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Ray Padgett

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10 months

My book Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members is officially out today!!! A short(ish) thread…

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5 months

The legend Weird Al criticizing what Spotify pays artists in the video he made FOR Spotify. 🐐🐐🐐

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82 years ago today, Bob Dylan was born. 22 years ago today, asked the dude from Sugar Ray his thoughts on Dylan turning 60.

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Bob Dylan on David Crosby: "Crosby was a colorful and unpredictable character, wore a Mandrake the Magician cape, didn’t get along with too many people and had a beautiful voice — an architect of harmony. He could freak out a whole city block all by himself. I liked him a lot."

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9 months

Dolly Parton's letter to Sinead O'Connor after Sinead covered "Dagger Through the Heart" for a tribute album

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6 months

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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5 months

Nick Cave's new tribute to Shane MacGowan, which doubles as a tribute to Sinéad O'Connor (from his newsletter, doesn't seem to be linkable yet) "A beautiful and damaged man, who embodied a kind of purity and innocence and generosity and spiritual intelligence unlike any other."

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Bruce Springsteen talking about a dinner with Shane MacGowan on his radio show a couple years ago. "All I know is with the exception of Bob Dylan and Chuck Berry… I’m not sure about the rest of us, but I know they'll be singing Shane MacGowan songs 100 years from now."

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9 months

RIP to the man Bob Dylan once called “the only mathematical guitar genius I’ve ever run into who does not offend my intestinal nervousness with his rearguard sound"

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9 months

The two of them against the world

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3 years

No surprise Nick Cave would come through with the best Charlie Watts story

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7 months

Quick clip from Bob Dylan's surprise guest appearance with The Heartbreakers at Farm Aid tonight. "Maggie's Farm" — first time he's played it in over a decade:

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5 months

Only Paul McCartney could get away with writing "All the best you lovely boy" to a 68-year-old Bob Dylan

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The Tortured Poets Department

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6 months

George Harrison to Bob Dylan: "You were very generous in being a Wilbury… I hope it was not too embarrassing for you."

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2 months

The time Bob Dylan tried to recruit the Beastie Boys to play a pro-smoking benefit concert

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It's 2009. You go to Starbucks to try their new caramel brulee latte. Surprise: It comes with a free mp3! You rush off to the iTunes Store to download Bob Dylan singing "Must Be Santa" onto your iPod Touch. Life is good.

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6 months

Bob Dylan just covered Dance Me to the End of Love in Montreal! First time ever. Stunning. At the end even Tony applauded.

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1 year

Just interviewed singer Martin Carthy, who shepherded Bob Dylan around the London folk scene in the early '60s. Nice anecdote: Bob invited him to one of his London Palladium shows last week. They hadn't seen each other for decades. "We just fell into each other's arms."

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5 months

While we're at it, here's Bob Dylan talking about Shane MacGowan and the Pogues on Theme Time Radio Hour. Iconic delivery of "kiss my ass"

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9 months

Love Robbie's one and only appearance during the Rolling Thunder tour. Comes out five songs into Dylan's set and absolutely slices through "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry." His solo at the end of this clip is scorching.

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8 months

Official new Dylan live release incoming: 'The Complete Budokan 1978'. Looks like "The Man in Me" will be streaming tomorrow as the first single. 1978 tour rules, stoked for this.

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9 months

“Holy shit, I’m gonna be photographed right in the middle of this iconic reunion, now all I gotta do is keep my eyes op—”

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1 year

Just two legends hanging out in the ER. “Are you Brian Wilson?” he asked. “Yeah,” I said. “Hi,” he said. “I’m Bob Dylan.”

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7 months

I got the scoop about how Bob Dylan pulled off his surprise Farm Aid reunion with The Heartbreakers. Bassist Lance Morrison tells me all about the extensive rehearsals that went into those three songs.

Behind the Scenes of Bob Dylan's Farm Aid Surprise

Bassist Lance Morrison explains how the shocking Dylan-Heartbreakers reunion came to be

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6 months

Never thought I'd hear Bob Dylan saying the word "Wikipedia." Iconic delivery. (This is from Tuesday night after he finished playing "Goodbye Jimmy Reed")

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Never thought I'd hear Bob Dylan tell a crowd: "Let me hear you say yeah!" What a time to be alive.

