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Dylan Revisited

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Revisiting Bob Dylan's back catalogue one album/bootleg/live record at a time. The Dylan Revisited book - Busy Being Born (1960-66) is now available: www.amazon.com/dp/1066640726. Other links: linktr.ee/dylanrevisited

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Who knew the final destiny of "Slow Train" was to be a yelly post-punk song?
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BODEGA - Slow Train (Official Music Video)
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ooh will take another listen to both
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New official release from Dylan's upcoming big Rolling Thunder '76 box set - a jaunty take on I Pity the Poor Immigrant. www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRqM...
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I Pity the Poor Immigrant (Live at Tarrant County Convention Center Arena, Fort Worth, TX ...
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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I wrote the cover story for the new issue of MOJO about Rolling Thunder 1976! I listened to the full box set (yes, all 39 discs) and interviewed a bunch of participants. Alongside ace 1966/2026 pieces by @johnharris1969.bsky.social and Flagging Down’s recent Dead correspondent @bourgwick.bsky.social
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Elizabeth Nelson @paranoiacs.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
'Nashville Skyline' is the unique situation when Bob Dylan acts like it's perfectly normal that his new LP is a wildly horny 28-minute Country & Western album wherein he sings like a particularly hash-drunk Dean Martin. Eventually, we agree that it's utterly flawless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZhL...
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Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here with You (Official Audio)
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saw Bill Callahan (aka Smog) at The Roundhouse in London last night. Played a lot of material from his new album, which all sounded really good. Superb band, including the phenomenal (and delightfully showy) drumming of Jim White.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absolutely. How exciting. I’ll keep an eye out for tickets.
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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Extra date added in Burton-on-Trent! Info and tickets here - www.TheUmbrellaManShow.com
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Havant? That’s the town next to mine. Guess I should go then.
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Erin Callahan @inthephishbowl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The October episode is out! In it, poet, scholar, and biographer Robert Polito discusses his latest book, After the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace, and the creative genius of Dylan’s late-style works. I hope you enjoy it. infinitygoesupontrial.substack.com/p/inside-bob...
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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You really got me - Lola (2023)
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Anyways, I highly recommend Lola if you like films with big ideas and a good heart. Oh and a fun cabaret version of You Really Got Me by The Kinks.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
SPOILER Aside from Dylan, David Bowie is their other love. The penny drops about the altered future when the broadcast that once showed Space Oddity now features a nasty glam fascist singing about marching in time (written and performed for the film by Neil Hannon).
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"He speaks of freedom and heartbreak and a nation lost. And of the joy and pain of the authentic soul." All while looking at a still of Dylan performing at Newport '64. Of course, the ensuing time meddling that inevitably occurs erases Dylan from the timeline. D'oh.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Watched a really smart sci-fi film called Lola. Two sisters in wartime Britain build a machine that picks up TV and radio broadcasts from the future, including lots of music At one point, one woman says that Bob Dylan is her favourite future musician and I like how she describes him...
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Other Side is basically just about Dylan, this new film is about the wider festival with Dylan as part of the story. It's like Lerner's Festival but with more context and narrative - and mostly completely different footage. The three films make for a brilliant trilogy.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Oh and check out the rest of Doc’n’Roll festival programme. Includes great films about Patrick Wolf, Malian duo Amadou & Mariam, Jason Molina, the Brighton punk scene, Keith Jarrett, Peter Frampton and loads more. www.docnrollfestival.com/films/
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Doc'n Roll Films - Music Film Documentaries
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I can’t wait to see and hear this on the big big screen next month. And the screening will also feature a Q&A with Joe Boyd, who worked at the festivals and contributes to the film. Tickets are on sale now: whatson.bfi.org.uk/imax/Online/...
