"The Methuselah of Righteous Cool"

http://uncut.co.uk/music/bob_dylan/reviews/12229

http://www.mercurynews.com/music/ci_10669849

Bob brought it to out-of-the-way Oneonta, N.Y. last night. Particularly enjoyed songs 4,5,6&7. This could be the end of the trail for guitarist Denny Freeman. We shall see…

1. The Wicked Messenger
2. It Ain’t Me, Babe
3. The Levee’s Gonna Break
4. My Back Pages
5. High Water (for Charley Patton)
6. Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
7. Ballad of a Thin Man
8. Honest with Me
9. Workingman’s Blues #2
10. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum
11. When the Deal Goes Down
12. Highway 61 Revisited
13. Nettie Moore
14. Thunder on the Mountain
15. Like a Rolling Stone
encore
16. All Along the Watchtower
17. Blowing in the Wind (Bob on guitar 😮 )

“Isis Magazine reports that when Bob Dylan went into a studio last October to record music for an upcoming film, starring Renée Zellweger and Forest Whitaker, he liked the recordings so much he decided to work on his own new record. The currently untitled album was recorded in California and the final ten tracks were sequenced in January, Isis reports.

“The album, which started out as a soundtrack to the Oliver Dahan-directed film My Own Love Song, is being sampled in Europe before getting an official release date. “Jeff Rosen has brought the finished album to Europe for listening sessions in various cities including London, Munich and Oslo,” sources said.

“These are the first details from a reputable source (Isis and Uncut) about the long-rumored follow-up to Dylan’s 2006 LP, Modern Times. It will be Bob Dylan’s 33rd studio album.”

– – www.twentyfourbit.com

Someone’s got it in for me, they’re planting stories in the press
Whoever it is I wish they’d cut it out but when they will I can only guess.

http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bobdylan/articles/story/26445175/dylan_records_surprise_modern_times_followup

Expectations rising…no mention of tutus here…bring it, Bob.

TITLE-TRACK BLUES
Ben Greenman, The New Yorker

Information continues to trickle out about Bob Dylan’s as yet unnamed upcoming new album—including, possibly, the title. As a result of a listing on a Norwegian Web site, fans have started speculating that the new album will be called “I Feel a Change Coming On.” According to David Fricke’s recent article in Rolling Stone, that is also the name of one of the ten originals on the new record. It seems unlikely, though not impossible, that both of these things are true. While there are artists who tend to put title songs on nearly every record, from Prince (“1999,” “Purple Rain,” “Sign ‘o’ The Times”) to Michael Jackson (“Off the Wall,” “Thriller,” “Bad”), Dylan rarely follows this practice. Of his thirty-odd albums, only a fraction use song titles as album titles (“The Times They Are A-Changin’,” “Highway 61 Revisited,” “John Wesley Harding,” “New Morning,” “Shot of Love,” “Under the Red Sky”). There’s no song named “Blonde on Blonde,” no song named “Blood on the Tracks,” no song named “Infidels,” and no title songs for his most recent trilogy: “Time Out of Mind,” “Love and Theft,” “Modern Times.” Do you think that the Dylan album will actually be named “I Feel a Change Coming On,” or do you feel a title change coming on?

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Pure conjecture so far, Laf. Over at theneverendingpool.com, it’s been spouted that Bob will be hooking up with a “Classic Rock” act(s), to begin this summer on the Left Coast. Frankly, I’d rather see him fly solo.