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Updated: News about Bob Dylan Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13 / 1979-1981




Release date: Nov. 3rd 2017
It will be released on several formats (MP3, CDs and Vinyl).

Edit no2, From BobDylan.com!:

Deluxe 9 Disc (8CD/1DVD) Box Set, Latest Volume in Acclaimed Dylan Bootleg Series Presents Definitive Retrospective of a Pivotal Period in the Artist’s Canon

Essential Dylan Anthology Premieres 100 Previously Unreleased Live and Studio Recordings including 14 Unreleased Songs

Deluxe Box Includes an Exclusive DVD of “Trouble No More: A Musical Film,” a New Feature-Length Film Incorporating Never-Before-Seen Footage from Dylan’s 1980 Tours

The deluxe box set will include a hardcover book featuring an introduction by Dylan scholar Ben Rollins with liner notes by Amanda Petrusich, Rob Bowman and Penn Jillette.

also:

Disc 9: Bonus DVD
Trouble No More – A Musical Film

DVD EXTRAS:
Shot of Love
Cover Down, Pray Through
Jesus Met the Woman at the Well (Alternate version)
Ain’t Gonna Go to Hell for Anybody (Complete version)
Precious Angel (Complete version)
Slow Train (Complete version)

Did I order it? I sure did!

Edit no1:
Price for the 8 disc version in the US: 174.98$
Price for the 2 disc version in the US:    19.98$

The Vinyl set is 99.98$ with 4 records, and it looks amazing!:

Track listings for the cds at the end of the post. I’m guessing that the 4 vinyls equals the 2 cd set.

There will be a book and a film released  titled  Trouble No More and Trouble in Time: Bob Dylan’s Gospel Years – What Really Happened.

The newest edition in Columbia/Legacy Recordings Bob Dylan bootleg series has been revealed. Trouble No More: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13/1979-1981 gives us live recordings from his “Christian” or “born again” years from Slow Train Coming, Saved and Shot of Love (79-81). Continue reading Updated: News about Bob Dylan Trouble No More – The Bootleg Series, Vol. 13 / 1979-1981

Greil Marcus and Like A Rolling Stone by Bob Dylan

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“Dylan leads the group into the song with a strong, strummed theme on his electric rhythm guitar. Paul Griffin has a loose, free bounce on the piano; Kooper immediately has a high, clear tone. Dylan stops it: “Hey, man, you know, I can’t, I mean, I’m just me, you know. I can’t, really, man, I’m just playing the song. I know — I don’t want to scream it, that’s all I know — ” He takes up the theme again; Bloomfield and Gregg come in. The feeling is right all around; a rich ensemble is coming together.”
– Greil Marcus (Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan at the crossroads)

I love Greil Marcus’s book on Bob Dylan’s song, Like a Rolling Stone, and therefore I’ve collected som clips on and about the book, including a very interesting YouTube-clip with Marcus talking about the book and the song.

Greil Marcus saw Bob Dylan for the first time in a New Jersey field in 1963. He didn’t know the name of the scruffy singer who had a bit part in a Joan Baez concert, but he knew his performance was unique. So began a dedicated and enduring relationship between America’s finest critic of popular music— “simply peerless,” in Nick Hornby’s words, “not only as a rock writer but as a cultural historian”— and Bob Dylan.

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May 24: Happy Birthday Bob Dylan

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Happy Birthday to the GREATEST Artist of Our Time.

Here @ alldylan.com we got about 1500 Bob Dylan posts alive. In this tribute I’ll try to give an overview & hopefully lead you [the reader] to material you might find interesting.

My favorite quote of all time is off course:

 That he not busy being born is busy dying
~From – It’s Alright, Ma (I’m only bleeding)

Dylan has always been busy being born. At the age of 74 he’s still [never ending] touring the world, performing at peak level, bringing awe & joy to those lucky enough to understand & participate. If you’re a true “performing artist”, you can’t retire. You gotta be yourself to the end. And we all know that Zimmy will not back down.

Enough with the chit chat, let’s get down to it.

Here is how we have organized our Bob Dylan material & some essential links:

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Dylan author and political activist Mike Marqusee died Jan 13 R.I.P.


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Dylan author and political activist Mike Marqusee died Jan 13 R.I.P.

Mike Marqusee  (October 26, 1953 – January 13, 2015) was an American writer, journalist and political activist in London. 

Marqusee, who described himself as a “deracinated New York Marxist Jew” had lived in Britain since 1971. He wrote mainly about politics, popular culture, the Indian sub-continent andcricket, and was a regular correspondent for, among others, The Guardian, Red Pepper and The Hindu. After he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 2007, he wrote extensively on health issues, and in defence of the National Health Service. His book The Price of Experience: Writings on Living with Cancer was published in 2014.

He wrote the Bob Dylan books:
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The unboxing of Bob Dylan’s Lyrics: Since 1962 (a photo story)

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Yes, we were both very excited!

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That blue stuff was just some padding to protect it, and here we get the first glimpse of the book.

 

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