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Album News
...... Columbia/Legacy Records has announced the
November release of 71Je BootlegSeries, ltil. 5-Bob Dylan
Live 1975: Tbe Rolling thunderRevue. This two­CD set
is comprised of selections from the best of the multitrack
recordings the Revue's celebrated performances in
Worcester, Cambridge, Boston, and Montreal. (See ihe track
listing on page 2.) A bonus DVD packaged with the set will
include two songs from Bob Dylan's film Renaldoand
Clara, remixed for 5.1 surround sound. We're taking orders
now­see our "Monthly Special" to save more than 20%
off the retail price of $24.98. Rolling Tomes item #41667.
...... Sleeplessby Peter Wolf (4­star rating from Rolling
Sto11e) uses two members of Dylan's backing band ... Tony
Garnier and Larry Campbell. Item #41668. $17.95.
...... Blood On 71Je '/!'acksby Mary Lee's Corvette (Item
#41626. $16.95.) Rolling Stone review excerpt: (4­star
rating) This is a complete re­creation of Bob Dylan's
untouchable 1975 divorce album, executed with a quietly
direct magnificence enhanced by the modesty of its
origins (a one­time 2001 New York club show, rescued
from a soundboard cassette) and eclipsed only by Dylan's
definitive recording. Billboard had this to say: "Kortes,
witl1 the help of her outstanding band, is right­on
throughout this sterling performance=parucularly on a
track like 'Idiot Wind."'
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...... 71JeRing Of Truth by Carla Olson Includes a cover
of Dylan's "Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window" to
which Barry Goldberg and Mick Taylor contribute. Rolling
Tomes item #41669. $13.95.
...... 71JeLost Chord by Douglas Powell. New CD contains
a song called "Baby Blue" which according to reviewers
"does more than tip a hat to Dylan's "It's All Over Now,
Baby Blue." Item #41670. $16.95.
...... The Wallflowers' Jakob Dylan just wrote ihe new
theme song (a moody midtempo rocker) for CBS legal
drama 7be Guardian called "The Empire In My Mind."
The group may add it as a bonus track to their forth­
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coming album RedLeiter Days (item #40758. $16.95)
now expected November Sth, The group also performed a
track from the upcoming album called '·Everybody Out Of
The Water" for the premiere of CSL
...... Uncut magazine (September) features a CD inclu­
sion that has Jason and the Scortchers' demo version of
"Absolutely Sweet Marie" from their album Wildfiresand
Misfires.
...... Nol For Beginnersby Ronnie Wood gets a 3­star
Mick and laurie Mccuistion.
nm Dunn. and Toay Johnson
ContributingEditors
Kathleen Kolod. Ted Haycralt Bernard Farber.
Peter Goodsell. Melvin Hausner. John london.
Oiuck Owen. Bruce Swanwick. Jeff Syme.
Allen Tepper. Doug Wendt and Richard Williams
rating from Rolling Slone with the mention that his
"modest effort" and "casual performance ... receive boosts
from celebrity guests such as Bob Dylan, who contributes
to the guitar duet 'King Of Kings."'
...... Now available: Reissued Blonde on Blondeon 180
gram vinyl. This double album set is the latest in the series
of reissues by Sundazed. (For more details on the
Sundazed project see interview with the label founder Bob
Irwin in OTT #23.) Item #41639. $24.95.
...... SmashHits byJimi Hendrix has been reissued by tl1e
Jimi Hendrix Experience. The CD features Hendrix's cover of
Dylan's "All Along The Watchtower." Item #41672. $11.98.
...... Kindred Spirits: A Tribute 7b Johnny Cash includes
contributions from Bob Dylan ("Train Of Love"), Bruce
Springsteen, Sheryl Crow, Dwight Yoakam, Hank Williams
Jr., and Keb' Mo'. Item #40757. $13.95.
...... T­Bone Burnett recently finished recording his first
new album of original songs in nearly a decade. Details to
follow
...... Bob Dylan, Elton John, Sting, Alanis Morissette, and
Ricky Martin are among the artists on VoicesOf Hope, an
album benefiting the Sabera Foundation, set for release
November 19 on Ark 21 Records. Dylan is accompanied by
the Chorus Of Girls from Sabera Foundation, Calcutta,
India, for "Knockln' On Heaven's Door." The 14­track disc
was conceived by actress Melanie Griffith and her sister
Tracy. Founded in 1999, the Sabera Foundation is dedi­
cated to creating shelter, health care, education, nutrition,
and self­employment programs for young women in India.
Book News
...... Chronicles (item #40734. $23.00) by Bob Dylan and
the updated Lyrics 1962-2000 (item #22054. $45.00)
have both been pushed back to December 2, 2002. Pre­
orders will receive a special discount, so order your copies
of these books from Rolling Tomes.
...... Restless Pilgrim: Tbe Spil'itualjourney of Bob
Dylan by Scott Marshall is now in stock. This book was
originally advertised in On tbe tracks111th the working
title, EvetJ' Grain of Sand, Shooting StarsAnd Prayers
Murmured In Between: A 1.£11/er DayLook At Bob
Dylan 1978-1999). Softcover 6>­'9. 188 pages. Rolling
Tomes item #32396. Special introductory offer from
Rolling Tomes (Save well over 20% off the list price of
$13.99) only $10.99.
