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Friday
Sven Simonsen, Ken Cowley, Joerg Passarge, Tommy Lidgren, Marc Percansky, Jens Alexander Hacke, Frank-Juergen Witt, Tapio Raunio, Arthur Yin, Robby Prince, Recordmecca, Greg Brodsky, Jürgen Villers, Alexander Pivecka, Kees Goubitz, William Conlon, Hendrik Soeten, amy emanuel, Ryan Emanuel, Roland Pabst, Christer Svensson, Joachim Meckel, Nicolas Cornet, Hilda Irene Fernhout, Tobias Freimüller, Evert Douna, Jonathan Collie, Michael Joiner, Peter Fransson, Annabel Nixson, Christopher Ashley, Nick Bozanich, Asger Schnack, Marcus Gerlach, Michael Sutton, Terry E Harvey, Arthur Deakin, Manfred Schwarz, Tiernan Henry, Joanne, Johannes Andersen, Nigel Gittoes, Eivind Preus, Jan Dekker, arcadian, Lilian I Cassie, Jonas Näsvall, Hannah Hoffmann, Christoph Jacobs, Hrvoje Jergovic, Niels Andersen, Paul Ryles, Alan Mansfield, Lars Banke, Kim Hannisdal, juergen muenstermann, Domingo Pereira Santana, Alan Forsyth, james joughin, Robert Hempelman, Jan Jochen Markhorst, Hampus Cullin, hugo vermeulen, Tom Taylor, roger griffiths, Noa Rydholm, Kai Tenge, Graham Stephenson, Ernie Pancsofar, Gunter Valentin, Billy Nordin, Michael Gold, Martin Burger, Manfred Lieb, Liam Laurence Smyth, Matthew Zuckerman, patrick sludden, Gerald Spanbauer, John Duncan, Joan Muntanyola, Niels Henrik Pedersen, Sveinbjörn K Thorkelsson, Ed Grazda, massimo martinelli, Dan Levy, Keith Venturoni, John Spoor, Philip Martin, in memory of Gert Aanen, Theodore Raikin, Mark Osipow, Randi Hage, Willliam Thomas Lakin, Avery Lerner, Bernd Kowalkowski, Johnny Borgan, Stephen Goldberg, Eric Asimov, Gavin Bickersteth, David Murray, Montague Street Journal, Klaus Kiesheyer, Robert Cataliotti, Alex Linden, Jerry DeCicca, Francis Mount, Erik Nelson, Guido Drexlin, Phillip Long, Byron Eknoyan, Norbert Schmidt, Justin Bairamian, Eugene Sheehan, Willem Desmense, David Farr, John Flynn, James Salvucci, Richard Lyn, Ake Jonsson, Peter Gregory, Thomas Brislin, Leighton Grist, Ignacio Itarte, Mark Forrester, Karen Moulton, Fred Campbell, Etchings by Zalon, The Bridge, Donald Smith, Juan Carlos Liberos Sánchez, Magne Karlstad, Michael Sobsey, R Wilentz, Sam Trumpold, Jeffery Wilday, Christopher Dunn, Jesper Christensen, Dietmar Mueller, Klaus Hornischer, Christoph Nahrgang, Francois Guillez, Thomas Waldherr, Max Koster, David Paterson, Michael Moravek, Jay Luxenberg, Ulrike Mallin-Röbbecke, Noel Mayeske, Ouida Freeman, Jamie Johnston, Donald Jensen, Erhard Grundl, Groeber Michael, Bob Sagerer (“The Muse”), Anne Sofie Lassen, Rochus Ensslin, Michael Kruhöffer, Karl Wickinghoff, Ulrich Bayer, Lawrence Gilbert, Geoff Ashby, Kristian Skoglund, Andrea Brillo, Wolfgang Stille, Richard Fox, Paul Buitenhuis, Leif Hansson, Joshua Nelson, Andreas Volkert, Thomas Skinner, Bernhard Seuser, Tom Moore, Robert Schlochoff, Tor Østraat, Steinar Utne, Kaj Borum, Richard Sonnecken, Nick Kocz, Schrader, Peter Shanks, Ron Mura, Dave Ely, Klaus Danielowski, Tom Davidson, Paula Jones, Niall Carroll, Jake Siegel, Peter Callas, Robert Hudson, Joseph Galvin, Coral Press, Stephen Rapposelli, Curtis Lindsay, Anthony Bozanich, William Fugate, Casey Martin, Robert Polito, David Rose, Ulrike Prechtl-Froehlich, Christopher Perry, Andreas Schmal, Svein Gulbrandsen, Orjan Gerhardsson, Wilhelm Burger, Erich Brantl, Niels J Dinnesen, Daniel Jaques, Norman Yamada, Mark D. Scheithauer, Markus Atzmüller, Tim out of mind

