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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

One year without you, Daddy. How I wish you were here. I love and miss you so much.

Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Friends, through your generosity I am now halfway to my goal amount. I cannot thank you enough for your kindness during this difficult time. Please continue to help and/or share this post if you can. 🙏🏻❤️

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Serotonin boost 🟰 this clip of Bob Dylan being incredibly adorable in 1964 ❤️

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Friends, I’m in an emergency situation and need to raise $3,000—specifically, for a new water heater for our house, car repairs, food and gas money, and medical bills. I’m nearly halfway there thanks to your kind generosity on other platforms. Any help or signal boosting is greatly appreciated. 🙏🏻

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Norman Sylvester loves Living Blues—and you will too! Subscribe today for over 50% off! Watch Norman Sylvester’s special video about Living Blues here: mailchi.mp/livingblues/...

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Living Blues Looks Back: Issue #5 – Lowell Fulson - mailchi.mp/livingblues/...

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Norman Sylvester loves Living Blues! Let him tell you why—and subscribe today for over 50% off! - mailchi.mp/livingblues/...

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The Daily Dylan @thedailydylan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

At the eighth show of this third Outlaw Festival leg in 2025, Bob and the band kicked things off with another surprise in Buffalo, NY. “Positively 4th Street” gave way to “Masters of War” – a song that hadn’t been part of the live set for nine years. #bobdylan #outlawtourdiary

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Happening this weekend, August 8th-10th, 2025: the Sunflower River Blues & Gospel Festival in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Admission is free! For more information, visit www.sunflowerfest.org.

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

One of my favorite pictures of Bob Dylan at Newport ‘65. 📸: Dick Waterman, July 25, 1965

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Happening tomorrow, Saturday, July 26th: Junior Kimbrough's 95th Birthday Bash in Holly Springs, Mississippi. The event will be held at Graceland Too, located at 200 Gholson Street. Gates open at 4:30pm, and the music begins at 6:30pm. Admission is free.

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Anne Margaret Daniel 🌻 @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

My forever mood: Suze Rotolo @newportfolk.bsky.social in 1963. Via @bobdylancenter.bsky.social Good night x

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Anne Margaret Daniel 🌻 @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

. @bobdylancenter.bsky.social thank you for this magnificent new exhibition. Bob Dylan, Going Electric ❤️

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Sixty years ago today, Bob Dylan performed his famous and controversial electric set at the Newport Folk Festival. 📸: David Gahr, July 25, 1965

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Happy to share my thoughts on the Memphis Outlaw show with my friends at Daily Dylan! 🙏🏻🎶❤️

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center in Indianola, Mississippi, has scheduled several events to celebrate the centennial of B.B. King’s birth this September. For more information, visit bbkingmuseum.org.

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

📸: David Gahr, Brooklyn, NYC, 2001. #BobDylan

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Bob Dylan recorded “Blowin’ in the Wind” on July 9, 1962.

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“I think I’ll call it America” I said as we hit land 📸: Ken Regan, 1975 #BobDylan #4thofJuly

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Happening this weekend, June 27-28, in Waterford, Mississippi: the North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic. For more information, visit nmshillcountrypicnic.com.

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Daddy Mack Orr was the very first musician I interviewed for Living Blues. He was such a kind man, and I was—and am—so inspired by his story. My heart is with his family, friends, and loved ones.

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

As we prepare to say goodbye to Joseph this weekend, please keep us in your thoughts and prayers. If anyone would like to share or donate to the GoFundMe for his family, it would be deeply appreciated.

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Living Blues Looks Back: Issue #13 - Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee Click here for sample pages: mailchi.mp/livingblues/...

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

My boyfriend’s nephew died in a motorcycle accident early Saturday morning. He was 26 years old and leaves behind 3 children. Please read, and if you can share or donate, his family and I would be very grateful. gofund.me/c3fdf50e

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Donate to Support Joseph's Family After Tragic Loss, organized by Michelle Johnson

Our hearts are shattered to share the devastating news of the sudden and tr… Michelle Johnson needs your support for Support Joseph's Family After Tragic Loss

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Happening Thursday, June 19th through Saturday, June 21st: the 53rd Annual Bentonia Blues Festival at the Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia, Mississippi. Admission is free. For more information, visit visityazoo.org/bentonia-blu....

