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We will now embark on another chapter of Bob Dylan!
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Saturday, December 13, 2025
at 0645 CET

    Dylan related
  1. Bob Dylan - Outlaw Music Festival, Jones Beach Theater, Wantagh, New York, 8-1-2025 (Albums That Should Exist) from Scott Miller
  2. The Bob Dylan Concert for Just One Person An interview with Fredrik Wikingsson, the subject of 'Experiment Ensam' (Flagging Down the Double E's) by Ray Padgett
  3. Bob Dylan hits the road again: Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour returns in 2026 (The Statesman) from Cliff Warnken
  4. BLACK MUSIC MONTH AND NYC's GREAT AMERICAN FOLK SCARE Unsung heroes central to Bob Dylan's career (Hits Daily Double) from Scott Miller
  5. From A Buick 6 part 8: Carmen got a little six Buick (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
  6. German: Black America sings Bob Dylan, zweiter Teil ("I'm in a cowboy band") by Thomas Waldherr
  7. Well-Traveled Tracks (Good Times) from Scott Miller
  8. Vara Silverlake — Point Blank. (New book by Bob Dylan.) (Notes from various mornings and nights) from Cyrano Marzipan
  9. Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews (Literary Hub) from Cyrano Marzipan

    Other
  10. How a song rejected three times by The Beatles became the emotional and musical centrepiece of George Harrison’s classic solo album All Things Must Pass (musicradar) from Scott Miller
  11. From Bob Dylan to Ice Cube: UC Berkeley researchers map 60 years of storytelling in pop lyrics (UC Berkeley News) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller
  12. The Beatles Transformed with a Little Help From Their Friends (Pop Matters) from Scott Miller (amazon.com - .co.uk - .de)
  13. ‘Harder work than almost any album we ever did’: Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here turns 50 (theguardian) from Scott Miller
  14. Robert Plant’s Saving Grace review – self-effacing superstar still sounds astonishing (theguardian) from Scott Miller
  15. THE COMPLETE JOHNNY CASH: LYRICS FROM A LIFETIME OF SONGWRITING (Music Connection) by Harvey Kubernik, from Cliff Warnken
  16. Phil Upchurch, Jazz Guitarist and Sideman to Stars, Dies at 84 (NY Times) from Scott Miller

    Audio/Video
  17. Bob Dylan ~ In A World So Badly Bent (Best Of The 2025 Fall Tour) (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  18. Listen: Sam Grisman Project Summon the Acoustic Spirits of Bob Dylan, Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, Bonnie Dobson on New Self-Title Double Album (relix) from Scott Miller
  19. Sarah Jarosz "Ring Them Bells" The Americana Sessions (Bob Dylan) (YouTube)
  20. Bob Dylan introduces "Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues" with a New York shout-out in NYC, Nov. 1, 1998 (YouTube) from Carol Casper
  21. Bob Dylan Paints His Masterpiece (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  22. Testing John Fogerty's Music Knowledge | Track Star* (YouTube) from Harold Lepidus
  23. ‘One More Cup of Coffee’: The White Stripes’ defining Bob Dylan cover (Far Out) from Scott Miller
  24. Bob Dylan — Glasgow, Scotland. November 16, 2025. Full Rough and Rowdy Ways Show. Stereo recording (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  25. Lucinda Williams performs Johnny Cash’s ‘I Still Miss Someone’ (YouTube) from Harold Lepidus

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  26. WHAT DID YOU HEAR? The Music of Bob Dylan. By Steven Rings Review (Fanfare mag) from Bob Weston
  27. ‘Biggest band that ever lived’: inside the Grateful Dead art show (theguardian) from Barry Daw 1300
  28. Bob Dylan – Telluride 2001 Review (Cult Following) from Cliff Warnken 1500
  29. Kathleen Healy: The Cultural Center Does Dylan Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Jan 10 (Cape News) from Cliff Warnken
  30. BELOVED SARATOGA MUSIC CAFÉ RECEIVES ANONYMOUS $1 MILLION DONATION Caffè Lena in Saratoga Springs (WGNA) from Cliff Warnken
  31. Watch Bob Dylan's 'Hard To Handle' upgraded to HD and enhanced (The Joker and the Thief) 1600

Friday, December 12, 2025
at 0630 CET

    Dylan related
  1. The Chaotic Magic of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue By David Remnick (New Yorker) from Scott Miller
  2. 1971: When Bob said, “I’ll show you I’m more than 3 chords”: When I paint my masterpiece (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
  3. Bob Dylan and Neil Young Keep Coming Back to the Same Songwriter (Parade) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller
  4. Bob Dylan Copied This '60s Folk Legend 'Phrase For Phrase' (AOL / Parade) from Scott Miller
  5. Genesis replies to question about Bob Dylan signed prints (.png) from Fred Tosi
  6. How Well Do You Know “Delia” Lyrics Quiz (NSF) from Ugur Oral
  7. The Traveling Wilburys Almost Added Another Member to Their Band (Who Happened to Be Dead for 10 Years) (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller, Cliff Warnken

