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Sad news...

Hello everyone,

I have Olof's wife's permission to share with you the unfortunate news that Olof has been hospitalized since December 4th with some brain bleeding due to a medical condition. He has been disoriented and his road to recovery will be long and, ultimately, the extent of his return to health is unknown.

I have been in communication with his wife these past couple months, but we thought it a good idea now to share the news with the Dylan community because some people may not know why he has not corresponded with them. Also, of course, we hope that you can pray for him, think good thoughts for his recovery, and/or otherwise participate in a general good will hoping for the recovery of our dear friend.

For those of you interested, we have the Still on the Road files for 2022 finished and I have the 2022 Chronicle (titled "Philosopher Pirate") Calendar finished. However, even though I have been helping Olof out for five years or so with these files, I do not have access or a means to post updates on the website; it has always been Olof who pushed the button.

Of course, with his condition, this is hardly the primary concern right now...I simply thought I would let you all know. Thanks.

Fy fan, hjärnblödning är verkligen ingen lek, men jag hoppas att Olof repar sig!

Vet inte hur många tusen gånger jag har besökt hans sidor...

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Det har ju cirkulerat en hel del rykten kring kommande utgåva (Bootleg Series vol 17), och nu skriver Alan Fraser detta på twitter:

Andrea Orlandi reports that the next edition in Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series is due in Dec 2022.
The official title is "Fragments: The "Time Out Of Mind" Sessions (1996-1997)/The Bootleg Series Vol. 17".
There will be a 4LP/2CD Standard Edition and a 10LP/5CD Deluxe Edition.

Återstår att se om det stämmer 

Något är på gång 6 maj 2022 

Länkades på Facebook (Instagram) i fredags: https://www.facebook.com/bobdylan/videos/dylan60/1381125652392544/

Länkades på Facebook (Instagram) i måndags: https://www.facebook.com/bobdylan/videos/dylan60/390341916292180/

Det kanske bara är för att marknadsföra att Dylanarkivet i Tulsa öpppnar den 10 maj https://bobdylancenter.com/nov-2021-release/
eller så är det något annat...

 
Bob Dylan’s 2021-24 tour moves to the southern states in March this year with shows in Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, North & South Carolina, Georgia, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas. The tour kicks off March 3, 2022 in Phoenix and currently runs through to April 14 with a show in Oklahoma City.

The penultimate show is planned for the 2,800‎ Tulsa Theatre in Tulsa Oklahoma, home of the Bob Dylan Center, which is due to open May 10, 2022. On route, Dylan will also play a show at the Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts & Sciences in Lubbock, Texas.

Shows outside of the United States are currently on hold due to the Omicron variant of Coronavirus.

March 2022:
3 Phoenix, Arizona – Arizona Federal Theatre
4 Tucson, Arizona – Tucson Music Hall
6 Albuquerque, New Mexico – Kiva Auditorium
8 Lubbock, Texas – Buddy Holly Hall of Performing Arts & Sciences
10 Irving, Texas – Toyota Music Factory
11 Sugar Land, Texas – Smart Financial Centre
13 San Antonio, Texas – Majestic Theatre
14 San Antonio, Texas – Majestic Theatre
16 Austin, Texas – Bass Hall
18 Shreveport, Louisiana – Municipal Auditorium
19 New Orleans, Louisiana – Saenger Theatre
21 Montgomery, Alabama – Montgomery PAC
23 Nashville, Tennessee – Ryman Auditorium
24 Atlanta, Georgia – Fox Theatre
26 Savannah, Georgia – Johnny Mercer Theatre
27 North Charleston, South Carolina – North Charleston PAC
29 Columbia, South Carolina – Township Auditorium
30 Charlotte, North Carolina – Ovens Auditorium

April 2022:
1 Greensboro, North Carolina – Steven Tanger Center
2 Asheville, North Carolina – Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
4 Chattanooga, Tennessee – Tivoli Theatre
5 Birmingham, Alabama – BJCC Concert Hall
7 Mobile, Alabama – Saenger Theatre
9 Memphis, Tennessee – Orpheum Theatre
11 Little Rock, Arkansas – Robinson Center
13 Tulsa, Oklahoma – Tulsa Theatre
14 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Thelma Gaylord Performing Arts Theatre

