I’M NOT THERE - BOB DYLAN 2007

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1 INTRODUCTION

The flood of releases continued this year. DVDs from the Newport Folk Festival 1963-65 and a deluxe box with Dont Look Back including a DVD with extra material, soundtrack to the movie I’m Not There and also a 3-CD deluxe box with 25 years of recordings and a deluxe presentation of The Traveling Wilburys catalogue. The Awards kept coming, two more Grammys and the prestigious Spanish Prince of Asturias award in the Arts category. This year also saw the first exhibition entirely devoted to the painting art of Bob Dylan as the Drawn Blank Series opened in Chemnitz, Geermany. And of course The Never Ending Tour did not end this year, the 2000^th show was played during the Fall Tour in Dayton, Ohio.

2 2007 AT A GLANCE

3 THE 2007 CALENDAR

3 January	Show # 35, “Women’s Names” in the Theme Time Radio Hour series is broadcast.
8 January	Bob Dylan's 32nd studio album, Modern Times, earns a Platinum Disc award from the R.I.A.A for sales of one million units in the USA.
11 February	At the 49^th annual Grammy Awards Bob Dylan is awarded two Grammys, one for Someday Baby in the category Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and for Modern Times in the category Best Contemporary Folk/American Album. This brings his total of Grammy Award wins to ten. Dylan did not turn up to receive his awards. He wasn’t there.
27 March	The annual tour of Europe starts again in Stockholm, Sweden, this time with a warm-up show at the small club Debaser Medis, with a capacity of 850 persons. The band and the set-list remain the same as when the previouis tour ended. This show features the first performance of Country Pie since Richmond, Virginia 15 August 2004.
12 April	First live performance of House Of The Risin' Sun since George, Washington 17 June 2000 at the show in Metro Radio Arena Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, England..
18 April	The last programme of the first Theme Time Radio Hour season, show # 50, “Spring Cleaning” is broadcast.
24 April	The soundtrack to Lucky You, containg the Dylan song Huck’s Tune recorded in Criteria Studios, Miami, Florida, 12-13 May 2006, is released.
5 May	After 28 shows in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands, Scotland, England, France, Switzerland and Italy the tour ends with a show in Herninghallen, Herning, Denmark, a venue as small as the one the tour started in.
7 May	The 2 disc DVD Dont Look Back 65 Tour Deluxe Edition is released. This set also includes a reprint of Pennebaker’s book Dont Look Back, originally published 1968, För more detail please refer to chapter 4.34.2. It also contains a flipbook showing the Subterranean Homesick Blues video.
24 May	To celebrate his 66th birthday, a 1.8 mile path called Bob Dylan Way is opened in Duluth, Minnesota, USA, marked by signs showing Bob Dylan with a guitar and microphone stand.
21 June	Bob Dylan and his band spend the last of four days rehearsing for their upcoming US tour at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Poughkeepsie, New York State.
22 June	The Never-Ending Tour rolls on with another US Summer tour starting with a show in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Same band, same set-list structure.
19 July	The show in Morrison, Colorado sports the first performance of Friend Of The Devil since Eugene, Oregon 5 October 2002.
28 July	The summer tour ends in Kelseyville, California.
8 August	A short 12-stop tour of Australia and New Zealand starts in Christchurch, New Zealand.
21 August	The show in Adelaide Entertainment Centre in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia sees the live debut of Beyond The Horizon.
27 August	The tour Down Under ends with a show in Auckland, New Zealand.
31 August	The film I'm Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, premieres at the Telluride Film Festival in Telluride, Colorado, USA. In the film, which claims to be 'Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan', six different actors depict separate facets of Dylan's life and public persona. Dylan himself does not appear.
19 September	The second season of Theme Time Radion Hour starts with a broadcast of the theme “Hello”.
19 September	Jack White plays electric guitar and sings with Dylan on Meet Me In The Morning at the first show in Nashville, Tennessee. This is strangely enough the first live Dylan performance of this song.
20 September	Jack White returns the next night and joins Dylan on Outlaw Blues, another first live version, and One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) which hasn’t been in the set since the early show at the Supper Club in New York City, New York, 17 November 1993.
21 September	Bob Dylan is named among the 50 Most Stylish Men of the Past 50 Years by men's magazine GQ, along with David Bowie and Elvis Presley.
22 September	Dylan joins the Atlanta-based Chabad-Lubavitch for Yom Kippur services.
24 September	Mark Ronson’s “re-version” of Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I’ll Go Mine) is released,
1 October	DYLAN 3 CD Deluxe Edition, containing original remastered recordings from Bob Dylan 1962 to last year’s Modern Times is released.
16 October	Concert # 2000 of The Never-Ending Tour is played in Dayton, Ohio.
22 October	Elvis Costello joins Dylan for a duet on Tears Of Rage during the show in St. Louis, Missouri.
26 October	Bob Dylan is given the Spanish Prince of Asturias award in the Arts category. The award constss of €50,000 and a sculpture of Joan Miró as well as a diplom and an insignia. Dylan did not attend the prize ceremony. He wasn’t there.
28 October	The Bob Dylan art exhibition The Drawn Blank Series opens in Chemnitz, Germany. The exhibition shows 200 paintings based on drawings and sketches published in the Drawn Blank book. The paintings are in watercolour and gouache. Dylan did not attend the opening. He wasn’t there.
29 October	Bob Dylan - The Other Side Of The Mirror - Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 DVD is released. For more details see chapter 4.5.
29 October	Elvis Costello and Amos Lee joins Dylan for a duet on I Shall Be Released at the last show of the Fall tour in Chicago, Illinois, 29 October.
30 October	The soundtrack to I’m Not There is released. It contains the song I’m Not There (1956) from The Basement Tapes. For more details see chapter 4.6.
10 November	Jeffrey Owen Jones, the Rochester Institute of Technology film professor reputed to be the "Mr. Jones" in Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man, dies of lung cancer.
3 December	The Traveling Wilburys Collection (CD + DVD) is released. For more details see chapter 4.7.