    Other
  8. Rock's greatest bootlegger: A new Pink Floyd box set legitimizes an outlaw Mike Millard (Rolling Stone / Yahoo) from Juergen Wasser
  9. Johnny Cash behind prison walls (John's Substack) by John Nogowski
  10. On This Day in 1946, a Legendary Country Singer Stepped Into the Studio for the First Time and Recorded Four Classics (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller
  11. Willie Nelson, Farm Aid Provide $1.3 Million in Relief to US Family Farmers (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller
  12. Graded on a Curve: Gordon Lightfoot, An Introduction to Gordon Lightfoot (The Vinyl District) from Scott Miller
  13. The New Yorker at 100: Netflix documentary dives inside a groundbreaking magazine (theguardian) from Scott Miller
  14. Chrissie Hynde: ‘I pierced Johnny Rotten’s ear in a toilet with an earring and a bar of soap’ (theguardian) from Scott Miller
  15. Jorma Kaukonen: the Real Folk Blues A Weekend at the Fur Peace Ranch, 2015 (Critical Conditions by Wayne Robins) from Harold Lepidus

    Audio/Video
  16. Chimes of History: Steve Jenkins on the Bob Dylan Center (Apple Podcasts) from Scott Miller
  17. David Remnick on 100 Years of The New Yorker | Amanpour and Company (YouTube) from Scott Miller
  18. David Remnick's Closet Picks (YouTube) from Scott Miller
  19. Watch Bob Dylan's full 'Beacon Theater 29 April 2005' set and read a review (The Joker and the Thief)
  20. Mavericks Raul Malo's Wife Just Broke Our Hearts! (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  21. 15 Classy Classic Rock Christmas Songs (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky

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  22. Almanac Music: Dylan Cover Songs – Every Song Vol.7: February-August 1964 PLUS ‘Another Side Of Bob Dylan’ album (The Footy Almanac) from Cliff Warnken
  23. The Rough and Rowdy Way of Life (The Ringer) from Cliff Warnken 1500
  24. Watch 'Roadmaps For The Soul,' Ljubljana, Slovenia: April 28 1999 Watch a new Joker and the Thief HD video upgrade of this 1999 concert DVD. (The Joker and the Thief) 1700

Thursday, December 11, 2025
at 0600 CET

    Dylan related
  1. How Bob Dylan’s 2009 Holiday Album ‘Christmas in the Heart’ Became a Delightfully Unexpected Seasonal Classic (Woman's world) from Scott Miller, Cliff Warnken
  2. The real story behind Bob Dylan's birth name and the why the iconic singer changed it (msn / Hello! US) from Scott Miller
  3. The Philosophy of Modern Song: You don’t know me (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
  4. Our December 2025 Bob Dylan Club Book-of-the-Month is Terri Thal’s My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob, and Me (Bob Dylan Book Club) from Scott Miller

    Other
  5. The Only Song George Harrison and Son Dhani Harrison Co-Wrote—First Recorded by Jools Holland—Became the Former Beatles’ Final Recording (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller
  6. Not exactly a role model but... Reading and teaching Hunter S. Thompson (John's Substack) by John Nogowski
  7. 15 Deep-Dive, Goodies-Filled Boxed Sets and Reissues From 2025 Shared article (NY Times) from Alan Gordon, Scott Miller
  8. Top 15 Reissues of 2025 (Ultimate Classic Rock) from Scott Miller
  9. “It was the guitar he played on the band’s earliest demos and at their early club gigs”: The Harmony Stratotone that Brian Jones used to teach Keith Richards and played on the Rolling Stones debut single fetches $150,000 at auction (Guitar World) from Scott Miller
  10. Raul Malo, Frontman of Latin-Tinged Country Band Mavericks, Dies at 60 (NY Times) from Scott Miller
  11. Recreating Music of the American Revolution (Wfmt) from Scott Miller
  12. Arise Sir Roger Daltrey: British rock pioneer knighted by Prince William at Windsor (EuroWeekly News) from Scott Miller

    Audio/Video
  13. Republicans and Obamacare, Again—Plus, Early, Early Bob Dylan Wilentz (The Nation) from Cliff Warnken
  14. Video Premiere: Bird “Lay Lady Lay” (Americana UK) from Cliff Warnken
  15. Arthur McBride (Amazon Music) from Mark Adams 0600

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  16. Rolling Stones finally approve Fatboy Slim sample after 25 years (BBC) from Martin Cowan
  17. Allan Pepper, Billy Altman, Peter Cunningham - Positively Fourth and Mercer: The Inside Story of New York’s Iconic Music Club, The Bottom Line, book Dec 11 from amazon.com - .co.uk - .de. from Harold Lepidus 1200


Archives


Number of Dylan concerts a year, according to Olof's Files
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 60s
 0  36  33  19  45  67  48   0   2   2 252
1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 70s
  0   1   1   0  40  31  26   0  114  26 239
1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 80s
 70  54   0   0  27  0  60  36  71  99 417
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 90s
 93 101  92  80 104 116  86  94 110 119 995
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 00s
112 106 107  98 111 113  99  98  97  98 1039
2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 10s
102 89 86 85 92 87 75 82 84 77 859
2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 20s
00 22 82 75 78 82 27       366
Never Ending Tour, from 7 June 1988 -                     3388
Total 4123
Last update 08.12. 2025