https://www.bobdylanisis.com/access-all-areas-blog/

Reggaelegendaren Robbie Shakespeare är död

https://www.svt.se/kultur/reggaelegendaren-robbie-shakespeare-ar-dod

Chicago, Illinois
Auditorium Theatre
3 November 2021

1.    Watching The River Flow (Bob center stage then on piano, Donnie on lap steel, Tony on standup bass)
2.    Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine) (Bob on piano, Donnie on electric mandolin, Tony on standup bass)
3.    I Contain Multitudes (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel, Tony on standup bass)
4.    False Prophet (Bob on piano, Donnie on lap steel)
5.    When I Paint My Masterpiece (Bob on piano, Donnie on violin, Tony on standup bass, Bob Britt on acoustic guitar)
6.    My Own Version Of You (Bob on piano, Donnie on pedal steel, Tony on standup bass)
7.    I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (Bob on piano with harp, Donnie on electric mandolin)
8.    Black Rider (Bob center stage, Donnie on electric mandolin, Tony on standup bass)
9.    To Be Alone With You (Bob on piano with harp, Donnie on violin, Tony on standup bass, Bob Britt on acoustic guitar)
10.    Mother Of Muses (Bob on piano, Donnie on electric mandolin, Tony on standup bass)
11.    Gotta Serve Somebody (Bob center stage then on piano, Donnie on lap steel)
12.    Key West (Philosopher Pirate) (Bob on piano, Donnie on pedal steel, Tony on standup bass)
13.    Early Roman Kings (Bob center stage then on piano, Donnie on lap steel, Tony on standup bass)
14.    Melancholy Mood (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel, Tony on standup bass)
15.    I've Made Up My Mind To Give Myself To You (Bob center stage, Donnie on electric mandolin, Tony on standup bass)
16.    Goodbye Jimmy Reed (Bob on piano, Donnie on lap steel, Tony on standup bass)
--    Band introduction
     
     (encore)
17.    Love Sick (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel)
18.    It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (Bob center stage, Donnie on pedal steel)

Simple Twist och Soon After Midnight fick ge plats åt When I Paint My Masterpiece och To Be Alone With You 
Hoppas sistnämnda låt har den nya texten som introducerats på Shadow Kingdom 

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jesse-dylan-interview-soros-bob-dylan-dante-vskcm0t9c



Jesse Dylan has spent time with a lot of influential people. He has shot videos for Tom Waits and Elvis Costello, made a video in support of Barack Obama featuring Will.i.am and Scarlett Johansson, and directed a comedy, Kicking and Screaming, with Will Ferrell. Then there’s the man he calls dad, one Bob Dylan. Yet the subject of Dylan’s new documentary, Soros, has arguably had a bigger effect on the world than any of that lot. Yes, even bigger than Will Ferrell.

George Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary, then fled in 1947 while it was under communist rule. He worked in finance in London and New York, made a fortune betting against the pound on Black Wednesday in 1992 and became one of the most generous philanthropists in history. According to Forbes magazine, the 91-year-old has donated 64 per cent of his original fortune and has distributed more than $15 billion to non-profit organisations through his Open Society Foundations.

The money has gone to a mind-boggling range of causes. Dylan’s film closes with an infographic that fills the screen with scores of Soros’s projects: helping to end apartheid in South Africa by funding scholarships for black students, justice for victims of the genocide in Rwanda, reduction of violent crime in Brazil, migrant protection in the UAE, LGBT rights, Black Lives Matter, global Covid relief. Some think that his support for eastern European dissidents — Solidarity in Poland, Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, Andrei Sakharov in the Soviet Union — did more to bring about the downfall of communism than any individual except Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev and Lech Walesa.

Has Soros met Bob Dylan? I picture them sharing a table with Oprah Winfrey and Hilary Clinton at some high-powered charity dinner. Sadly not, Dylan, 55, says by Zoom from his home in Los Angeles. “I don’t know exactly what my dad would say about him, except to say that he does support alternative thinkers. My dad would probably see himself as an expression of America — that it could produce an artist who doesn’t do any press or talk to anybody. And I think George in his own way is something like that.”

Soros took some time to be persuaded to do the film, but he opens up on an extraordinary life. He and his Jewish family survived the “crescendo of the Holocaust” in Budapest. In just a few weeks the Nazis deported more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews, murdering many before they reached the concentration camps. A favourite technique was to rope three people together, shoot the middle one and push them into the river, where the dead body would drown the other two. Soros’s father saved his family by acquiring false identity papers, and helped many other Hungarian Jews escape death. At the end of the war Soros’s mother was raped by two Soviet soldiers.

Soros moved to London, where he studied at the London School of Economics and became a devotee of the philosopher Karl Popper’s theory of the open society. Nazis and communists were enemies because they claimed ownership of an ultimate truth. Soros pursued instead what has been called the “institutionalisation of doubt”.

“The thing that surprised me the most about him is that you can change his mind,” Dylan says. “I’ve worked with a lot of very, very wealthy people — you cannot change their minds. It might as well be written in cement. Because they were successful in one place, they think they’ll be the same success everywhere. What’s unique about George is that he doesn’t know the answer. He sits with people and talks with them, to try to understand.”