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4 NEW RELEASES AND RECORDINGS

4.1 Lucky You

Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax 8276 89625 2, released 24 April 2007.

The album contains the following tracks:

	Song	Artist
1.	Lucky Town	Bruce Springsteen
2.	Dance Me To The End Of Love	Madeleine Peyroux
3.	Choices	George Jones
4.	Maybe This Time	Liza Minelli
5.	The Fever	Bruce Springsteen
6.	Bartender's Blues	Bonnie Raitt
7.	They Ain't Got 'Em All	Kris Kristofferson
8.	The Cold Hard Truth	Drew Barrymore
9.	Like A Rolling Stone	Bob Dylan (album version)
10.	Let It Ride	Ryan Adams
11.	I Always Get Lucky With You (Single Version)	George Jones
12.	Huck's Tune	Bob Dylan

Please refer to the recording session page for more detailed information.

4.2 Dont Look Back - 65 Tour Exclusive Edition

Sony BMG Musical Entertainment 82876832139, released 7 May 2007.
This product contains

· DVD 1: Dont Look Back, as previously released on VHS and DVD.

· DVD 2: Bob Dylan 65 Revisited – outtakes and extra material as described below, 66 minutes.

· A flipbook called Bob Dylan Dont Look Back Subterranean Homesick Blues showing the video from the film

· A reprint of D.A. Pennebaker: Dont Look Back, originally published by Ballantine Books in 1968.

Here’s a rundown of what’s on the second DVD:

· working at piano on what later turns into It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry and going aboard a plane in New York City.

· BBC “Teen Scene” interview at London Airport

· fans

· Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right from unidentified concert over credits

· interview

· leaving for photoshop

· Wild Mountain Thyme with Bob Dylan and Joan Baez in hotel

· Albert Grossman is briefly interviewed

· backstage at City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 April

· Love Minus Zero/No Limit - soundcheck from City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 April

· To Ramona from the concert in City Hall, Sheffield, England, 30 April

· meeting fans in Sheffield and Liverpool the next day

· It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue from the concert at Odeon in Liverpool 1 May

· working at piano on It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry probably in Leicester 2 May

· with a group in Leicester 2 May

· the end of The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll from De Montford Hall, Leicester 2 May

· interview

· typing away in hotel room

· Sweetheart Remember Me performed in hotel in London

· It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) from the concert in Town Hall, Birmingham 5 May