...... Book review excerpt: On 77Je Road IVilb Bob Dylan
by Larry Sloman (Rolling Tomes item #40820. $14.00):
...Sloman played many roles on Bob Dylan's 1975
Rolling Thunder Revue: pariah, hustler, gofer, confessor,

Track list for Bootleg Series, Vol. 5 -- Bob
Dylan Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue:
Disk #1:
Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
(Forum De Montreal, Montreal, Canada; 12/4ll5)
It Ain't Me, Babe
(Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA; 11/20ll5)
A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
(Forum De Montreal, Montreal, Canada; 12/4ll5)
The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21ll5; Second Show)
Romance In Durango
(Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA; 11/20ll5
Isis
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21ll5; Second Show)
Mr. Tambourine Man
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11 /21ll5; First Show)
Simple Twist Of Fate
(Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA; 11/20ll5)
Mama, You Been On My Mind
(Harvard Square Theatre. Cambridge, MA; 11/20ll5)
Blowin' In The Wind
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21/75; Second Show)
I Shall Be Released
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21ll5; First Show)
Disk #2:
It's All Over Now. Baby Blue
(Forum De Montreal, Montreal, Canada; 12/4ll5)
Love Minus Zero/No Limtt
(Forum De Montreal, Montreal, canada; 12/4ll5)
Tangled Up In Blue
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21/75; Second Show)
The Water Is Wide
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21/75; Second Show)
It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21ll5; Second Show)
Oh, Sister
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21/75; Second Show)
Hurricane
(Memorial Auditorium, Worcester, MA; 11/19/75
One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below)
(Boston Music Hall. Boston. MA; 11/21/75; Second Show)
Sara
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21ll5; Second Show)
Just Like A Woman
(Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA; 11/21/75; Second Show)
Knockin' On Heaven's Door
(Harvard Square Theatre, Cambridge, MA; 11 /20ll5
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sycophant, scapegoat, fan, and occasionally, journalist. He
was kicked out of hotels, had the tires of his rental car
slashed and was subjected to innumerable petty cruelies,
Still, he put together 1111at remains the best insider
account of Dylan's "offbeat, weird underground medicine
show." In this reissue of the I 978 book, Sloman is best at
capturing the band­of­thieves camaraderie and pettiness
that developed within the motley entourage of musicians,
filmmakers, roadies and hangers­on... The book concludes
with the singer warning his inquisitor, "Hey, you never get
what you expect, Ratso, ultimately you're let down."
...... IWJere Dead Voices Gather: A Poetic Dissection of
AmericanMusic by Nick Tosches. In a review of this book
which seeks to analyze counrty music, reviewer Damien
Love states the author repeatedly brings up Dylan.
"Tosches book, which springs from a reassessment of
blackface minstrelry, was published in America just as
Dylan's "Looe and 711eft"-named after another book on
blackface, by Eric Lott­appeared. Both explore the same
mixed­up confusion, the story, as Tosches writes, 'of
American music itself; of black stealing from black, the
white from the white, and the one from the other; of Tin
Pan Alley songs culled from the air and taken into the
pines and the fields, gone feral and misperceived... of
ancient breezes from those pines and those fields drifting
endless anew through the rhythms of generations.' It's a
mystery book, and a gospel."
...... The Tin Pan AlleySong Encyclopedia by Thomas
Hischak 552 pages. Just published. Over 1,200 songs
written from the mid­I 9th century through the 1950s
provides information and commentary on the music
embraced by the American public. Special order item,
$74.95.
...... Stephen King's new 350­page book is titled, From a
Buick 8. Also, King's huge book, 711eStand, has a couple
quotes from Dylan songs although none appeared in the
7­hour movie of the same title.
Dylan influences are seen not only in the new
book's title, but also in one character... [a mysterious
stranger in an old Buick Roadmaster pulls up to a gas
station, telling the young attendant to fill it up. The
stranger wears a long black coat and hat (don't they
always?) that obscures his features], and a zillion refer­
ences to pop songs, Says one reviewer "King is successful
largely because he connects wtth readers by speaking
their language. Sadly, this lime style gets us nowhere. His
latest coasts, sputters, stalls and, ultimately, is a car wreck
of a book." Hardcover. $27.95. Rolling Tomes item
#4[673.
...... Blood 011 The Tracksmusician, Kevin Odegard (see
our exclusive interview with him in OTT #2 l), has been
signed, along 111th Mojo s Andy Gill, to write The Making
of Bob Dylan s Blood 011 Tbe Tracks for Da Capo Press
for release in Autumn 2003. Rolling Tomes item #41674.
Price not yet available. Rolling Tomes 11111 offer a special
discount for pre­publication orders!
...... A new edition­reprint, actually­­ofGeorge
Harrison's 1982 book, I Me Mine, was released October
2002. Dylan mentions throughout, plus, as in original edi­
tion, reproduction of handwritten lyrics to "I'd Have You
Anytime." Rolling Tomes item #4[675. $24.95.
...... BeforeIt !Vas Hip to Be Hip, There lflas Greenwich
Village by Ross \Vetz.5teon. \Vetz.5teon's book retells ihe
story of the years when New York's position as a center of
commerce, immigration and publishing attracted a host of
rebels. Rolling Tomes item #41703.
.... Here's a interesting tidbit Tim Dunn recently discov­
ered: The songbook for Eric Clapton's album, Pilgrim
(1998), has different lyrics for "Born In Time" than those
in Dylan's songbook for Under The Red Sky. $I9.95.
Special order item.
Movie/DVD News
...... A copy of the script for Masked and Anonymous (a
film starring Bob Dylan) has made into ihe hands of some
of our readers. Before receiving a copy ourselves, we were
told that it is probably a very early version of the script.
After reading it, we agree.
...... Mickey Jones, who played on the 1966 tour with
Dylan, is releasing his personal movies taken while on
tour with different groups as a drummer under the title:
Bob Dylan 1966 lflorld Ibur: The Home Movies on VHS
and DVD. \Vatch for our review of this product and our
interview with Mickey Jones in OTT, and which 11111 be
mailed shortly.
Tour News
...... Dylan began his fall tour on October 4 playing
piano on several songs, as well as covering three songs by
Warren Zevon in tribute to the singer­songwriterwho is
stricken with inoperable lung cancer. (For details, see
article "Dylan Covers Warren Zevon In Tribute To Ailing
Singer­Songwriter.") Dylan has also been covering songs
by Neil Young ("Old Man"), the Rolling Stones ("Brown
Sugar"), and Don Henley ("The End Of The
Innocence").
...... One local critic in the pre­show commentary antici­
pating Bob Dylan's performance at Harrah's Lake Tahoe,
on October 13: This is the fortieth anniversary year of Mr.
Dylan's first album, Bob Dylan,which was released in
March of 1962...Some say his most recent CDs of new
material, Time Out OfMind and Love and Theft, have
placed Bob Dylan on yet another brilliant musical track.
Others have declared he's rediscoveredhis folk, country
and blues roots. Any way you want to interpret the music,
it doesn't really matter. Bob Dylan is still our foremost
story­telling troubadour and a bellwether of our times, and
the times are still a­changin'.
