Europe tour news (4) – Oslo last night

* Setlist - latest show – Oslo, Friday 30 March:

Cat's In The Well
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Watching The River Flow
It's Alright, Ma
When The Deal Goes Down
Highway 61 Revisited
Spirit On The Water
Things Have Changed
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Rollin' And Tumblin'
Tangled Up In Blue
Nettie Moore
Summer Days
Like A Rolling Stone
Thunder On The Mountain
All Along The Watchtower


* Tour debuts in latest show:

Spirit On The Water
Things Have Changed


* All songs played on the tour so far:

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (3)
All Along The Watchtower (3)
It's Alright, Ma (3)
Like A Rolling Stone (3)
Rollin' And Tumblin' (3)
Summer Days (3)
Tangled Up In Blue (3)
Thunder On The Mountain (3)

Cat's In The Well (2)
Country Pie (2)
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right (2)
Highway 61 Revisited (2)
Nettie Moore (2)
Watching The River Flow (2)
When The Deal Goes Down (2)

Girl Of The North Country
Honest With Me
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Lay Lady Lay
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
Not Dark Yet
Tears Of Rage
To Ramona
Spirit On The Water
Things Have Changed


* Different songs (3 shows): 25


* Itinerary:

April:
1 Gothenburg
2 Copenhagen
4 Hamburg
5 Münster
6 Brussels
8 Amsterdam
9 Amsterdam
11 Glasgow
12 Newcastle
14 Sheffield
15 London
16 London
17 Birmingham
19 Düsseldorf
20 Stuttgart
21 Frankfurt
23 Paris
25 Geneva
26 Turin
27 Milan
29 Zürich
30 Mannheim

May:
2 Leipzig
3 Berlin
5 Herning


* Gigs already played
March
27 Stockholm;
28 Stockholm;
30 Oslo


Thanks to: Christian, Suzanne, Jon, Gustav, Per, Brian.


The Dylan Daily welcomes setlists and reviews of YOUR gig – please email tour@dylandaily.com as soon as possible after the show.




Gerry Smith

Europe tour news (3) – 23 different songs played so far

Yesterday was a rest day on Dylan’s Euro 2007 tour. Watch Saturday’s Dylan Daily for news of tonight’s Oslo gig.

* Songs played on the tour so far: 23

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (2)
All Along The Watchtower (2)
Country Pie (2)
It's Alright, Ma (2)
Like A Rolling Stone (2)
Rollin' And Tumblin' (2)
Summer Days (2)
Tangled Up In Blue (2)
Thunder On The Mountain (2)

Cat's In The Well
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Girl Of The North Country
Highway 61 Revisited
Honest With Me
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Lay Lady Lay
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
Nettie Moore
Not Dark Yet
Tears Of Rage
To Ramona
Watching The River Flow
When The Deal Goes Down




Gerry Smith

Traveling Wilburys albums to be reissued, with extras, in June

Thanks to Nigel Boddy for the news he got from www.spincds.com that the two hard-to-buy Traveling Wilburys albums (I can’t remember ever seeing either CD on sale in the High Street) are being re-released on 11/12 June as a single product, with extra tracks and a DVD.

Yummy!

The two Traveling Wilbury albums were cherished by Dylan fans as a sign that, after the multiple disappointments of the 1980s, Uncle Bob might not be quite ready for the scrapheap. Alongside Biograph, Oh Mercy and Bootleg Series vols 1-3, the Wilburys albums presaged a return to form.

Vastly enjoyable good-time romps, they should be in the collection of any half serious Dylan fan.


Track Listing:

Disc One
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 1
1. Handle With Care
2. Dirty World
3. Rattled
4. Last Night
5. Not Alone Any More
6. Congratulations
7. Heading For The Light
8. Margarita
9. Tweeter And The Monkey Man
10. End Of The Line
Bonus Tracks:
11. Maxine*
12. Like A Ship*

Disc Two
DVD - The True History Of The Traveling Wilburys
Music Videos:
1. Handle With Care
2. End Of The Line
3. Inside Out
4. She’s My Baby
5. Wilbury Twist

Disc Three
TRAVELING WILBURYS VOL. 3
1. She’s My Baby
2. Inside Out
3. If You Belonged To Me
4. The Devil’s Been Busy
5. 7 Deadly Sins
6. Poor House
7. Where Were You Last Night?
8. Cool Dry Place
9. New Blue Moon
10. You Took My Breath Away
11. Wilbury Twist
Bonus Tracks:
12. Runaway (B-side to “She’s My Baby” UK CD and 12?)
13. Nobody’s Child (previously released on Nobody’s Child: Romanian Angel Appeal)

