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After my current backlog is cleared I shall be freezing the web-site and taking an extended break until at least July 2021. This is because I have several long-standing projects that I wish to complete, including a new Dylan discography book. Some visitors from mainland Europe have been experiencing access problems, and I shall also try to get my web-space provider to get to the bottom of this. Please do not submit any contributions for the web-site from now onwards until this message disappears. They will not be added until my other work has been completed, which may be some time. 16 Jun 2021: bobdylan.com have announced Shadow Kingdom, an exclusive online broadcast event that will take place on Sunday 18 Jul 2021 at 2 p.m. PT (10 p.m. British Summer Time). Bob will perform songs from his extensive body of work "in an intimate setting". Tickets are $25 and allow reviewing until 21 Jul 2021. 24 May 2021: Happy 80th Birthday Mister Bob! Keep on keepin' on! 13 May 2021: Thanks to Bob Stacy for information that the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma will open to the public on 10 May 2022. To draw attention to the center’s offerings and plans, a previously unheard version of Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right — described as “one sterling example of the treasures to be found” in the archive — was released Wednesday morning (12 May 2021) as a free download, courtesy of the BDC. Described as “heretofore unknown,” the 1962 recording includes alternate lyrics and was recorded in the New York apartment of friends Milton (Mell) and Lillian Bailey well before its eventual appearance on 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The download can be found here. The new performance has been added to Online Performances (Other).
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"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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The font used for the titles of each page is appropriately called "Jokerman",
if you can't see it, download it here:
Contacting Bob Dylan
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
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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: 17 June, 2021
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16 Jun 2021: bobdylan.com have announced Shadow Kingdom, an exclusive online broadcast event that will take place on Sunday 18 Jul 2021 at 2 p.m. PT (10 p.m. British Summer Time). Bob will perform songs from his extensive body of work "in an intimate setting". Tickets are $25 and allow reviewing until 21 Jul 2021. |
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24 May 2021: Happy 80th Birthday Mister Bob! Keep on keepin' on! |
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13 May 2021: Thanks to Bob Stacy for information that the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma will open to the public on 10 May 2022. To draw attention to the center’s offerings and plans, a previously unheard version of Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right — described as “one sterling example of the treasures to be found” in the archive — was released Wednesday morning (12 May 2021) as a free download, courtesy of the BDC. Described as “heretofore unknown,” the 1962 recording includes alternate lyrics and was recorded in the New York apartment of friends Milton (Mell) and Lillian Bailey well before its eventual appearance on 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The download can be found here. The new performance has been added to Online Performances (Other). |
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!
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9 Apr 2021: Even though the web-site is closed for additions, I shall still add important Dylan news. Thanks to Badlands for news that Record Store Day 2021 will include a 12" vinyl single of Jokerman/I & I (The Reggae Remix EP). The two versions of I And I are from the 2004 album Is It Rolling, Bob? A Reggae Tribute To Bob Dylan Vol. 1, while the two remixes of Jokerman by Doctor Dread are new and exclusive to this 12". Also on sale will be the 2009 Watchmen: Music From The Motion Picture soundtrack album as a 2LP set on blue and yellow vinyl with The Times They Are A-Changin', Jimi Hendrix covering All Along The Watchtower, and a cover of Desolation Row by My Chemical Romance. There will also be albums from Dylan-related artists such as Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers and The Grateful Dead. |
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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.
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7 Jul 2014: Thanks to Jeff Gold, Bruce Mulle and several others for news of 149 Dylan acetates from the Nashville Skyline/Self Portrait/New Morning era that were found in a New York building in West Houston Street, Greenwich Village, that was once rented by Bob as a studio. These have been named "The West Houston Street Acetates" and contain many unreleased versions of Dylan songs from the period. They will be listed in full on the 2014 page when time permits. For full details, see here. |
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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 appalling (and shows the wrong side of the sleeve)! |
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