Saturday
Antonio Iriarte In memoriam Thomas Eckhardt, Rita Erb, Malcolm Barr-Hamilton, Douglas Desmarais, Luis Quevedo, Thomas Schreck, Markus Hengefeld, Peter Schalken, Peter Koehler, Jürgen Rosch, Juergen Wasser, Stefan Pauleit, Jürg Bollinger, Woody Veneman, John Stokes, Rüdiger Willmer, Eric Gobet, Enoch Hendry, Effric Smith, Hans Borsje, Tom Garvey, Adrian Spary, Craig Stolow, Andy Maultby, Francesca Chiarelli, Daniel Cheetham, Robbert van der Vos, Yngve Kero, Mario Bernardes, Ira Transport, Dan Jordan, Peter White, Robert Harwood, Francis Mangin, Michael Anderson, Terry Gans, Richard Paddock, Patrick Shea, Alan Gordon, Tom Wilkins, Steve Lockwood, Liamy Mac Nally, Mark Ferguson, rh lamars, Tony Lewis, Peter Peters, Mark Hall, Patrick Bauer, Jeremy Rutter, Boundary Books, Richard Ettinger, Robert Stapperfenne, Steven Smith, Antonio Curado Ferrera, David Scott, Denis Grilliat, Fundación por la Preservación del Dylanismo y el CD player de Garcia Noblejas, Bill Utter, Henry Swanick, Graley Herren, Leif Sandtner, Donald Tine, Jose Ignacio Barbero, Craig McCoy, Geoffrey Treece, Jeffrey Harrison, Thomas Michalzik, Yves Couture, Jeffrey Jones, Eric Tolchin, Andrew Baldwin, Richard Pearlman, Stuart McKelvie, Tom Vanderford, Winston Berry, Richard Boselmann, John Radosta, Douglas Kamholz, Andrew Ciesielski, Phillip McDowell, Clifford Warnken, Sunbonnet Sue, Alan Dubow, Matthew Innes, Gary R Fraser, Paul Zickler, Gerard Salole, Christoph Wegmann, Christer Sandberg, Benjamin Konop

Sunday
Martin Scott, Willem Bouterse, Richard Reiter, Robert Wright, Leo Ensel, Duncan Bathgate, Terje Lunde, Sue Osborne, Jose Manuel Rey Bosque, Carine Attias, Craig Danuloff, Amund Eriksen, Susan Scarberry-Garcia, Stephen Evans, Carsten Weigelt, Anders Lindh, Edwin Yee, Robert Reutenauer, Matthew O'Mara, Jon Maatta, Joe Reubens, Jeffrey Poushter, Lewis Radin, Jorgen Lindstrom, George Walsh, Jeff Friedman, Werner Auernhammer, Stan Damen, Jack Gibson, Roald Sørheim, Jesper Brandt Jakobsen, D Stephen Mathias, Steven Thwaits, Michael Franz, Andrew Hood, Reidar Løfaldli, Markus Basten, Sveinbjorn K Thorkelsson, William Mitchell, Richard Christ, Michael Kerker, Ulf Gyllenspetz, Irene Jungnickl, Chris Gregory, Frank Inzani, Nick Train, Bill Dallas, Dube's, Roger Golliver, Simon McAslan, James Pilewski, Michael Schoppik, Peeter Mark, Manfred Endtner, Keith Smith

