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

This month's strangest news item: St. Michael modelled on Bob Dylan The sculptor admits that the statue on Trondheim's Nidaros Cathedral was modelled on Dylan

From Spin, an article about the Dylan collection at a Catholic university: Dylan Gets All Literary about the LaSalle U. collection

The Rolling Stone reviews Bob Dylan Live 1961-2000, giving it 4 1/2 stars.

More birthday tributes:

Uncut magazine featured Dylan on its June 2001 cover, with an extensive spread celebrating Dylan's birthday. Click to see scans: Uncut.

Even Netscape pays tribute to Dylan's 60th birthday: Bobby's 60th Birthday Bash

From getmusic.com, The Faces and Phases of Bob Dylan

From the Duluth News Tribune: Bringing it all back home: Hibbing hootenanny marks Bob Dylan's 60th birthday

An Acoustic Cafe birthday broadcast from mlive.com

The new book by David Hadju, Postively Fourth Street, generated a lot of buzz, with reviews in all the major publications. Here is a selection:

From the New York Times Book Review: Unplugged, including an the first chapter of the book. You may have to register and log in to read this article.

From the Village Voice: Folking Around

From the Washington Post: review by Jonathan Yardley

From the San Francisco Chronicle: Dylan's back pages, and more: Folkies brought to life in fascinating '4th Street'

From the National Post, and interview with David Hadju: Folk heroes, flaws and all

Another interview with Hadju from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Open window into Dylan's world of legend

The Howard Sounes Dylan biography, Down the Highway, broke the news of Dylan's second marriage. Here are some selected reviews:

From the New York Times: Plugged, plus the first chapter of the book. You may have to register and log in to read this article.

From CBS, reviews of both Down the Highway and Clinton Heylin's Behind the Shades Revisited: Dylan Bios Seek To Understand 'How Does It Feel?'

Reviews of both Down the Highway and Positively Fourth Street from The New Republic: Take What You Need



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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