BOB DYLAN - ISIS MAGAZINE

Dylan's Revisionist Art: Thirty New Works.

New feature article - Review of Gagosian Gallery exhibition by Anne Margaret Daniel.

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Derek Barker's "Access All Areas" (blog) section has been updated with further news regarding The Bootleg Series 10.

Full details Here

The "Access All Areas" section has been updated today with news regarding touring in 2013.

Full details Here

Previously unreleased material from the 1962 Freewheelin' Recording Sessions will be released by BDA records in mid February 2013.

This item will be available from ISIS magazine in advance of the official release date.

For further details and to pre-order, click here

The Finjan Club tape from 1962 will be released by BDA records in mid January 2013. The live CD, which I’m told is excellent audio quality, represents one of the most important documents of Bob Dylan’s early career.

This item will be available from ISIS magazine in advance of the official release date.

For further details and to pre-order, click here

"SILHOUETTED BY THE SEA"
THE SOUTHSEA BOB DYLAN CONVENTION, 2012

A weekend celebrating 50 years of recording history!

FRIDAY DECEMBER 14

The R.M.A. Tavern, 58, Cromwell Rd., Eastney, Portsmouth PO4 9PN from 6 p.m. until late

Friday night get together, including a Bob Dylan related open mic night, including contributions from top local musicians, Dylan videos on the big screen, and Dylan audio on the sound system.

SATURDAY DECEMBER 15

The R.M.A. Tavern, 58, Cromwell Rd., Eastney, Portsmouth PO4 9PN - 12 noon - 6 p.m.

C.P LEE in performance, and also presents a talk about Bob Dylan's 1966 tour.

THE DYLAN QUIZ with your quizmaster STUART TAYLOR!

Videos on the big screen, Dylan on the sound system!

All day "swap meet" - bring your unwanted Dylan items and stall out!

 ISIS Magazine will have a stall selling books, magazines, CDs, DVDs and Vinyl

at much reduced prices, NO postage!

The Cellars At Eastney, 56 Cromwell Rd., Eastney, Portsmouth PO4 9PN - 8 p.m. - 11.30 p.m.

THE DYLAN PROJECT - the best Dylan tribute EVER!

(STEVE GIBBONS with GERRY CONWAY & DAVE PEGG from FAIRPORT CONVENTION,

P.J. WRIGHT from LITTLE JOHNNY ENGLAND & PHIL BOND from STEVE GIBBONS BAND)

Support from BEMIS- presenting a set of acoustic Dylan & The Band covers .

And... C. P. LEE presents a short set of LORD BUCKLEY raps!

The R.M.A. Tavern, 58 Cromwell Rd., Eastney, Portsmouth PO4 9PN - 11.30 p.m. - 2 a.m

Apres gig together, videos on the big screen., and Bob Dylan related open mic night,

with a great P.A. - all performers welcome!

SUNDAY DECEMBER 16th

The R.M.A. Tavern, 58 Cromwell Rd., Eastney, Portsmouth PO49PN - 12 noon - 4 p.m.

Derek Barker's "Access All Areas" (blog) section has been updated with further news relating to the Dylan Art Exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, NYC.

Full details Here

Derek Barker's "Access All Areas" (blog) section has been updated with news relating to a new Dylan Art Exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, NYC.

Full details Here

Derek Barker's "Access All Areas" (blog) section has been updated with news relating to future "The Bootleg Series" releases.

Full details Here

History Detectives

Those of in the UK and Europe who have access to PBS should look out for the Dylan / Newport Guitar episode of History Detectives. In the UK it is available in PBS Channel, Sky 166, Virgin Media 243 on Thursday, October 18, 2012.

Michael Gray’s excellent live “Bob Dylan & The Poetry Of The Blues” tour will be back on the road this autumn. Michael’s shows, which include a talk with “loud music and rare footage”, will be making stops in Northern Island, Scotland and England. Interestingly (for Derek & Tracy) Michael will be doing a “gig” just down the road from us, literally, in the small town of Bedworth, home to ISIS magazine. Derek & Tracy will be attending and look forward to meeting ISIS subscribers there.

The event is on Friday October 26, 2012. The venue, which has a large car park adjacent, is Bedworth Arts Centre, High Street, Bedworth, Warwickshire CV12 8NF. The evening begins at 8pm; all tickets £10, on sale now from: Box Office 024 7664 3255 and online

Bedworth (between Coventry and Nuneaton) is only a couple of miles from Junction 3 of the M6 motorway

A full list of dates can be found Here

Last Night's Show

Dylan's Fall Tour of North America began on October 5, 2012 at the MTS Centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As expected the band remains unchanged. Also, as predicted, the more usual 17-song sets have been pared back a couple of songs to 15.

The show kicked off with 'Watching The River Flow' with Bob on electric keyboard. The next two numbers, 'It Ain't Me, Babe' and 'Things Have Changed', saw Bob move to guitar before retreating to the baby grand for most of the rest of the show.

I'm sure we were all anticipating Bob playing something from "Tempest" and although we only got one song, the beautiful 'Scarlet Town', he didn't disappoint. No doubt as the tour progresses we'll get to hear more live renditions from the new album.