Monday
Alessandro Allemandi, Christian Behrens, Jacky Esposito Fava, The Bigstockbroker, Arthur Henderson, Larry Standing On The Road, John Littlewood, Dana Oakes, A C C Ashford, Jill Adaman, Bernhard Mueller, anonymous, Philipp Reutter, Gary Baughn, Jesús Castro Ruiz, Nigel Russell, David Forquer, David Maeda, Tim Reynolds, Darren Hirst, Graham Cole, Dimitris Delis, Stuart Mc Nicholls, David Thomas, Marsh Birchard In memoriam Reverend Jamie Gripton, Jacob Daniel, Glenn William Johannesen, John Wise, R Stephen Kelly, Elliot Morris, Gary Falkenstern, Patrick Eady, Peter Mestach, Edward Mulhall, Bruce Allardice, James Tomasello, Matthew MacCann, Wilfried Gehne, Massimo Fontana, Juhani Heino, Gerald Williams, Barry Ollman, Neil Clark, Monika Hedwig, Mitch Rath, John Frisch, Dennis Ellam, Randall B. Davis, Carol Bertolotti, David Mandel, William Perkins, Marcus Marsden, Paul Metsa, Ivan Forgac, Torsten Mewes

Tuesday
Gerard Keilty, Marco Roelcke, David Finn, Scott Haddrill, Louis Renza, Michael Lawson, Jean-Marc Lantz, Damian Balassone, Hans Kuliew, Richard Keys, Huig van Ooijen, Robert Fischer, Lawrence Yudelson, Peter Flaherty, Thomas Backner, Hans Johnsson, Benoît Narinx, Anders Jensen, George Orr, Bradford Poston (special thanks to Claude for helping me hide/show the names!), Randy Severs, Brent Ewig, KThomas Mayr, Roy Kelly, Don Oldfield

Tuesday, June 9, 2026
at 0600 CEST

    Dylan related
  1. The magical stories of how Bob Dylan and Jimmy Page got their first guitars (Rock and Roll Garage) from Cliff Warnken
  2. Can a Bob Dylan song be a life changing experience? Visions of Johanna (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
  3. Bob Dylan's tenth studio album, “Self Portrait,” was released on this day in 1970. (Bob Dylan Center on Facebook) from Scott Miller
  4. A Giant on the Earth in These Days: Bob Dylan at 80 2021 (Mike Futcher) from Cliff Warnken
  5. Bob Dylan, The Daring Troubadour, Versus William Blake, The Visionary (Medium) from Cliff Warnken
  6. Bob Dylan and Mick backstage at Madison Square Garden in June 1975 (Instagram) from Scott Miller
  7. "Older Then, Younger Now": Bob Dylan through Late Style (Dublin City University) from Cliff Warnken
  8. Ruminations on seeing the elder Bob Dylan… (Rolly Guitar) from Cliff Warnken
  9. Bob Dylan – Old Man Review (Cult Following) from Cliff Warnken
  10. Dylan’s song of the year: 1980. Yonder Comes Sin (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller

    Other
  11. When Blind Faith Made Their Debut In Hyde Park (uDiscover Music) from Scott Miller
  12. Bruce Springsteen Talks About His Place in American Music Shared article (NY Times) from Scott Miller
  13. Bruce Springsteen Opens His Music Center, With Guitars Shared article (NY Times) from Scott Miller
  14. The Big Lookback: Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint "Dylan Album of the Decade," from "Creem," 1973 (And It Don't Stop, Robert Christgau) from Harold Lepidus
  15. How much do we need to know? Big Country's Stuart Adamson's bio walks the line (John's Substack) by John Nogowski

    Audio/Video
  16. Bob Dylan - Odds And Ends (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  17. Bob Dylan playing Guitar @ Woodinville 7th June 2026 - I'll Make It All Up To You (YouTube) from Cliff Warnken, Jacob Daniel
  18. "Wigwam" - Musikkapelle Kiefersfelden (YouTube) from Scott Miller
  19. Bob Dylan ~ June 7, 2026 in Woodinville, WA plus Bonus Material (Remastered w/ Artwork by Bennyboy) (YouTube) from Cliff Warnken, Jacob Daniel
  20. Bob Dylan | A Complete Unknown with Special Guest Colm Gavin (Derringer Discoveries) from Cliff Warnken
  21. Lucinda Williams on World Cafe | Backtracking (YouTube) from Scott Miller

