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Obama, Springsteen, and Bob Dylan converge on Madison next Monday.
Obama and Springsteen are arriving as a team. Obama, sans Springsteen, was just here last month, but apparently he thinks this city needs more promp…
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You need to know that Bob Dylan told Barbra Streisand: "You are my favorite star."
The NYT article "Bob Dylan’s Secret Archive" mentioned Barbra Streisand: A card from Barbra Streisand postmarked November 1978, for exampl…
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Shillong — the Indian town that loves Bob Dylan.
From Charuskesi Ramadurai in the UK Independent : Dylan has never visited – in fact, he’s never performed in India and is thought to have visited onl…
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France drops hate speech charge against Bob Dylan but not because it doesn't think his speech was a crime.
The charges were only dismissed because Dylan was speaking to the U.S. edition of Rolling Stone interview to the U.S. and did not expressly agree to …
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I do understand how some literalists look at the word "Literature" and say that it denotes material that is to be read.
Here 's what the Online Etymology Dictionary says: In English originally "book learning" (in which sense it replaced Old English boccræ…
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Any way the wind blows.
In the comments on the post about the smelliness of a particular city in Iowa , stever writes: "I lived in Pampa,TX for awhile in the late 70s. …
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Talking to Google like it's your friend.
I'm constantly amazed (and amused) by the Google searches that bring people to this blog. (You know, I pay nothing to use Blogger, but I do pay b…
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Last night in Fargo.
We saw Bob Dylan again. And now, we're back in Madison, having driven 4,000+ miles in 12 days.
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Trump is so endlessly pleased to have won Wisconsin, but he mixes it up with Minnesota.
Come on, Trump. We have feelings up here. Wisconsin isn't Minnesota. “Take Wisconsin, I just left Wisconsin,” Trump said at a campaign rally in …
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"We'd know if Bob Dylan came in here. What was he, in disguise?"
"There are a lot of people who come here who are Bob Dylan fans." "Did we miss him?" *** Well, you know sometimes Bob Dylan wears…
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Harvard classics professor who teaches a course on Bob Dylan gets vindication from Bob Dylan's winning the Nobel Prize.
The NYT has an article on Richard F. Thomas , "who has been gently teased by colleagues for teaching a freshman seminar about Bob Dylan." M…
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The absence of narcissism in Bob Dylan.
"What really set me apart in these days was my repertoire. It was more formidable than the rest of the coffeehouse players, my template being ha…
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50 years ago today: The Byrds' "Mr. Tambourine Man" hit #1 on the Billboard chart.
"When the Byrds released their debut single for Columbia Records, few could've guessed the scope of history that would follow... Not only di…
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Other Bob Dylan fiascos.
The awful failure of the Bob Dylan musical prompts Mark Caro to list other Dylan-related disasters: 1. "Tarantula."... 2. "Dylan.&quo…
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Dylan's "Chronicles": Chapter 3.
Continuing with my reading of Dylan 's autobiography. (I do Chapter 1 here and Chapter 2 here .) Poet Dylan is excited to meet who turns out to …
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"The lyrics show Dylan's attempts to build a rhyme off of the 'How does it feel' line with phrases like, 'it feels real,' 'does it feel real,' 'get down and kneel,' 'raw deal' and 'shut up and deal.'"
Bob Dylan's handwritten lyrics for "Like a Rolling Stone" have sold for $2.045 million, a world record for a popular music manuscript.&…
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"A fresh exploration of the timeless tale of a young man's coming of age."
The musical "The Times They Are A-Changin’" opens tonight . Here 's a look at how the Broadway folk are interpreting Bob Dylan songs. E…
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"While women from his own, white middle-class background, often saw him as an overawing presence, he was just another guy to African-American women and this was refreshing to him."
From a 2001 article about Bob Dylan's 6-month marriage to Carolyn Dennis, who bore him a child, his 6th child, named Desiree Gabrielle Dennis-Dy…
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Sting, "Girl from the North Country"... Mark Knopfler – "Restless Farewell"...
Jackson Browne, "Love Minus Zero/No Limit "... Bryan Ferry, "Bob Dylan’s Dream"... Carly Simon, "Just Like a Woman "..…
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Bob Dylan, the DJ, with a weekly show!
Bob Dylan is going to host a weekly radio show , on XM radio. Starting in March, he'll be choosing the songs and doing interviews and commentary.…
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