Archived Press Notes See the home page for current Press Notes. February 2006 The February 2006 Acoustic Guitar World featured a Dylan cover story about Dylan: "His Most Revealing Interview! Bob Dylan Shares His Songwriting Secrets." It is actually a reprint of a 2004 interview with Robert Hilburn. The issue also includes a "Bob Dylan Lesson: Learn to play some of Dylan's greatest songs, and discover just how underrated a guitarist he is." The photos alone make this issue well-worth the $5.99 cover price. Click to view scans. April 2005 Scan of New York Times review of Bob Dylan and Merle Haggard at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center: "Dylan's in a Dark Mood, and Haggard Offers No Relief" October 2004 The first volume of Bob Dylan's autobiography, Chronicles, has been published! The reviews have been outstanding. Click to view scans from the Rolling Stone article "Dylan on Dylan". View scans from the Village Voice article "Bob on Bob". View scans from The Onion AV Club article "Dylan on Dylan". Links courtesy www.bobdylan.com: Excerpt of Chronicles on MSNBC.com Interview from Newsweek New York Times review USA Today feature Excerpt of the audio book, narrated by Sean Penn June 2004 A photo and brief description of Dylan receiving an honorary Doctor of Music from the University of St. Andrews appeared in the June 23 New York Times. Click to view a scan, or read about it on MSNBC: "Speechless Dylan accepts honorary degree". The June 24th Rolling Stone was a special retrospective: "50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock & Roll." Naturally, Dylan plugging in at Newport made the cut. Click to view scans. The famous "psychedelic hair" illustration of Dylan graced the cover of the June 13 New York Times Book Review; inside is Jonathen Lethem's review of the new scholarly book on Dylan's lyrics, Dylan's Visions of Sin, and a few thoughts on Dylan from Lucinda Williams. click to view scans. May 2004 A site visitor thoughtfully sent me some vintage Dylan media clips from the New York Times: Robert Shelton's writeup of the 1983 Newport Folk Festival, "Folk Music Fete Called a Success," (PDF) and Shelton's famous 1961 review of Dylan's appearance at Gerde's Folk City: "Bob Dylan: a Distinctive Folk-Song Stylist" (PDF). April 2004 The April 16th New York Times ran an article called "Corporate Culture Clash: Elitism, Popularity and Rock 'n' Roll," by John Rockwell. The protest surrounding Dylan's electric performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival is mentioned in several paragraphs, and the article is illustrated with a large photo of Dylan performing at the Festival. Click for a scan of the article. April 2004 Uncut magazine promises a "unique edition of Bob Dylan photos," and also features a review of Live 1964. The April 2004 issue of Mojo Music magazine offers a review of Bob Dylan Live 1964 Mojo also has a special edition featuring 50 Years of Rock and Roll. Note that this isn't a regular issue of Mojo, it's one of their collectible editions. Dylan's electrifying appearance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival gets good coverage, with a 2-page spread and some photos. March 2004 Here's a scan of the March 28th New York Times review of Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall. Remember when Victoria's Secret used "Lovesick" in a television commercial? Now the man himself will appear alongside scantily-clad supermodels in their new ad campaign. Just in case the songwriting thing doesn't work out: Bob Dylan looks for commercial success as Secret partner Dylan will grant a "full access" interview to Martin Scorcese, who is developing a biopic about Dylan's life up to the motorcycle crash of 1966. This may be old news for some, but if you haven't heard about it yet, here's the BBC article Dylan to give Scorsese interview. Agence France-Presse reports that Bob Dylan will be the subject of a biographical feature film to be directed by Todd Haynes. The working title is "I'm Not There: Suppositions on a Film Concerning Bob Dylan." The title could be pithier, I have no idea how they'll fit it onto the billboards. Dylan will not appear in the film. See the home page for current Press Notes

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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