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Monday, December 8, 2025
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Dylan related
1. Bob Dylan Announces 2026 Tour (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky
2. On Tour (bobdylan.com)
3. The Advance Man Who Announced Rolling Thunder to Small-Town America "Bob came after me. He was restrained by a couple of security people." (Flagging Down the Double E's) by Ray Padgett
   
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4. Willie Nelson is 92 and Feeling Lucky ... writing new material with Bob Dylan: “I can’t read your mind. The letters are too small.” (GQ)
   
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5. "Knockin' On Dylan's Door (BobFest)" "Bob, Beatles, Wilburys and remembering John Lennon" Select: Listen Live 88.1 FM WCWP 9-11 pm EST (WCWP 88.1 FM) from G. Walsh
6. Remembering the life and legacy of guitarist Steve Cropper, who died at age 84 (abc News) from psamdancin s
7. 10 Bob Dylan Songs That Feel Like Short Stories (NSF) from Ugur Oral
8. Geese - "Tombstone Blues" (Bob Dylan cover), May 24, 2024, Bloomington, IN (YouTube) from Mike Smith
9. A rare "Subterranean Homesick Blues" from back when it wasn't rare: June 2, 1990, at NAC, Ottawa, ON (YouTube) from Carol Casper

Sunday, December 7, 2025
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Dylan related
1. A Legal Journalist Remembers Covering the Rolling Thunder Prison Show—And Helping Set 'Hurricane' Free (Flagging Down the Double E's) by Ray Padgett
2. Bob Dylan: With God On Our Side (Here Comes the Song) from Scott Miller
3. Bob Dylan: Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts – A Spiritual Transformation (Spirit-Rockmusic.eu) from Scott Miller
4. A Complete Bob Dylan Delray Beach, FL, Feb 4 (Delray Beach House) from Cliff Warnken
5. bob. An interpretation of Dylan Charleston Pour House, Charleston SC, Thu Dec 11 (eventbrite) from Scott Miller
6. bob. An Interpretation of Bob Dylan featuring Al & Vinnie from moe. Decatur, GA, Fri Dec 12 (Eddie's Attic) from Scott Miller
   
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7. Before “Turn! Turn! Turn!”, The Byrds Were About to Cover Another Bob Dylan Song Before It Was Ultimately Rejected (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller, Cliff Warnken
8. Why is Timothée Chalamet suddenly everywhere? Seven things you need to know – from Oscars to puppies (theguardian) from Scott Miller
9. Paul McCartney’s Lost Album: The Story Of Cold Cuts, book Nov 23 from amazon.com - .co.uk - .de. from Harold Lepidus
10. The Who’s Debut Album, ‘My Generation’: Sharks Circling in the Water (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky
    
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11. The Dylan Hours: Streams live every Sunday, 9 - 11 am Pacific Standard Time. Today: ANGELS ꒰♡꒱ (thesocalsound.org) from Lisa Finnie
12. Nick Cave’s Veiled World: the starry tale of how sometimes the devil doesn’t have the best tunes (theguardian) from Scott Miller
13. The Wainwrights – If We Make It Through December (YouTube) from Scott Miller
14. Rig Rundown: Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
15. Billy Strings w/Michael Cleveland!! 🔥 “Sally Goodin / My Rose of Old Kentucky” Louisville Ky 12/5/25 (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
16. DWIGHT YOAKAM - "Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room" (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
17. Bob Dylan and his band Swansea 9.11.2025 Watching The `Music` River Flow (YouTube) from Scott Miller
    
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18. I Can’t Play Harmonica with Bob Dylan Center Feb 21, free, online also (Tulsa Community College) from Cliff Warnken
19. Skalgubbar Cut out people for visualizations of unbuilt architecture (Skalgubbar.se) 1600
20. Theme Time Radio Hour: The Annotated Christmas & New Year Episode (Medium) by Fred Bals 1700

Saturday, December 6, 2025
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Dylan related
1. Bob Dylan played two gigs at INEC and we’ll never see a video of it! (Killarney Advertiser) from Scott Miller, Cliff Warnken
2. 60 Years Ago, Bob Dylan Released the Greatest Rock Song Ever Written From His Album 'Highway 61 Revisited' (Collider) from Cliff Warnken, Jacob Daniel
3. When Bob clearly said, “Songs don’t have to mean anything:” The Whiffenpoof Song. (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
4. John Sebastian describing Bob Dylan (Facebook) from Scott Miller
5. Garth Brooks Made a Bob Dylan Song Legendary (Parade) from Cliff Warnken
6. My book on Bob Dylan, freshly reviewed (Christopher Rollason) from Chris Rollason
   
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7. Spotify Wrapped Says My Listening Age Is 79 – and One Coworker's Is 100 (cnet) from Scott Miller
8. John Sebastian Wants You to Know ‘He Was There’ in New Doc About the ‘Zelig’ of Rock (Rolling Stone/ Yahoo) from Scott Miller, Harold Lepidus
9. Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96 Shared article (NY Times) from Scott Miller
10. The value of physical media, finding old records. A time capsule for humanity (The Stute) from Cliff Warnken
11. Little Richard: Awopbopaloobop alopbamboom!s (Uncut) from Cliff Warnken
12. The Story Behind the Beatles’ ‘We Can Work It Out’ (Ultimate Classic Rock) from Scott Miller
13. From this moment on Some thoughts on the Beatles' new/old/new "Real Love" and the trippiness of time (No Such Thing As Was) from Martin Cowan
14. Hanif Abdurraqib on Ellen Willis’s Review of Elvis in Las Vegas (New Yorker) from Scott Miller
15. The Mavericks’ Saxophonist Max Abrams and the Art of ‘Seeing Things’ (American Blues Scene) from Jacob Daniel
16. Grateful Dead still making musical mark at 60, gets Guinness record (USA Today) from Jacob Daniel
17. Meet the Orpheists Chapter Four - What’s the Story with Those Two? (Muddy Water) by William Routhier
18. John Sebastian Returns To Bethel Woods, New Documentary Premiere (NYS Music) from Scott Miller
19. That first phone call...to a girl Seinfeld episode "The Phone Message" sparks a memory (John's Substack) by John Nogowski
    
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20. Bob Dylan — Killarney, Ireland. November 23, 2025. Recording of the full show (YouTube) from Steve Lockwood
21. The Damned - See Emily Play (Visualizer) | New Album "Not Like Everybody Else" Out 23rd Janaury (YouTube) from Harold Lepidus
22. Steve Cropper Stories - Levon Helm, Jeff Beck & John Prine (YouTube) from Scott Miller
23. Leoni Jansen & Izaline Calister - Blowin' In The Wind (YouTube) from John Spoor
24. Make You Feel My Love Pembroke College Chapel Choir (YouTube) 1100
25. This Made My Head Spin. Vocal ANALYSIS of The Beatles "Eleanor Rigby" (YouTube)
    
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26. Last Gathering at 60: Jerry Cimino Museum maestro casts some further light (Rock and the Beat Generation) from Cliff Warnken
27. Bob Dylan – Asheville 2001 Review (Cult Following) from Cliff Warnken
28. “I was packing up to leave when Dylan asked, ‘Where’s he going?’ and I wound up playing on the whole album.” The guitarist Bob Dylan insisted he had to have for his country music breakthrough (Guitar Player) from Cliff Warnken 1700