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Bob Dylan politely scolding the audience during “Every Grain of Sand” a few nights ago. “There’s someone shining a blue light over there. We want that light taken right off. Please take it off…it gets in our face.”

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6 months

A reader sent me this wonderful "Every Grain of Sand" video from last night in Erie. Will run the full thing in the newsletter with my next show recap (plus a funny story about filming it), but here's as much as Twitter will let me post:

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6 months

Tom Petty bringing a framed photo of Bob Dylan to Wilburys interviews to pull out when the interviewer asks why Bob's not there

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1 year

Bob Dylan singing the Grateful Dead's "Brokedown Palace" in Tokyo a few nights ago for the first time ever.

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Tom Waits on Shane MacGowan in 1999: "Shane has the gift. I believe him. He knows how to tell a story. The Pogues are a roaring, stumbling band. These are the Dead End kids for real. Shane's voice conveys so much… It's whimsical and blasphemous, seasick and sacrilegious."

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7 months

It's the clip we've all been waiting for (or maybe just me). Bob Dylan on stage in Kansas City last night talking about how he ate too much barbeque before the show.

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via the Dylan reddit

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1 year

Never seen this before: Tom Waits playing a piano on the set of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs in 2018

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7 months

This (real) photo seems like an AI prompt. “Bob Dylan wearing beret and bow tie leaning against giant orange squash in front of tidal wave”

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9 months

Bob Dylan telling a story about Tony Bennett turning down a request to sing the national anthem

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1 year

Lol at Bob Dylan just making up his bandmembers' credits onstage. "Doug Lancio has played with the Boss…he's played with the Rocket Man…and he's played with Macca!" (I don't think any of those are accurate)

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Tom Waits' tribute to Roy Orbison, written for Rolling Stone shortly after Roy's passing

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No one says "leftovers" like Bob Dylan says "leftovers"

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Bob Dylan's horseshit band intros are back! Saturday night in Spain, he claims his drummer played on the soundtracks for Top Gun, Poltergeist, and the Little Mermaid remake; that his guitarist won a Pulitzer for his short stories; and that his bassist has his own brand of perfume

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6 months

Love the idea that Bob Dylan and John Lee Hooker mighta been fax-pals

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2 years

Bob Dylan covering Jerry Lee Lewis’s “I Can’t Say Goodbye” tonight. “Jerry Lee will live forever, we all know that.”

Bob Dylan Nottingham tonight for those of you who were honest and...

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4 months

Love how Bob Dylan started a record label in the '90s and then this was the only album he ever put out.

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4 months

Love the minimalist newspaper ads they ran for Tour '74. Like, what more information do you really need?

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Richard Lewis out here listening to live versions of Highlands. RIP

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Bob Dylan "Highlands" - Stunning Version - Rare LIVE Performance. via @YouTube #stayhome

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6 months

Wild how many different songs Bob Dylan has covered on tour in 2023, most for the first time ever. I think this is the list so far (and I'd bet on more to come!)

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5 months

Tis the season (via @KINGTUFFY )

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8 months

Happy birthday Modern Times. Love this photo from the sessions, which implies that when Bob's recording a harmonica solo, he makes the entire band gather round to watch.

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7 months

Haven't seen Bob in a year. Hope it's been long enough for him to forget how he busted me last time for taking a photo.

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40 years ago today, Bob Dylan gave one of the wildest performances of his career on Letterman, backed by a young group from the punk scene he never played with again—if you don't count months of jamming at Bob's house. Guitarist JJ Holiday tells the story:

Guitarist JJ Holiday Talks Bob Dylan's Iconic Letterman Performance 40 Years Ago Today

Plus the months of jamming that led up to their three songs together on national TV

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A recent Dylan sound guy answers my niche questions about Bob-show oddities. Why are there extra mics onstage? Are all the shows recorded? Why did the crew nickname Bob The Scanner’? Plus backstage Bobfest stories about Neil, Lou, Sinead, Sheryl and more

Burning CDs and Printing Lyric Sheets for Bob Dylan

Plus how this sound guy introduced Eddie Vedder to Neil Young at Bobfest

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Today in Rolling Thunder history: Beatty Zimmerman goes to support her son at his big show in Toronto

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Only thing wilder than the photo (why is she posing with cat food?) is the caption

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Shane MacGowan singing Bob Dylan's "Death Is Not the End" with Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue

Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Shane MacGowan, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey...