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  22. ROB STONER & FRIENDS : LA MUSICA DI BOB DYLAN! 13 GIUGNO + 14/6/26 Limana (Belluno) (Al Vapore) from Andrea Orlandi
  23. Elvis Costello shares why he did not sue Olivia Rodrigo: ‘Did Bob Dylan sue me?’ (Cult Following) by Ewan Gleadow, from Cliff Warnken 1500
  24. 40 YEARS AGO: BOB DYLAN’S TRUE CONFESSIONS TOUR ARRIVES IN NORTH AMERICA (Ultimate Classic Rock) from Cliff Warnken 1700

Monday, June 8, 2026
at 0600 CEST

    Dylan related
  1. Last night's Bob Dylan Woodinville II setlist - (Bob Links)
  2. Baby, Won’t You Be My Baby (Medium) by Fred Bals
  3. Hear Bob Dylan Play 'You Ain't Goin' Nowhere' for First Time in 14 Years (Rolling Stone) from Cliff Warnken
  4. “Bob would come back the next day: ‘I think I bettered the lyrics. Let me try another third verse.’” Inside Bob Dylan’s secret weapon for recording a pair of masterpiece albums Lanois (Guitar Player) from Cliff Warnken
  5. A Poetic High-Five Through the Ages: Bob Dylan’s “As I Went Out One Morning” and Auden’s “As I Walked Out One Evening” (Adam Hammond) from Cliff Warnken
  6. Why Bob Dylan? (Voegelin View) from Cliff Warnken

    Other
  7. The voice of America's literary rebellion: Allen Ginsberg turns 100/A> (realnoe vremya) from Cliff Warnken

    Audio/Video
  8. Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (Woodinville, June 6, 2026) - "The Grand Return" (YouTube) from Cliff Warnken, Jacob Daniel
  9. Bob Dylan - You Ain't Goin' Nowhere - Woodinville, Washington - 6th June 2026 Audio (2026 Remix) (YouTube) from Cliff Warnken
  10. "Knockin' On Dylan's Door (BobFest)" "Recap of Bob’s Long Hot Summer Tour ’26, opening shows" Select: Listen Live 88.1 FM WCWP 9-11 pm DST (WCWP 88.1 FM) from G. Walsh
  11. Bob Dylan - (Second) Baby, Won't You Be My Baby 2026 Woodinville, Washington (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  12. Austin Singer Sarah Sharp Reimagines Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright” (That Eric Alper) from Cliff Warnken
  13. Emma Swift - Visions of Johanna (Live At Layman Drug Company) Pre-save for June 20 (Choose your preferred music service) from Harold Lepidus
  14. V/A - "TOO NOBLE TO NEGLECT" Dylan tribute compilation (Shredding Paper) from Mel Cheplowitz
  15. "Bob Dylan Pushed Me Past My Comfort Zone”: The 13X Grammy Winner Behind The Big Lebowski Soundtrack (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  16. Kinky Friedman Tells Stories About Bob Dylan and Glen Campbell (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
  17. Ain't No God in Mexico - Billy Joe Shaver (Official Audio) (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel

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  18. BOB DYLAN PLAYS ‘YOU AIN’T GOIN’ NOWHERE’ FOR FIRST TIME IN 14 YEARS (Billboard) from Cliff Warnken

