Bob Dylan

If Bob Dylan is the very definition of a music legend (and he is), you have to give his fans credit for being pretty legendary themselves.

From the very beginning, Dylan fans have been a breed apart. They scrutinize his lyrics line by line, dig through his garbage to find them, and sign up for fully accredited college courses to understand them. On the Internet, the discussion — and dissection — of Dylan is no less intense, as his devotees pour over every nuance of his life and music on sites like Expecting Rain.

Dylan has always been, and will probably always be, an enigma.

He has created as many audacious flops (Self Portrait, Knocked Out Loaded, and most of his work in the Eighties and Nineties spring immediately to mind) as he has masterpieces like Highway 61 Revisited, Blonde On Blonde, and Blood On The Tracks. He's written American classics like "Blowin' In The Wind," "Like A Rolling Stone," and "Just Like A Woman," as well as gobbledy-gook like "Man Gave Names To All The Animals."

But the one thing Dylan has always done is reinvent himself. The voice of protest for a generation in the Sixties and the born again believer of the Seventies, most recently Dylan has once again stunned the world with a brilliant string of albums including Time Out Of Mind, Love & Theft, and Modern Times.

Above all else, Dylan is arguably America's greatest songwriter and a national treasure.

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  Another Lost Shark — Authority: 126
  A while back I made a post: A Poet Is… What Bob Dylan Has to Say  and there was some interesting debate about Dylan being a poet. Well a good friend of mine recently turned me on to Bob performing a killer version of Jokerman back in 1984 on the Letterman show, which for mine has to be one of the greatest ...
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• A Conversation With New Country Trio Love and Theft.

  
  The 9513 — Authority: 500
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• Dylan’s visions of Zinn

  
  RightWingBob.com — Authority: 423
  So, on a TV show last night on the History Channel called “The People Speak: Democracy is Not A Spectator Sport,” Bob Dylan was featured performing Woody Guthrie’s song Do Re Mi , accompanied by Ry Cooder on guitar and Van Dyke Parks on piano. The performance was great, in my opinion; both towering and ...
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• John Mayer’s SIRIUS XM show: A sneak peek

  
  The Music Mix — Authority: 713
  Guitarist. Singer-songwriter. Occasional stand-up comedian. Very occasional wearer of a Borat-style mankini. Is there no end to John Mayer’s talents? Seemingly not. And this Wednesday at 6 p.m. EST you will be able to hear the pop-bluesman try his hand at the ol’ record-playing game in the course of a special ...
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• SFL Monday -- Must Be Santa.

  
  South Florida Lawyers — Authority: 430
  So I biked into work this morning, cigar in hand, across the causeway against a light blue sky and light green sea, breezy birds and boozy work crews, beautiful women and ugly dogs, walking clubs, backpackers, lost tourists, unlit Christmas lights, Chabad Houses, iced coffees, sleeping men and bike lanes that start ...
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• Exclusive Bob Dylan interview in Jeepney Magazine’s 2010 Calendar

  
  Azrael's Merryland — Authority: 481
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• So This Is Christmas 2009

  
  The VPME — Authority: 112
  Christmas songs love ‘em or loathe ‘em they have become a staple of the festive period . Here are some new songs, old songs and videos which kind of sum up Christmas at VP Towers . We love Christmas and are positively gushing with  festive joy, so let us be the cream on your Christmas pudding,  the mince in your ...
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• Christmas Song of the Day: “Little Drummer Boy” by Bob Dylan

  
  30 Days Out — Authority: 423
  Here is our old buddy, Bob Dylan, with his unique take on the “Little Drummer Boy.” No funny hats that make him look like Tom Petty this time around like his last video, “Must Be Christmas.” Enjoy the animation. Dylan’s Christmas In The Heart is the famed songwriter’s 47th album and all the money ...
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• Daily Bootleg Links: Railroad Earth (10/03/09), Porno For Pyros (08/10/93), Bob Dyland With The Grateful Dead (07/10/87), & The Smiths (05/18/85

