Not sure if this is a real interview, but a journalist name Bruce Wark apparently interviewed Dylan, who had some interesting things to say about food production: Visions of Bananas

"Rock's 50 Greatest Meltdowns", a Rolling Stone article, lists the 1985 music video for "Tight Connection to My Heart" as # 16: Bob Dylan: Hits rock bottom, makes worst video in MTV history

Great article about Dylan magazine publishers Rolling Tomes (On the Tracks) from Denvers WestWord: Bringing It All Back Home

Billboard reports that Dylan and other old friends played on Not for Beginners, Ronnie Wood's solo album released on August 13th : Stones Guitarist Drafts Pals For Solo Set

Review of the Worcester, MA show from Worcester Telegram & Gazette : Bob Dylan's Worcester dream concert

Review of the Augusta, MA show from Maine Today: Dylan plays to enthusiastic Civic Center crowd

Canada East's review of the St. John (Canada) show: On the watchtower with Bob Dylan

Calgary Sun's review of the Calgary (Canada) show: Dylan’s alright ma

Globe and Mail's review of the Tornonto show: Back on track

From The Globe and Mail, an article about Dylan's Canadian tour: Sometimes down, never out

Yahoo! Entertainment News coverage of the song Dylan wrote for upcoming movie Gods and Generals: Bob Dylan Writes Song For Upcoming Civil War Movie

Plenty of coverage and reviews of the August 3rd Newport Folk Festival:

From the August 4th New York TimesDylan, Once a Newport Heretic, Returns to Folk Festival Cheers

From Philadelphia's Post-Gazette, an insightful article about all the flap regarding the wig Dylan wore at Newport: Critics tangled up in Dylan hairstyle, miss the music

From MSNBC: 37 years later, Dylan returns to Newport

Even the conservative The Nation had something to say about Dylan's Newport appearance: Scene of the Crime

From the Providence Journal: Dylan's songs grow with rockabilly roots

Another review from the Providence Journal:Dylan back in Newport

And a yet another review, this one negative, also from the Providence Journal, in which the writer describes Dylan's performance as "an apparently deliberate attempt to keep us from dancing": Recital at Newport

From The Telegraph (UK): Dylan returns to the scene of his 'crime'

From Canoe, a Canadian music magazine: http://www.canoe.ca/JamConcertsA2D/dylan_bob_020813-sun.html">Dylan packs 40 years of musical history into a single show

From the Providence Phoenix: Relatively historic

From TheAge.com: Dylan makes long-awaited return to Rhode Island

From the Hartford Courant: Notorious Scene Electrified Again

From NewBerkshire.com: Dylan plugs Traficant at newport ("Traficant" refers the ex-Congressman&3151;the style of the wig Dylan wore at the festival).

Worcester Telegram & Gazette's rather blasé article about Dylan at Newport: Dylan buzz and whispers

The Providence Phoenix: He's ba-ack! Will Bob Dylan make history again in Newport?

The Boston Herald's review of Dylan's Newport appearance: Dylan doesn't think twice at Newport return

The Boston Herald refutes the myth that Dylan was loudly booed for his electric numbers at Newport '65, citing poor sound quality and a short set as the boo-inciting factors: Turning Dylan's back pages: Truth about Newport '65 is blowing in the wind.

More about the booing from the Buffalo Report: The myth of Newport '65: It wasn't Bob Dylan they were booing

George Wein, who founded the Newport Folk and the Newport Jazz Festivals, comments on the famous booing in the New York Times: A Folk Festival's Idol Returns

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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