

by Rachel Leibrock [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[19.Nov.07] :. Todd Haynes’ new movie, “I’m Not There,” is, well, kind of tricky to explain. The film is the story of Bob Dylan. But, this is no ordinary biopic. Haynes (“Far From...

New DVD follows Bob Dylan during key years 1963-65

by Bruce Dancis [McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)]

[1.Nov.07] :. “Dylan’s electric set at the 1965 Newport (Folk) Festival may well be the most written-about performance in the history of rock & roll,” writes Bob Dylan biographer Clinton...

Bob Dylan: DYLAN

by Dara Kartz

[18.Oct.07] :. Dylan masterpieces will always be masterpieces regardless of how many times we're fed the same songs, but enough already.

The new Dylan: He’s everywhere

by Terry Lawson [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[1.Oct.07] :. Since Martin Scorsese’s masterful 2005 documentary “No Direction Home,” the hidden chambers of the Sphinx have been systematically raided, all with the approval of the Sphinx...

Like a Boyd on a Wire

by Steve Horowitz

[2.Aug.07] :. PopMatters talks to Joe Boyd, a man at the center of the folk, rock and blues scenes of the 1960s who lived to tell the tale. "The whole notion of folk music and an appreciation of things that are more rural and more traditional and more rustic than our lives are now is the privilege of the middle class."

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan: The Golden Years 1962-1978 [DVD]

by Ryan Gillespie

[2.Aug.07] :. An unauthorized two-disc documentary set that features painfully small doses of Dylan himself and lacks insight into the man or his music.

Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s

by John Carvill

[2.May.07] :. Bob Dylan has always enjoyed confounding audience expectations. During the 45 years that he’s spent alternately basking in and shrinking from the glare of the public eye, he has presented his...

Bob Dylan is XM Satellite Radio’s man of the ‘Hour’

by David Hinckley [New York Daily News (MCT)]

[19.Apr.07] :. Bob Dylan has signed a multiyear deal to continue his weekly show on XM Satellite Radio. “Theme Time Radio Hour,” which airs Wednesdays at 10 a.m. EDT, has become one of the most popular...

Bob Dylan: World Tour 1966: The Home Movies [DVD]

by Leigh H. Edwards

[15.Mar.07] :. We learn perhaps too much about Jones's background, musical influences, and career. Obviously, we want more Dylan.

Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition) [DVD]

by Jonathan Storm [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[28.Feb.07] :. An intimate portrait of Bob Dylan, 40 years old.

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan:1966-1978 After the Crash [DVD]

by Rob Horning

[29.Sep.06] :. This is a fan-made product, albeit a good one, when judged against bootlegs and fanzine stuff, but judged against real documentaries, it's a bit of a drag.

Bob Dylan: Modern Times

by Michael Franco

[5.Sep.06] :. Modern Times is being universally acclaimed as a work of genius, but trying to differentiate between a solid album from an undeniable master and an undeniable masterpiece is getting into Clintonian semantics.

Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962

by Kevin P. Davis

[3.Feb.06] :. Counter-culture prophet, or corporate shill? Aww, who cares, as long as the music still reflects the passion and power that made the man famous?

Bob Dylan: The Best of Bob Dylan

by Michael Metivier

[22.Nov.05] :. Though not at all essential for Dylan fans, this is an extremely well executed one-disc rundown of Dylan's career for new listeners.

No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2005)

by John G. Nettles

[28.Oct.05] :. Martin Scorsese's film is about Dylan's early life among the Mister Joneses of his era, ahead of rock and roll's learning curve and suffering the judgments of the slower kids in his class.

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: The Soundtrack

by Adrien Begrand

[2.Sep.05] :. A portrait of the legend as a young genius.

Bob Dylan: Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall - The Bootleg Series Volume 6

by Adrien Begrand

[18.Mar.04] :. The newest addition to Bob Dylan’s ongoing archival project, Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall - The Bootleg Series Volume 6, differs greatly from Volumes 4 and 5, but it’s one that should greatly please Dylan fans.

Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited

by Hank Kalet

[7.Feb.04] :. This is an album of brutality and innocence, an album that could only have been produced by an artist at the height of his powers, with a war raging overseas in the shadow of a presidential assassination.

Bob Dylan: Blonde on Blonde

by Scott Waldman

[29.May.03] :. When the needle dropped onto the twirling black disc otherwise known as Blonde on Blonde, its crackling was as comfortable as the relief the gray skies were giving us from the heat.

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks

by Ronnie D. Lankford, Jr.

[16.Dec.02] :. In a way, the songs have become part of me, and playing the album more of a rite than a listening experience. I suppose when art reaches the level of Blood on the Tracks, it is religion.

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue [2 CD + 1 DVD]

by Adrien Begrand

[6.Dec.02] :. In the fall of 1975, the thirtysomething Dylan felt he had to challenge himself, as well as have some fun with his friends at the same time, and that feeling is palpable on this album. After 27 long years, we can finally properly hear the Master in his finest hour, and what a thrill it is.

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks

by Tom Choi

[20.Sep.02] :. Blood on the Tracks is the one album that rises above all other contenders, obscuring them in its titanic blaze, because it is, at once, so familiar as well as mysterious, and so seemingly simple and yet unruly.

The Last Waltz (2002)

by Lesley Smith

[18.Apr.02] :. The Last Waltz still spirits a tingle up the spine.

Bob Dylan: John Wesley Harding

by Nicholas Taylor

[10.Oct.00] :. Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding is an album of half-spoken secrets, hushed whispers, illegible writings, and missing pages.