Nick Cave, Kylie Minogue, Shane MacGowan, Blixa Bargeld, Mick Harvey - Death is not the end (MTV Most Wanted 1995)When you're sad and when you're lonelyAnd y...

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4 months

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: The cover and title of Bob Dylan's much-rumored new album just leaked

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In awe of the dude who got a tattoo of Bob Dylan riding a goose

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Bob Dylan congratulating Van Morrison on winning a Brit award in the 90s: ✅ Chews gum throughout ✅ Sounds sarcastic when he calls the award prestigious ✅ Ends with "God bless you Van…blah blah blah blah"

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The Rolling Thunder Revue, imo Dylan's greatest tour, began 48 years ago today. A couple years ago I did a series of newsletters tracking every single show. Here's the first, from Plymouth MA 10/30/75 (incl a great photo taken earlier that day):

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Six pages into Dylan’s book and he’s already referenced Iggy Pop, Biggie Smalls, American Idol, and “Subterranean Homesick Blues” (without any acknowledgment that he wrote it). There’s also an illustration of a demon eating a guy’s butt. Gonna be a wild ride.

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“I wrote these songs in…a trancelike, hypnotic state. This is how I feel? Why do I feel like that? And who’s the me that feels this way? I couldn’t tell you that either. But I know that those songs are just in my genes and I couldn’t stop them comin’ out.” — Bob on Modern Times

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“I’m trying to get it together. I just had too much Kansas City barbecue.” — Bob Dylan last night

Last Night in Kansas City (by Steve Paul)

2023-10-01, Midland Theater, Kansas City, MO

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10 months

Italian record store going all out for Dylan’s show coming to town. Rough and Rowdy Ways lyrics in the window molto bene.

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Songs written for Blood on the Tracks and discarded. Doesn’t seem like Dylan recorded or even finished ‘em, but the titles alone are wild. Imagine a Bootleg Series with this track list.

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10 months

After tonight’s Dylan show in Milan, it’s Tony Garnier hanging out with…Scarlet Rivera! You know, I feel like Key West could use some guest violin. (Photo from Fb)

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Today I'm giving thanks for this tape of Bob Dylan shouting out Joe Pesci and Queen Latifah in Newark the other night

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In 2015, Bob Dylan called John Mellencamp's "Longest Days" "one of the better songs of the last few years." Last night in Indiana, he covered it for the first time. Here's a snippet, courtesy intrepid taper kuddukan and remaster-er @benclaywolf .

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Bob Dylan 1973 copyright collection 👀👀👀

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Nick Cave responds to a songwriter using ChatGPT to write lyrics: "ChatGPT is fast-tracking the commodification of the human spirit by mechanising the imagination. It renders our participation in the act of creation as valueless and unnecessary."

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2 years

Lol is this ad missing any important info about the house?

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9 months

Even Bob Dylan got all those garage-rock revival bands mixed up

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God give us all the confidence of Leon Russell mussing Dylan's hair as Bob's trying to sing Like a Rolling Stone

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Cool Annie Leibovitz polaroids of famous attendees at Dylan and the Band's 1974 comeback tour.

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what Bob Dylan does every Thanksgiving I assume

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Wow, just not audio but video of Dylan covering the Dead’s “Stella Blue” last night for the first time ever (on Robert Hunter’s birthday)

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First ever performance of G. Dead’s 1973 song Stella Blue in Barcelona 2023.

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1 year

Ran out of characters, but that comes from Chronicles, when Bob's describing the Princeton incident that inspired "Day of the Locusts." Bob also includes this memorable quote from Croz

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Bob Dylan writing about Tony Bennett in Chronicles:

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When you've sucked the milk out of a thousand cows

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Bob Dylan writing about making his professional recording debut on a Harry Belafonte record: “With Belafonte I felt like I’d become anointed in some kind of way… Harry was that rare type of character that radiates greatness, and you hope that some of it rubs off on you.”

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Too much adrenaline to sleep so wrote up my dispatch on Dylan's first night in Chicago. He debuted not one but two Chicago blues covers he's never sung before: "Born in Chicago" (Butterfield) to open and "40 Days and 40 Nights" (Muddy) to close.

