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David Bowie's love affair with Bob Dylan's Time out of Mind
David Bowie’s secret dialogue with Bob Dylan and the miracle chord that ties them together.
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It’s all over now Joni’s blue
Joni Mitchell covers Bob Dylan and some of the things she’s said
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Why Knockin’ on Heavens Door is Bob Dylan's most perfect song
It may be potentially dangerous to say this, but “Knockin’ on Heavens Door” is Bob Dylan’s most perfect recording. In his entire catalogue. And I can…
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In memory of Rick Danko
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The great John Hiat
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Beatty Zimmerman talks Bob Dylan's early years and road to fame
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Joni Mitchell in her own words
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Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks: The Untold Story
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The Cutting Edge an end to the myth of Bob Dylan as a one-take artist
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Bob Dylan at Forest Hills, 40 Years Later
2015: Inside the stadium, the stage was way out on the field, nowhere near the seats in the stands. As night fell, the air became cold, as if the…
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Is John Wesley Harding Dylan’s greatest album?
John Wesley Harding is one of my top favorite Dylan albums and it may even make more sense now. It may well be his greatest album.
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Where it started for The Wallflowers,
1992: Everything about the Wallflowers suggests that they want to be heard as a band for the music they play and nothing else.
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Vacuuming with Trompe Le Monde
A sarcastic 1992 review of The Pixies by Peter Stone Brown, but you can't have it all I guess.
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The Great Willie Dixon
Peter Stone Brown's tribute to the late great Willie Dixon from 1992
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Van Morrison: Hymns to the silence, it's been the same song
1991: With his last album Enlightenment, Van Morrison woke up. There'd been signs through the last half of the '80s that he would
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The Joker and the Thief — Newsletter
The Joker and the Thief — Newsletter
Archive and writings of Peter Stone Brown (1951 to 2019) a singer-songwriter, freelance writer, music editor for a Philadelphia alternative weekly, and onetime WXPN DJ as well as articles and Bob Dylan content from Trev Gibb.
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David Bowie's love affair with Bob Dylan's Time out of Mind
David Bowie’s secret dialogue with Bob Dylan and the miracle chord that ties them together.
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Dylan: Down, not grooving
A couple of things are immediately apparent: First, Dylan could care less about selling record. Rumors had been circulating for months that CBS did not…
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Why Knockin’ on Heavens Door is Bob Dylan's most perfect song
It may be potentially dangerous to say this, but “Knockin’ on Heavens Door” is Bob Dylan’s most perfect recording. In his entire catalogue. And I can…
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Reviving A Memory: Dylan and the Band at Symphony Hall 1965
I didn’t know it at the time, but I wouldn’t see Bob Dylan again until more than eight years later in January 1974.
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Bob Dylan at Forest Hills, 40 Years Later
2015: Inside the stadium, the stage was way out on the field, nowhere near the seats in the stands. As night fell, the air became cold, as if the…
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Bob Dylan at Kahuna Summer Stage, Wilmington, June 8 2004
At about 8 pm, I looked up at the stage and noticed Wilmington resident David Bromberg standing by the monitor mixing board.
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Larry Campbell the unsung hero of roots music
Check out this Larry Campbell interview with 'Liner Notes Legends'
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Bob Dylan on his son Jakob Dylan's success
I’m proud of his accomplishments. He’s still young, and he’s come a long way in a short time.
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Never Ending Tour

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Bob Dylan at Kahuna Summer Stage, Wilmington, June 8 2004
At about 8 pm, I looked up at the stage and noticed Wilmington resident David Bromberg standing by the monitor mixing board.
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Jeff Kramer and Oh Mercy
Peter talks about how Bob Dylan liked his Oh Mercy review.
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Bob Dylan Interstate '88 Series: PSBA stereo soundboard remix [Old Orchard Beach]
A soundboard remix in stereo of Bob Dylan's show at Old Orchard Beach Ballpark Portland, Maine, 3 July 1988
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Bob Dylan Interstate '88 Series: Stereo soundboard remix [Fiddlers Green, Colorado]
A soundboard remix in stereo of Bob Dylan's show at Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre Denver, Colorado 15 June 1988
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An old Larry Campbell story from way way back
The strangest gig he's ever had.
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Never seen no place like this before — Bob Dylan Fall ‘99
Bob Dylan’s fall ‘99 tour was one of his great and surprising runs. I can’t think of any other performer that I’ve seen who can pull that little trick…
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Bob Dylan Asbury Park — 14 August 2011
Standing to the left of the stage, there was times when Dylan’s profile with his white hat eerily brought me back to the ’75 Rolling Thunder tour.
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There is no one out there like him
People complain how Bob Dylan never talks to the audience, that he never gives interviews.
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Shut Up And Die Like An Aviator
Easily his best since his stunning debut Guitar Town. Steve Earle’s shredded voice adds a desperate quality to the proceedings.
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Bruce Springsteen Lucky Town and Human Touch
At 42, Springsteen is no longer the Jersey kid of romantic boardwalk nights and songs of escape. (1992)
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Bob Dylan on his son Jakob Dylan's success
I’m proud of his accomplishments. He’s still young, and he’s come a long way in a short time.
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Emmylou Harris 'At the Ryman' (Reprise)
Harris for the most part is in great form making this her best album in years.
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It was a very good year: when Bob Dylan released 39 discs of music
Bob Dylan released the 36 disc ‘Live 1966 Recordings’ an astounding document of his world tour that year and the 3 disc release of ‘Triplicate,’ his…
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The great Charlie Rich doing what he wants
No matter what Charlie Rich recorded in his roller coaster career, you could hear in his smoky Arkansas drawl that something deeper was going on.
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Farewell to the great Tony Brown (1949 to 2025)
Tony Brown, 75, bassist for Deliverance, The Harbor Band, The Montgomeries, Eric Andersen and Bob Dylan’s iconic 1975 album “Blood on the Tracks,” died…
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My Bob Dylan 'film' We Better Talk This Over gets a review from Cult Following
Daily Mirror journalist and editor at large of Cult Following spotlights the 1978 Bob Dylan 'documentary' We Better Talk This Over.
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