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Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan’s Late StyleLateness, according to Edward Said, is characterized by a kind of artistic innovation in the midst of physical infirmity. Lateness is a denial of the unifying artistic gesture, the stubborn refusal to issue a final proclamation. [10 June 2009] “The Dust of Rumors Covers Me”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. [16 March 2009] Part One: The IconsWith 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. [28 July 2008] The Best Music DVDs of 2007The last few years have seen some mind-blowing DVD repackaging of a wide variety of musically projects. 2007 is the best yet. [25 January 2008] Part 1: Beethoven to Phil Ochs (1824-1965)Psalm 100 instructs, "Make a joyful noise unto the Lord!". What more joyful sound than the life-affirming song of protest, for that is the sound wrenched from the deepest grief and suffering, from exhausted and diseased lungs, and the voice raised in tuneful protest is among the most beautiful of human sounds. Sing out, indeed! [16 July 2007] Columns
Rudy Wurlitzer, Bob Dylan, Bloody Sam, and the Jornado del MuertoDylan’s beautifully simple ballad captures the paradoxical fear of and longing for death that is the hallmark of Wurlitzer’s narratives and what lurks at the heart of the human experience. [30 July 2009] (more Deconstruction Zone) ReviewsBob Dylan: 31 October 2009 - ChicagoOn 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. [20 November 2009] Bob Dylan + Willie Nelson + John Mellencamp: 28 July 2009 - Durham, NCWho 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? [11 September 2009] 
Bob Dylan: New Morning / The Basement Tapes / Before the Flood / Dylan & the DeadThis set of CD reissues is welcome for The Basement Tapes alone where it now possesses a clarity that belies its humble and informal origins. [26 June 2009] 
Bob Dylan: Together Through LifeIf 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. [27 April 2009] 
Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric by Bob DylanDylan 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. [16 January 2009] A Fan on the Never-Ending Tour: 18 Years of Bob Dylan LiveFor 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. [5 January 2009] 
Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006The Bootleg Series acknowledges that Dylan's career has extended past 1975. It's an album to sit proudly alongside his recent triumphs. [24 October 2008] 
Bob Dylan: 1978-1989 [DVD]Someone, somewhere could make a fantastic film about this period. This is not that film. [8 July 2008] 
Bob Dylan: The Other Side of the Mirror: Live at Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 [DVD]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. [21 November 2007] 
Bob Dylan: DYLANDylan masterpieces will always be masterpieces regardless of how many times we're fed the same songs, but enough already. [18 October 2007] 
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan: The Golden Years 1962-1978 [DVD]An unauthorized two-disc documentary set that features painfully small doses of Dylan himself and lacks insight into the man or his music. [2 August 2007] 
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition) [DVD]The digital remastering is noteworthy, but it’s the “65 Revisited” bonus disc that makes this an entirely necessary upgrade for Dylan fans and essential viewing for film and music aficionados alike. [21 March 2007] 
Bob Dylan: World Tour 1966: The Home Movies [DVD]We learn perhaps too much about Jones's background, musical influences, and career. Obviously, we want more Dylan. [15 March 2007]
Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition) [DVD]An intimate portrait of Bob Dylan, 40 years old. [28 February 2007] 
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan:1966-1978 After the Crash [DVD]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. [29 September 2006] 
Bob Dylan: Modern TimesModern 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. [5 September 2006] 
Bob Dylan: Live at the Gaslight 1962Counter-culture prophet, or corporate shill? Aww, who cares, as long as the music still reflects the passion and power that made the man famous? [3 February 2006] 
Bob Dylan: The Best of Bob DylanThough not at all essential for Dylan fans, this is an extremely well executed one-disc rundown of Dylan's career for new listeners. [22 November 2005] 
Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: The SoundtrackA portrait of the legend as a young genius. [2 September 2005] 
Bob Dylan: Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall - The Bootleg Series Volume 6The 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. [18 March 2004]
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 RevisitedThis 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. [7 February 2004]
Bob Dylan: Blonde on BlondeWhen 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. [29 May 2003]
Bob Dylan: Blood on the TracksIn 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. [16 December 2002]
Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan Live 1975 - The Rolling Thunder Revue [2 CD + 1 DVD]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. [6 December 2002]
Bob Dylan: Blood on the TracksBlood 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. [20 September 2002]
Bob Dylan: “Love and Theft”On September 11, Bob Dylan released a master work buzzing and sparking with the depthless energy of American folk music and charged with a faith in the goodness and potential harmony of the human community as wild and oceanic as Whitman’s. [11 September 2001]
Bob Dylan: John Wesley HardingBob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding is an album of half-spoken secrets, hushed whispers, illegible writings, and missing pages. [10 October 2000]Blogs
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