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Stories In The Press
October 2002

[Dylan] [Dylan] [Dylan]
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Rocky Mountain News was granted a short interview with Dylan, via email. No, this doesn't answer the question of whether Dylan has an email address, since he could have used an assistant to filter the questions to him: Troubadour for our time

The October 11 Rolling Stone featured an article about previously unseen Dylan tour footage, shot in the Sixties by Dylan's drummer Mickey Jones Sixties Dylan Footage Surfaces

Billboard reports on the upcoming Bootleg Series, Vol. 5—Bob Dylan Live 1975: the Rolling Thunder Revue: Dylan Finalizes 'Rolling Thunder' Bootleg Tracklist v

Rocky Mountain News article about the officially released Dylan bootleg material Dylan delves into archives for flood of 'new' tracks

UK Times reviews Larry "Ratso" Sloman's On the Road With Bob Dylan, recently back in print: Rolling Rock

The Sacramento Bee approaches the troubling question of why Dylan is rarely heard on the radio: Why you can't hear Bob Dylan on the radio

The Duluth Superior reports on the growing Bob Dylan archive housed in the Hibbing Public Library: Hibbing library looks back at Bob

Yahoo! news reports that Dylan has contributed "Knockin' On Heaven's Door," accompanied by the Chorus Of Girls from Sabera Foundation, to the charity album Voices of Hope: Bob Dylan, Elton John, Sting, Alanis Morissete, Ricky Martin Are 'Voices Of Hope'

Concert reviews:

October 25 Rolling Stone review of Seattle show: Things Change for Dylan

Seattle Times reviews Seattle concert: Graying Dylan still rocks with high-energy poetics

Another Seattle review from Seattle Weekly: Presenting Bob Dylan, the Hardest Workin' Man in Show Business

Dylan lights fire during concert at the Key Seattle Pi's Seattle concert review

LA Weekly review of the L.A. show: Bob Dylan at the Wiltern, October 17

LA Review from The Orange County Register: Dylan's music sends his message

KansasCity.com review: Music review: Forever young Bob Dylan thrills packet Uptown crowd

Albequerque Tribune review: With his own classic tunes and others', Dylan keeps a-changin'

TwinCities.com notes that Dylan dedicated "The Times They Are A-Changin' " at the Denver Colorado show to Sen. Paul Wellstone, who recently died in a plane crash: Dylan honors Wellstone at concert

Rocky Mountain News review of the Colorado show: Enigmatic, energized Dylan gives fans show to puzzle over

Las Vegas review from Las Vegas Weekly: Electric piano man Bob Dylan

Las Vegas review from the Las Vegas Sun: Dylan reshapes familiar material at The Joint

Record Searchlight newspaper review of Red Bluff show: Highway 99 revisited for genius of Dylan

Register Guard review of Atlanta show: Dylan keeps us guessing - again

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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