*previously unreleased



Gerry Smith

Europe tour news (2) - Stockholm last night

* Setlist - latest show – Globe, Stockholm, Wednesday 28 March:

Cat's In The Well
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Watching The River Flow
It's Alright, Ma
When The Deal Goes Down
Honest With Me
Girl Of The North Country
Tangled Up In Blue
Country Pie
Nettie Moore
Rollin' And Tumblin'
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
Summer Days
Like A Rolling Stone
Thunder On The Mountain
All Along The Watchtower


* Tour debuts in latest show:

Cat's In The Well
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Watching The River Flow
When The Deal Goes Down
Honest With Me
Girl Of The North Country
Nettie Moore


* All songs played on the tour so far:

A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (2)
All Along The Watchtower (2)
Country Pie (2)
It's Alright, Ma (2)
Like A Rolling Stone (2)
Rollin' And Tumblin' (2)
Summer Days (2)
Tangled Up In Blue (2)
Thunder On The Mountain (2)

Cat's In The Well
Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
Girl Of The North Country
Highway 61 Revisited
Honest With Me
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
Lay Lady Lay
Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
Nettie Moore
Not Dark Yet
Tears Of Rage
To Ramona
Watching The River Flow
When The Deal Goes Down


* Itinerary:

March:
30 Oslo

April:
1 Gothenburg
2 Copenhagen
4 Hamburg
5 Münster
6 Brussels
8 Amsterdam
9 Amsterdam
11 Glasgow
12 Newcastle
14 Sheffield
15 London
16 London
17 Birmingham
19 Düsseldorf
20 Stuttgart
21 Frankfurt
23 Paris
25 Geneva
26 Turin
27 Milan
29 Zürich
30 Mannheim

May:
2 Leipzig
3 Berlin
5 Herning


* Gigs already played
March
27 Stockholm
28 Stockholm


Thanks to: Gustav, Per, Brian.


The Dylan Daily welcomes setlists and reviews of YOUR gig – please email tour@dylandaily.com as soon as possible after the show.




Gerry Smith

Last night’s Stockholm gig, opening the Euro 2007 tour

Bob Dylan opened his six-week Euro 2007 tour last night in the smallest venue on the list, the tiny Debaser Medis in Stockholm.

The setlist was a mix from across Dylan’s songbook – mainly 1960s classics, but one or two songs from each of the last three albums - Not Dark Yet, Summer Days, Thunder On The Mountain, and Rolling And Tumbling. Drawing the set from 12 different albums, Dylan again – almost effortlessly - demonstrated the depth of his back catalogue.

Highlights: Tears Of Rage, Ramona, Thunder On The Mountain.
The traditional encore trilogy was refreshed by Thunder On The Mountain.

Dylan switched between guitar and keyboard.


Setlist:

Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)
Not Dark Yet
I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
It's All Right, Ma
Tears Of Rage
Lay Lady Lay
Highway 61 Revisited
Rolling And Tumbling
Country Pie
Tangled Up In Blue
To Ramona
Hard Rain
Summer Days
Like A Rolling Stone
Thunder On The Mountain
All Along The Watchtower”

The Dylan Daily would welcome YOUR gig review – please email tour@dylandaily.com after the show.



Gerry Smith

Dylan books written - and published - by fans

The already groaning Dylan bookshelves are now being weighed down further by a new genus of Publish-On-Demand (POD) books - written and financed by fans, and produced on demand by specialist printers like Trafford and Lulu, without the involvement of mainstream publishers or bookstores.

I’ve come across four Dylan titles in POD format:

· Bob Dylan Live In Canada, by Brady Leyser, reviewed here on publication
· Confessions Of A Dylanomaniac, by Paul Marcel Levesque
· Warehouse Eyes, by Peter James
· Life On The Tracks: Bob Dylan’s Songs, by Guido Bieri.

If you know of any more POD books on Dylan, please let The Dylan Daily know – we’d like to help these labours of love reach a wider audience.


Gerry Smith

Dylan in Europe: a taste of things to come?

In anticipation of 6 weeks of Dylan-mania in Europe, starting tomorrow night in Stockholm, here’s a taster of what a few of the gigs could turn out like – my review of the great London gigs of November 2003, originally published on www.musicforgrownups.co.uk:



London dates underline Dylan's iconic status

The London dates which closed Bob Dylan's 2003 tour reminded English concert-goers that the musician's status is now well above that of mere "legend".

