BOB DYLAN News

7 Dec 2025:
On Tour - US 2026 dates
(bobdylan.com)


13 Nov 2025:
We will see you early Spring 2026
(Bob Dylan on X)


4 Nov 2025:
Bob Dylan Awarded Honorary Doctorate
from Berklee College of Music

(Berklee)


28 Oct 2025:
Reviews of
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Volume 18:
Through The Open Window, 1956-1963



20 Oct 2025:
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Volume 18:
Through The Open Window, 1956-1963
(Unboxing)

(YouTube)


2 Oct 2025:
The Original Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
28 Nov 2025
(Record Store Day)


2 Oct 2025:
Masters of War (1962)
Lomax Archive 7"
(Record Store Day)


17 Sep 2025:
Through The Open Window
The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 1956-1963

(bobdylan.com)


9 Sep 2025:
"The Bootleg Series Vol. 18 - Through The Open Window 1956-1963" will be released on 31 Oct 2025 With thanks to Badlands -
(Searching For a Gem, on Facebook)


19 Aug 2025:
Call (808)-Unknown #highway61revisited
(Bob Dylan on TikTok)


9 Aug 2025:
Bob Dylan visits White Lake Studios
(Instagram)


21 July 2025:
Explore the world of Bob Dylan, now on TikTok
(TikTok)


11 July 2025:
Dylan Dates in Europe
(bobdylan.com)


10 June 2025:
Bob Dylan Narrates Trailer for MGK’s New Album: Watch
(Pitchfork)


30 April 2025:
Barbra Streisand Teaming Up With Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Ariana Grande, Mariah Carey, Hozier and Other Stars for New Duets Album
(Variety)


2 March 2025:
A Complete Wipeout:
Bob Dylan Biopic Goes 0 for 8 at the Oscars

(97.3 KKRC)


3 Feb 2025:
Outlaw Music Festival
May - September
(Blackbird Presents)


3 Feb 2025:
More Dylan Dates in April
(bobdylan.com)


23 Jan 2025:
'A Complete Unknown' Rocks 2025 Oscars
With 8 Nominations

(Men's Journal)


21 Jan 2025:
Bob Dylan concert date
25 March Tulsa OK
(bobdylan.com)



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Monday, December 8, 2025
at 0600 CET

    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

    Other
  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)

    Audio/Video
  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
at 0600 CET

    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

    Other
  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

    Audio/Video
  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

    More 1400
  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
at 0600 CET

    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

    Other
  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

    Audio/Video
  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)

    More 1500
  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


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 27       366
Never Ending Tour, from 7 June 1988 -                     3388
Total 4123
Last update 08.12. 2025


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A Complete Unknown.
Timothée Chalamet
A Complete Unknown
4K UHD + Blu-ray or DVD:
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4K+Blu-ray, DVD April 1, 2025:
A Complete Unknown.
Timothée Chalamet
A Complete Unknown
4K + Blu-ray + Digital:
amazon.com (April 1)


CD April 25, 2025:
Dylanology Líve.
Joan Osborne
Dylanology
Live
amazon.com - .co.uk - .de


Book, May 20 2025:
Decade of Dissent.
Sean Egan
Decade Of Dissent:
How 1960s Bob Dylan Changed The World
amazon.com - .co.uk - .de


Book, March 13, 2025:
St. James Infirmary
Robert W. Harwood
I Went Down To St. James Infirmary
4th edition
amazon.com - .co.uk - .de


Book. 14 July 2015:
Dylan Goes Electric!
Elijah Wald
Dylan Goes Electric!
Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and
the Night That Split the Sixties
The Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture A Complete Unknown
amazon.com - .co.uk - .de


27 CD Box Set, Sept 20, 2024:
The 1974 Live Recordings.
Bob Dylan and the Band
The 1974 Live Recordings
amazon.com - .co.uk - .de
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Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

--- March 2025 ---
Tue 25 Tulsa
Wed 26 Little Rock
Fri 28 Springfield
Sat 29 Wichita
Sun 30 Topeka
--- April 2025 ---
Tue 1 Omaha
Wed 2 Sioux City
Fri 4 Mankato
Sat 5 Eau Claire
Sun 6 Green Bay
Tue 8 Davenport
Wed 9 Peoria
Fri 11 West Lafayette
Sat 12 Fort Wayne
Mon 14 South Bend
Wed 16 Kalamazoo
Thu 17 Toledo
Sat 19 Youngstown
Mon 21 Pittsburgh

Tue 22 Williamsport

-- Outlaw Music Festival --
--- May 2025 ---
Tue 13 Phoenix
Thu 15 Chula Vista
Fri 16 Los Angeles
Sun 18 Wheatland
Tue 20 Nampa
Thu 22 Spokane
Sat 24 Ridgefield
Sun 25 Quincy

--- June 2025 ---
Fri 20 Clarkston
Sat 21 Cuyahoga Falls
Sun 22 Cincinnati
Wed 25 Franklin
Fri 27 Memphis
Sat 28 Maryland Heights
Sun 29 Ridgedale
--- July 2025 ---
Tue 1 El Reno
Fri 4 Austin
Sat 5 Dallas
Sun 6 The Woodlands

Fri 25 Alpharetta
Sat 26 Charlotte
Sun 27 Raleigh
Tue 29 Virginia Beach
--- August 2025 ---
Fri 1 Wantagh
Sat 2 Saratoga Springs
Sun 3 Gilford
Fri 8 Buffalo
Sat 9 Hershey
Sun 10 Syracuse

--- September 2025 ---
Fri 5 Bangor
Sat 6 Hartford
Sun 7 Mansfield
Fri 12 Camden
Sat 13 Holmdel
Sun 14 Columbia
Thu 18 Noblesville
Fri 19 East Troy




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