  
  The Midnight Cafe — Authority: 127
  The Smiths Madrid, Spain 05/18/85 Download MP3@256kps: TUBE Railroad Earth, Variety Playhouse Atlanta, Ga. 10/03/09 Download Lossless FLAC: Live and Lossless Porno For Pyros 08-10-93 Bayfront Amphitheatre Miami, FL Download lossless FLAC: Live and Lossless Bob Dylan with Grateful Dead John F. Kennedy ...
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• DYLAN: A SANTA CLAUS NOW

  
  The Electric Egg Cream — Authority: 122
  Despite the fans that have come to know and love him (if only for his eccentricities), Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart could have, in a much more curious vein, been as surprising and controversial as Dylan going electric during the turbulent and mesmeric idealism of the 1960s . Audiences first became ...
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• Matt Damon Debuts The People Speak

  
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• ANDREW W.K. @ GIBSON GUITAR SHOWROOM

  
  L.A. RECORD — Authority: 445
  Andrew W.K. emerged from a black velvet box and stumbled over a nonsensical speech (about how we should make sure to bring extra quarters to the store when we’re buying water to tip the cashier. WTF?) before sitting at the mirrored beast and improvising simplistic songs about food, being a boy and dog ownership. ...
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• Bob Dylan – Must Be Santa

  
  Uwes Musikblog — Authority: 137
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• Two From Bob Dylan Including “Visions of Johanna”

  
  Rock God Cred — Authority: 484
  Echoes in The Wind Report: Click here to go to EITW to check Bob Dylan “Visions of Johanna”, and “I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Have Never Met)”
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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
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  An example of Austin Kleons Newspaper Blackout poetry Literature: J. G. Ballard : Simon Reynolds speaks to Ballardian.com J. G. Ballard : Issue four of new journal, Kill Author , focusses on Ballard and his work J. G. Ballard : Jacob Silverman on J. G. Ballard and Vladimir Nabokov William S. Burroughs : ...
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• Silly Sundays - Bobby The Poet - A White Christmas and The Three OClock Weather Report

  
  She'll Grow Back — Authority: 122
  Okay, heres a weird one for yas. You know how Bob Dylan put out a Christmas album this year? Sure you do. Well, waaaaay back in the 1960s, Bob was one of the biggest things ever. Impressionists loved to add him to their stable of characters. Impressionists also loved to do Kennedys. Hence, here are the two Bobbys ...
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• Bob Dylan - Kelowna 2005

  
  Nathan's Rock Moat — Authority: 136
  Bob Dylan Kelowna, BC Prospera Place July 22, 2005 Maggies Farm Tonight Ill Be Staying Here With You Ill Be Your Baby Tonight Lay, Lady, Lay Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again Moonlight Highway 61 Revisited Shelter From The Storm Cry Awhile Just Like A Woman Honest With Me The Times They ...
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• Must Be Santa, Santacon! Sing it, Bobby Zimmerman: We ride again 12/20 at 12:30!

  
  art predator — Authority: 127
  It was a rainy Santacon today in LA but judging from tweets from SF Santa and LA Santa a good time just the same (see tweetpics like this one or http://twitpic.com/ta1qj of elves in Pershing Square LA for evidence!)Bob Dylan’s latest cd Christmas in the Heart will be the soundtrack for the Ventucky Santacon 12/20 ...
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• Christmas Album: The Yearly Resurrection of the Artist

  
  Chide, Chode, Chidden — Authority: 115
  Im glad that Bob Dylan has finally decided to seize at an immortality that would otherwise be denied him. Most of his throwaway songs would otherwise have been forgotten in less than a generation and his fame would have diminished into nothingness. Why, might one ask, would have been forgotten and not shall ? ...
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• CD REVIEW: Pop Stars Speak on the People’s Behalf

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 742
  So anyway, last week I was asked to review the accompanying CD for tonight’s upcoming The People Speak documentary . Mindful of my journalistic duty, I immediately emailed the good folks at Verve Music Group asking for a review copy. Alas, they never got back to me. Thus as I certainly wasn’t going to spend any ...
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