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May 11, 2011
Rolling Stone celebrates Bob Dylan
Rolling Stone is celebrating Bob Dylan this month with a cover story and dedicated Bob Dylan section on RollingStone.com. Visit rollingstone.com/dylan to see their favorite Dylan songs as well as picks from Bono, Bob Weir, and Marcus Mumford plus photo galleries and lists ranging from The Best Dylan Covers to The Most Inscrutable Lyrics. You can also take the Ultimate Dylan Quiz and hear his first interview with Rolling Stone in 1969.
April 22, 2011
March 30, 2011
TWO CLASSIC DOCUMENTARIES STARRING BOB DYLAN AVAILABLE FOR FIRST TIME ON BLU-RAY DISC
D.A. Pennebaker's Cinéma Vérité Masterwork "Dont Look Back" & Murray Lerner's "The Other Side of the Mirror - Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965" Available on Blu-ray Everywhere Tuesday, April 26
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Bob Dylan fans and film aficionados alike have reason to celebrate on April 26, when a pair of classic documentaries, each chronicling and illuminating different aspects of Bob Dylan in the 1960s, will be released on state-of-the-art Blu-ray disc (BD) for the very first time.
Both D.A. Pennebaker's Dont Look Back, a pioneering masterwork of cinéma vérité, and Murray Lerner's revelatory musical time-capsule The Other Side Of The Mirror - Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965, provide indispensable glimpses into Dylan and his pivotal role as an American artist in the 1960s, each film capturing an earlier era with heart-breaking immediacy.
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Dont Look Back - Blu-ray Edition (Tuesday, April 26, 2011) - Docurama Films(R)
New Video's Docurama Films(R) presents the first Blu-ray release of "Dont Look Back," newly mastered in High Definition (HD) and featuring a brand new and exclusive interview with D.A. Pennebaker, the film's director, and renowned rock and culture critic Greil Marcus.
The Blu-ray edition also includes bonus material from the 2007 DVD release: Highway 65 Revisited; Five Additional Uncut Audio Tracks; Commentary by D.A. Pennebaker and tour road manager Bob Neuwirth; Alternate Version of the "Subterranean Homesick Blues" Cue Card Sequence; Original Theatrical Trailer.
When acclaimed documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker (Monterey Pop, The War Room) filmed Bob Dylan during a three-week concert tour of England in the spring of 1965, he had no idea he was about to lens one of the 1960s most iconic feature films. Wanting to make more than just a concert film, Pennebaker decided to seek out both the public and private Bob Dylan. With unobtrusive equipment and rare access to the elusive performer, he achieved a fly-on-the-wall view of one of the most influential musicians of any era -- and redefined filmmaking along the way.
New Video launched Docurama Films(R) in 1991 with Bob Dylan: Dont Look Back, the first feature documentary ever available on DVD. Twelve years and 250 award-winning, highly-acclaimed documentary titles later, Docurama continues to discover and release the greatest non-fiction films of our time while spreading the word about filmmakers who are taking the form to new heights.
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The Other Side Of The Mirror - Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 (Columbia/Legacy)
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are releasing, for the first time on Blu-ray disc, The Other Side Of The Mirror - Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963 - 1965. An essential film in the Bob Dylan cinematic canon, The Other Side Of The Mirror brings together more than 80 minutes of exquisitely lensed performances, 70% seen here for the first time, drawn from three seminal years in the artist's ever-evolving career.
Produced and directed by Academy Award winner Murray Lerner (From Mao To Mozart: Isaac Stern In China), The Other Side Of The Mirror - Bob Dylan Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963 - 1965 opens a window into a critical epoch in American cultural history as reflected in the musical transformations of Bob Dylan's galvanizing watershed performances at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, 1964, and 1965.
"This is a different kind of film, in a sense, from what I usually make," said Murray Lerner. "We decided on no narration, no pundit interviews, no interviews with Dylan. Nothing except the experience of seeing him... . That to me is exciting. Just the clear experience gives you everything you need."
