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

A selection of photos in July's Dylan-related media articles.

The July 17th New Yorker contained a spoof of Dylan's upcoming HBO special, in which all of Dylan's lines were "unintelligible".

The July 29th issue of Entertainment Weekly had a short Dylan article on the last page. It was about Dylan's historic July 25, 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival where Dylan went electric and shocked the crowd by playing rock and roll. The first song in his set was "Maggie's Farm" followed by "Like a Rolling Stone" and "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry". Peter Yarrow summed it up pretty good: "Far from courting his audience (Dylan} was always challenging himself, and the audience, to rediscover what it was that could be shared through music".

Noted Dylan scholar Greil Marcus has an article on Salon: "Real Life Rock Top Ten", in which number 10 is "Bob Dylan: The American Troubadour," the recently aired Biography special featuring Bob Dylan.

A comparison of Dylan and Brian Wilson has some interesting facts.

At Masslive.com, an interesting article titled "Bob Dylan reckless, refined".

Plenty of concert reviews were published this month, here's a bunch:

Newsday Review of the Jones Beach show

"Dylan works new magic with old songs" from the Philadelphia Inquirer.

One of many reviews praising Dylan and panning Lesh is at the Washington Post: "Bob Dylan Stradivarius of a second fiddle".

Fox News review: Dylan sings to the mountaintops"

Simply titled Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stone reviewed the Ventura CA show.

From Times Union: "Dylan and Lesh make the old new again Saratoga Springs"

Another violin analogy from the Boston Herald: Dylan on second fiddle an odd sight

From the Boston Daily Globe: "Dylan plays it straight, while Lesh and friends jam it up"

The press was not thrilled with Lesh: "Dylan sparkles; Lesh needs a spark"

More bad press for Lesh and good for Dylan: "Dylan was Dylan, Lesh a bit dead"

From CTNow.com: "Old dog, new tracks"

Washington Post review of Bob Dylan and Phil Lesh

From the Chicago Tribune: "Dylan Feeds Off Energy of Dueling Guitarists"

My concert experience was also a "Cool night with Bob".

A short review of the Molson Amphitheatre concert is on Music In Sight

From Cincinatti, I guess we know who is the Bard and who is the Bore: "Bob Dylan, Phil Lesh: Bard And The Bore"

More from Cincinatti: "Dylan, echoes of Dead fire up Riverbend crowd"

Yet another glowing review: "Dylan dazzles early crowd"

This article has no title; it is a Review of the Sandstone Theatre concert.

From Pioneer Planet: Dylan wrestling with 'Change'

NME is always a good source for reviews; the covered the Ventura CA show.

"Bob Dylan a legend and friends"

From StarOnLine.com: "Dylan, Lesh fill Seaside Park with fans from an earlier era"

Other links of interest:

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 tour? Follow it with Dylanbase on the Road, or check out the Dylan bootleg database at the same site.

For articles about Dylan in the Rolling Stone, see the Rolling Stone archive. Scroll to the bottom of the page for Dylan articles.

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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