Category Archives: Bob Dylan

Chimes of Freedom all Bob Dylan all the time

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What’s not to like about a 4-CD 76-song tribute to Bob Dylan and Amnesty International for $20

Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan is a lot of Bob Dylan songs for only $20 sung by artists famous and not-so-famous. The project will raise money for Amnesty International.

Amnesty International are fighting for human rights and freedom around the world. They deserve our $20 and more for defending people from oppression.

It’s the 50th Anniversary of Amnesty International, Bob Dylan’s 50th anniversary of recording. The project seems like a winner.  Continue reading →

Bob Dylan performs Blind Willie McTell at Critics Choice

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In honor of Martin Scorsese Dylan actually sounds like an old blues man

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A recent Bob Dylan performance of Blind Willie McTell with Mark Knopfler follows the break.
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Bonnie Raitt set to launch first new CD in 7 years

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Slipstream will feature Raitt’s bluesy singing and hot slide guitar coming April 2012

Bonnie Raitt Slipstream (photo Redwing Records)

After taking a 7 year break for personal reasons, Bonnie Raitt is roaring out of the gate with a new record, new record label and a national tour during 2012.

Raitt has had a long career in rock and blues with highlights like the award winning Nick of Time and rock classics like “Something to Talk About”, and the ballad “I Can’t Make You Love Me”.

On the new CD, Raitt covers two Bob Dylan songs Million Miles and Standing in the Doorway.  Continue reading →

Bob Dylan’s 2011 Christmas lump of coal

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Expecting a new Bob Dylan release this Christmas has been a disappointment

Christmas in the Heart (artwork Sony Music)

Bob Dylan’s Christmas gift to fans this year only has one of his songs.

Bob Dylan was executive producer of The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams.

Hank Williams wrote the lyrics decades ago but didn’t finish the songs.

Dylan enlisted a who’s who of country, indie and rock music to make those lyrics come alive.

Every Christmas for ages I have looked forward to some Bob Dylan gift in my stocking.

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Walking Blues – Guy Davis

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Young old bluesman keeps the Delta tradition alive and well


Walking Blues from 1990 Tribute to Robert Johnson

Blues guitarist and singer Guy Davis grew up in New York City but he assimilated the Delta Blues traditions of his Mississippi grandparents.
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Mumford and Sons wow Canada video

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Concerts in Montreal, Toronto and Hamilton play folk indie rock to adoring fans


Mumford and Sons live on The Edge 102.1 FM Toronto

Mumford and Sons were relatively unknown before their appearance with Bob Dylan at this year’s Grammy Awards. Mumford and Sons win on Grammys

Since then, the band of West London lads have been on a whirlwind rise in popularity. Three concerts in Canada in October player to enthusiastic audiences.
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Outlaw Blues innovative iPad book or shill

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Jonathan Taplin`s book is part personal history, part rock and roll journey in multimedia iPad book

You know me – I`m into all things Bob Dylan and 60s rock and roll. When Apple released Outlaw Blues – Adventures in Counter-Culture Wars by Jonathan Taplin I was like `show me the store`.

Soon I was trapped in the iPhone store.

The book promised first person narrative from Jonathan Taplin who now teaches at USC. He  was Bob Dylan`s tour manager.

Outlaw Blues is a searing tale of the rock and roll and film revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s told by an insider who worked with Bob Dylan and The Band, George Harrison and Martin Scorsese to change the cultural landscape of America. Continue reading →

Hank Williams The Lost Notebooks CD Review

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A project produced by Bob Dylan has breathed life into unfinished Hank Williams songs

Hank Williams, his unfinished songs brought to life

From the Alan Jackson’s honky-tonk You’ve Been Lonesome Too to Merle Haggard’s reverential The Sermon on the Mount, The Lost Notebooks of Hank Williams is a winner.

These are Hank Williams Sr. songs we never heard before and it’s at treat.

There is more life, fun and good music here than in most country CDs in the past while.

Maybe these are not the Top 10 Hank Williams songs we already know by heart but they are Hank Williams and they’re fresh.   Continue reading →

Bob Dylan in Nottingham Video

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2011 Fan videos of Dylan show his power and hot backing band


Lovesick October 11, 2011

Mark Knopfler is touring with Dylan this Fall in Europe.

You gotta love fans who breeze past the security and capture video this great. What a kickass band!
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Oh Mercy gets vinyl reissue

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The CD that brought Bob Dylan back from the wasteland with producer Daniel Lanois

Oh Mercy vinyl re-issue

Oh Mercy, one of the best Dylan CDs of all time is being re-issued in vinyl according to Ultimate Classic Rock

By the mid-80′s Dylan was drifting in his post-Christian period. At one point he offered to join the Grateful Dead. They declined.

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Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert DVD

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One of the great Bob Dylan concerts is on DVD but only partially

Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert

If there is one Bob Dylan concert to have on video, it’s the 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration.

Ironically Bob Dylan only sings on 5 of the 30 plus songs. It’s like a who’s who of rock and roll and country singing Bob Dylan. Continue reading →