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Newport and the Great Folk Dream + Q&A with Joe Boyd
Before Coachella and Woodstock, there was Newport.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Dylan fans will probably be familiar with the Newport narrative of an acoustic ideal destroyed by the squeals of commercialism. But Newport and the Great Folk Dream is like revisiting that always-compelling story through the fresh perspective of the new footage.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
But as with the previous films, the real joy is in the lesser-known acts, who play banjos, chop wood, bang tables and make all kinds of weird and wonderful noises. Or seeing Howlin’ Wolf jump into the crowd and dance like a maniac. 📷 Joe Alper
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've watched Lerner’s Festival and The Other Side of the Mirror multiple times, but was astonished by how much new material this new film has. It features so many great performances from people like John Lee Hooker, Dave Van Ronk, Johnny Cash, Joan Baez and of course Bob Dylan.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Just watched a preview of a new documentary about the Newport Folk Festival, which has its UK premiere at London's BFI IMAX on Oct 29th as part of this year's Doc'n'Roll Festival. Newport and the Great Foik Dream unearths amazing unseen footage from the vaults of filmmaker Murray Lerner. 🧵
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another gem from the Royal Festival Hall '64 programme, which included Dylan's autobiographical poem, My Life in a Stolen Moment. This was originally written for the 1963 Town Hall show in NYC. Naturally, it's a delightful mix of truth and legend.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As for Bill Callahan, his Smog song Held was used on the soundtrack for a 2007 Cadillac ad starring Bob Dylan. (Good car to drive after a war)
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Back to the With God On Our Side cover - looks like Chris Thile is a big Dylan fan. Has covered a few of his songs in live sets - Don't Think Twice, Country Pie, Masters of War and a fun version of Subterranean Homesick Blues.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I love the dub vibes of her take on The Human League's Don't You Want Baby, which has (Dylan connection alert) Cat Power on guest vocals. It looks like Ndegeocello's album also includes a cover of Dylan's It Ain't Me Babe. But that's not available yet. 📷 Mathieu Zazzo
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With God On Our Side is a huge contrast to the other available songs from Ndegeocello's forthcoming new album. Couldn't be further from the assertive funk of her cover of Don't Look Any Further, with British soul singer Lianne La Havas.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Meshell Ndegeocello has a new cover of Bob Dylan's With God On Our Side with Bill Callahan (aka Smog) on main vocals. Ndegeocello's abrasive arrangement features scratchy mandolin from Chris Thile, plaintive piano and machine-gun drum machine. Worth a listen.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Deep Vellum is a brilliant name for a Dallas bookshop
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I agree that artists are "constantly in a state of becoming," but I also believe that the most commercial artists either start as brands or end up as brands and are truly no longer artists of in flux at all. Perhaps if Warhol were alive, he'd make prints of pop stars.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stagnant ponds, if we want to bring it back to the river analogy. You may be right but Dylan has gone out of his way to avoid that brand trap by consistently refusing to conform to “customer” expectations.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Extract from the wonderful Is a River Alive? by @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social. I like how his summary of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's writing about a river - "It is always in a state of becoming" - echoes one of my favourite Bob Dylan quotes: that an artist is "constantly in a state of becoming".
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Next week I’m interviewing someone who was at Bob Dylan’s Royal Festival Hall show in 1964. He sent me this photo of his programme from the night - now framed and looking great.
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Dylan.FM @dylan.thefm.club · 16/09/2026
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Going, Going, Gone (Live at Tarrant County Convention Center Arena, Fort Worth, TX - May 16, 1976)
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Martin Fitzgerald @4hundredblows.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can confirm that seeing your event advertised in The Sixth Floor Museum in Dealey Plaza is on a par with seeing your book in Waterstones
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
That’s amazing Martin. Congrats. Hope the event goes well.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Just drive to all the different venues on the 76 tour. I’d have to get my van across the Atlantic first.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We’ll need to go on a lot of camping trips to get through the set
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I guess my camper van has a CD player. Can’t imagine the family would be too happy if the 76 tour is the soundtrack of our next camping trip.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Not if super intelligent AI gets to us first
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Cheers Dustin. Yeah, so easy to access all this material online but cool to get it all in a nice box set. Not that I even own a CD player anymore.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Can't say the Planet Waves song was one of my favourites, but there's something about this live version. Embraces the bleak, but Scarlet keeps it sweet.
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Rob Mitchum @robmitchum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Glad this amazing rearrangement has an official version out!
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Great stuff
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Recliner Notes @reclinernotes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The '76 version of "Going, Going, Gone" is extraordinary. I wrote about it here: reclinernotes.com/2021/08/11/g...
Analysis of Dylan's 1976 version of "Going, Going, Gone"
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And still going. They'll be releasing 39-disc sets of his Lights of Autumn European tour in 2076.
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Beachwood Reporter @beachwoodreport.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Apparently it’s going to be a HUGE box set. This thread alone illustrates what a great and unique artist he is, the best of all time who still walks - and tours - among us.
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Dylan Revisited @dylanrevisited.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yeah, I was away a lot over the summer and then have been working on another project. I do have more Dylan stuff in the pipeline but it was nice to have this new release to prompt me to get back into the swing of things.
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