Tonight in Chicago

2023-10-06, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago, IL

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8 months

Hoping Bob ends every show of his fall tour posing like this

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1 year

Shoutout to Lou Reed for apparently only owning Dylan albums from Street Legal through the ‘80s. No wonder he was ready to bust out “Foot of Pride” at the tribute show. (Photo from FB)

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I talked to Jim Keltner about drumming for Bob Dylan in 1971. Oh, and also 1973 (Pat Garrett!) & 1979 & 1980 & 1981 (gospel!) & 1985 & 1988 (the sixth Wilbury!) & 1990 & 1992 (BobFest!) & 1994 & 1997 (Time Out of Mind) & 2002 & 2004 (Willie!)…

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To all the people replying to tell me this is not Bob’s Best Album ™, I’m sorry but it has been scientifically proven. You can run the test yourself. Just go through all his albums and mark down which have “Must Be Santa” on them and which do not. See?

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Bob’s Best Album ™ finally coming back to vinyl

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Have said it before, this is my favorite single moment in any concert film. Even more than the performances (which are great ofc). The looks of anticipation on The Band's faces as they wait to see what's happening—and Bob dragging it out.

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Every second of this is gold. Bob with the "I got one more in me" nod to Robbie & the look over to Levon Levon's gears turning Robbie dialing in Rick grinning like a kid on Christmas Blast off Then Bob with the "damn, that was pretty smooth" face

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Audio of Bob Dylan last night in Dublin: "I want to say hello to Shane MacGowan out there. One of our favorite artists. We hope he makes another record soon. Fairytale of New York is a song that's very close to all of our hearts. We listen to it every Christmas."

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Love that Jeff Bridges was apparently spending downtime on the Masked & Anonymous set shooting wide-angle photos of his co-stars.

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Love this pic of Dylan's Madrid show last night. Distant, sure, but really sets the scene. (via IG:manuel.jabois)

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1 year

Dramatic new arrangement of "I Contain Multitudes" in Osaka

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Bob Dylan's first tour with the Heartbreakers kicked off on this date in 1986. So I called up Benmont Tench to talk about his time with Bob, on the road and in the studio (including Rough and Rowdy Ways!)

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And now here’s Bob covering “Roll Over Beethoven” for the first time ever last night. His third Chuck Berry cover of the last year (w/ Nadine, Johnny B Goode)

Bob Dylan - Roll Over Beethoven (Chuck Berry) - Fort Myers 07.03.2024

@ Florida Southwestern State College, Suncoast Credit Union Arena, Fort Myers, Florida, USA - Recording by: jiveHere is a remastered version from the same co...

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Alicia Keys' response to being name-checked on Modern Times (out 17 years ago today!) Dylan said elsewhere: "I remember seeing her on the Grammys… I didn't meet her or anything. But I said to myself, 'There's nothing about that girl I don't like.'"

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Is this him covering I’m a Little Teapot

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Another GREAT night for #BobDylan in Athens GA. Pics from 5th row center tonight. Phenomenal 2 nights in Georgia!! #AthensGA

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Downloaded a supposed AI upgrade of Dylan's old Letterman performance but something went wrong and now it sounds like a David Lynch nightmare

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So what are we calling this. Like a Bowling Stone? Most Strikely You Go Your Way? Bowl on Bob?

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Tom Petty's longtime tour manager Richard Fernandez told me about his couple years working with Bob Dylan. Read if you need pro tips on how to plan your early-'90s Bob Halloween costume.

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Gonna raise me an army, some tough sons of bitches

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Four years ago today since Bob greeted his fans and followers with this all-time undersell. "An unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting." Umm, yeah!

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Greetings to my fans and followers with gratitude for all your support and loyalty across the years. This is an unreleased song we recorded a while back that you might find interesting. Stay safe, stay observant and may God be with you. Bob Dylan

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Soundman David Hendel talks Rolling Thunder 76 and, oh yeah, shares two never-heard tour soundboards, Mobile and Austin (which has never been bootlegged period)

Rolling Thunder '76 Soundman Talks Touring with Bob Dylan

Plus two never-heard soundboard tapes

www.flaggingdown.com

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Happy Plugz Day to all who celebrate! Bassist Tony Marsico talked to me about spending months jamming on "My Guy" and "Gimme Some Lovin'" with Bob Dylan in preparation for three incredible Bob-goes-punk songs on Letterman.

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