List of Bob Dylan-related Sites
Most of the sites on the web that list Dylan-related sites are way, way out-of-date. The ones below are, as of this minute anyway, functional. They are in no particular order. I made no attempt to list every single site, just those that seemed more or less up-to-date and useful. Please add a comment […]
Ellen Willis Article – Editor of New Yorker
Article posted to Facebook Edlis Cafe group. “Dylan” – from Cheetah, 1967 I Nearly two years ago, Bob Dylan had a motorcycle accident. Reports of his condition were vague, and he dropped out of sight. Publication of his book, Tarantula, was postponed indefinitely. New records appeared, but they were from his last […]
The 1961 Beatnik Riot
Although I know the history of the 60’s folk movement pretty well, I had never heard of the “Beatnik Riot” of 1961. Weird. Anyway, to mark its 50th anniversary NPR did a piece on it. The article also links to a documentary, “Bloody Sunday”. Cool stuff.
Interesting Article on Dylan and the Isle of Wright
Story of how Dylan came to participate in the Isle of Wright Festival. http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/how-i-stole-bob-dylan-from-woodstock-1-6772302
Documentary on Izzy Young on YouTube
Izzy Young ran the Folklore Center in Greenwich Village back in the early sixties. Dylan and all the folk singers knew him well. I haven’t watched all of it yet.
Published New Page: Drifter’s Escape
Published a new page today, an analysis of Drifter’s Escape, from John Wesley Harding. Drifter’s Escape
Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right
I was reviewing Andrew Muir’s Homer the Slut Volume 4 today, which contains a long series of excerpts from various Dylan books about the song, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right. The authors express some surprisingly varied ideas of what the song is about. Is is a love song, or is it something more […]
Pete Seeger’s Advice Column in Seventeen Magazine
I am reading Bob Coltman’s book, Paul Clayton and the Folksong Revival. The author says the world was a different place back in the early sixties. Weird things were happening. For example, people like Pete Seeger wrote an advice column that was published in Seventeen magazine. That seemed pretty interesting, and a web search […]
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March 13, 2020 at 2:02 pm
Thanks for the excellent contribution!
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March 13, 2020 at 11:14 am
Today, almost every critic bows down to the Velvets, but Willis “got” those proto-punks early. Her 1979 essay from the anthology “Stranded” (included here) remains a foundational, luminous analysis of Lou Reed’s street-hassle humanism — and a statement of Willis’s own purpose. “What it comes down to for me — as a Velvets fan, a lover of rock ’n’ roll, a New Yorker, an aesthete, a punk, a sinner, a sometime seeker of enlightenment (and love) (and sex) — is this: I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism. I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal,” she wrote, then ended wryly with the refrain from “Heroin”: “But I guess that I just don’t know.”
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February 19, 2020 at 3:32 pm
“And now for the train terminology.” Brakeman in the illustration is turning a brake wheel, not flagging the train down, by the way. And if this paragraph deals with “train terminology” why there is no explanation of “Double E” , again?
Sincerely,
Dan
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February 11, 2020 at 1:02 am
Good interveiw
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January 26, 2020 at 3:19 pm
Having recently read “Chronicles: Volume One” & now plowing thru M. Gray’s “Song & Dance Man,” I stumbled upon this magnificent resource, especially for its song-by-song commentary. Many thanks to all involved. One quick question: Is there a plan to continue post-“JohnWesleyHarding” or did I miss the Mission Statement somewhere? Would love to hear/read more from Dylanologists on the later albums, particularly Bob’s return to stellar material with “Time Out Of Mind,” “Love and Theft,” and “Modern Times.”
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January 18, 2020 at 4:37 am
I think you can find more information here.
Fourth Time Around – the Bob Dylan Commentaries
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December 25, 2019 at 4:45 am
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