...... Roger McGuinn's tour program is opening with Bob
Dylan's "My Back Pages" as well as covering Dylan's "Mr.
first-ever reissue of the
original mono edition of thit
landmark double album.
BOB
DYL.AM
BLONDE ON BLONDE
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mercvry sour>d," Blonde On Blonde is <1
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as when first~ in 1966.
1 gram vinyl, from !he <lhsolvle
original onotog mono mo$~.
We just received our shipment of the just-released. 180
gram viny1, original mono reissue of Blonde on Blonde
LPs. $24.95. Item #41639.
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University of California l's AD Oler Now, Bair( Blue (A) Br<l'Ml Sugar All AJoog The Walchtower Mr. Tamboofine Man (A) Iowa State University
Greek Theater Old Man (A) (I) Masters Of War (A) Onfter's Escape Hilton Coliseum
Seeing The Real You Al. Last (P) Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 lt'sAtight,Ma(A) October 21, 2002 Ten Me That It Isn't True Semg The Real You Af Last
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Tombstooe Bkles (P) Knockil' On Heaven's Ooor (A) Lawyers GlllS And Mooey Arizona State Fair fl'.lnestWrthMe Tombstooe Blues
Accidentally Like A Malt)f (Z) (P) IJAJoog The Watchtower Boots Of Spanish Leather (A) Veterans Memorial Coliseum Blowil' il The Wllld (A) The End Of The Innocence(H)
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It's Alight, Ma (A)(P) Wiltem Theater High Water (C) Accidentally like A Martyr (Z) Summer Days lt'sAtight, Ma (A)
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Hattie Carroll (A) Tombstooe Blues Summer Days .lJstli<eAWoman All AJoog The Watchtower My Bad< Pages (A)
OldMan(A)(I) The End Of The lmocence (H) (encore) k'sAtight. Ma (A) OldMan(A)(I)
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Renee Blakely, T­Bone Burnett, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Neuwirth
and others.
Bootlegs of the historic concerts have circulated ever
since, but now ­ 27 years after the original dates ­ a two­
disc official version is finally available. As.sembled from
multitrack recordings made over tl1ree nights in
Mas.sachusetts and one night in Montreal, the set is packaged
with a two­song DVD made from footage shot during the tour
for the improvisational movie "Renaldo and Clara," written
and directed by Dylan.
The tour caught Dylan at one of his creative high tides,
in the wake of two albums, "Blood on the Tracks" and
"Desire" (largely a one­night outpouring that featured many
of the same cast members), that were a real return to form
for him at tl1e time. The freshness of those songs remains
palpable in these recordings.
"Hurricane," his then­current tour­de­forceballad
about unjustly imprisoned prizefighter Rubin "Hurricane"
Carter, forms the emotional centerpiece of Dylan's two­part
set, a scary, intense perfomiance full of anger and righteous­
ness. But there are otl1er fierce emotions, brutally expressed.
throughout these perfonnances. TI1e retooled "Tonight I'll Be
Staying Here With You" transfom1s the song's central senti­
ment from a warm plea into a snarling threat. And the solo
acoustic "Tangled Up in Blue" is an almost fragile perfor­
mance that Dylan mixes witl1 ambivalence and resignation.
Unlike the sleepy live document from his tour the
previous year with his longtime associates in the Band, Dylan
sounds positively charged on these tapes, invigorated and
worked up. These are recordings that live up to their legend.
The Bootleg Series Volume 5: Live 1975­The
Rolling Thunder Revue
Enlerlainnzenl1Veek(>1- Novembe,·26, 2002
Reviewedby David Browne(Ell7Grade:B)
'THUNDER' ROAD Dylan continues his bootleg series
with tracks from his 1975 musical road trip
Twenty­sevenyears ago, Bob Dylan set out on what
would be one of his most surreal adventures. even in a career
filled with them. Leading a pack of fellow folkies and '60s
e:­qiatriates like Joan Baez and Roger McGuinn, he tooled
around parts of the country in a bus. putting on impromptu
shows in small clubs and theaters. Like many who were
either too young or too far away to attend. I read reports of
the Rolling Thunder Revue, as it was dubbed. with wonder
and envy; rarely did a rock road show sound so magical.
Live 1975 ­ The Rolling Thunder Revue. the latest
installment in his "Bootleg Series" of rarities. affords us our
biggest peek to date into this mysterious, mythical period of
Dylan's career. Its twodiscs are revealing but not alwa)'S in
ways one would expect. At the time, the performances were
seen as his attempt to return to his folk­hootenanny roots, yet
this Dylan does not appear to be having the tour of his life. His
delivery is newly, strikingly aggressive and surly, and he allows
his sprawling gang of musicians (including a young T­Bone
Burnett) to transfom1 cautionary sennons like "A Hard Rain's
A­Gonna Fall" into WOOZ'f shout­alongs. None of this com1otes
a delighted or relaxed man. If anything, one gets the sense of
someone deeply unhappy with where he is, wanting to oblit­
erate his old material and his past. Far from a renewal,
Rolling Thunder was the beginning of a dark, unpleasant
phase of Dylan's career that would engulf his next decade.
That impression is reinforced by the comparative veive
with which Dylan attacks brand­new (at the time) songs like
"Romance in Durango" and "Hurricane," which are better
suited to the ensemble's happy­shambles arrangements.
\X~1en he works through "Love Minus Zero/No Limit" or "Mr.
Tambourine Man" by himself ­ his voice cigarette­stained
and weary, yet mesmerizing all the same ­ he embodies the
ragged disillusionment of what was left of the '60s counter­
culture by the '70s. On this least essential of tl1e "Bootleg
Series" albums ­ an album for tl1e scholars more than the

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Works of Art Created by Popular Musicians,
Singers and Songwriters at The Shops at Liberty
Place
Wed11esdt1yOclober 23, 2002
By 7be Assodated Press
The Month­Long 102.9 WMGK Classic Rock Art Show
and Silent Auction opens to the public November 15 and
will benefit the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.