Towering above the competition - in any musical genre - Dylan is now an icon. Like all icons, he's worshipped. At the final London concert, his every statement, every nuance of phrasing, was received with something akin to rapture. In a lifetime of concertgoing, in smoky jazz club and grand opera house, rock stadium and pop arena, you'd be lucky to see a more tumultuous reception than that accorded Dylan on Tuesday night.

The four London shows started with an arena gig (Wembley), continued (after a detour to the Rust Belt) with a small theatre show (Shepherd's Bush Empire) and finished with concerts in two mid-sized theatres (Hammersmith Apollo and Brixton Academy). Each show garnered high praise; the only disagreements among aficionados concerned shades of excellence.

Taken together, the four set lists showcased Dylan's peerless songbook. Two thirds of the 68 songs performed were played only once. Recherche classics (Romance in Durango, Yeah, Heavy..., Jokerman, Blind Willie McTell) were interleaved with 1960s anthems (Like a Rolling Stone, Mr Tambourine Man), and the cream of the ballads, from tender love songs (Boots of Spanish Leather, Girl of the North Country) to hard-edged political tracts (Desolation Row and Hard Rain).

Even the four different versions of Like A Rolling Stone, the classic that the Dylanistas affect to deride, were among the best ever heard - the very pinnacle of rock music, sung with such deliberate gusto by its creator, its smart-ass put-downs never so meanly delivered... a B Minor Mass for the Baby Boomers lucky to be contemporaries of its creator.

The re-workings of songs from “Love And Theft” were revelatory. High Water (For Charley Patton) became an epic, the Hammersmith audience waiting for delivery of each line as if for tablets from on high. Floater, with Freddy Koella on violin and Tony Garnier on acoustic bass - a high risk arrangement - lent a rare jazz tinge to a Dylan gig.

The performances were outstanding. Dylan reinterpreted his canon with striking new emphases. The voice has rarely sounded more convincing - strong, melodious, impassioned. Many, hearing The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, maybe for the hundredth time, will have experienced an involuntary dropping of the jaw as Dylan delivered the key line. Such powerful writing, so skilfully delivered, made the derisory sentence handed out to William Zanzinger sound as outrageous as it did the first time you heard it.

Dylan has always written for his own voice. His talking blues delivery is entirely appropriate for his material, so performing the catalogue doesn't need a technically refined instrument like Pavarotti's, or even a soul voice to match Van Morrison's. OK, you wouldn't cast Dylan as a principal at the Met. But then, Placido Domingo's Desolation Row wouldn't really be worth hearing, either.

Dylan played piano, standing, throughout, while directing the band. He's no McCoy Tyner, but his honky tonk chords added immeasurably to the mix. The piano liberated the singer.

Even the handful of slighter songs which crept into the London shows were beefed up by some soaring, competitive blues-rock riffing by the two virtuoso guitarists, Larry Campbell and Freddy Koella. The magnificent rhythm section, George Recile and Tony Garnier, anchored the shows, as well as contributing many telling passages.

The London shows underlined Dylan's claim to be regarded as one of the great creative forces of the age. It's no longer sufficient to discuss Dylan in the context of other popular musicians. Comparisons with poprock contemporaries - the Beatles, say, or the Stones, or the army of superannuated hoofers still peddling heritage entertainment to eager nostalgics - do Dylan a disservice.

Dylan should be judged, instead, by reference to the musical giants from all genres - Mozart, Bach, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Callas... . And against the great writers, in all media, from all eras - Shakespeare, Joyce, Goethe, Cervantes... .

Bob Dylan's writing and performance art bridge the gap between popular entertainment and high culture. His is quintessential music for grown-ups.


Gerry Smith

Don’t Look Back extras - essential new Pennebaker interview

Thanks to writer Steven Rosen for alerting The Dylan Daily to his revealing interview with D A Pennebaker in Citybeat, the Cincinnati News and Entertainment Weekly, about the new de luxe Don’t Look Back (and to musicfoto’s Lawrence Kirsch, who also picked it up).

A few tasty highlights:

* “Pennebaker went back to his unused footage to make a film called 65 Revisited… Dylan is relaxed and even boyishly sweet… He's generally happy and shows it… .

* “65 Revisited contains riveting, electrifying full concert performances of "It's All Over Now, Baby Blue," "She Belongs to Me," "To Ramona," "It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" and the rare "If You Gotta Go, Go Now."

