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Guess he’s doing fine

The release of Sony’s Bootleg Series Vol.9, The Witmark Demos 1962-64, is a great compilation of 47 previously unreleased remastered demo recordings featuring just Dylan and his guitar or piano. Now rollingstone.com offers an exclusive promotion video accompanied by “Guess I’m Doing Fine”. It features archival footage and photos of both Bob Dylan and the …

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Bob Dylan Soundtrack for “My Own Love Song”

When movie director Olivier Dahan (“La Vie en Rose”) asked Bob Dylan to contribute a song (“Life Is Hard”) to his new film “My Own Love Song” starring Renée Zellweger and Forest Whitaker, Bob wrote many more songs than he had been asked to. At the end it was enough new material to fill a …

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10 Bob Dylan CDs/DVDs Sony should release!

The archives in Columbia/Sony Music’s basement are full of unreleased Bob Dylan gems. What are they waiting for? It’s time to continue “The Bootleg Series” with some more volumes. Here’s my suggestion, I’d be happy to read your suggestions too: The Complete Remastered Basement Tapes The Rolling Thunder Revue Original Infidels Session with Mark Knopfler …

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In my flashforward I had breakfast with Bob Dylan

An Internet video of Bob Dylan’s 1976 “Hard Rain” live version of “Shelter from the Storm” is featured in episode 9 (“Believe”) of the first season of the ABC TV-series “FlashForward”. The woman Bryce saw in his flashforward – Japanese office employee Keiko Arahida – watches the video on her PC in the office, trying …