It will showcase a never­before seen collection of original art
and lithographs, as well as handwritten, autographed song
lyrics from popular music's greatest songwriters at the third
annual 102.9 WMGK Classic Rock Art Show to benefit the
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The 102.9
\VMGK Classic Rock Art Show opens to the public on Friday,
November 15 at 9:30 a.m. and runs seven days a week,
during mall hours through Sunday, December 15, 2002 at
the Shops at Liberty Place at the comer of 17th and
Chestnut Streets (former location of Warner Brothers Store),
in Center City, Philadelphia. Admission to the show is free
and all works of art are available to purchase via silent auc­
tion with the proceeds benefiting the Ellzabeih Glaser
Pedtatric AIDS Foundation. 102.9 \VMGK on­air personality
Debbi Calton wtll broadcast (9:00 a.m. ­ 2:00 p.m.) live
from the Friday show opening. Popular classic rock musi­
cian Graham Nash and artist Peter Max are the Honorary
Chairpersons for this event.
The 102.9 WMGK Classic Rock Art Show features over
175 works of art and handwritten lyrics from a diverse cross
section of popular music artists including: Jerry Garcia, Ron
Wood, John Lennon, John Entwistle, Phil Collins, Grace
Slick, Tony Bennett, Graham Nash, Paul McCartney, Robert
Plant, Bob Dylan, Joe Walsh, David Crosby and dozens
more. In addition to the original art and handwritten song
lyrics, the 102.9 WMGK Classic Rock Art Show will feature
classic fine art photography from legendary photographers
such as Henry Diltz, Baron Wolman (original photographer
from Rolling Stone Magazine), Richard E. Aaron and Dezo
Hoffmann.
Detailed infonnation concerning the 102.9 WMGK
Classic Rock Art Show including directions to the show,
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as the current high bids on each piece of art 1vill be avail­
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Bob Dylan ­ "Bootleg Series Vol. 5, Bob Dylan
Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue"
November 24, 2002 - De/roil Free Press
By Tl!17J'Lawson
Has any non­jazz performer released more indispens­
able live albums than Bob Dylan? Along with the blistering
manifesto "Bob Dylan Live 1966," the catalog includes the
1974 comeback "Before the Flood," the vastly underrated
"MlV Unplugged" and the import­only compilation "Live
1961­2000." But some of Dylan's greatest stage work, on the
medicine­show styled, back­to­the­basics 1975 Rolling
Thunder Revue tour, was previously represented only by the
perverse "Hard Rain," which was recorded on the second,
sloppier second leg of the road show. Now this two­CD set
reveals the band, which included future "O Brother, Where
Art Thou?" mastermind T­Bone Burnett and the amazing
multi­instrumentalist David Mansfield, to be the most sympa­
thetic backing unit Dylan has had, other than the Band and
his current crew of telepaths. The syncopated arrangements
of chestnuts like "Mama, You Been On My Mind" (a duet
with Joan Baez) and "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll"
are the best Dylan has ever performed with anybody.
M~ of the discs are given to songs from the then­still­
unissued "Desire," all of which are vastly superior to the
studio versions. The blazing "Isis" (reprised on a DVD that
comes with the first pressing of this set) is an out­and­out
revelation; the "Desire" version only hints at the fury and
power of this fable. Even the most overratedsong in his
canon, the droning "Knockin' on Heaven's Door," sung with
Roger McGuinn, sounds inspired.
The excellent liner notes to the package promise that
the complete, brilliant and much­bootlegged 1964
Philharmonic Hall acoustic concert will be the next live show
to be liberated. Can I suggest the incredible 1980 "born
again" show from Toronto or the sublimely stoned Australia
1966 show in quick succession? lime is running out for this
Dylan fan.
Growing collection in music legend's hometown
may be only high­profile public archive of Dylan
memorabilia
Hibbing News Tribune - Oclober 08, 2002
By Jane Brisselt
Quietly growing in the basement of the library in the
town where he grew up is possibly the only public collection
of Bob Dylan artifacts in the nation.
The Minnesota Historical Society doesn't have one.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame doesn't have one.
The editor of a nationwide music magazine­and an
avid Dylan collector­said he doesn't know of any other
public archive.
"Perhaps there is one, but if so, it can't be rery high­
profile," said Pete Howard, publisher/editor of ICE maga­
zine, published in Santa Monica, Calif.
The music legend, known as Bobby Zimmerman in
his Hibbing days, left town in 1959 to become what the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame calls "the pre­eminent
poet/lyricist and songwriter of his time." He composed
numerous songs, many performed by other artists, includ­
ing "Like a Rolling Stone," "Blowin' in the Wind," "Mr.
Tambourine Man" and "All Along the Watchtower."
Hibbing has begun to celebrate Dylan in several ways,
including Bob Dylan Week, with birthday parties at which
the honoree has yet to appear. He was born on May 24,
1941. Zimmy's, a Hibbing restaurant, has wall­to­wall
Dylan memorabilia. A retired local school teacher occasion­
ally shows visitors places in town associated with Dylan,
including the house where his family lived. And many
people remember the performer as a young man.
But there are no scheduled commercial Dylan tour
buses, nor Disneyland­like tourist attractions.
Still, the library staff yearly sees hundreds of pilgrims
from throughout the world who want to see the house where
Dylan grew up and take in the ambiance of the places
where he spent his childhood, according to reference librar­
ian Nancy Riesgraf.
"They just want to breathe the same air that he
breathed," said library worker Roberta Maki, who is spear­
heading the Dylan project with Reisgraf.
Fans and scholars write letters from places such as
Gambia seeking to verify information and offercontribu­
tions to the collection, Reisgraf said.
The Dylan collection is mostly out of public view,
although portions are placed in rotating displays. However,
virtually everything Dylan that ihe library owns is available
to the public.
The collection includes: 1,500 to 2,000 magazine and
newspaper articles, including some in foreign languages, 22
collector posters, 50 albums, 40 compact disks, 45 rpm
records in their original sleeves, Publicity photographs,
Virtually every Dylan biography ever written, Sheet music
and scripts, A 1959 Hibbing High School yearbook that's
kept in a vault.
"Their file collection ... is very, very, very extensive and
very complete," said Neil Cockerline, director of field services
and conservator at the Upper Midwest Conservation
Association. The organization is a nonprofit that works for
the long­term preservation and conservation of art and arti­
facts. "As an archive, they have a very significant collec­
tion."