* (in 1966) “Pennebaker prepared his own more straightforward film of that tour called You Know Something Is Happening. It, too, hasn't been released although portions were used in Martin Scorsese's 2005 Dylan film for PBS, No Direction Home.”

Rosen’s piece is a must-read:


http://www.citybeat.com/2007-03-07/film2.shtml



Gerry Smith

Factory Girl? No, thanks…

Not only did I not fancy going to see Factory Girl – what a dull topic for a feature film, I harrumphed – I just couldn’t imagine anyone who might want to see such a film.

Cue inscrutable daughter, Lucinda, who went to see it last night…

Her verdict (remember, she grew up in a Dylan household):

“If that rock star IS supposed to be Dylan, then the role’s poorly written and mis-cast. OK, the hair and the voice are convincing, but the character’s charmless… arrogant… humourless. His lines are clichéd, his delivery cornball. Not the mid-‘60s Dylan I’m familiar with at all. Maybe it’s not supposed to be Bob?

“The rest of the characters are more convincing…. An OK film.”

Extra Stockholm date - in tiny venue - starts Euro tour a day early

Dylan will play an extra date in Stockholm to start the European tour next week – Tuesday 27 March - at Debaser Medis.

The good news? It’s a tiny venue. The bad news? Booking started Wednesday morning.

www.ema.se/artister/ema/bobdylan/bobdylan.htm

(This item was translated - by me, a non-Swedish speaker - from Swedish. Readers should double check before making any plans based on this Dylan Daily story).



Gerry Smith

Nobody Sings Dylan – thumbs down for multi-CD set

Thanks to John Jenkins:

“I recently came across Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan, the multi-CD(?R) bootleg set, on a record stall in the local market. As you said, it’s a massive collection. After persuading the stall-holder to play a few sample tracks, I can confirm that, while it has the odd jewel, it’s mostly unlistenable.

“The occasional life-enhancing cover, by people like Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Roger McGuinn and Conor Oberst, is drowned out by the massed ranks of tedious Americana hopefuls.

“The low point of my sample was Clapton’s Sign Language. I thought it was a spoof - it reminded me of those classic ‘70s National Lampoon parodies, with “Joan Baez” imploring ‘Pull the Triggers, N*ggers, we’re with you all the way… ‘

“I just can’t imagine anyone buying a 17 CD set like Nobody Sings Dylan. Listening for free was bad enough. Dylan Daily readers leading useful lives are advised to give it a very wide berth.”

European Tour 2007: exclusive reviews on The Dylan Daily

Only a week now to the start of Dylan's eagerly anticipated Euro 2007 spring tour.

Several readers have already kindly offered to supply The Dylan Daily with a review. If you're going to a show, and would also like to review it for fellow readers, please get in touch: info@dylandaily.com

Here's a reminder of the itinerary:

March: 28 Stockholm; 30 Oslo.

April: 1 Gothenburg; 2 Copenhagen; 4 Hamburg; 5 Münster; 6 Brussels; 8 and 9 Amsterdam; 11 Glasgow; 12 Newcastle; 14 Sheffield; 15 and 16 London (16 is an extra date); 17 Birmingham; 19 Düsseldorf; 20 Stuttgart; 21 Frankfurt; 23 Paris; 25 Geneva; 26 Turin; 27 Milan; 29 Zürich; 30 Mannheim.

May: 2 Leipzig; 3 Berlin; 5 Herning.



Gerry Smith

Dylan – Highway 61, blues and poetry, according to Michael Gray

Leading Dylan writer Michael Gray has a busy schedule of presentations coming up:

* Tue Mar 27, 3.30pm
Bob Dylan Symposium, University of Minnesota, USA. Keynote Closing Speech - Highway 61: Dylan’s Chosen Route Through Time & Space
Coffman Memorial Union Building or Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, East Bank Campus, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN.
Admin: [001] 612-625-5267; Registration: [001] 612-625-5267

* Wed May 23, 8pm
Bath International Festival. Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues
The Little Theatre, St. Michael’s Place, Bath BA1 1SF
Admin: 01225-462231; Festival Box Office: 01225-463362

* Sat Jun 9, 8pm
Jersey Arts Centre. Bob Dylan & the Poetry of the Blues
Phillips Street, St. Helier, Jersey JE2 4SW
Admin: 01534-700400; Box Office: 01534-700444

If you live near any of these venues, I urge you to make the effort to attend: Gray gives good gig!


