"You used to ride on a chrome horse with your diplomat..."

Note: Dylan news items on electronic periodical sites may have limited life spans!

Click for scans of the April 12, 2001 Rolling Stone article "Tangled Up In Bob".

A bit more about the Oscars and a "translation" of the lyrics of "Things Have Changed", deemed indecipherable by Entertainment Weekly: "Translating Bob Dylan".

On May 18th, 2001, The New Yorker hosted a celebration of Bob Dylan, with participation from noteworthy performers like Tracy Chapman, Patti Smith, Gillian Welch, T-Bone Burnett, and many more. A local "oldies" station, WCBS FM, offers this article about the event: "Dylan To Be Honored".

The National Post reveals what should be no surprise to Dylan fans: that the young star fabricated many a tale to reporters eager to get the scoop: "Dylan left a trail of disinformation with reporters".

Amidst all the birthday tribute retrospectives JournalStar.com 's refreshing take on Dylan's current work: "Tangled up in new? Bob Dylan has moved forward from his folk-blues days, breaking ground with new sounds in rock".

An interesting review of the new Dylan biography Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan is at ThisIsLondon.com: "Only Dylan when he wants to be"

Another interesting article about the new biography Down The Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, from BBC News: "Dylanology lives on".

Although it isn't technically a birthday tribute, this article from the Denver Post has that retrospective, looking-back tone: "Dylan remains enigma in rock"

Some reflections on the hard-tourin' nature of Dylan and his band: "Bob Dylan proves he's still going strong at 59".

More about Dylan as a performer from RockyMountainNews.com: "Dylan reclaims place as great performer"

Dylan's 60th Birthday Tributes:

From the Sunday Times:"No need to think twice, Bob Dylan's work will live on long after he has gone"

And another one from the Sunday Times:"Like a rolling stone"

From the Daily Mail & Guardian: "Well, how does it feel?"

From TwinCities.com: "Dylan's back pages"

From The Herald: "Knocking on sixty's door"

From The Telegraph: "The art of the ageless Bob Dylan"

From KnoxNews.com, another retrospective on Dylan's remarkable life: "Senior citizen Bob Dylan may well be at peak of his career".

Other links of interest:

Get your daily Dylan updates at Expecting Rain. Oft-cited as the best Dylan site on the web, the news items are a great way to start the day.

Several vintage articles about Dylan (mostly from the 70s) can be found at Rock's Back PagesLibrary Page.

A fascinating Tour Diary written by a roadie for Asleep At The Wheel, who opened for Dylan, is on the sonicnet site.

Curious about the European tours? Follow it with Dylanbase on the Road, or check out the Dylan bootleg database at the same site.

Another road diary offered up by Guster.com: check the August 1st diary for a description of the band meeting Dylan and the delicious food served up by the Dylan tour chef.

For descriptions and links to the reviews in local newspapers, see rec.music.dylan. Use the "Edit: Search Messages" function to look for specific articles. You can search rec.music.dylan at deja.com by typing in "rec.music.dylan" as the search term, then doing a subsearch when rec.music.dylan has loaded.

National Public Radio has an archive of Dylan radio program segments. These RealAudio files are about Dylan, rather than interviews with him.

For Dylan media appearances prior to June 1999, see 20 Lbs. of Headlines, a massive list of articles about Dylan. Not all of them are linked to the actual article, but there is still hours of reading to be found here.

The best source for interviews is News and Interviews at Boblinks. Magazine and newspaper articles can also be found here.

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