· shopping for clothes in Newcastle

· It Ain’t Me, Babe from the concert in City Hall, Newcastle 6 May

· shots from Newcastle railway station

· arriving in Manchester

· talking backstage at Free Trade Hall, Manchester 7 May

· If You Gotta Go, Go Now from the concert in Free Trade Hall, Manchester 7 May

· Nico ad Albert Grossman talking

· Let Me Die In My Footsteps – hotel performance, with song without words

· discussing how to exit safely after show

· going to Royal Albert Hall in London

· Dylan playng piano backstage

· She Belongs To Me from the first London show in Royal Albert Hall 9 May

· piano backstage 10 May

· I’ll Keep It With Mine on piano and harmonica over end credits

· Subterranean Homesick Blues – windy rooftop version

Reference. Ian Woodward: The Wicked Messenger, item 6191, Isis # 131, page 14.

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4.3 Mark Ronson’s Most Likely Re-version

CD-single 1:

Sony BMG 88697163242, released 24 September:

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) – Mark Ronson overdub version

2. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) – original Blonde On Blonde version

CD-single 2:

Sony BMG 88697163192, released 24 September:

1. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) – Mark Ronson overdub version

2. Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) – original Blonde On Blonde version

3. Down Along The Cove – from Bonnaroo Music Festival 11 June 2004.

4.4 DYLAN

3 CD Deluxe Edition, Columbia 88697114202, released 1 October 2007. Original recordings remastered,

CD 1:

	Song	Originally released on
1	Song To Woody	Bob Dylan
2	Blowin' In The Wind	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
3	Masters Of War	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
4	Don't Think Twice, It's All Right	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
5	A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall	The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan
6	The Times They Are A-Changin'	The Times They Are A-Changin'
7	All I Really Want To Do	Another Side of Bob Dylan
8	My Back Pages	Another Side of Bob Dylan
9	It Ain't Me Babe	Another Side of Bob Dylan
10	Subterranean Homesick Blues	Bringing It All Back Home
11	Mr. Tambourine Man	Bringing It All Back Home
12	Maggie's Farm	Bringing It All Back Home
13	Like A Rolling Stone	Highway 61 Revisited
14	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	Bringing It All Back Home
15	Positively 4th Street	Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits
16	Rainy Day Women #12 & 35	Blonde On Blonde
17	Just Like A Woman	Blonde On Blonde
18	Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)	Blonde On Blonde
19	All Along The Watchtower	John Wesley Harding

CD 2:

	Song	Originally released on
1	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere	The Basement Tapes
2	Lay, Lady, Lay	Nashville Skyline
3	If Not For You	New Morning
4	I Shall Be Released	Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Vol. II
5	Knockin' On Heaven's Door	Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
6	On A Night Like This	Planet Waves
7	Forever Young	Planet Waves
8	Tangled Up In Blue	Blood On The Tracks
9	Simple Twist Of Fate	Blood On The Tracks
10	Hurricane	Desire
11	Changing Of The Guards	Street Legal
12	Gotta Serve Somebody	Slow Train Coming
13	Precious Angel	Slow Train Coming
14	The Groom's Still Waiting At The	Shot Of Love
15	Jokerman	Infidels
16	Dark Eyes	Empire Burlesque

CD 3:

	Song	Originally released on
1	Blind Willie McTell	The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3
2	Brownsville Girl	Knocked Out Loaded
3	Silvio Bob Dylan	Down In The Groove
4	Ring Them Bells	Oh Mercy
5	Dignity (Alternate Version)	Oh Mercy outtake
6	Everything Is Broken	Oh Mercy
7	Under The Red Sky	Under The Red Sky
8	You're Gonna Quit Me	Good As I Been To You
9	Blood In My Eyes	World Gone Wrong
10	Not Dark Yet	Time Out Of Mind
11	Things Have Changed	Wonder Boys soundtrack
12	Make You Feel My Love	Time Out Of Mind
13	High Water (For Charley Patton)	“Love And Theft”
14	Po' Boy	“Love And Theft”
15	Someday Baby	Modern Times
16	When The Deal Goes Down	Modern Times

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4.5 The Other Side Of The Mirror