Gerry Smith

Don’t Look Back - De Luxe (2DVD/book) Edition

Thanks to Brendan Lyons for news from the NME of an April release in England for the Don’t Look Back De Luxe Edition. (The single DVD version has been on sale for a while, but this is the first news of a UK release for the much more desirable 2DVD/book version):

http://www.nme.com/news/bob-dylan/27160




Gerry Smith

Dylanesque – BBC radio interview, music mag profile and London gig review

You’d have to be pretty careless to have missed the UK release of Dylanesque, Bryan Ferry’s new album of Bob covers. It’s been everywhere - if I’d been doing the PR, I’d be delighted with the album’s exposure.

Latest sightings include:

* Mark Radcliffe (Ferry fan and the brightest button on BBC Radio) interviews the enigmatic Byron about Dylanesque in tomorrow night’s show, Tuesday 2230 GMT, BBC Radio 2. You can listen on the web as it’s broadcast (and for seven days thereafter).

www.bbc.co.uk/radio2



* Observer Music Monthly profile: Thanks to Martin Cowan: “More from Bryan Ferry in yesterday's Observer Music Monthly:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/omm/story/0,,2033516,00.html



* And Ferry’s well-received promo tour reached London with a sell-out at London’s Albert Hall. Review from The Independent here:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/reviews/article2369594.ece


Gerry Smith

Nobody Sings Dylan Like… The Byrds

Inspired by Bryan Ferry’s Dylanesque covers album, I dug out a fondly remembered tape of the first (vinyl) compilation of The Byrds’ Dylan covers, for a long car journey.

It turned out to be perfect driving music. The Byrds’ covers have worn remarkably well. Standouts in a strong list? All I Really Want To Do, Chimes Of Freedom, My Back Pages and, especially, Lay Down Your Weary Tune. The keening vocal harmonies and interweaving guitars throw a completely different light on some classic period Dylan songs.

Deeply impressed, I decided to replace the historic tape with the 2001 Sony compilation, The Byrds Play the Songs of Bob Dylan – especially while it’s available via amazon.co.uk at £4!

Tracklist:

1. Mr. Tamborine Man
2. It's All Over Now
3. The Times They Are A-Changin'
4. You Ain't Going Nowhere
5. Lay Lady Lay
6. All I Really Want To Do
7. Chimes Of Freedom
8. My Back Pages
9. Just Like A Woman
10. This Wheel's On Fire
11. Nothing Was Delivered
12. Positively 4th Street
13. Spanish Harlem Incident
14. Lay Down Your Weary Tune
15. It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) - Live
16. Lay Lady Lay - Alt. Version
17. The Times They Are A-Changin' - Live
18. Mr. Tamborine Man - Live
19. Chimes Of Freedom - Live
20. Paths Of Victory

The Byrds’ Dylan covers are strong because top poprock musicians gave a distinguished songbook their best shot. But, re-listening to The Byrds’ own songbook afterwards, I was underwhelmed: compared to the gravitas of the Dylan material, the Byrds’ own songs sound irredeemably lightweight.


Gerry Smith

Another new must-buy: Record Collector, April 2007

The new (April) issue of Record Collector has the second half of the excellent two-part feature on Theme Time Radio Hour.

Planet Airwaves, compiled by Jason Draper, is a ten page article with the transcript of Dylan’s broadcast comments on over 60 of the artists featured in his weekly radio show, covering artists with surnames L-Y.

It’s filled out by some nice photos, and the magazine’s valuable guide to CDs carrying the songs featured on Dylan’s magnifico shows.

Like the March issue (see below), the April issue of Record Collector is highly recommended.

www.recordcollectormag.com


Gerry Smith




Earlier article on The Dylan Daily:

Another new must-buy: Record Collector, March 2007

The cover of the new (March) issue of Record Collector has an iconic Dylan portrait (circa 1966), promoting a welcome nine-page feature article on Theme Time Radio Hour.

Planet Airwaves is the first of a two-parter (clever move, that), compiled by one Jason Draper. It quotes Dylan’s broadcast comments on almost 100 of the artists featured in his weekly radio show (covering artists with surnames A-K; L-end next month). It’s filled out by some nice photos, and a valuable guide to CDs carrying the featured songs.

So, apart from its collectability as an artefact, the March 2007 issue of Record Collector is a valuable guide for those contemplating following up the musos featured on Uncle Bob’s magnificent radio series.

www.recordcollectormag.com




Gerry Smith

THE DYLAN DAILY Newsletter, March 2007

THE DYLAN DAILY Newsletter - celebrating the art of Bob Dylan

Welcome to the March 2007 issue of the Dylan Daily Newsletter. It lists articles published recently on The Dylan Daily web site (http://www.dylandaily.com), helping you catch up on any articles you might have missed.