Not everybody appreciates what he does. Dylan opens his film with a series of chilling clips from American news channels, in which right-wing commentators accuse Soros of being variously a neo Nazi, a supporter of Islamist terrorism and “the world’s biggest drug trafficker”. Steve Bannon, a former adviser to President Trump, calls Soros “one of the most evil people in the world”. He has been blamed for unrest in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Pakistan, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Jesse thinks that hatred stems from a mixture of antisemitism and resentment at liberal meddling. “It’s hard for me to understand antisemitism,” he says. “It’s, like, really, that’s our big problem? I’m Jewish, but the Jewish thing is our big problem? People see George as an outsider. It would be fair to look at what he’s actually done. We see all this negative press on Bill Gates, who has paid billions of dollars to help develop these vaccines, which have been so vital to saving us now.”

Dylan compares the conspiracy theories around Gates and Soros to viruses. “They’ve sort of eaten people’s minds. People who try to make a difference get judged harshly.”

Billionaires may be exerting even more geopolitical influence in coming years, given that President Biden seems intent on pulling America back from the world stage. “There was this idea of American exceptionalism. I think that that’s pretty much gone,” Dylan says. “As much as we try to affect things around the world, I’m not sure that we can. We have to try and create a more just world, but at the moment with populism it’s sort of careening out of control.”

Dylan’s film suggests, uncomfortably, that Soros and his like could actually be feeding that populism. Deep-pocketed saviours bypass traditional checks and balances in favour of quick solutions, which could promote distrust of institutions and politics. No wonder Soros confesses to moments of depression about his philanthropy, although his lack of triumphalism seems healthy. He knows that issues are often complex and his involvement can be seen as contradictory. His foundation has supported Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar, but also the Rohingya Muslims who suffered under her rule.

At times like these art becomes even more important, Dylan says. “That’s the role of film-makers and musicians, to point us forward, especially when times are tough.” It’s certainly what his father did in the 1960s. Do they ever talk about that time? “He’s not a nostalgic person, he’s always looking forward to the next thing.” Either that or back to the real oldies. “We probably spend more time on Milton or Shakespeare or Dante.” Neither father nor son does social media. “That’s a tough place to be.”

He admires the fact that his father is still producing interesting work at 80. “It’s hard to stick with the muse, that’s for sure, and not be a caricature of your past. You’re always struggling to outdo what you did before.” That’s Dylan’s take, anyway. “I don’t think he thinks that way at all. He’s just thinking, ‘Should I paint a picture today? Should I write a song?’ ”

We get on to the inevitable topic of following in illustrious footsteps. It must be harder for his brother, Jakob, who is a singer-songwriter. “I do think that’s a tough shadow, but he’s done very well,” Dylan says. I mention interviewing Julian Lennon, who knows all about paternal shadows. “Those are tough shoes to fill, very similar to my father’s. And in some ways it might even be harder [for Julian] because my dad’s still here with us.”

Bob sounds like a much warmer and more present father than Lennon Sr. “My dad’s great, he’s a totally kind, wonderful man,” Dylan says. “He’s been nothing but supportive to me and my brothers and sisters.” Jesse and Jakob, 51, have a sister, Anna, 54, and a brother Samuel, 53. They are all from Bob’s marriage to Sara Lownds, a former actress and model. There is also a half-sister, Desiree, 35, from Bob’s second marriage, to his former backing singer Carolyn Dennis.

When Jesse was born in 1966 in New York, Bob took some time away from music and it took his son a while to grasp his father’s global status. “It was a gradual sort of realisation because he’s very normal. None of that came home with him.” Jesse later travelled with him on his Rolling Thunder Revue tour in 1975-76. “He kinda seemed fun.”

Bob and Lownds became estranged and eventually divorced in 1977, and the disintegration of their relationship is often said to have inspired Bob’s album Blood on the Tracks. He has denied this, claiming that the stories of Anton Chekhov were the touchstone, but Jakob told Rolling Stone magazine: “When I’m listening to Blood on the Tracks, that’s about my parents.” Dylan agrees. “It’s incredible what came out of that pain,” he says. “Not that I sit down and listen to it a lot.”

Has he seen I’m Not There, the film by Todd Haynes in which Bob was played by actors including Christian Bale, Richard Gere and Cate Blanchett? There’s a section featuring Heath Ledger as a proxy for Bob and Charlotte Gainsbourg as a character partly inspired by Lownds. “I like Todd, and he makes interesting movies, that’s for sure,” Dylan says. “But [Bob] is here with me, you know? I don’t want to think about that. That’s something else.”

After spending much of his life in New York, Dylan has been living for the past two years in Los Angeles with his wife, the actress Susan Traylor. They have a grown-up son, Pablo, and a daughter, Feury Mae. For legal reasons he can’t talk about recent allegations by an American woman that Bob sexually abused her in 1965 when she was 12. Dylan’s loyalty to his father is palpable, however. He speaks with huge pride of him winning the Nobel prize for literature in 2016. “He comes from a small town in Minnesota. He would never have expected that.” Just as a young George Soros in war-torn Budapest would never have expected to be shaping the world almost 75 years later.


Soros premieres at Bertha DocHouse, London WC1, on October 28 as part of the Raindance Film Festival (raindance.org) and will be streaming on Curzon Home Cinema from October 29-31