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Bob Dylan performs at Newport Folk Festival Aug. 2002; Dave Read photo
Bob Dylan performs at Newport Folk Festival Aug. 2002; Dave Read photo
Bob Dylan could have been The Poet of my generation, but he decided, instead, to become a Song & Dance man for the ages! I took my seat on the Dylan bandwagon a year or two before the release of Highway 61 Revisited, and attended the first of five dozen concerts ten years later, the 8th and 9th performances of The Rolling Thunder Review.

To score press credentials for his 2002 Newport Folk Festival performance, his only stop at that venue since plugging in there in 1965, is the coup of my career as a freelance reporter! This is the piece that did the trick for me: Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue party at Mama Frasca’s Dream Away Lodge

Completely Unknown
The Mississippi of the Mind
Soul Practitioner
Toward a New A.D.
Ballad of a Phatmann
The Lonesome Cohort of Bob Dylan
The Sophistry of Modern Bob
Zimmerman becomes Dylan
Bob Dylan and the tyranny of prize
The British Invasion
American Leviathans
OK
By Appointment of His Royal Bobness
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Indifference, of Bob Dylan’s Significance
By Appointment of His Royal Bobness
Dylan before market forces…
Dy(lan) No Mite
we forgot to read
Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture
Remembering Dave Van Ronk
Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue party at Mama Frasca’s Dream Away Lodge
Arlo Guthrie interviewed Nov. 1998 at The Guthrie Center
Dave Van Ronk interview, Jan. 21, 1999

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