Dylan Week: 14 Vintage NY Times Articles On Bob Dylan
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Robert Shelton was one of the first journalists to champion Dylanâand this is his first article on him from 1961.dylan1
We particularly like this description of 21-year-old Dylan: "[he] wear blue jeans, presumably has little to do with barbers, and resembles a Holden Caulfield who got lost in the Dust Bowl."90566467
Joan Baez gets top billing in this concert review from 1963 when Dylan makes an unannounced appearance.dylan2
This article refers to the concert that was eventually commercially released as The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964, Concert at Philharmonic Hall.118686658
Shelton identifies and documents the spread of "the Dylan sound" in 1965 in anticipation of Dylan playing Forest Hills Music Festival in Queens.101565423
The first report on Dylan's seminal documentary, Don't Look Back: "There were neither outbursts of enthusiasm nor explosions of hysteria."90391087
The Times' review of Don't Look Back: "Entertaining and occasionally disturbing."82606221
About Dylan's motorcycle crash, withdrawal from celebrity, and return with John Wesley Harding.91666629
A vintage review of John Wesley Harding.89315117
This article is all about Great White Wonder, which has the distinction of being the first notable rock bootleg ever. It contained early Dylan outtakes and songs that would later appear on The Basement Tapes.91258650
A vintage, unbelievably fair review of Self-Portrait, the album which inspired Greil Marcus to write in Rolling Stone: "What is this shit?" 355060892
Even in 1973, before Ticketmaster, people had trouble getting concert tickets.91063719
Dylan pops up at LES club Other End in 1975: New York "was too exciting to leave."79654821
An article on the doomed Dylan film Renaldo And Clara, which was so true, it was never commercially released.110753982