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Bob Dylan recorded “Like a Rolling Stone” in Studio A at Columbia Records in New York City on this day in 1965. 📸: Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Happy Father’s Day, Daddy. I love and miss you so much. 💙

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

LAST CALL! Vote in the 2025 Living Blues Awards—poll closes at midnight tonight! - mailchi.mp/livingblues/...

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Valerie June (LB #221) performs "Endless Tree" from her new album OWLS, OMENS & ORACLES on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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Valerie June – Endless Tree

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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 11/06/2025

Joan Baez talks to Rolling Stone about an iconic moment in the Bob Dylan biopic. “Someone said, ‘Did you really do that to Bob?’ [Flashes a middle finger.] I said, ‘No, I did this.’" [Flashes both middle fingers.] Interview: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Empire Burlesque 40 week concludes with designer Nick Egan, the new-wave artist who also worked with Bob on Biograph. "Unfortunately it didn’t end well, but I still love him. I certainly got the best stories out of working with him." And he's quick to note the photo on the cover is not his fault.

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Matisse and Corset Ads on Bob Dylan's Mid-80s Album Art

The Empire Burlesque Interviews #6: Nick Egan

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Synthesizer…on a Bob Dylan record?? It's a big reason Empire Burlesque gets dinged as sounding 'so 80s.' So I interviewed two of the album's synth players. "My first reason was 'Really??' I felt almost mildly embarrassed to be involved."

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The Synthesizerin' Bob Dylan

The Empire Burlesque Interviews #4&5: Vince Melamed & Richard Scher

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Empire Burlesque week continues with bassist Jon Paris! "Woody is still such a gregarious character that people would just show up and play. Billy Idol showed up at one point. And one night Dylan showed up. So we all wound up playing together." (with bonus Johnny Winter content)

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Jamming on Old Folk Songs with Bob Dylan and Ron Wood

The Empire Burlesque Interviews #3: Jon Paris

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Empire Burlesque came out 40 years ago today! In part two of my series, I interviewed Arthur Baker, the man responsible for the album's distinctive sound. "The bottom line is, it was the '80s. Looking back, even if it had been five years later, I would have done it totally differently."

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Arthur Baker Talks Recording and Mixing the "Very 80s" Empire Burlesque

The Empire Burlesque Interviews #2

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Empire Burlesque 40 week begins today! First interview: Ira Ingber, who led the early LA sessions "He handed me this list, all of his songs, typed on onion skin paper. He probably typed it himself. He said, 'Do you know any of these?' I said, 'Yeah I do.' So we started playing."

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Guitarist Ira Ingber Recalls 1980s Rehearsals and Sessions with Bob Dylan

The Empire Burlesque Interviews #1

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

A great evening for some live blues! 🎶💙🎶

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

ONLY 1 WEEK LEFT to vote in the 2025 Living Blues Awards! - mailchi.mp/livingblues/...

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Bob Dylan Center @bobdylancenter.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Bob Dylan's tenth studio album, "Self Portrait," was released on this day in 1970. After the country sounds of "Nashville Skyline," Dylan changed course again with "Self Portrait," a collection of folk songs, originals and live performances from the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival.

Pictured: Self Portrait album artwork proof with promotional poster reproduction. Currently on display in the Earl Minnis Gallery exhibition of the Bob Dylan Archive.

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Happening this Sunday, June 8th: Alvin Youngblood Hart will perform as part of the Summer Sunset Series at The University of Mississippi in Oxford. The concert begins at 6pm on the Grove stage and admission is free!

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

See early drafts of "It Ain't Me Babe," "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," "Tempest," "Simple Twist of Fate," "Workingman’s Blues #2," "Long and Wasted Years," and "Band of the Hand" that Bob Dylan wrote at hotels around the world.

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Tour the World via the Hotel Stationery Bob Dylan Wrote Songs On — Continued

Part 2: The Rest of the World

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Ray Padgett @raypadgett.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Alternate opening to Bob Dylan's "Thunder on the Mountain" on an early lyric draft: Thunder on the mountain, rolling down the hill To possess your love is my greatest thrill Many more here: flaggingdown.com/p/tour-the-w...

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

The sun, yesterday evening, sinking like a ship.

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Living Blues @livingblues.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Have you voted yet? Cast your ballot in the 2025 Living Blues Awards today! - mailchi.mp/livingblues/...

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Melanie Young @freewheelinmy.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

About last Saturday . . . ⚜️ “There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better. There's a thousand different angles at any moment.” —Bob Dylan

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