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Stories In The Press
September 2001

[Love and Theft publicity shot] [Holy Mackarel
[Playing an acoustic sunburst guitar] [Love and Theft publicity shot] [Dylan in the early 1960s]

Photos from this month's electronic media articles.

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Interviews:

September 10th USA Today interview with Edna Gunderson: Dylan is positively on top of his game.

Interview in September 17th Time magazine Legend Of Dylan The article will cost you $2.50 unless you have a subscription. Here are some scans of the article.

"I think of it as a greatest bits album," says Bob. "Without the hits—not yet, anyway," from an interview in the Mojo magazine.

"I don't care about rave dances and a lot of the stuff going on," says Dylan in a September 16th Sunday L.A. Times interview.

Another interview with the L.A. Times, not sure of the date or the author: Sunday L.A. Times interview.

A September 10th BBC pickup of the Time interview: Dylan dismisses 'hideous' modern music

News about Dylan's autobiography project (for which he's appealed to longtime fans for anecdotes about himself from the 60s):

From the Rolling Stone: Dylan to Pen Autobiography

From the UK Sunday Times: Dylan asks for help with his back pages

Canoe reported the autobiography on September 27: Bob Dylan book details emerge

Other news:

The September 25th Billboard reported on Folkways' latest release, which includes a 1962 recording of Dylan performing "Roll On John": Folkways Revives Dylan, Monroe Tracks

UK Guardian's guide to Dylan in cyberspace: guide to the best of Bob on the web

And another guide to Dylan in cyberspace from Entertainment Weekly: Tangled Up in Bob

A guide to Dylan's music, writing, film, books, and archived articles from Entertainment Weekly

Love and Theft reviews:

From the Sept 26th Village Voice: Intelligence Data, or see a scan of the whole article here.

From recent issues of the Rolling Stone, a set of three articles: Bob Dylan: His New Masterpiece:

"Love and Theft"

The Making of Love and Theft" ("He tried to convince me that the song had to be 'sexy, sexy and more sexy.' I know about sexy, too.")

"Dylan at 60"

A capsule review from the Rolling Stone: Love and Theft

Greil Marcus wrote a review, of sorts, for the New York Times. I've scanned the review as well as the Times readers' letters in response to it.

From the September 14th Oregonian, some musings on Love and Theft in the aftermath: The Once and Future King, plus a scan of the cover of the Oregonian courtesy Gerry Morgan.

Sepember 7 review from the UK Guardian, in which the writer calls it "an awkward mess with flashes of beauty": One for the Bobcats One for the Bobcats

September 6th review from TheStar.com: New Dylan disc delights Plenty of life, even mischief, in the old boy yet

Review from September 9th Canoe, a Canadian journal: Bob Dylan keeps getting feistier

Perfectly serious review from the Onion's AV club

A vague preview of Love and Theft commending Marcus's indulgent fantasy of a review in the New York Times, alarmingly titled Old Crank With Some Poetry And A Bottle, here's aSeptember 4th review from Neumu, by a writer who admits he has not heard the album.

A positive review from Tim Riley at Vermont Public Radio: Lay Down Your Weary Tune

September 6th Dallas Observer review Love and Theft

UK Independent review from September 6th: Love and Theft

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 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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