Seven Days: Feb 24 - Mar 2, 2025

This is Seven Days: The week’s top Bob Dylan news, posts, links and videos. Articles and posts on ‘A Complete Unknown’ have been skipped again.

This image from Bob Dylan’s apartment in ‘A Complete Unknown’ translates roughly to: "Honesty is valuable, integrity in speech and love are the foundation of life."

Details, News, and Reviews of Bob Dylan Live In Concert

NEW Spring & Summer Tours (ALL DATES ON SALE)

• Rough and Rowdy Ways (2025)

  • 20 Shows: March 25 - April 22 (details)

  • Midwest USA: 14 States from Tulsa to Minnesota to Pennsylvania

• Outlaw Music Festival (2025) (tour info)

  • 34 Shows: May 13 - Sept 19 (details)

  • Across the USA: 21 States in the West, Midwest, and East

Our favorite stories and links from the past week

• A Man Who Outlived His Time - Frank James (Peter Stone Brown) [8]

  • "There is equally no source for the text itself which has led many to speculate that it is taken from a source that only Bob Dylan knows, perhaps something published more than 100 years ago."

  • There is speculation this is a Bob Dylan original. Know otherwise? Let us know.

• Dylan Posted a Machine Gun Kelly Video (Uproxx) [5]

  • "As for why Dylan decided to post that particular video, that’s not clear, especially since Dylan didn’t include any sort of caption with the post."

• Machine Gun Kelly Responds To Bob Dylan Compliment: “I’m So Grateful” (Far Out Magazine) [5]

  • “Machine Gun Kelly is flattered after Bob Dylan shares a video of him performing, expressing his gratitude for the unexpected compliment.”

• ‘Jokerman’: Does Bob Dylan’s Song Have Anything to Do with the Font? (Far Out Magazine) [8]

  • “It’s a bizarre and tenuous link, but a satisfying one to realise that one of the most immediately recognisable typefaces takes its name from one of Bob Dylan’s more unusual songs.”

• An Early Bob Dylan Recording Hits The Auction Block (The New York Times) [5]

  • “Now, the tape, described by RR Auction as ‘Dylan’s earliest demo recording,’ is being offered for sale along with other Dylan-related ephemera.”

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• G.E. Smith Recalls The First Years Of Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour (Flagging Down The Double E’s) [8]

  • “G.E. Smith, as the first guitarist of the Never Ending Tour, shares his experiences touring with Dylan and recalls memorable performances and interactions.”

• Gagosian To Exhibit Trio Of Large-Scale Paintings Of Bob Dylan By Richard Prince In Beverly Hills (Art Daily) [5]

  • “Prince’s work casts a spotlight of a different kind on the Nobel Prize–winning musician by reflecting on the extraordinary resonance of his image.”

The latest streaming Dylan shows. Most links to Apple Podcasts

• MAR-02 | Actor Monica Barbaro (‘A Complete Unknown’) Takes The Stage As Joan Baez (Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso)

• MAR-02 | Bonus Episode - Open Tuning in A Complete Unknown (Songs of Experience: A Bob Dylan Podcast)

• MAR-01 | Cover Story: The Times They Are A-Changin' (The Music Show)

• FEB-28 | Love Songs Of The Mid-60S (Part Two) (Bob Dylan - A Headful of Ideas)

• FEB-27 | Bob Dylan Live, 10/15/62 (TEASER) (Never Ending Stories: Bob Dylan & the Never Ending Tour)

• FEB-26 | A Tribute To Bob Dylan In The 80S (2014 Comp) (Boogie Chitz)

• FEB-25 | Dylanesque (Don't You Dare To Think Out Loud!)

• FEB-25 | Inside Llewyn Davis (See Hear Podcast)

• FEB-25 | Timothee Chalamet, GG (2020) ((UN)COVER GIRL)

• FEB-25 | Blowin' In The Wind (Hitchhiking Highway 61: A Bob Dylan Inspired Podcast)

• FEB-24 | The Rolling Thunder Revue (Nothing Is Revealed)

• FEB-24 | Conversations With Oscar: A Complete Unknown (We Have Thoughts!)

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Bob Dylan Related Events in the next few months.

Single Date Events

• MAR-03 | A Complete Unknown: Webinar Discussion (Oxford, OX, UK)

• MAR-03 | A Celebration of Dylan’s Timeless Music (Andes, NY, US)

• MAR-08 | Exploring Greenwich Village Music History (New York, NY)

• MAR-10 | Fifty Years in Sixty Minutes (Cleveland, OH)

• MAR-12 | Auction: The Bob Neuwirth Collection Plan (Online)

• MAR-16 | It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Reading (Streaming)

• MAR-25 | A Complete Unknown (Free Streaming RELEASE US) Estimate

• MAR-30 | The Songs Of Bob Dylan & Joni Mitchell (New York,NY)

• APR-01 | A Complete Unknown (Blu-Ray RELEASE US) (Streaming)

• APR-11 | Mr. Tambourine Man: A Symphonic Electric Tribute (Tysons Virginia)

• APR-18 | Tribute to Dylan (Newfoundland, CA)

• MAY-02 | Blowin' In The Wind (Goolwa South AU)

Multi-Date Events

• FEB-27 - MAR-22 | Richard Prince: Bob Dylan (Beverly Hills, CA, USA)

• FEB-27 - APR-30 | Stepping Into the Unknown Exhibit Opening (Tulsa, OK, US)

• MAR-08 - SEP-27 | Hallelujah on Desolation Row / Barb Junger Tour (UK Various)

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