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THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR - BOB DYLAN LIVE AT THE NEWPORT FOLK FESTIVAL 1963 - 1965
All I Really Want To Do (7/24/1965 - afternoon workshop)
1963
North Country Blues (7/26 afternoon workshop)
With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez - 7/26 afternoon workshop and 7/28 night performance)
Talkin' World War III Blues (7/26 night performance)
Who Killed Davey Moore? (7/27 afternoon workshop)
Only A Pawn In Their Game (7/26 night performance)
Blowin' In The Wind (with The Freedom Singers, Joan Baez, and Peter, Paul and Mary - 7/26 night performance)
1964
Mr. Tambourine Man (7/24 afternoon workshop)
It Ain't Me, Babe (with Joan Baez - 7/24 night performance)
With God On Our Side (with Joan Baez - 7/26 night performance)
Chimes Of Freedom (7/26 night performance)
1965
If You Gotta Go, Go Now (7/24 afternoon workshop)
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (7/24 afternoon workshop)
Daytime Rehearsal with his electric band
Maggie's Farm (with his electric band - 7/25 night performance)
Like A Rolling Stone (with his electric band - 7/25 night performance)
Mr. Tambourine Man (7/25 night performance)
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (7/25 night performance)
Bonus Feature: Interview with director Murray Lerner
March 21, 2011
Bob Dylan Archive now available for pre-order
Introducing the officially licensed Bob Dylan Archive from Box Of Vision.
It is now available for preorder at www.BoxOfVision.com, and will begin shipping no later than April 15.
The beautiful and luxurious, linen covered show-case includes:
Unique storage for the official, chronological Bob Dylan CD catalog (CDs not included).
Designed specifically for all 43 CDs, it can store 48 CDs and is expandable to hold more.
The most comprehensive collection of full size Bob Dylan LP artwork ever
(from 1962's Bob Dylan through 2009's Christmas in the Heart)... digitally restored and available together for the first time... in a 220 page book of LP sized reproductions.
A brand new, unique discography...
with excerpts from over 90 historical reviews and 27 classic advertisements.... spanning Bob Dylan's entire career.
It is a gorgeous, one of a kind collection. More information is available here.
The first edition print run is limited to 10,000 copies, so reserve your copy now.
It is available for $130 (US) £85 (UK) 100 Euros (EU).
Order before April 1 and it will ship to you for free anywhere in the US or EU. Click here for details.
February 16, 2011
"Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963" Now Available
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announce the first stand-alone release of Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963, available on digital, CD and vinyl formats everywhere.
A previously unknown live recording of a 21-year-old Bob Dylan taped at the Brandeis First Annual Folk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts, on May 10, 1963, Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 captures the rollicking wit, deadpan delivery and driving intensity of the young artist's on-stage persona in an assortment of end-of-the-world songs -- none of them commercially available at the time -- performed in front of an appreciative audience two weeks prior to the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (May 27, 1963).
The Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 concert tape was discovered recently in the archives of the noted music writer and Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph J. Gleason, where it sat on a shelf for more than forty years. "It had been forgotten, until it was found last year in the clearing of the house after my mother died," said Toby Gleason, Ralph's son. "It's a seven inch reel-to-reel that sounds like it was taped from the mixing desk."
Drawn from two sets that Spring night at the Brandeis Folk Festival, tracks on Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 include "Honey, Just Allow Me On More Chance" (incomplete), "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," "Ballad Of Hollis Brown," "Masters of War," "Talkin' World War III Blues," "Bob Dylan's Dream," and "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues."
Previously available as a limited time offer, Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 is being reissued in response to overwhelming popular demand for a wide release. The new Columbia/Legacy edition features liner notes penned exclusively for this release by noted Bob Dylan scholar Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and the three-volume Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, who provided an explication of the album's seven songs and historical/cultural context for the performances.
