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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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  • Bob Dylan unworthy of the Légion dhonneur? Its time for a protest song | Fiachra Gibbons


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 986
    Bob Dylans cannabis use and anti-war stance mean hes been deemed unworthy of Frances highest honour. But all is not lost The grand chancellor of the Légion dhonneur has declared that Bob Dylan is unworthy of receiving Frances highest honour, in defiance of the culture minister, Aurélie Filippetti – a huge fan ...
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  • Dylan sculpted music, now hometowns etch him in history


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    This is my Sunday column for the May 19, 2013 edition of the Hibbing Daily Tribune . Ill be revealing more about Tom Pages Dylan sculpture project in a week or so. Dylan sculpted music, now hometowns etch him in history By Aaron J. Brown The figure crouches over a guitar, playing against a hurricane. A ...
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  • A SPY FOR DIXIELAND


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    Ian Fleming never gave me a thought.  I never had a specially-equipped car, dangerous gadgets.  But I was a spy for Dixieland. In a recent seminar with one of my mentors, Prof. Figg, he asked the question, “What are your secret guilty musical pleasures?” I think the Professor expected that I was listening to ...
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  • Cannes 2013 – Review: Inside Llewyn Davis


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    The best of the fest so far sees the Coen brothers meditate on mediocrity and modernity in the 1960s New York folk scene – but not be so sombre as to forget the laughs
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  • Music therapist Emeli Sande


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    Emeli Sande wants to be a music therapist. The Next To Me singer originally studied neuroscience before her music career took off and although she is thrilled with how things have turned out, she hasnt ruled out combining the two fields in the future.
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  • andy pratt   —   masters of war (dylan cover)why is this...


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    andy pratt   —   masters of war (dylan cover) why is this man so overlooked?
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  • Bob Dylan. (Tangled Up In Blue - Listen here)


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    Bob Dylan. (Tangled Up In Blue - Listen here )
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  • TANGLED UP IN BLUE - BOB DYLAN


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    TANGLED UP IN BLUE - BOB DYLAN: .
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  • iTunes security loophole lets users download Daft Punk stream for free


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    iTunes security Apple has been serving up previews of upcoming releases on iTunes for a while now. While it was Bob Dylan, Justin Timberlake and David Bowie in the past year, electronic music duo Daft Punk took the world by surprise this week by making their newest album available for streaming on iTunes. It has ...
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  • North Country Dylan Celebration starts today


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    For fans of Bob Dylan, the northern Minnesota music scene or those who just wonder about the connection between the worlds most influential living musician and the back woods, mining towns and blue collar city of his youth, well, weve got you covered . Today Duluth begins its annual Dylan Fest. A series of events ...
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  • Lossless Bootleg Bonanza: Bob Dylan - Plymouth Rock


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    Bob Dylan Plymouth Rock War Memorial Coliseum Plymouth, MA 10/31/75 Palace Theater Waterbury, CT Nov.11, 1975 Download FLAC: File Factory Download MP3@320: File Factory Released: 1997 Tracks: Plymouth: I Don’t Believe You Hurricane Oh, Sister One More Cup Of Coffee Sara Just Like A Woman This Land Is Your ...
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  • friday random ten, 1975 edition


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    Mixing it up by revisiting the old Friday music tradition. My son had his 38th birthday yesterday, so I’ll choose 1975 for this week’s Random Ten. The links go to YouTube … times have changed some since I used to do these Random Tens, lots of people use YouTube as a jukebox nowadays. (For reference, here’s a ...
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  • Bob Dylan – Dreamin’ Of You


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    The light In this place Is really bad Like being In the bottom Of a stream Any minute now I’m expecting To wake up From a dream Miss so much The softest touch Like the grave Of some child child Who neither wept Nor smiled I’m hiding my faith In the rain I’ve been Dreamin’ of you That’s all I do And it’s ...
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  • Ryan Nassib: Tangled Up in Blue – What to do with Ryan Nassib as a New York Giant??


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          Ryan Nassib: Tangled Up in Blue – What to do with Ryan Nassib as a New York Giant??? By Shawn Gallagher: DFW Writer A few months ago in February, I wrote “Agent Orange” which was a Rookie profile column of Syracuse Quarterback Ryan Nassib, with some analysis and prediction regarding the NFL [...]
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  • Steam Donkeys Stage Americanarama Happy Hour Tonight


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    Responding to the summer concert tour dubbed “Americanarama“—featuring Bob Dylan, Wilco, My Morning Jacket, and Ryan Bingham—the Steam Donkeys, a Buffalo NY-based musical quartet and global think tank, are reviving the catchy name they used for their music festival dating back to 1997. “Imitation may be the ...
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  • Justin Timberlake and Carey Mulligan Get Folky for ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’


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    While today is unofficially Gatsby Day , Carey Mulligan has already moved on. Daisy Buchanan is turning her back on the glitz of the Baz Luhrmann epic for a toned down (and almost unrecognizable) role in the Coen Brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis. Also featured in the just-released red band trailer for the ...
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  • The B List: Eight Great Tunes with Eight-Plus Verses


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    [Originally Published: September 27th, 2012] Last weekend I walked into my local Berkeley coffee shop and Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row was playing on the stereo. I turned to my friend and asked if he had any way of identifying what verse we were at – but neither of us could place how far into the song we were, or ...
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  • DYLAN COVERS - # 98 Roger McGuinn/Arlo Guthrie - Mr Tambourine Man


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    I knew your Pa I was looking at Youtube the other day and came across these two different live takes of Mr Tambourine Man. I think they are both worth a watch especially the Rodger McGuinn one, as he gives a little insight about how the Byrds changed the tune  to make it more commercial. Saying that the ...
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  • Cover Alert: Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues – The Black Crowes


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    Back on April 21, The Black Crowes presented a guest-laden acoustic performance at Nashville’s historic Ryman Auditorium that turned out to be one for the ages. Included among the many debuts on that fateful evening was the Crowes’ first-ever take on bob Dylan’s Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues. While ...
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  • Like A Rolling Stone (Or A InstaCult Marketing Business)


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    Im almost positive John Lennons airy Watching The Wheels lyric ("Well I tell them theres no problems - only solutions ") is one origin of, the "progressive" corporate fetish for, advertising that exact jargons what they provide. Some NewAge con artist, somewhere (or, considering who were talking about, ...
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