The "Dylan industry" shows no sign of slowing down, so make sure you log on to The Dylan Daily first thing every morning: the daily update is now posted before the start of the European working day.

Your info and insights on matters Dylan - particularly your gig reviews - are valued. Please send them to info@dylandaily.com

Thanks for your interest.


Gerry Smith,
editorial@dylandaily.com



EUROPEAN TOUR 2007

Here's a reminder of the itinerary for Dylan's Euro 2007 spring tour:

March: 28 Stockholm; 30 Oslo.

April: 1 Gothenburg; 2 Copenhagen; 4 Hamburg; 5 Münster; 6 Brussels; 8 and 9 Amsterdam; 11 Glasgow; 12 Newcastle; 14 Sheffield; 15 and 16 London (16 is an extra date); 17 Birmingham; 19 Düsseldorf; 20 Stuttgart; 21 Frankfurt; 23 Paris; 25 Geneva; 26 Turin; 27 Milan; 29 Zürich; 30 Mannheim.

May: 2 Leipzig; 3 Berlin; 5 Herning.

If you're going to a show, and would like to review it for fellow Dylan Daily readers, I'd be pleased to hear from you: info@dylandaily.com



NEW ARTICLES ON THE DYLAN DAILY - http://www.dylandaily.com

* No Direction Home DVD - heavily discounted
* Thunder On The Mountain video: encore
* Don't Look Back new edition: a must-have
* New Thunder On The Mountain video: encore
* Dylan tops Reader Poll in the new issue of MOJO

* New Thunder On The Mountain video - worth having, slightly underwhelming
* Midnight Train, and the Japanese live compilation CD
* Thunder On The Mountain video on TV tonight
* Dylanesque on TV twice tomorrow
* Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan: encore

* It's true - Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan
* Dylanesque - even more TV coverage
* Another (different) TV gig of Bryan Ferry promoting Dylanesque
* Bryan Ferry excels in Dylan covers gig: review/setlist/video link
* Midnight Train - catching Dylan on the cusp of a cataclysm

* The Bible and Dylan (7)
* Extra London Dylan date added
* New Dylan remixes/mashups
* Bob Dylan: Blues - no new tracks
* "Dylan is a great singer" - Bryan Ferry

* Another new must-buy: Record Collector, March 2007
* Bryan Ferry's Hard Rain at the 2000 Polar Prize: encore
* Dylan symposium in Minneapolis - early registration to 12 March
* Dylanesque preview - Bryan Ferry gig on TV
* Judas! RIP

* Midnight Train - new Dylan bootleg - in a department store!
* Mr Tambourine Man - McGuinn almost upstages Zim
* Euro tour: slow sales? And, for readers with tickets, a request
* The Bible and Dylan (6)
* Theme Time Radio Hour back on BBC's premier station tonight

* The Holy Grail of Dylan recordings?
* The Bible and Dylan (5)
* Dylanesque - new Bryan Ferry covers album
* The Bible and Dylan (4)
* The Bible and Dylan (3)

* The Bible and Dylan (2)
* Bob Dylan: Blues - compilation CD at £5.99
* The Bible and Dylan
* Dylan and Bryan Ferry: encore
* Guitar scratch plate - autographed by Dylan - yours for only £595

* Theme Time radio - a weekly delight
* European tour: are YOU going to any of the gigs?
* Dylan perplexed at Springsteen tribute
* Dylan's new house in Scotland
* Back Pages gigs in Norfolk, England

* Don't Look Back on DVD - biggest Dylan event of 2007 to date
* Dylan, Dylan, everywhere... : encore, again...
* Huck's Theme - new Dylan song on film soundtrack
* Bryan Ferry and Dylan songs
* Dylan, Dylan, everywhere... : encore, encore, encore

* Hard Rain clip from YouTube shows need for a full DVD release
* New Bryan Ferry album of Dylan songs
* Idiot Wind and the top Dylan clips on YouTube
* Dylan, Dylan, everywhere... : encore, encore
* Dylan, Dylan, everywhere... : encore

* Dylan, Dylan, everywhere...
* TIME magazine on Dylan



EARLIER ARTICLES ON THE DYLAN DAILY - http://www.dylandaily.com

* Dylan on baseball
* Tickets for Dylan Brit shows still on sale
* Theme Time Radio Hour - encore
* Theme Time Radio Hour: setting the agenda, yet again
* Dylan in Europe, spring 2007