People who research Dylan 1vill likely find what
they're seeking at the Hibbing Public Library, Cockerline
said. "Chances are, they will have it in their archives."
"It sounds to me like a great resource," said Howard
Kramer, associate curator of the Rock and Roll Hall of
Fame, which has no Bob Dylan collection of its own. "For
the most part, very little has made it into public hands."
Kramer said he sees one drawback: the location.
"I 1vill say that the problem 1vith a public collection
like this is that it's so far off the beaten path for most
Americans." The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland
has the same problem, he said.
The library's collection began in 1993 when Linda
Knudsen, who then lived in Hibbing, donated a display of
Dylan posters and a timeline of his career.
The growth and preservation of the Dylan collection
is in high gear. Only about 25 percent is catalogued, Maki
said. To date, the library has raised about $5,000 in grants
to help preserve the collection properly, purchasing items
such as acid­free folders to retard paper deterioration.
In 2001, the National Endowment for the Humanities
awarded the library two grants, which Cockerline said is an
indication of a high­quality endeavor. The library recently
received $3,500 from the Minnesota Library Association and
is seeking several more grants.
 Collecting, cataloging and grant writing are time­
consuming tasks that almost fall into the realm of a volun­
teer project for Reisgraf, Maki and children's librarian Enid
Costley, who writes grant applications.
They have a big vision that was given a substantial
boost when the library acquired the extenslve collection of
Duluth resident John Bushey in 2000.
The long­term substitute teacher at Congdon Park
Elementary School began his Dylan collection during the
1980s when he was in college. He said it included about 300
books, including e:veiy edition of every biography; pam­
phlets; magazine articles; and master's and Ph.D. theses. He
said the library paid him slightly more than $6,000 for it.
"I guarantee you it's one of the best book collections
on Dylan in Mirmesota," said Bushey, who also sold a
number of his Dylan posters to Zimmy's.
The plan is to have a full­blown Dylan museum in
the library's auditorium by May 24, 2006­Dylan's 65th
birthday. By then, Maki said, the library hopes to have been
successful in securing some personal items of the notori­
ously publicity­shy artist. And, of course, if Dylan made an
appearance, it would be icing on the cake.
"We know he comes to Hibbing every once in a while,
but people want to respect his privacy," Maki said.
Dylan keeps us guessing ­ again
7be AtlantaJournal-Constitution, October 5, 2002
By Phil Kloer
Start in extreme close­up, on the pencil­thin mus­
tache. Makes him look like some semi­dissolute riverboat
gambler, the kind of guy who always has an ace (or a joker)
up his sleeve.
Pull back a little, to a medium shot, and if he's
onstage, he's stylin', wearing a tailored black cowboy suit
wtth white piping, maybe a cowboy hat, cool tooled boots. A
Gibson guitar with his name inlaid on it strapped over his
shoulder. Singing that he's still on the road, heading for
another joint, or that the hour is getting late.
Pull back all the way, and you can barely take it all
in, 40 years of having a last name that's an adjective­
Dylanesque­of being the consciousness of a generation
and being dismissed as a washed­up joke. Forty years of
inspiring us, frustrating us, challenging us, making us
chuckle and ihink and shake our heads, of preaching the
word of God and puttin' out your eye.
"In some ways you can't call it a contribution to pop.
It's more like he invented pop," says Dave Alvin, formerly of
the Blasters. "The Elvis of the mind," David Hadju, one of
his many biographers, calls him. One of the 100 most influ­
ential Americans of the 20th century, according to life mag­
azine.
When Bob Dylan sang last year at Atlanta's Music
Midtown under a benevolent moon, the crowd was still just
lighting their first joints when he launched into a version of
"Mr. Tambourine Man" with a chord progression so radi­
cally different from the original that even his most ardent
fans didn't recognize it until he started the lyrics. But where
he used to mess with his classics just for his own amuse­
ment, as if to stave off boredom, the new arrangements now
seem purposeful and focused.
Like Dylan himself.
On March 19, 1962, Columbia released the first of 43
(so far) albums, called just "Bob Dylan."
In the cover photo, age 20, he looks like Holden
Caulfield just blown in from a stint with John Steinbeck's
Okies, Huck Finn cap and a coat he borrowed from James
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Dean, exactly the image he wanted to project. He was aware bit; lots of listeners have testified that its life­affinning tone
of crafting an image before he had one, telling people he was just what they needed. He brought it all back home,
was part Sioux and had been traveling with carnivals, when blending country, Mississippi blues and even Tin Pan Alley
he was really a mlddle­class Jewish kid from Hibbing, Minn. into what sounded 10 some like a jaunty distillation of 20th
He was the first rock 'n' roll poet, a symbolist with a century American music.
killer fashion sense: Ray­Bans, black jeans, cigarettes, Rolling Stone named it best album of the year.
Medusa curls. Taken together, Time Out of Mind and "Love and
"Look at Don't /.JJok Back," Roseanne Cash said in a 7befl" is his greatest one­two punch since the mid­'60s.
\'HI 60tl1­birthday tribute, referring to the 1965 documen­ Almost 40 years ago, he had sung: "You lose yourself,
tary about Dylan. "He's breathtaking, kind of burning with you reappear, you suddenly find you got nothing to fear."
this electric coolness." He says he is writing his autobiography, and admits it
He got the attention he craved, and much more. may not always pass the test of literal truth. He says he's
"God, I'm glad I'm not me," he said in 1965, reading a rollin' slow, doing all he knows. He's offering diamonds,
newspaper account of himself. and veiy little rust.
"Dylan did not want his e:veiy word carved in stone, Back at Music Midtown, a group of high school
even though he sometimes seemed to walk around with a friends was bouncing in place to the Offspring, a SoCal pop­
mallet and chisel in his hip pocket," observed another biog­ punk band popular with kids, when Dylan's set was about to
rapher, Robert Shelton. start a few stages away. Half the teens tried to corral the
Somewhere along the track he threw it all away, or let other half into leaving the Offspring and making ihe trek to
it slip away. New records didn't register, concerts were sloppy. see Dylan, but some didn't want to.
No one can continue to define a generation the way he once "Why should we go see him?" one asked. "He's old
had, but even so, he was not aging well. and you can't understand what he's singing."
