Hi Mary,
Love your page. I recently came across an old copy of a book written by Sam Shepard called the Rolling Thunder Logbook in my dads book shelf. It is a great read if you haven’t come across it, but my question to you is do you know where all the footage he speaks about went to?

It would be an amazing insight if someone made a documentary on that tour, it sounds like it was all documented on film but all I have seen of it is a few the live songs where Bob is wearing a big hat and make up. I’d love to see the back stage stuff he speaks about. As I was typing across this I just came across this recount of the tour from one of the lighting roadies, it’s great: http://vimeo.com/4746539

Keep up the good work and please let me know if you have any insight on the whereabouts of the film footage.

Warm regards,
Hugh

Can anyone shed some light on the film footage Hugh mentioned?

From Prospect magazine: Imagine an Old Testament prophet come down from the mountains of the desert. Imagine he has 70 years’ worth of visions to impart in rich and vivid verse—visions comprised for the most part of searing and timeless human truth about love and god and man. But imagine that he has neither heard nor spoken a single word during his many decades alone—that his voice is therefore as cracked as the tablets he bears and as croaky as the rocks among which he has lived, and that furthermore he has no sense of the speed, nor the sound, nor the stresses, nor the syntax of conventional speech.

Read more?

Thanks to James Cartwright for the heads up on this article.

Bob and Mark Knopfler at the Hammersmith Apollo 21/11/2011 playing Forever Young. Watch out the for nod to Dylan from Knopfler when they get to ‘May Your Song Always Be Sung’

‘I’m only Bob Dylan when I have to be’, said the singer once. Asked who he was the rest of the time, he answered ‘myself’.

Article on Bob Dylan’s Cork gig this year from Liam Carson in Poetry Ireland. Source

Spotted on facebook-The interviews with Joan Baez and Robbie Robertson are in English

Review of Dylan at Merriweather Post Pavilion: Source

“I’m much looking forward to going out on the road with Bob in such a special year. Also, it was an honor
to be asked to record one of Bob's songs on the forthcoming Amnesty International 50th anniversary album to mark his 70th birthday.”
Source

Son of Jesse Dylan, young Pablo (15) has rocketed onto the scene with his rap music and assertion that Bob Dylan was the Jay-Z of his time. Hello? There is no-one to touch Bob Dylan, or to put it in context I dont think you can compare the early rock stars to the current rap ones, in that way. The earlier ones were the ones breaking the mould and you cant take that away from them. Dylan, The Beatles, The Stones, The Doors etc were and are the coolest stars ever!

However fair play to Pablo for strutting out into the world with a good deal of ‘grandpa’ ‘s attitude so he’s one worth watching. Wonder what his Bobness thinks?

I consider him the Jay-Z of his time

What Bob Dylan fans are saying about Pablo Dylan

I liked this CD cover version of the late sixties (1967) album by Dylan. Apparently Thea Gilmore thinks that John Wesley Harding is Dylan’s “most sustained, satisfying record… It runs beautifully from start to finish, songs bounce off each other, characters seem unfathomably but implicitly linked, and the sense of earthiness and economy in Bob’s lyrics is startling.”

So, what’s the verdict? It started well, with a definite feeling to me of a soundtrack extravaganza, especially on the first few songs. Then to me it kind of drifted off and was a bit repetitious in delivery and tone. However by the end I was sold again on Thea’s lush voice, particularly on I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight. Highlights-John Wesley Harding, As I Went Out One Morning, I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine and the aforementioned I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight.  The CD comes with an array of cards, including vintage Butch Cassidy and gang, Hank Williams and Native American chief Sitting Bull, with lyrics printed on the back. It’s nicely packaged!

1. Gonna Change My Way of Thinking

2.It’s All Over now, Baby Blue

3. Things Have Changed

4. Tangled Up In Blue

5. The Levee’s Gonna Break

6. Ballad of Hollis Brown

7. Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum

8. I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine

9. High Water (for Charley Patton)

10. Tryin To get To Heaven

11. Highway 61 Revisited

12. Simple Twist Of Fate

13.Thunder On The Mountain

14. Ballad of A Thin Man

Encore

15. Like A Rolling Stone

16. All Along The Watchtower

17. Forever Young