Sunday, June 7, 2026
at 0600 CEST

    Dylan related
  1. Last night's Bob Dylan Woodinville setlist - (Bob Links)
  2. The tour officially has a name. Happy Long Hot Summer Tour ‘26 everyone! Ray (Instagram) from Scott Miller
  3. Tour Map By Still Go Barefoot (Expecting Rain Discussions)
  4. The weirdest man in music, according to Roger McGuinn (Far Out) from Scott Miller
  5. And Up on the Garden Stage, It All Came Together (NY Times 1974) from Scott Miller
  6. A Complete Unknown: The Bob Dylan History Left Out in Favor of Mythology (Den of Geek) from Scott Miller
  7. The Man in Him (Texas Observer) from Cliff Warnken
  8. How Well Do You Know Maggie’s Farm Lyrics Quiz (NSF) from Ugur Oral
  9. Irish Indie-Rockers Diveboy Borrow a Bob Dylan Phrase for “Built-In Heartbreak” (That Eric Alper) from Scott Miller, Cliff Warnken
  10. Jan’s Take 5: Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
  11. Bob Dylan Blood On The Tracks (debaser) from Cliff Warnken
  12. 'The engine, the motor, of Dylan’s best work is empathy' Greil (huck) from Cliff Warnken
  13. Dylan’s Apocalypse: Country Music and the End of the World (AppState) from Cliff Warnken
  14. OLD MAN, LOOK AT MY LIFE, I’M A LOT LIKE YOU WERE or, How Bob Dylan Became a Fetishized Umbrella (folkWorks) from Cliff Warnkens
  15. A Dylan a Day: "Blonde On Blonde" (watusichris) from Scott Miller
  16. The Rolling Thunder Revue & Desire Rob Stoner & Scarlet Rivera, Limana, 14 giugno (Limana Folk Village) from Andrea Brillo
  17. Insomnia & Seven Steps to Grace: An Online Conversation with Joy Harjo (Bob Dylan Center) from Scott Miller

    Other
  18. How one fan turned Global Beatles Day into a worldwide tradition June 25 (Salon) from Scott Miller
  19. From a grotty council flat to CD-era ubiquity: how Dire Straits conquered the world (Uncut) from Scott Miller
  20. I went to Hotel Chelsea — and found Bob Dylan, glamour and old ghosts Shared article (The Washington Post) from Ed Grazda
  21. Paul McCartney: “Writing a song is still a magic feeling for me, and hopefully always will be” (NME) from Scott Miller

    Audio/Video
  22. The Dylan Hours: Streams live every Sunday, 9 - 11 am Pacific. Today: 1st Hour: GUEST HOST, LAURA PORTWOOD-STACER. 2nd Hour: DYLAN DIDN'T DO IT (BUT ANOTHER ARTIST DID) (thesocalsound.org) from Lisa Finnie
  23. Bruce Springsteen & Sheryl Crow - "I Shall Be Released" (Dylan)-Monmouth Univ-Long Branch, NJ-6/5/26 (YouTube) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller
  24. Paul McCartney - We Two (Audio) (YouTube) from Scott Miller
  25. Bob Dylan — I Can Tell. Dothan, Alabama. April 23, 2026. Rough and Rowdy Ways show (YouTube) from Scott Miller
  26. Bob Dylan 08-Apr-2005 ~ The Rave, Milwaukee, USA (Audio, Complete Set) (YouTube) from Joanne
  27. Vortrag zur Philosophie hinter Bob Dylans Musik [zum 85ten] (YouTube) from Rüdiger Dannemann 0900

    More 0900
  28. What Bob Dylan performed on his first-ever Never Ending Tour show on this day in 1988 (Cult Following) by Ewan Gleadow
  29. Hello, goodbye: the Beatles’ chaotic, controversial final tour – as never seen before Jim Marshall photos (theguardian) 1300 (amazon.com - .co.uk - .de)
  30. The 1969 TV Premiere That Brought Bob Dylan to Country Music’s Biggest Stage (Parade) from Cliff Warnken 1400
  31. Bob Dylan – Paramount Theatre 1980 Review (Cult Following) by Ewan Gleadow
  32. Bob Dylan, Eric Von Schmidt, And The Birth Of The Blues (06880danwoog) from psamdancin
  33. Remembering Longtime Sarasotan Eric von Schmidt (Sarasota Magazine) from psamdancin


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 62       401
Never Ending Tour, from 7 June 1988 -                     3423
Total 4158
Last update 21.04. 2026