Hard Rain & Slow Trains

The new HARD RAIN & SLOW TRAINS explores November 1963 and "Who Did It Better?" asks who did "Fixin' to Die" better: Bukka White live at The Cabale in Nov '63 or Dylan's first take (unreleased) for his debut album. Comment below & I will include those votes when calculating the winner.

“A Highway of Diamonds Podcast Episode · Hard Rain & Slow Trains: Bob Dylan & Fellow Travelers · 08/22/2025 · 1h 33m

HARD RAIN & SLOW TRAINS is back with "'A Highway of Diamonds': Bob Dylan in November of 1963." Listen for free to hear all about Dylan's Nov. of '63, including his reaction to JFK's assassination: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

‘A Complete Unknown’ to Release on Digital This Month, Sets 4K Blu-ray Release Dates The Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown, starring Timothee Chalamet, will release on digital on Feb. 25 and on Blu-ray on Apr. 1.

For those interested in the film A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, note that the blu-ray release will be including commentary by Mangold and other features: variety.com/2025/shoppin...

YouTube video by Real Time with Bill Maher New Rule: Everything Is Broken | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Bill Maher featured "Everything is Broken" as part of his most recent editorial. And he described Dylan as having a "well-earned victory lap": www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_sB...

YouTube video by Barry Goldberg - Topic It's Not the Spotlight

In 1973, Dylan co-produced Barry Goldberg's self-titled album with Jerry Wexler. It is the only non-Dylan album Dylan produced. Goldberg played keyboards in the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and accompanied Dylan at Newport 1965. He passed away yesterday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNYj...

This morning, Garth Hudson passed away. May he rest in peace an octave above.

Just heard of the passing of Peter Yarrow. His was a passion and earnestness that helped press the forward development of the musical score to the Civil Rights movement. Thanks, Pete, you will be remembered and your voice will echo through autumn mist and 'cross the sea.

Thank you to Bobserve.com for continuing Olof's work and posting the Yearly Chronicles!

Happy to share the 2024 Yearly Chronicle...on its new home at Bobserve.com. This is the earliest we've ever finished a Chronicle! Enjoy: bobserve.com/olof/2024%20...

Memory eternal, Jimmy Carter!

Returned from seeing A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: It is f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c! Hard to elaborate w/more than has been said in the 100s of reviews, although I may have one or two observations in my next radio episode, Chalamet's Dylan is a better Bob Dylan than Bob Dylan's Dylan was when on tour with Tom Petty.

This release is analogous to the 50th Anniversary Collections released for 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965 (digitally as a free give to those who purchased the Cutting Edge box set), 1969, and 1970.

No. These are tracks on the new (Europe only) 50th Anniversary Collection for 1974 which is now released on Apple Music and Spotify.

1974 Anniversary (Copyright) Edition forthcoming!

Noam Chomsky at 96: The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence Noam Chomsky’s notion of the human instinct for freedom ties together his many intellectual pursuits, from educating creative, independent citizens to rejecting social and economic hierarchies.

Happy birthday to Noam Chomsky, who turned 96 yesterday! theconversation.com/noam-chomsky...

Thanks!

Hello Blue Sky! It brings me great joy to finally be able to share with you all what some of us have been working on for the past year plus...a way for Olof Björner's online Dylan archive to continue on into the future: bobserve.substack.com/p/olofs-file...