* Those dates again for Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour on BBC Radio
* Dylan's literary influences outlined in a fine website
* More Dylan collectables
* The £300/$600 Dylan book - for the fan who has everything
* Renaldo & Clara

* Smaller venues on Dylan's Euro tour, March-May 2007
* For the Dylan fan who has everything...
* Stunning new video - Thunder On The Mountain
* Euro tour, March-May 2007
* Four April 2007 English gigs - booking starts 0900 Friday 8 Dec

* Dylan covers dominate magazine racks in 2006
* Dylan cover/major feature make new MOJO a must-buy
* Dylan/Stones' Like A Rolling Stone: rock's highest peak
* Greil Marcus on Dylan
* Highway 61 Revisited: a fine new book

* Rare Tracks in The Collection, from Apple iTunes
* The (Dylan) Collection from iTunes: a suitable Xmas present?
* New de luxe version of Don't Look Back due in February
* Promising new study Of Highway 61 Revisited
* Programme themes/setlists for the Dylan-as-DJ series on BBC radio

* BBC to broadcast Dylan's US radio series
* Trager v Gray: a tale of two encyclopedias



THEME TIME RADIO HOUR

And, finally, for UK readers, here's the schedule of the BBC Radio 2 broadcasts of the wonderful Theme Time Radio Hour series:

21.03.07 @ 2100-2200
28.03.07 @ 2100-2200
04.04.07 @ 2100-2200
06.04.07 @ 2000-2100
07.04.07 @ 2000-2100
08.04.07 @ 2000-2100
09.04.07 @ 2000-2100
11.04.07 @ 2100-2200
18.04.07 @ 2100-2200
25.04.07 @ 2100-2200
07.05.07 @ 2100-2300 (2 shows)

BBC Radio 2 shows are streamed online and also accessible from the website for seven days after broadcast (UK only, for licensing reasons, apparently).



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No Direction Home DVD - heavily discounted

Everything comes to he who waits!

Until last week, I’d passed on the No Direction Home 2 disc DVD set, priced at around £20 – poor value for a handful of dvd-only extras if you’d already taped the Scorsese film when it was aired on TV.

Then, last week, the local branch of Borders discounted No Direction Home to £5.99. Giveaway! Who could refuse such an offer?


Gerry Smith

Thunder On The Mountain video: encore

Thanks to Ian Woodward:

“It is incorrect to state that collectors will already have full versions of all the clips included in the ‘Thunder On The Mountain’ video. There were several that were entirely new.

“Indeed, if any of your subscribers have full versions of the Supper Club performances on video, the home movie footage on video or even the Eat The Document out-take footage (such as the cows in the field and Olympic brick-throwing sequences), I'd be delighted to hear from them.”

Don’t Look Back new edition: a must-have

For those who already have Don’t Look Back on VHS and DVD, the new edition, already released in the US (but still absent where I shop), is a must-buy.

Why? Here’s an earlier article from The Dylan Daily:




Don’t Look Back on DVD - biggest Dylan event of 2007 to date

The DVD re-release of Don’t Look Back, the classic fly-on-the-wall documentary, looks like being the biggest Dylan event of 2007 to date. Pre-orders on amazon.com have already put it inside the online retailer’s top 10,000 DVD titles.

The film tracks Dylan at his iconic, sneering, imperious peak (as well as his court of jesters) on the 1965 English tour. It has long been a must-have for aficionados.

There’ll be two new DVD versions of Don’t Look Back – a single disc release of the original film, remastered, plus a new 2DVD package:

Disc 1:
* Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back
* Commentary by director D.A. Pennebaker and tour road manager Bob Neuwirth
* Five additional uncut audio tracks
* Alternate version of the Subterranean Homesick Blues cue-card sequence
* Original theatrical trailer
* Pennebaker filmography
* Bob Dylan discography
* Cast and crew biographies

Disc 2:
* Bob Dylan 65 Revisited – new documentary compiled by Pennebaker from over 20 hours of unseen footage
* Commentary by Pennebaker and road manager Bob Neuwirth
* book (168pp) including a complete transcript, over 200 photos, and a new foreword by Pennebaker
* Collectible Subterranean Homesick Blues flipbook

Don’t Look Back on DVD is due for release in N America on 27 February, so presumably in the UK on Mon 26 February or Mon 5 March.

It’s a must-buy, even for those like me who’ve had it the VHS and original DVD versions for years – a well-conceived new product, with loads of added value in the new two disc package.