"At times I felt like I don't want to do this any more," One girl explained it to her friends: "Because he's
he told Rolling Slone in November in one of his rare inter­ Dylan."
views. When he got a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
in 199 l, he mumbled a weird little speech through the There's Always Next Tune: Bob Dylan in concert
smoke rings of his mind, and more people laughed at him November 25, 2002 711e NationalReview
than appreciated the lifetime or the achievement. He had By Michael Long
always been the one smirking at us; at what point had we The last concert of Bob Dylan's current tour of North
turned the tables? America on Nov. 22 felt like prom night because, much of the
In 1997, he was hospitalized with a serious heart time, Bob Dylan and his musicians sounded like a prom
infection. Soon after he was released came Iime Out of band: tight and adequate, but just slugging through it one
Mind, a dark, blues­drenched intimation of mortality that more time for yet another bunch of kids. The Patriot Center
went on to win the Grammy as best album. of the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia only
"I'm walkin' through streets that are dead," he sang, intensified the feeling. The place is, after all, the prototypical
and "I've been walking through the middle of nowhere." prom­night venue, a medium­sized sports facility perrna­
His feet were tired, and his eyes were beginning to bleed, he nently festooned with championship banners along the top,
sang, but he was up and about. and burdened with a concrete echo whose memory is twisted
When everyone else in our speed­fueled society was together in most minds with the sights of graduation day and
driving and f1)1ing and hustling, he was walking. And as he the skunk­on­fire smell of cafeteria food.
walked, he was able to take note of the view, and the details. That is to say, Bob Dylan was memorable, as always. But
Sept. 11, 200 I, was the scheduled release date for his memories are not always good.
43rd album, "Love and 7befl." one of those weird karma For instance, nobody needed Bob Dylan to cover "Brown
things that may mean nothing, but might if you pushed it a Sugar." Rather, nobody needed his band to scorch through the
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 thing while Dylan himself P.C.ed­up die lyrics and spat diem
out like a human machine gun, a trick not nearly as enter­
taining as it sounds. Dylan played the song early to open up
the show a bit ­ the black curtain behind the band even
opened to reveal a another curtain that was bright and silvery,
suggesting dial maybe the show was going to get happy
On this night, though, ihat didn't happen until about a
half­hour from the end. Save for a few highlights ­
respectful if uninspired covers of two songs by the great and
dying songwriter Warren Zevon, and an oddly chosen cover of
Neil Young's gem "Old Man" ­ die great Bob Dylan
dabbled at piano and guitar, and as usual disconnected his
singing from his words, which comprise die richest treasure
chest of lyrics ever written.
The opening number, a blazed­through version of
"Maggie's Farm," was a herald of things to come. This song
about pent­up rebellion is so rich for the mining of meaning
that it will never age. Yet Dylan made no effort to find a new
angle on the kaleidoscope that is that song. He didn't even
reprise some reliable read from having played it for nearly 40
years. He gave similar short shrift to "It's Alright, Ma," and
"Drifter's Escape," and just about everything else. True, Dylan
was full of energy ­ and that is always a surprise whenever
it happens at his shows ­ but a quick listen to only a few
bars of the original recordings condemns his recent readings.
When this legendary artist focuses his energy on the song
itself, there is ­ was ­ magic to be had.
Not that there wasn't any magic out there at all Friday
night. For the last third of the set, Dylan injected his aimless
roadhouse energy into songs made just for that, rock­n­roll
rave­ups from his most recent studio album, "lose and
711eft." The highlight of the main set was that record's
"Summer Days," which he and the band attacked with
genuine enthusiasm, beating rockabilly, boogie­woogie, and
the blues out of their instruments and into the night.
Yet any band of professional musicians could have done
it. The chops of longtime Dylan guitarist Charlie Sexton
aside, the only other thing that distinguished this band was
the presence of Dylan himself, and that only in terms of
mood and not in prowess.
It is not hard to admire Dylan, but after years of sitting
through shows like this one, it is hard to hide frustration. The
getting­old guy rarely makes any attempt to add coherent
expression to his singing. He just robot­rips through poetry
that, mercifully, cannot be tarnished ­ and Lord knows
most other writers' catalogs could not have survived so many
years of sonic immolation.
Dylan fans are accustomed to it by now. Very few
complain, and for a lot of diem it is sacrilege to offer
anything other Ulan unqualified praise for the legend most
fans refer to simply as "Bob." There others on dial blindness
bandwagon, too. Since the acclaim for l 997's overrated Time
Out of Mind, many music critics have been selling day for
night when it comes to critiquing Bob Dylan. In no matter is
this more true than die pointless praise for the sort of weak
performance he delivered to cap his North American tour. Bob
Dylan is either bored or he just doesn't care anymore, and
critics (and fans, for ihat matter) don't help things by tea.leaf
reading grand purpose into some mumbled performance.
That's not analyzing, that's making excuses.
Surely Dylan has a few more classics to contribute, a few
more temptations and teases to deliver as die most influential
songwriter of the 20th century. But writing and recording is
not performing. And to see Bob Dylan perform these days and
then to pronounce it "good," let alone entertaining, is to
allow memory to cloud reality.
6 Series of Dreams
Dylan's After­Hours Side
New York Iimes
ByJon Pare/es
Apocalypse, mortality, roots and heartbreak were the
makings of Bob Dylan's concert on Wednesday night at
Madison Square Garden, his second New York show this
week. He sang tidings of war and ruin almost matter­of­
factly, as if they could jolt but no longer surprise him. And
he sang about love gone wrong with conversational
intimacy, as something familiar but still puzzling.
Meanwhile, he and his band knocked around ihe songs with
the confidence ihat die tunes could survive countless trans­
formations, sending them back to blues, western swing,
rockabilly and mountain gospel.
On the latest stretch of his perpetual tour, Mr. Dylan
takes for granted that fans have seen him before. He digs
into the recesses of his catalog and takes up other writers'
songs. It's the after­hours side of Mr. Dylan, who insists he
has "nothing more to live up to" while also reminding
listeners how remarkable even his less celebrated songs are.
Lately, he has been hauling out obscurities like "Yea!
