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Tuesday, December 23, 2025
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Dylan related
1. BS18: Holiday Gift Guide Review: Bob Dylan, "The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window" (the Second Disc) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller
2. Bob Dylan’s Life on the Road, Reimagined on the Page and Canvas Point Blank (BookTrib) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller, Carol Bertolotti
3. Bob Dylan Explains Willie Nelson (Stereogum) from Scott Miller, Carol Bertolotti
4. Bob Dylan, taking a gamble on life. (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
5. No Nobel Prize for Music 1973: the music returns: but with considerable uncertainty Wagon Wheel (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
6. The moment Bob Dylan left Stevie Nicks embarrassed: “You’re kidding!” (Far Out) from Scott Miller
7. Bob Dylan's Most Complex Song Ever Written Opened His 15th Studio Album (Collider) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller
   
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8. “It’s tragic the way he died. He made the blues accessible to a lot of guys like me.” Bob Dylan and Jorma Kaukonen on the 1960s guitar icon who led an electric blues revolution and died alone and unknown (Guitar Player) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller
9. How Willie Nelson Sees America (New Yorker) from Scott Miller
10. “I didn’t even realise it had synthesizer on it for decades”: This deep dive into a classic Beatles song reveals 4 synth parts that we’d never even noticed before (musicradar) from Scott Miller
11. For Rob Reiner, music was a main character (Salon) from Scott Miller
12. Lisa O'Neill review: Cavan singer closes the year with superb gig at Vicar Street Dylan mention (Irish Examiner) from Cliff Warnken
13. Barry Manilow Diagnosed With Lung Cancer (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky
14. Activist group says it has scraped 86m music files from Spotify (theguardian)
    
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15. The Ultimate Muse: 4 Songs Written About Pattie Boyd (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller
16. Needle Drops 2025: The Killer Tracks That Turned Ads Into Bops HOKA - Shelter From the Storm (LBB) from Cliff Warnken
17. KATHLEEN’S FARM : An Irish lament based on Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm (YouTube) from Patrick E Walsh
18. Bob Dylan — Going Down to Bangor (Van Morrison). 20 November, 2025. Belfast. nm recording/video (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
19. Bob Dylan and his band Dublin 25.11.2025 Black Rider (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
20. Lizenz zum Töten | Bob Dylan & Donald Trump | Lyric Talk (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
21. Bob Dylan - Under The Red Sky (Alternate Takes EP) (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
22. Route 66 - Christmas Show 2025 (Mixcloud) from Steve Lockwood 1000

Monday, December 22, 2025
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Dylan related
1. The Bob Dylan Week in Review Copyright Collection: From 1962 to 1975: A Complete Guide to Dylan’s Legal Lifeline Releases (Daily Dylan)
2. What happened when Bob Dylan played a game of tennis with The Beatles (HITC) from Cliff Warnken
   
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3. Bob Dylan Live, Plymouth, MA, Oct 31, 1975 Only available in some EU countries and the UK (Spotify) (also on Deezer)
4. Bob Dylan Live, Lowell, MA, Nov 2, 1975 Only available in some EU countries and the UK (Spotify) (also on Deezer)
5. Bob Dylan Live, Waterbury, CT, Nov 11, 1975 Only available in some EU countries and the UK (Spotify) (also on Deezer)
6. Bob Dylan Live, New York, NY, Dec 8, 1975 Only available in some EU countries and the UK (Spotify) (also on Deezer)
7. "Knockin' On Dylan's Door (BobFest)" "Bob’s Christmas In The Heart, plus Happy Birthday Jorma Kaukonen" Select: Listen Live 88.1 FM WCWP 9-11 pm EST (WCWP 88.1 FM) from G. Walsh
8. Watch ‘SNL’ spoof duet between Geese’s Cameron Winter and Benson Boone (NME) from Carol Bertolotti
9. Dave Stewart Honoring Bob Dylan in Season Two Premiere of ‘Recorded Live at Analog’ (That Eric Alper) from Carol Bertolotti, Cliff Warnken
10. Episode 16 - Rainbow Quest by Pete Seeger: Mimi and Richard Farina February 26, 1966 (YouTube) from Michael Simmons
    
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11. James Coburn, actor in the role of Pat Garrett in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid talked about Dylan coming on board to the Sam Peckinpah movie in his Bob Costas interview. (threads) from Harold Lepidus
12. Testing John Fogerty's Music Knowledge | Track Star* (YouTube) from Matthew Zuckerman
13. Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile (bsky) from Mr Jones 1600
14. Chris Rea dead: Driving Home For Christmas singer dies aged 74 after years of ill health (The Sun)

Sunday, December 21, 2025
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Dylan related
1. Digitizing the Dylan Archives and Taping Toad's Place An interview with veteran taper and archivist Jeff Friedman (Flagging Down the Double E's) by Ray Padgett
2. BOB DYLAN – CHRISTMAS IN THE HEART (folkWorks) from Scott Miller
3. Bob Dylan & Muhammad Ali unite for the Night of the Hurricane (Salut! Folk) from Scott Miller
4. Louie Kemp (upper left), Joan Baez (center), and Bob Dylan (right) + others at Spirit Mountain in 1975 (reddit) from Scott Miller
5. Bob Dylan, Sam Shepard, and the chaos of Rolling Thunder Revue (Salut! Folks) from Scott Miller
   
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6. The Beatles Are Global Artist Of 2025 For Discog's Year in Review Dylan too (antiMusic) from Cliff Warnken, Carol Bertolotti
7. Graded on a Curve: The Beatles, Anthology Collection (The Vinyl District) from Scott Miller
8. Mick Abrahams, 1st Jethro Tull Guitarist and Blodwyn Pig Founder, Dies (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky
9. Meet the Orpheists Chapter Six - Through the Tunnel Again (Muddy Water) by William Routhier
10. 'A large amount of weirdness': The long, strange success of the Grateful Dead (BBC) from Scott Miller
11. Even Happy Birthday has a dark side: my quest to tell the history of the world in 50 pieces of music (theguardian) from Scott Miller
12. Music Industry Moves: Whitney Houston, Paul Simon, Cher, Carlos Santana, Chaka Khan, Fela Kuti to Receive Grammy Lifetime Achievement Awards (Variety) from Scott Miller
    
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13. The Dylan Hours: Streams live every Sunday, 9 - 11 am Pacific Standard Time. Today: CHRISTMAS WITH DYLAN: SPIRITUAL & SECULAR SONGS OF THE SEASON ♫♪ (thesocalsound.org) from Lisa Finnie
14. The Truth Behind Bob Dylan's Christmas Lights (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
15. I've NEVER heard Bob Dylan - Blowin' in the Wind! I'm LITERALLY FLOORED... (YouTube) from Douglas Schlachter
16. Bob Dylan the concert series number 59. November 19, 2001. New York (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
17. Bob Dylan ~ A Rough & Rowdy Outlaw (Best Of The 2025 Touring Year) (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
18. Bob Dylan — Brussels, Belgium. June 11, 1989. Recording of the full show (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
19. The GREATEST studio bassist of ALL TIME Lee Sklar (YouTube) from Steve Lockwood 1000
    
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20. The Band’s ‘Christmas Must Be Tonight’ Is Fringed With Festive Magic (Clash) by Robin Murray
21. Bob Dylan: Christmas in the Heart (theguardian 2009) from psamdancin
22. A Very Dylan Christmas (NY Mag 2009) from psamdancin