The full title is The Other Side Of The Mirror. Bob Dylan Live at The Newport Folk Festical 1063-1965. Columbia 88697144669, released 29 October 2007. The DVD running time is 83 minutes and contains the following performances:

Year	Song	Occasion	Date	Note
1963	North Country Blues	Afternoon workshop	26 July
	With God On Our Side	Afternoon workshop four first verses, last three verses from Joan Baez set	26 July 27 July
	Talkin’ World War III Blues	Evening concert	26 July
	Who Killed Davey Moore?	Topical song workshop	27 July
	Only A Pawn In Their Game	Evening concert	26 July
	Blowin’ In The Wind	Evening finale	26 July
1964	Mr. Tambourine Man	Afternoon workshop	24 July
	Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right	Night peformance	24 July	Johnny Cash
	Mary Hamilton	Night peformance	24 July	Joan Baez
	It Ain’t Me, Babe	Evening concert	24 July
	Interview			Joan Baez
	With God On Our Side	Concert	26 July
	Chimes Of Freedom	Concert	26 July
1965	All I Really Want To Do	Workshop	24 July
	Love Minus Zero/No Limit	Workshop	24 July
	Maggie's Farm/ Like A Rolling Stone	Rehearsal/Soundcheck	26 July
	Maggie's Farm	Concert	26 July
	Like A Rolling Stone	Concert	26 July
	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	Concert	26 July
	Mr. Tambourine Man	Concert	26 July

For a detailed analysis of the Newport Folk Festival performances by Bob Dylan, please refer to”Re-tracking Dylan 1 (Dylan At Newport)” by Ian Woodward, ISIS Issue 135, November-December 2007, pp 46-51.

4.6 Music From The Motion Picture I’m Not There

Sony Music Soundtrax 88697 12038-2, released 30 October 2007.

This is a double CD with the following songs:

	Disc 1:
1	Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers	All Along The Watchtower
2	Sonic Youth	I'm Not There
3	Jim James & Calexico	Goin' To Acapulco
4	Richie Havens	Tombstone Blues
5	Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers	Ballad Of A Thin Man
6	Cat Power	Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
7	John Doe	Pressing On
8	Yo La Tengo	Fourth Time Around
9	Iron And Wine & Calexico	Dark Eyes
10	Karen O & The Million Dollar Bashers	Highway 61 Revisited
11	Roger McGuinn & Calexico	One More Cup Of Coffee
12	Mason Jennings	The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll
13	Los Lobos 4	Billy 1
14	Jeff Tweedy	Simple Twist Of Fate
15	Mark Lanegan	Man In The Long Black Coat
16	Willie Nelson & Calexico	Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
	Disc 2:
1	Mira Billotte	As I Went Out One Morning
2	Stephen Malkmus and Lee Ranaldo	Can't Leave Her Behind
3	Sufjan Stevens	Ring Them Bells
4	Charlotte Gainsbourg & Calexico	Just Like A Woman
5	Jack Johnson	Mama You've Been On My Mind / A Fraction of Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
6	Yo La Tengo	I Wanna Be Your Lover
7	Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
8	The Hold Steady	Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?
9	Ramblin' Jack Elliott	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues
10	The Black Keys	The Wicked Messenger
11	Tom Verlaine & The Million Dollar Bashers	Cold Irons Bound
12	Mason Jennings	The Times They Are A Changin'
13	Stephen Malkmus & The Million Dollar Bashers	Maggie's Farm
14	Marcus Carl Franklin	When The Ship Comes In
15	Bob Forrest	Moonshiner
16	John Doe	I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine
17	Antony And The Johnsons	Knockin' On Heaven's Door
18	Bob Dylan with The Band	I'm Not There

4.7 The Traveling Wilburys Collection

Rhino R2 167868, released 3 December 2007. A double CD + DVD product:

Volume 1 contains the album Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 + bonus tracks Like A Ship and Maxine, previously unreleased. For more details please refer to the session page for 7-17 May 1988.

Volume 2 is a DVD containing a film entitled The True History of The Traveling Wilburys anf the following promo videos: Handle With Care, End Of The Line, Inside Out, She’s My Baby and Wilbury Twist.

Volume 3 contains the album Traveling Wilburys Volume 3 + bonus tracks, the singles Runaway and Nobody’s Child. For more details please refer to the session page for April 1990.

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