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Blind Willie McTell. Copyright © 1983 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. Crossing the Rubicon. Copyright © 2020 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. Highlands. Copyright © 1997 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. Isis. Copyright © 1975 by Ram’s Horn Music; renewed 2003 by Ram’s Horn Music. All rights reserved. Murder […]
François Guillez, Bob Dylan in the 2020s: Rough and Rowdy Ways, Shadow Kingdom, and All That Philosophy. Tangible Press, 2023. Clinton Heylin, The Double Life of Bob Dylan Volume 2: 1966-201: ‘Far Away From Myself’. London: Bodley Head, 2023. John Lewis, Whirly Gig: Inside Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind Sessions. Cambridge, Maryland: Dorchester Power […]
Harriet Archer is a lecturer in early modern English literature at the University of St Andrews, where she teaches modules on the English Renaissance, Bob Dylan, and popular music, and is the author of Unperfect Histories: the Mirror for Magistrates, 1559-1610 (Oxford University Press, 2017). David Bond graduated from Johnston College, the University of Redlands, […]
The Dylan Review spoke to producer and engineer Mark Howard about his book of photographs Recording Icons / Creative Spaces and his work with Dylan on Time Out of Mind and Oh Mercy. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Dylan Review: When did you start taking photos? And why did you start […]
Whispers on Contraband: The Chorus of Bob Dylan’s “Blind Willie McTell” BY Nicholas Bornholt “Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff” ‒ Bob Dylan To write of music is to be lost for words. Songcraft can seem more an afflatus for the poetic than a site for critical reflection. To transcribe Mozart or […]
Bob Dylan’s date with The Faerie Queene (1596) BY Harriet Archer, University of St Andrews Abstract While comparisons between Bob Dylan and Shakespeare are commonplace, and Dylan’s lyrics have been profitably read alongside Petrarch, Rimbaud, and others in recent work, this article advances the first sustained analysis of potential Spenserian echoes in Dylan’s oeuvre. Rereading […]
Strutting and Fretting BY Thomas Palaima, University of Texas “Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi” You were seventeen when the explosion went off when a plane went down when you were transported through “Cottonfields” into a world you’d never known walking in darkness and then there was light. Then you were nineteen […]
Some Other Kind of Place (Birmingham, Alabama, June 1991) BY David Bond 1 Once, in late August, I was in the mountains, almost six thousand feet. It hailed golf balls of hard, pure ice. I knew nature included the mind. On that day I believed it. 2 Today, I watched a movie in technicolor, ate […]
Back in the hard old days, when ambition was in the air on MacDougal Street, a song began “Oh my name it is nothin’ / My age it means less.” Nothing prepared us for that opening line, the deeply ironic claim to anonymity by a voice instantly recognizable—a voice unmasking the singer and contradicting his […]
“Dylan and the Beats,” June 3-5, 2022, Henry Zarrow Center for Art and Education, Tulsa REVIEW BY Robert Reginio, Alfred University The Zarrow Center for Art and Education is a small space located in the same building as the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Zarrow Center was the intimate location of this year’s […]
