Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3). rfpadgett AT gmail
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My book Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members is officially out today!!!
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Bob Dylan started the RARW tour 5 years ago today. FIVE YEARS. A million shows later he’s still going strong with a whole new band, different songs and the best voice ever.
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In the first 8 shows of the fall tour:
1st “Down in the Flood” since 2005
1st “Million Miles” since 2014
1st “Tangled” since 2018
1st “High Water” since 2018
1st “North Country” since 2019
1st “Not Dark Yet” since 2019
1st “Louisiana 1927” and "Dublin Blues" covers ever
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"Bob lurks at the back of the stage in a black hoodie looking like a drill rapper who’s learned to play electric piano. Or like the ghost of Vincent Price, his Halloween face lit from below, hiding in plain clothes from a gang of paparazzi that never arrives."
Last night in Luxembourg, Bob Dylan played the Love & Theft classic "High Water (For Charlie Patton)" for the first time since 2018! @gibsona07 of @thedylanreview reports in:
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Last night in Luxembourg, Bob Dylan played the Love & Theft classic "High Water (For Charlie Patton)" for the first time since 2018! @gibsona07 of @thedylanreview reports in:
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The full Hard Rain concert at Fort Collins is on streaming today. A little light reading while you listen.
“Who the fuck cut up Bob Dylan’s painting of Christ?”
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Does Spirit Halloween sell “Van Morrison on the inner sleeve of His Band and The Street Choir” costumes?
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As of a couple nights ago, Bob Dylan has now performed the Bo Diddley cover "I Can Tell" more times than "Tomorrow Is a Long Time"
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To be honest with you, I think Honest With Me is a great choice for the top Dylan rock song of the century so far. It is punchy as hell and laced with that potent Love & Theft swagger. (I’d have went with Things Have Changed though probably).
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Number one should be a tie between “One Big Holiday” “The House That Heaven Built” and every White Stripes song
Rolling Stone Presents The 200 Greatest Rock Songs of the 21st Century So Far 🎸
From dance-floor glam to gritty punk, from psychedelic jams to acoustic storytellers, and more. Behold, our list ⬇️
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Bob Dylan broke out the 'Time Out of Mind' classic “Not Dark Yet” for the first time in seven years...and it sounded nothing like the previous 191 live renditions of the song over the past three decades.
Hear it now ⬇️ rollingstone.com/music/music…
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Bob Dylan has onstage drama with his guitarist. Sound familiar?
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Happy Birthday to Biograph. Released this day in 1985. A 53 track box set compilation spanning the career of Bob Dylan. Consisting of released and unreleased tracks from 1962 to 1981. Accompanied with a 36 page booklet, containing rare photos and notes by Cameron Crowe #BobDylan
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The Greatest Rock Song of the 21st Century So Far
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This is the first time Bob Dylan has sung Not Dark Yet in his 80s and there’s something powerful that, instead of singing it as a mournful ballad, it’s uptempo and full of life
Funky new Not Dark Yet. Shortest version ever at around 4:20? piped.video/6uBhTS0gbLU?si=NSlv…
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Tonight: First "Not Dark Yet" since 2019
Plus in the past week:
- First "Million Miles" since 2014
- Wild new "Tryin' to Get to Heaven" arrangement
- "Love Sick" returns after a few months away
It's officially Time Out of Mind Autumn!
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Every year I retweet this and every year it goes viral all over again. Someone get Twyla on the horn - the people are demanding a revival!
Happy anniversary to The Times They Are a-Changin', the truly cursed Bob Dylan Broadway musical that opened on this date in 2006 (and closed a couple weeks later). For "Like a Rolling Stone," they had the whole cast—wait for it—roll around on stones.
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Put on Spirit on the Water in the car at pickup and my two year old goes “I scared of Bob Dylan.” Guess she’s not ready for Tempest.
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