The Hank Williams tribute album, Timeless, features a Bob Dylan covering "I Can't Get You Off Of My Mind". A clip is available here at CDNow.

The Oxford American's Fifth Annual Southern Music Issue garnered many accolades. The issue is sold out, but you can still visit their web site to about it at or to buy the accompanying CD, on which Bob Dylan sings a duet, "The Lonesome River" with bluegrass icon Ralph Stanley.

The Washington Post ran a story on the Oxford American's Southern Music issue: Oxford American, Facing the Music

D.A. Pennebaker, Don't Look Back's auteur, wins the International Documentary Association's third IDA Mentor Award: Taking a Look Back at Bob Dylan And 'Don't Look Back'

Commentary on the sad practice of forcing fans to sit at Dylan concerts, from the Denver Post: Vail no-standing rule a snub to bard Dylan

While Clinton Heylin described the Tempe crowd as "the most hostile audience of [Dylan's] entire career.", I'm not entirely convinced that "Bob Dylan's career has only begun to recover from a slump that started 22 years ago in Tempe", as this article describes. Read it for yourself at the Phoenix New Times: Desolation Row.

Snippets from the USA Today interview, as well as commentary, from Las Vegas Showbiz: The Times, They Are A-Changin'

Rolling Stone ran an interesting piece about the great dylan tunes that are buried on his least-esteemed albums, such as Real Live and Self Portrait : Good Dylan Songs on Bad Dylan Albums

News about Love and Theft:

A short piece from Virgin Records about the Dylan's tour to promote Love and Theft: Bob Dylan Involved in Theft

Philadelphia City Paper review: Love and Theft

Radio Undercover's Love and Theft review

Radio Undercover's news item about the Love and Theft promotional television commercial also has a streaming video link to view it: Bob Dylan makes a TV commercial

The news wire release about the commercial from Yahoo! Business News: Yahoo wire report Columbia Records to Premiere Unique Commercial Spot Promoting Bob Dylan's Forthcoming "Love and Theft" Album

The major music publications reported on the upcoming tour to promote Love and Theft:

From Billboard: Dylan Rolls Out Six-Week Fall Tour

From the Rolling Stone: Dylan Plots Fall Tour

Mojo Music Magazine: Dylan Plans US Dates

From VH1: Bob Dylan To Launch Arena Tour Behind Love and Theft

From Dotmusic: Dylan tour goes on

The Vail Daily reports on the extraordinary ticket sales of the Vail Valley, California concert. All venues sold out in 30 minutes or less: Dylan concert really is sold out, says promoter

Concert reviews:

Phoneix, Arizona review from Arizona Central: Dylan, band provide night of musical highs

Denver, Colorado review from the Denver Post: As a performer, Dylan's legendary

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma review from Zwire: Dylan rocks the zoo Zoo amphitheatre OK city review

Iowa State Fair Grandstand review from the Des Moines Register: Dylan's concert spirited, eclectic

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 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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