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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
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Dylan related
1. 3 of Bob Dylan’s Most Memorable, Gut-Punching One Liners (American Songwriter) from Cliff Warnken, Scott Miller
2. Bob Dylan Regretted Not Writing This Classic Country Rock Song by the Allman Brothers Band (Collider) from Scott Miller
3. Timothée Chalamet Says He ‘Spent Six Figures Out of My Pocket’ on ‘SNL’ Musical Performance and Press Tour Stunts Aren’t a ‘Gimmick’: ‘I Don’t Want to Be in the Pretentious In-Crowd’ (Variety) from Scott Miller
4. Roll on Sly, Roll on John -Shine your light, move it on, you burn so bright (darmstadtdylandays) from Marco Demel
5. No Nobel Prize for Music: Imagine you had just written a masterpiece. What then? (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
6. The Philosophy of Modern Song: “Volare” (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
   
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7. Meryl Streep to Star in Joni Mitchell Biopic (Exclaim!) from Bob Harwood
8. Cher Accepts Lifetime Achievement Award in Surprise Appearance at 2026 Grammy Awards (Rolling Stone / Yahoo!) from Scott Miller
9. On This Day in 1962, The Beatles Performed Their First Live Set Outside of Liverpool, Pre-Ringo Starr (American Songwriter) from Scott Miller
10. Mavis Staples Triumphs with Double Win at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards (jubileecast) from Scott Miller
11. Phil Ochs’ Sharp, Satirical Protest Songs Still Resonate Today (Current Affairs) from Cliff Warnken
    
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12. Morello Di Meola This Land Is Your Land 1st Avenue 1/30 26 (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
    
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13. After The Flood: Inside Bob Dylan’s Memory Palace – Reviewed: Exhaustive post-’91 survey Polito (Mojo) from Cliff Warnken
14. Bob Dylan’s Last Top 40 Hit Reflected a Major Life Change (American Songwriter) from Cliff Warnken
15. Paul Simon Adds Dates to 2026 ‘A Quiet Celebration’ Tour (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky
16. Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, and Neil Young – Highway 61 Revisited Review (Cult Following) from Cliff Warnken

Monday, February 2, 2026
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Dylan related
1. This Bob Dylan Album Closer Went Back in Time Two Decades, Inspired by a Fleeting Moment With a Manhattan Call Girl (American Songwriter) from Cliff Warnken
2. Here's one rockin' Bob "Cold Irons Bound" one late track that cuts (John's Substack) by John Nogowski
3. When Bono (U2) Met Bob Dylan (NSF) from Ugur Oral
   
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4. Jesse Welles: Keeping the spirit of American folk music alive Dylan mention (CBS News) from Noel Mayeske
5. Don’t Forget Me-Eddie Cochran DocumentarySet for 2026; (Cave Hollywood) by Harvey Kubernik
6. Joni Mitchell Wins Grammy For ‘Archives Vol 4: Asylum Years (1976-80)’ Box (Best Classic Bands) from Greg Brodsky
   
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7. "Knockin' On Dylan's Door (BobFest)" "Bob’s February releases and Winter songs" Select: Listen Live 88.1 FM WCWP 9-11 pm EST (WCWP 88.1 FM) from G. Walsh
8. Bob Dylan—If You See Her Say Hello from Rundown Studios January 1978/ with a new painting of mine (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
9. “Masters Of War” (Bob Dylan) Allan Wachs/Live (YouTube) from Allan Wachs
10. Positively Porco Two: MIKE & BOB🎙🏆Mike leaves Italy Offers stage to artists #MIKEandBOB 🎼🎬 (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
11. Bob Dylan 2000 - One Too Many Mornings (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
12. Bob Dylan live , The Times They Are A-Changin' , Utrecht 1991 (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
13. Not Dark Yet , Sandra Zemor (YouTube) from Jacob Daniel
14. Bob Dylan - Dark Eyes (Official Audio) (YouTube)
    
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15. Electric Bohemian: Flamenco and the Arts in Greenwich Village (1950-1970) Elijah Wald, CUNY, Feb 25 (Upper East Side, NY Patch) from Cliff Warnken
16. German: KW-05-2026: Field Commander C. »Leonard Cohen’s Early Works – the Roots of Hallelujah« – Live in Hamburg – Ein Gastbeitrag von Michael Brenner (Cohenpedia) from Bernd Kowalkowski
17. FROM BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ON MINNEAPOLIS TO CSNY ON KENT STATE — A HISTORY OF INSTANT PROTEST SONGS (Rolling Stone) from Cliff Warnken 1400
18. Bob Dylan and Paul Simon at 85 Feb 4 (Patch) from Cliff Warnken

Sunday, February 1, 2026
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Dylan related
1. Why Bob Dylan’s “Standing in the Doorway” is his greatest recording (The Joker and the Thief) from Billy Innes, Jacob Daniel
2. 5 Bob Dylan Quotes Every Retiree Should Live By (Kiplinger) from Cliff Warnken
3. Bob Dylan – As Good as New Review (Cult Following) from Cliff Warnken
4. “Pistol Shots Ring Out in the Barroom Night”: Bob Dylan's “Hurricane” as an Exam (or Course) in Criminal Procedure (SSRN) from Scott Miller
5. Bob Dylan’s Hurricane: How The Legendary Star Risked It All To Stand Up For What’s Right (Goalcast) from Scott Miller
6. Dylan + Art Connections (Shadow Chasing) by Graley Herren, from Scott Miller
7. The only Bob Dylan album in the Library of Congress’ Recording Registry (Far Out) from Scott Miller
   
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8. Overlooked No More: Jimmy Reed, the Bluesman Everyone Covered, Then Forgot Shared article (NY Times) from Michael Simmons, Ed Grazda
9. Paperback Riders: How many Gene Parsons bios do we need? The book bots are taking over Amazon (Americana UK) from Scott Miller
10. Richard Barone’s Village Nights (Village Preservation) from Scott Miller
11. Searching for America in song with historian Jill Lepore (npr) from Scott Miller
    
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12. Observations on Bob Dylan for International Magician’s Day (Instagram) from Scott Warmuth
13. The Dylan Hours: Streams live every Sunday, 9 - 11 am Pacific Standard Time. Today: ♫ DYLAN SINGS OF BLACK AMERICA / BLACK AMERICANS SING DYLAN •*¨*•♫♪ (thesocalsound.org) from Lisa Finnie
14. Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour part 5: Jail (Untold Dylan) from Scott Miller
15. Bob Dylan live , Just Like A Woman , Atlantic City 1998 (YouTube) from Steve Lockwood
16. Bob Dylan 12-Aug-2006 ~ Comstock Park, USA (Audio, Complete Set) (YouTube) from mr tambourine
    
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17. Timothée Chalamet, bound for glory (EL PAÍS) from Cliff Warnken
18. Bob Dylan – Gotta Serve Somebody (Grammy’s 1980) Review (Cult Following) from Cliff Warnken
19. When Bob Dylan made concert promoters quit the "Folk Poet of Our Times" hype (boingboing) from Cliff Warnken