"It's a small miracle this recording exists," Gray writes in his essay. "Clearly a professional recording.... (t)he Bob Dylan performance it captured, from way back when Kennedy was President and the Beatles hadn't yet reached America, wasn't even on fans' radar.... It reveals him not at any Big Moment but giving a performance like his folk club sets of the period: repertoire from an ordinary working day....Dylan has leapt a creative canyon with this material....This is the last live performance we have of Bob Dylan before he becomes a star...."
"Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963" to be Released April 12
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings announce the first stand-alone release of Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963, available on digital, CD and vinyl formats everywhere on Tuesday, April 12, 2011.
A previously unknown live recording of a 21-year-old Bob Dylan taped at the Brandeis First Annual Folk Festival in Waltham, Massachusetts, on May 10, 1963, Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 captures the rollicking wit, deadpan delivery and driving intensity of the young artist's on-stage persona in an assortment of end-of-the-world songs -- none of them commercially available at the time -- performed in front of an appreciative audience two weeks prior to the release of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (May 27, 1963).
The Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 concert tape was discovered recently in the archives of the noted music writer and Rolling Stone co-founder Ralph J. Gleason, where it sat on a shelf for more than forty years. "It had been forgotten, until it was found last year in the clearing of the house after my mother died," said Toby Gleason, Ralph's son. "It's a seven inch reel-to-reel that sounds like it was taped from the mixing desk."
Drawn from two sets that Spring night at the Brandeis Folk Festival, tracks on Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 include "Honey, Just Allow Me On More Chance" (incomplete), "Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues," "Ballad Of Hollis Brown," "Masters of War," "Talkin' World War III Blues," "Bob Dylan's Dream," and "Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues."
Previously available as a limited time offer, Bob Dylan In Concert - Brandeis University 1963 is being reissued in response to overwhelming popular demand for a wide release. The new Columbia/Legacy edition features liner notes penned exclusively for this release by noted Bob Dylan scholar Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia and the three-volume Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, who provided an explication of the album's seven songs and historical/cultural context for the performances.
"It's a small miracle this recording exists," Gray writes in his essay. "Clearly a professional recording.... (t)he Bob Dylan performance it captured, from way back when Kennedy was President and the Beatles hadn't yet reached America, wasn't even on fans' radar.... It reveals him not at any Big Moment but giving a performance like his folk club sets of the period: repertoire from an ordinary working day....Dylan has leapt a creative canyon with this material....This is the last live performance we have of Bob Dylan before he becomes a star...."
February 10, 2011
Bob Dylan to perform at the Grammy ceremony
Bob Dylan will perform at Sunday night's Grammy ceremony alongside Mumford & Sons and the Avett Bros.
This article from the Los Angeles Times may be of interest.
January 16, 2011
Bob Dylan to Tour Australia in April 2011
Bob Dylan and his band will perform in Australia in April 2011. Four headlining dates have been posted to bobdylan.com, for Adelaide, Wollongong, Melbourne and Sydney, joining two previously-announced festival appearances in Fremantle and Byron Bay.
Tickets go on sale for all four newly-announced shows on January 31.
Pre-sale tickets will be available for readers of bobdylan.com on January 24.
Visit http://bobdylan.com/tour for information. Details and ticket links will be posted when available.
December 22, 2010
REMIX SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
This doesn't happen all the time. Sony's got something new, called: The Remix Project. As part of this project, fans of Bob Dylan or fans of Subterranean Homesick Blues - or just plain fans of music - get a chance to remix Dylan's classic song.
There's a contest where you can win prizes like a trip to South by Southwest, The Bootleg Series or The Original Mono Recordings Boxed Set. But the real thrill is getting to deconstruct this classic song and see how the pieces all fit together. You can hear and remix Dylan's four tracks that created the original song.
Other artists have already added some additional tracks that you can also put into the mix. Just go to: facebook.com/Sony.
You might want to read some of the cool press on mashable.com. Enjoy!
November 26, 2010
Review The Reviews
As a service to bobdylan.com readers, we will be publishing your reviews of recent concert reviews.
See Review The Reviews for details.
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