Heavy and a Bottle of Bread" (from the late­ I 9(iO's
Basement Tapes), which he performed at Madison Square
Garden on Monday night, and "Seeing the Real You at Last"
(from Empire Burlesque in 1985), the bracing, sneering
kiss­off tliat opened his set on Wednesday. He also played
Van Morrison's "Carrying a Torch," Warren Zevon's
"Mutineer," Neil Young's "Old Man" and George Harrison's
"Something." To vary die sound of his versatile band, Mr.
Dylan is playing electric piano for much of ihe set,
splashing on honky­tonk chords or prickly dissonances.
His concerts always mix die masterly and die arbitrary,
the pointed and the inscrutable. But most of Wednesday'sset
hit home; the performances were both baleful and sly. His
band played with roadhouse informality, slipping a
Creedence Clearwater twang into "Tombstone Blues" and
making "Summer Days" a rockabilly blowout. It repeatedly
stripped d01111 "Cold Irons Bound" to its blues beat, then let
layers of guitar coalesce and dissolve.
The set was full of dire visions like "The limes They
AreA­Changin'," "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding),"
"Things Have Changed" and "High Water." Mr. Dylan deliv­
ered diem wifh die tone of someone whose past warnings
went unheeded but who will not stay silent, with his voice
rising to insist, "Can't you see I'm drowning too?" There
were glimmers of reassurance, but the deeper solace was
that Mr. Dylan is still raising a ruckus.
Dylan in Eugene: High Water, Hard Rain, Hogs
All in the Mud
CounterPtmch - Oclober 8, 2002
by David ,~,
"I know a place where there's still something going
on," sing; Bob Dylan on "love and 7beft. "The current
tour proves him right. The place is wherever he and his
crack band happen to be standing. What's going on is the
serious business of rock and roll, as conducted by an artist
and a band at their peak.
On a Saturday night in early October, Dylan and
company were standing in MacArtliur Court, the ramshackle
old basketball gym at die University of Oregon in Eugene.
The near­capacity crowd was about equally divided between
students and older fans. I sat next to a Vietnam vet who had
last seen Dylan at the Concert for Bangla­Desh.
Dylan has opened most of his shows on recent tours
with an acoutic number, a folk song like "Roving Gambler"
or Duncan and Brady," or a bluegrass gospel standard like
"Somebody Touched Me" or "I Am the Man, Thomas."
The current tour had opened in Seattle with "Solid
Rock," as "hard" a song as Dylan has ever recorded. In
Eugene he strolled onstage in a 50s­looking white jacket,
stood at an electronic piano, charged immediately into
"Maggie's Farm," and kept going from there until it seemed
the ancient wooden hall would literally explode during an
astounding finale of "Summer Days," 111th Dylan, Charlie
Sexton and Larry Campbell all soloing in ensemble on
electric guitars, huddled close iogether with bassist Tony
Gamier and drummer George Receli as though trying just
to survive the apocalyptic fury of it all.
It was that kind of night. This looks like it is going to
be ihat kind of tour.
On "Just Like a Woman" and "It's All Over Now, Baby
Blue," Dylan played piano with one hand and harmonica
with the other "TombstoneBlues" and "It's All Right Ma,
I'm only Bleeding" appeared in radical new arangements,
as though co­written not by Dylan but by Howling Wolf and
Earl King.
There were three Warren z.evon covers, including
"Mutineer," one of die most deeply emotional moments I've
ever experienced at a Dylan concert. Dylan sang with his full
range (of voice as well as feeling), demonstrating ihat die
shredded croak of Time Out of Mind is no closer to his
"real" voice than was ihe milky croon of NashvilleSkyline.
(I have heard a demo of "Everything Is Broken" on which
he sounds like the Dylan of I 9(i6.)
When Dylan finally stepped away from the piano and
strapped on an electric guitar, it was to give us a "Brown
Sugar" that rocked, if anything, harder than die Stones. His
playing on both electric and acoustic was wonderful, with
none of die "clunkers" of previous shows.
It feels strange to write of an artist who emerged in die
Sixties that the strongest moments (in both performance
and crowd response) of his current show are provided by
song; released in die year 200 I, but that is the simple fact of
the matter. With, say, Paul McCartney, people get up and go
to the bathroom when he plays new material. At Dylan's
Eugene show, which included both "Watching the River
Fl01v'' and a chillingly beautiful "Senor," the real highlights
were "Honest Witli Me," "Lonesome Day Blues,"
"Moonlight" (yes, he hit all die notes) and "Summer
Days."
You wonder, almost, if die day will come when people
complain about Dylan playing so many of his old songs.
People all around me were hoping he would play "Things
Have Changed.
Unknown Source
November 18, 2002
By 7)'/er !Vilca\'
In November of 1975, Bob Dylan was hitting his stride
in a way he hadn't since his mid­'60s amphetamine­fueled
heyday. In January, Blood On 711e Tracks-one of Dylan's
most accomplished and affecting albums­had been
released. That spring, he began popping up in his old
Greenwich Village haunts, hungry for some new inspiration.
By the end of the summer, he had recorded the adventurous,
genre­bending Desire, which would go on to be Dylan's only
chart­topping LP of ihe '70s. Yes, the man was on an unde­
niable roll, his critical and commercial standing reaching
new and unprecedented heights. And to cap off this banner
year, Dylan embarked on one of the most exciting and inno­
vative tours of his career.
 Dylan, Joel and Taylor Sue Vivendi's MP3.com All three artists are signed to labels
October 8, 2002 owned by Sony Corp.
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Rock stars Bob Dylan, Billy Joel and James Taylor Dylan Covers Warren zevon In Tribute
filed a lawsuit against Vivendi Unlversals MP3.com To Ailing Singer­Songwriter
music Web site for allegedly distributing their songs October 8, 2002
without authorization, sources familiar with the suit by Darryl Morden
said. Bob Dylan covered three songs by Warren
A spokesman for MP3.com declined comment. Zevon during his performance at the Key Arena
Sources familiar with both the artists and the in Seattle on [ October 4], in tribute to the
company said they had been made aware of the lawsuit singer­songwriter who is stricken with inopera­
in the last few days. ble lung cancer.
