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Stories In The Press
April 2002

[Dylan] [Dylan]
Photos from this month's electronic media articles.

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The Last Waltz was issued on DVD and the New York Times published a positive review and commentary about it. Here's the scan, with a photograph of Dylan onstage with other performers.

MTV's review of the Berlin show. Apparently, 60-year-old Mr. D still inspires women to throw their undergarments onstage: Bob Dylan Shows Berlin Who The Man Is

The Telegraph's suprisingly dour review of the Stockholm show by Michael Gray: On the trail of the Bobcat

Agnes "Sis" Cunningham and her husband, Gordon Friesen, were given a grant from The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to preserve some of the old folk music, including Dylan's, they recorded in the 60s: 50 Coolest Records" list

Billboard reports on Dylan playing the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Festival on Labor Day. "It's like getting to the top of a 20,000-foot mountain for me," says Festival producer Jim Horowitz, who has been trying to bring Dylan to the festival for seven years.

Rolling Stone's article about Dylan's upcoming starring role in Masked and Anonymous Duo-Right Woman

This is a longish article about Dylan's early years in Dinkytown, from Rake magazine: Desire Revisited: An Oral History

Nice Grammy scan from a web site about Hibbing:

Another
scan from the Hibbing site , this one of an article about great musicians with bad voices

Gadfly's interview with David Hadju, author of Positively 4th Street: An Irresistible Study

Certainly the most bizarre Dylan art I've seen is this sculpture inspired by a list of backstage items requested by Dylan in 1986: Dylan's backstage requests inspired sculpture

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.

Two excellent photo archives of magazines with Dylan on the cover from the collections of Michel Pomarede and Jeani Hoftijzer.

Several vintage articles about Dylan (mostly from the 70s) can be found at Rock's Back Pages Library 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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