Every little while over his six-decade career, Bob Dylan has debuted some sort of amazingly great project, often just when fans were starting to grumble that his best days were behind him. His latest such effort is Shadow Kingdom, which first appeared as a pay-per-view online concert in July 2021 while the pandemic kept his […]
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Dexys’ Do-over Kevin Rowland’s overlooked 1999 album, My Beauty, got a deserved second chance with its 2020 rerelease. Now Too-Rye-Ay, the sophomore LP from Rowland’s band, Dexys Midnight Runners, is getting another shot in the spotlight as well, thanks to a recently issued three-CD 40th-anniversary edition. Unlike My Beauty, Too-Rye-Ay didn’t go unnoticed when it […]
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Dead of Winter “I will measure up my life, my days as they go screaming by With Xs on the calendar, till pennies on my eyes I will count my many blessings with gratefulness my mentor And I will count myself in luck as I count the dead of winter” An unfinished song by […]
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A Box Set Showcases Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind Sessions, plus Jeb Loy Nichols and Josh Sinton By 1997, many fans had probably lost track of the number of times Bob Dylan had fallen short or gone silent, been counted out, and then proved the critics wrong with yet another tremendous album. He did […]
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The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster) Review by Mark Pelavin The second least surprising thing about The Philosophy of Modern Song, Bob Dylan’s new book, is that it’s weird. The least surprising thing? It’s brilliant. It’s brilliant, to be clear, on its own terms. Just as Dylan does whatever he […]
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“Yummy, Yummy, Yummy I got love in my tummy And I feel like a-lovin’ you” By Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine “Yummy Yummy Yummy” (YYY) is a song by Arthur Resnick and Joey Levine, first recorded by Ohio Express in 1968. Their version reached No. 4 on the U.S. Pop Singles chart in June and […]
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Bob Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song, plus Tommy James and World Party Bob Dylan released the terrific Chronicles, Volume One, in 2004. Eighteen years later, we’ve yet to see part two of this memoir, but as you might have heard, he has just published something else instead: The Philosophy of Modern Song. It’s as […]
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PLEASE YOURSELF “But it’s all right now I learned my lesson well You see, you can’t please everyone So you got to please yourself” Garden Party by Rick Nelson “Garden Party” is a 1972 country rock song written by Rick Nelson and recorded by him and the Stone Canyon Band on the album Garden Party. […]
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“How does it feel, how does it feel? To be without a home Like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone” “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan from Highway 61 Revisited “Like a Rolling Stone” was released in 1965 on the album Highway 61 Revisited. Clocking in at over 6 minutes, the song set a […]
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“In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall. Some speak of the future, My love she speaks softly, She knows there’s no success like failure And that failure’s no success at all” Love Minus Zero/No Limit by Bob Dylan I have been a […]
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