The artists are not the first to sue MP3.com, which Dylan performed Zevon's ballad
was the target of major litigation brought against it on "Accidentally Like a Martyr" early in the show
behalf of the world's major record labels in January and later sang two more Zevon songs, "Boom
2000 for infringement. Boom Mancini" and "Mutineer."
MP3.com settled the copyright battle by paying out The 21­song, two­hour set also included
about $175 million and was then later bought by a version of the Rolling Stones' "Bro\\11
Vivendi Universal, one of its legal foes, for about $372 Sugar."
million. Dylan classics during the concert, which
The pioneering music portal sparked the wrath of was ilie opening night of his new tour,
the recording industry with its My.MP3.com service, included drastically reworked versions of
which allowed users to register compact discs they own "Don't Think Thrice, It's All Right," "It's
through the company's software and then listen to that Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)," "Love Minus
music on any computer hooked into the Internet. Zero/No Limit," and "Mr. Tambourine Man."
Before launching the servtce, the company failed Dylan played more keyboards than guitar
to get permission from record labels and publishers. and only blew harmonica a few times. He also
In January, MP3.com sued its former counsel for featured material from last year's "Love And
fraud and legal malpractice, claiming its lawyers 7befl. " His current band features Charlie
advised ti,!P3.com that its My.Mp3.com service was a Sexton and Larry Campbell on guitars, Tony
legal undertaking. Gamier on bass, and David Kemper on drums. Balclmorf;'!'s rock without the hard edge.
The musicians' suit, reportedly filed Tuesday in
Manhattan federal court, claims MP3.com digitally Possible Guthrie Guitar Sold
copied their tracks from commercial CDs and then September 23, 2002 Project. The rumored price: $100,000.
offered the music files to users. SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) ­ It may seem extreme to pay Officials with ilie EMP museum did not immediately
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In earl)' 1962, Dylan visited Schenectady residents
Joe and Jackie Alper at their home while performing in
the area. Dylan was 20 years old, and had not )'et
changed his name from Robert Zimmerman.
"When Lena needed someone to fill a date at the
club, she would call down to New York City," Addie said.
"Terri Thal was one of the people she would talk to."
Thal was David Van Ron k's girlfriend. She later would
become his wife.
"Lena wasn't exactly thrilled having him come in.
With Dylan, it was like Terri more or less cornered Lena
into booking him," Addie said. Early Dylan supporter
and New 11Jrk Times journalist Robert Shelton later
wrote that Lena's apprehension about having Dylan
play at the cafe was because she "didn't book
unknowns."
Early in 1962, the death of Ernie Kovacs was grab­
bing the headlines of 7be Saratogian. The inside pages
carried stories about people like Ronald Barksdale, who
"was elected junior exalted ruler of Royal Antler Herd
326."

Rolling Thunder Revue Shirts Gaffe Lena was advertising shows by B;rry
Kornfield and the Rev. Gary Davis. And Saratoga's
Community Theater was screening a Tro)'
Donohue/Connie Stevens film titled Susan stlde.
Without any doubt, the coolest Bob Dylan shirt These shirts are very expensive (not to There were no words, anywhere, announcing
ever to pass through our Inventory at Rolling mention very low pront) to produce so this is Dylan's appearance at Gaffe Lena.
Tomes was a promotional Roiling Thunder Revue most likely a one time offer-once they are sold Dylan's self­titled debut album was still a few
shirt. Given only to select members of the Rolling out, that's It, no more. So if you're interested,
Thunder Revue entourage in order one today.
weeks away from release. 1\vo months later, he would
late '75, these shirts were a As with all our shirts, your return to the studio to begin recording his follow­up
collarless, 3-button, long satisfaction is guaranteed. If record that would introduce to the world the songs
sleeve, natural colored, you're not completely satis- "Blowin' in the Wind," "Masters of War," and "A Hard
"long-underwear style· shirt. fied, just return It for a full
Rain's A­gonna Fall."
(Back In the 70s we called refund minus shipping
these •Joe Cocker" shirts. In charges. Fortunately, during that February visit to the cafe,
recent years, this style has Order your Rolling Joe Alper was there with his camera.
become popular again- Thunder Revue shirt today 'Joe Alper was known for his photographs," Addie
although it's now called for only $34.951° (Or, Just
said. "That's how he made his living."
•ttenley".) $22.95° when purchased
The shirts we are offering along with your On the Alper's images of music greats graced a number of
are not exact replicas but are Tracks magazine and Series album jacket covers of the time. The Alpers would also
quite similar to the original of Dreams newsletter take in the occasional musician performing at an area
Rolling Thunder Revue subscriptions-a savings of
engagement.
shirts-both the artwork and $12.001)
the shirt Itself. Remember to state your
It was Alper who captured Dylan's image as he sat
The artwork was obtained size when ordering. Sizes at Gaffe Lena alongside his girlfriend Suze Rotolo (later
from a very early-possibly available: small, medium, of the Preetoheelin'album jacket fame) and Lena
the first-Roiling Thunder large, X-large, and XX-large.·· Spencer.
Revue poster. We believe this (Quantities are limited: in
poster has never been case your first choice size
Wearing a fisherman's hat and a heavy winter
published: not in books, magazines, or even on has sold out, we highly recommend that you let us jacket, Dylan sat in an old­style chair, not unlike the
the Internet. (There is a similar, but much more know an alternate size if possible.) ones still in use at the cafe.
common, poster that is often displayed in
• USA residents add $4.50 for •1st aass· shipping & haJ1dling. F0<eign If New York City's White Horse Tavern can brass­
books.)
The 3-button •ttenley" shirts we offer are very
residents call, write. see DlK catak>g or tHtytan.com forshipping rates. plate a Dylan Thomas chair, and the Tin & Lint can
high quality, pre-shrunk I 00%
•• Size XX-large is $4.00 additional. commemorate Don McLean's visit with a plaque, then
cotton, USA-made, long To on!«, send payment (checi<, money Otfler, perhaps the time has come for Lena's to commemorate
or V'isa/Masterr:anl numbfJI, s,piration dais, &
sleeves, natural (off-white)
signature) plus shipping/handling fee to:
a "Dylan" chair. But that's another story.
color with the words "Rolling
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the left chest (brown ink; PO Box 1943 Olin.
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some neat stuff performed in the different styles that the
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