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13 Apr 2023: Thanks to Fred Muller, Sergio Mariano Romay and André Wilbers for news that the audio from the 2021 video Shadow Kingdom will be released as a 2LP set in the USA on Record Store Day, 22 Apr 2023. It will be released in Europe on vinyl and CD on 2 Jun 2023. The Shadow Kingdom video will be available for download or rental from 6 Jun 2023, but not as a Blu-ray or DVD.

"By popular demand", the latest Bob Dylan Rarity News notified to me. If you have any news not shown that will interest site visitors, please contact me here. Please make sure the subject of your message includes the word "Dylan"- this will ensure it's not put in the trash by the site's Spam filter. This is absolutely vital - incoming Spam can be as much as 13,300 messages per day, and I'm sure some of your valuable messages have been missed! Please retry if your message was rejected or if you haven't received a reply.

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This is a fan site with no connection to Bob - that means you can't contact him through me! I used to have a postal address for Bob's New York business office that I thought was correct, but I have since been informed by someone who wrote to that address that their mail was returned. I have never had an email address. I can only suggest you contact Bob's publisher Simon & Schuster or use the feedback page at www.bobdylan.com. I also have no means of helping anyone who wants to meet Bob Dylan or obtain his autograph!

For much wider news coverage of interest to Bob Dylan fans, see Karl Erik's amazing "Expecting Rain" site . It's always up-to-date thanks to his astounding dedication!

News and Updates are now two separate pages - for Updates (including all site structure changes), see here.

Revised: 08 May, 2023

27 Apr 2023: The Searching For A Gem web-site is closed for correspondence and submissions. Please do not submit any scans or queries until this message disappears.

13 Apr 2023: Thanks to Fred Muller, Sergio Mariano Romay and André Wilbers for news that the audio from the 2021 video Shadow Kingdom will be released as a 2LP set in the USA on Record Store Day, 22 Apr 2023. It will be released in Europe on vinyl and CD on 2 Jun 2023. The Shadow Kingdom video will be available for download or rental from 6 Jun 2023, but not as a Blu-ray or DVD.

15 Mar 2023: Thanks to Sonny Boy McFitzson for news that "The Philosophy of Modern Song" will be published in Japan on 13 Apr 2023.

20 Feb 2023: Thanks to Jack from Canada for information about new Joan Baez documentary I Am A Noise directed by Karen O'Connor, Miri Navasky and Maeve O'Boyle with Dylan footage. In the film, Joan Baez talks about her first meeting with Bob Dylan and their performing together. She was already a star on the folk scene when she met the young, then-unknown Dylan in 1961; they later became a couple. The film features archival footage of Joan bringing Dylan onstage during her concerts in the early days, when her fans often booed Dylan because they only wanted to hear her.

14 Feb 2023: Thanks to Éamonn Ó Catháin and Sonny Boy McFitzson for news that The Essential Bob Dylan will be released on Blu-spec CD2 discs by Sony Music Japan on 5 Apr 2023 to coincide with Bob's Spring tour of Japan. The Japanese title is Ryuukoukashuu [流行歌集] meaning Collection Of His Hits. The revised front design is from a 2022 60th Anniversary postcard commemorating Bob's debut on Columbia Records in 1962. The "60 Dylan" picture is based on a work by Hiroshige Utagawa (spot Bob and Suze from the front of The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan). The original picture is called "Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi Bridge and Atake" and dates from 1857.

10 Feb 2023: Thanks to Sergio Mariano Romay for news that the 2022 Remix of Time Out Of Mind will also be released as #8 in the SDE (SuperDeluxeEdition) Surround Series. The format will be a Blu-ray audio disc with Dolby Atmos surround sound and Hi-Res Stereo versions of the remixed album.

9 Feb 2023: Thanks to Kevin Carroll for pointing out that the Love Sick/Cold Irons Bound (live) 7" single given away with the German issue of "Rolling Stone" magazine, Feb 2023, has the same two songs as the 7" single included with the "20th Anniversary" 2LP release of Time Out Of Mind in 2018. They were the same two songs but different versions: a different studio version of Love Sick and a different live version of Cold Irons Bound. I am sure these choices for the new single were deliberate.

Older News

Old news items are kept on here until the rarities referred to actually surface, or until it becomes clear that they're not going to!

30 Jul 2022: The previous Web Counter has now been discontinued by the provider. There have been around 12 million visits since mid-1998. New statistics for Searching For A Gem from end Jun 2022 are here.

14 Jan 2022: Thanks to Geoff Lambourn for news that James Mangold has been chosen to direct a new film for Searchlight Pictures provisionally called "Going Electric" about Bob's adoption of electric music in 1965, starring Timothée Chalamet as Bob. More details will be added when available.

18 Oct 2020: The Yahoo! web-site is reporting that George Clooney will direct a film version of John Grisham's baseball novel "Calico Joe". The exciting news for Dylan fans is that Bob is scheduled to write the soundtrack. Bob is known to be a huge baseball fan and has recorded Catfish (a Desire out-take released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Vols. 1-3) and Take Me Out To The Ball Game from his Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan: Baseball in 2006. Thanks to Jürgen Wasser for information that John Grisham's book has been translated into German with the title "Home Run", and is also available in French and Italian. More information about the film and the soundtrack will be added when available.

24 Nov 2015: Please note, in order to reduce the huge number of submissions, only submit scans of new items. If you have variant copies of items already listed on the site, please submit only a text description of your item that can be pasted into the web page. That will make the additions significantly easier to handle, and avoid web pages becoming too long. This is a new permanent policy for the site. Thank you for your co-operation.

26 Nov 2013: So long, eBay! This web-site has an ongoing huge backlog of additions, all with high quality artwork, and several important new Dylan releases to add between now and Christmas. In view of the poor quality of description and illustration of items from eBay and other online auction sites, together with the high probability that items are counterfeit, no more items from such sites will be considered for inclusion here. I've also been told that featuring eBay items on this web-site has led to higher prices. Thanks to those who have submitted eBay links in the past, but please don't do so in future under any circumstances.

As an example, look at the scan by Manuel García Jara and a photo of the same single from an online auction site. The digital photo is slanted (and shows the wrong side of the sleeve)!

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