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

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

Some articles about Dylan's upcoming 60th birthday:

"Still raging, at the dying of the light"

"Well, how does it feel?"

A rather scholarly take on Dylan's songwriting: "Slow Train: Bob Dylan and the art of American song"

Various personalities give their opinion of Bob Dylan in "Dylan's tribe".

A more personal reflection upon Dylan from TheAge.com: "Tangled up in Bob"

A gossipy item about Dylan's secret second wife and their daughter: "Times Sure Have Changed for Dylan"

Concert reviews:

Musing on the Australian tour:"No Byron mountains, but at last his range is back"

"Blowin' In The Wind" contradicts an earlier, less-than-positive concert review from the same publication.

Sydney review: "On the grass in more ways than one as Dylan plays again"

Melbourne review:"Bob Dylan: Melbourne Rod Laver Arena"

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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