Gerry Smith

Thunder On The Mountain video: encore

Thanks to Martin Cowan:

“As underwhelmed as I was, it was at least encouraging to see that Dylan's office has all that glorious footage, including the Hard Rain video and live stuff from the God tours. Maybe one day we'll see a legitimate release of all that stuff.

“Just one thing - there WAS a visual link between the line ‘I sucked the milk out of a thousand cows’ and ‘60s-era Dylan in a field with - you've guessed it - cows!”



Original article:

The new Thunder On The Mountain video, just screened on Channel 4, is a collage of clips from across Dylan’s history on film. The clips run parallel to the album track, with no link between sound and vision.

While it poses a worthwhile challenge to hardcore fans - ID all the clips – it reminds you of a fan mash-up on YouTube, presumably the design brief. It’s the visual equivalent of a hits album, aimed at expanding the market, though most of the clips aren’t commercially available.

Interesting. Worth having. Slightly underwhelming. Collectors will already have full versions of all these clips.

Dylan tops Reader Poll in the new issue of MOJO

There’s plenty of Dylan coverage in the new (“April”) issue of MOJO, the beautifully designed English Dadrock monthly.

In the Reader Poll, Dylan tops two categories - Artist Of The Year and Album Of The Year. And in a long Ronnie Wood interview, the guitarist (who still, after over 30 years, seems to have just joined the Rolling Stones) speaks well of Dylan, particularly on the Live Aid debacle, and more generally about their long friendship.

www.mojo4music.com


Gerry Smith

Thunder On The Mountain video – a Dylan collage

The new Thunder On The Mountain video, just screened on Channel 4, is a collage of clips from across Dylan’s history on film. The clips run parallel to the Modern Times album track, with no link between sound and vision.

While it poses a worthwhile challenge to hardcore fans - ID all the clips – it reminds you of a fan mash-up on YouTube, presumably the design brief. It’s the visual equivalent of a hits album, aimed at expanding the market, though most of the clips aren’t commercially available.

Interesting. Worth having. Slightly underwhelming. Collectors will already have full versions of most of these clips.


Gerry Smith

Midnight Train, and the Japanese live compilation CD

Thanks to Andrew Kelly (aka Crispin):

“I logged on to the web site for 'El Corte Ingles' (found by typing ECI into Dogpile search) and even with a scant knowledge of the loving tongue succeeded in placing an order online for the recordings other correspondents have mentioned. The charge for the three with postage was Euro56.35. Promised delivery time is 21 days, so come about 25/3 there will either be a report from me on said records or a rant about the unreliability of web shopping.

“On another Dylan-related matter, does anyone know what the Japanese text in the pamphlet accompanying the '39 years of live perfs' disc says?

“All the best to fellow fans, and to anyone going to the European gigs this spring - have a wiggy old time.”

Thunder On The Mountain video on Channel 4 tonight

“Dylan’s brand new video, Thunder On The Mountain” is to be broadcast twice tonight, Monday 5 March, on Brit TV station Channel 4.

It airs at 0010, with a repeat at 0205

Thanks to Martin Cowan and John B for reminders.

www.channel4.com/listings/C4/index.jsp



Gerry Smith

Dylanesque on TV twice tomorrow

Reminder: Bryan Ferry’s Dylanesque album (due in English shops on Monday) is promoted twice on TV tomorrow, Saturday 3 March:

* BBC2's the Culture Show at 7.25pm (repeated at 01.20 on Sunday morning) - "He joins Lauren Laverne to talk about his album Dylanesque and to perform live."

* Channel 4, 0010-0115.



Gerry Smith

Nobody Sings Dylan Like Dylan: encore

Thanks to Daniel Katz:

“You said: ‘About one third of the assembled tracks in the 17 disc series look mildly interesting. The other 65% look like an endless succession of dull, grizzled guitar-strumming navel-gazers.

If I listen to this kind of mediocre, but oh-so-precious, sub-Americana for half an hour, I lose the will to live.’

“Bravo, that’s exactly how I feel about most Dylan covers, though the Dylan Police don’t like it said too loudly.

“Someone gave me a CD called A Nod To Bob – An Artists’ Tribute To Bob Dylan On His Sixtieth Birthday. I’ve played it twice. The first time, I couldn’t believe my ears; the second hearing confirmed that I’d never be listening again.

“All this stuff just proves one thing: just because it’s a great songbook doesn’t mean that any and all versions are worth hearing. CBS were dead right - nobody sings Dylan like Dylan… .”