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Bob Dylan’s new studio album due September 2012

Isis reports 35th studio recording for Dylan uses touring band, Los Lobos Mexican influences

Bob Dylan on the never ending tour April 27, 2012 in San Nicolas, Buenos Aires, Argentina (photo by Adrian Lasso, Creative Commons)

Dylan fans are getting revved up for the fall release of Bob Dylan’s latest studio album.

Recorded in February 2012 in between tour gigs, the album has 10 tracks and features the Never Ending Tour band, says Dylan fanzine Isis Magazine.

David Hidalgo who worked on the album said “It was a great experience. And different. Each one has been different, all completely different approaches. It’s an amazing thing, how he keeps creativity. I don’t see how he does it.” (Aspen Times)
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Bob Dylan interview in Rolling Stone one of his best

Dylan almost levels with Rolling Stone interviewer

Bob Dylan photo - Micelotta/Getty

From a story in Rolling Stone

There is a symbiotic relationship between Bob Dylan and Rolling Stone Magazine. Was the magazine named after Dylan’s Like a Rolling Stone, the Rolling Stones as in the rock group, or the common blues phrase “a rolling stone.”

Dylan has given Rolling Stone Magazine more time than any other magazine and the latest interview from the May 14th, 2009 issue is one of the best.

Unlike his earlier mind games with journalists, Dylan is forthright at least for Dylan. He talks about his life, touring, music and today’s economy. If you follow Dylan it’s worth reading if not owning. The journalist doesn’t spend his time trying to one-up Dylan which is refreshing.

Here’s an excerpt from the Rolling Stone coverage.

(video after the break)
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Levon Helm and Bob Dylan up for Grammys

Collaborators from the 1960s vie for 2009 Grammy award

Levon Helm, in this photo from February 2008, performs at one of the 'rambles' he frequently hosts at his home in Woodstock. (Freeman photo by Tania Barricklo)

Update – Levon Helm’s Electric Dirtwon a Grammy but Bob Dylan came up short.

Levon Helm, former member of The Band, is nominated for a Grammy for his CD Electric Dirt.

Bob Dylan is also nominated for the same award in the “Best Americana Album” category, for Together Through Life. Dylan has also been nominated for 2009 Grammy Awards in the “Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance” category, for “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” from Together Through Life. (the video is on the next page)

Since the Grammys are tied to album sales, it is expected that Dylan will beat Levon Helm.The show starts at 8 PM ET on CBS.

Dylan hired The Hawks from Ronnie Hawkins before they were called The Band to tour with him in 1966. Dylan’s conversion to rock and roll from folk was bringing out the jeering section which drove Helm crazy. He quit in England and was replaced for the rest of the tour.

Dylan ended the tour by having a motorcycle accident and holing up in his doctor’s cottage in Woodstock NY while the rumors of life and death swirled around him. The Band, laid up without a tour, rented a house is West Saugerties, NY they dubbed “The Big Pink”.

Hiding out with his band mates, Dylan started writing a new kind of music that was recorded and spun out as some of the earliest Dylan bootlegs. The music was different, funny, lose and based on Americana folk and rock music. In frustration with the bootleg copies, Columbia released it as The Basement Tapes in 1975.
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Beyond Here Lies Nothing video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Dylan’s agents

Beyond Here Lies Nothing is from the CD Together Through Life. The promo video uses photographs from Bruce Davidson’s Brooklyn Gang available from Magnum Photos.

This video was replaced by the official video from Blue Tongue Films. Before YouTube took the video down, more than 200,000 people saw this video on YouTube. Slightly more than 100,000 of those views were on our channel. All of them have been removed by YouTube.

The video was removed along with our YouTube account in late October 2009. Some might call that ingratitude: some might call it protecting copyright. We call it fan promotion of an artist during the early sales cycle of a new CD.

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Bob Dylan’s new CD illustrates how to make money in music

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Make money with incremental value add giving your audience choice and value

updated August 2, 2009

Bob Dylan‘s ( Canada) new CD is a prime example of how to make money in the music biz by giving your audience choice and value. There are three versions of the April 28, 2009 release. Each offers value and the increments are there to tempt us to buy more. Prices are US $.

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Review – Bob Dylan cracks himself up on “Together Through Life”

by John Soeder / Plain Dealer Pop Music Critic

Together Through Life Bob Dylan

A funny thing happens at the end of “My Wife’s Home Town,” a Willie Dixon-inspired blues.

Bob Dylan chuckles — a gritty “Heh, heh, heh.”

And why not? “Together Through Life” reverberates with the laid-back sounds of a legend amusing himself with yesteryear balladry (“Life Is Hard”), Tex-Mex swing (“If You Ever Go to Houston”) and rootsy soul (“I Feel a Change Comin’ On”).

The supporting cast includes Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter, who co-wrote lyrics to nine of the 10 tracks. Chances are Dylan won’t be the only one who gets a kick out of the results. Grade: A-

Bob Dylan, Together Through Life – available today

The new Bob Dylan CD Together Though Life is out. Today

Bob Dylan, Pawtucket RI 2006, older raw and mean blues

With story from the San Francisco Chronicle

The CD is out but I have to wait for UPS from Amazon – saving money costs a few extra days.

I scoffled the new video and put it on YouTube last week. 3,500 people have seen it so far. (Update – after 100,000 views WebSheriff asked us to take the video down.)

The new album is gritty, raw blues. It swings and its mean, not soft and innocent. Dylan is older, sadder and maybe the victim of his own life. Who knows. Can’t wait. How much longer can I wait. Continue reading →

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