It’s clear the 1980s were not the nadir of Dylan’s career, even if it was an era that didn’t produce the high level of studio albums from 20 years earlier.
Before heading to Bob Dylan’s final night of a four-night stand at the Palladium, a historic theater in the city’s Mayfair area, we decided to tour Royal Albert Hall.
In driving recently from Tulsa to Plano, Texas, I looked at a map to see how far out of the way Okemah, Oklahoma, the hometown of folk singer Woody Guthrie, was. It turned out that it wasn’t too far out of the way, making it the perfect sidetrack.
Bob Dylan has a way of making the realities of the outside world seem so far away. It was a much-needed respite from reality in a year like this, even only for 90 minutes.
The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has acquired a trove of early Bob Dylan recordings and one-of-a-kind tapes, journals, books and historical elements.
A 36-disc box set to be released Nov. 11 features every known recording from Bob Dylan’s famed 1966 tour of the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia.
Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan’s The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 on Nov. 6.
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