1. Watching The River Flow (Bob on Korg keyboard) 

2. It Ain't Me, Babe (Bob on guitar) 

3. Things Have Changed (Bob on guitar) 

4. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob on piano) 

5. Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum (Bob on piano) 

6. This Dream Of You (Bob on piano and harp) 

7. Summer Days (Bob on piano) 

8. Desolation Row (Bob on piano) 

9. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on piano) 

10. Scarlet Town (Bob on piano) 

11. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on piano) 

12. Ballad Of a Thin Man (Bob centre stage with harp) 

13. Like a Rolling Stone (Bob on piano) 

14. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on piano) 

15. Blowin' In The Wind (Bob on piano, then centre stage with harp) 

Charity Competition

Thanks to you generous Dylan fans, we raised a staggering £1,075 towards Tom’s charity goal. With his own efforts, he’s now reached his minimum target of £2,000 and is set to make at least £2,500 by the time he leaves for Kilimanjaro on October 17^th. The company he and his fellow 9 team-mates works for, Computacenter, will be doubling this with their own donation to the cause.

Tom popped in to see me on September 15th, after one of his training walks, and we drew the winners for the competition ... or rather Jane did this. Every entry had a raffle ticket with their name on it ... £1075 raised at £5 making 215 entries from 75 individuals.

Winners were:

Limited Edition promo iPod – Graham Stephenson

Promo flash drive – Colin Warren

Promo notepad – Kim Larsen

The winners have been notified individually.

Bob Dylan: Duquesne Whistle - video exclusive

Available online Here

Information regarding the many marketing promotions allied with the upcoming release of "Tempest", including a single release, advanced streaming to mobiles, pop up stores and more is available Here

Song Premiere: Bob Dylan, 'Duquesne Whistle' Listen Here

For the final encore of the August 26 Cincinnati show, Bob Dylan was joined by sisters Regina, Ann, Deborah and Alfreda McCrary for Blowin’ In The Wind. Regina McCrary was one of Dylan's backup singers on the 1979-81 tours. She also appeared on the "Slow Train Coming", "Saved" and "Shot Of Love" albums.

August 10, 2012 Lloydminster, Saskatchewan

Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat  

Don't Think Twice, It's All Right

Things Have Changed

Tangled Up In Blue

Rollin' And Tumblin'

Sugar Baby

Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum

Tryin' To Get To Heaven

Summer Days

Desolation Row

Highway 61 Revisited

Simple Twist Of Fate

Thunder On The Mountain

Ballad Of A Thin Man

Like A Rolling Stone

All Along The Watchtower

Blowin' In The Wind

The Summer US Tour began August 10 in Lloydminster, Saskatchewan. The band remains unchanged and this first 17-song setlist shows little change from the previous tour. Bob Dylan is again playing piano, harp, guitar and keyboard.

On 17th October 2012 my son Tom will be part of the intrepid Computacenter team attempting to conquer the world’s highest freestanding mountain. At nearly 6,000m Mt. Kilimanjaro is one of the largest volcanoes ever to break the earth’s crust. This challenge is more than just a matter of physical exertion and pushing themselves to new limits .... the goal ahead is about fundraising, so please do all you can to support their chosen charities for this year - Help For Heroes, Great Ormond Street Hospital and Macmillan Cancer Support. 

For Dylan fans, each £5 you donate will give you an entry to a competition for one of 3 Bob Dylan promotional prizes including a rare numbered Limited Edition promo iPod Nano, loaded with the “Dylan” 3CD set (on Columbia/Legacy from Oct ’07)

For further details go to http://charitysupport.webgage.com/

If the site is busy, please try again later.

John's funeral will be at 1.30.p.m. on Tuesday 7th August at Templepatrick Presbyterian Church, 750 Antrim Road, Templepatrick, Ballyclare, BT39 0AP.

After there will be a memorial service at The Dunadry Hotel, 2 Islandreagh Drive, Dunadry, BT 41 2HA.

Bob Dylan's single 'Early Roman Kings', from the upcoming "Tempest" album will be available for download on August 7. However, almost half of the track can now be heard on a video advertisement for the second season of the Cinemax US televison series, "Strike Back". The track 'Scarlet Town', also from "Tempest", will premiere on the program August 17. Listen to 'Early Roman Kings'  Here

August 1st Mikal Gilmore review of "Tempest" for Rolling Stone Magazine. Here

LA Times review by By Randy Lewis. Here

Sony has now confirmed prices for "Tempest" (3 formats).

ISIS is now taking pre-orders, please see the CD and Vinyl sections.

The Access All Areas (blog) has been updated with the sad news regarding the passing of our dear friend John Hume. Here

Dylan / Knopfler Tour 2012

Oct 05 - Winnipeg, MB - MTS Centre 

Oct 06 - Regina, SK -  Brandt Centre

Oct 08 - Saskatoon, SK -  Credit Union Centre

Oct 09 - Edmonton, AB -  Rexall Place 

Oct 10 - Calgary, AB -  Scotiabank Saddledome

Oct 12 - Vancouver, BC -  Rogers Arena Rogers Arena

Oct 13 - Seattle, WA -  Key Arena

Oct 15 - Portland, OR -  Rose Garden Arena 

Oct 17 - San Francisco, CA -  Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Oct 18 - San Francisco, CA -  Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Oct 19 - Berkeley, CA -  Greek Theatre

Oct 20 - Sacramento, CA -  Power Balance Pavillion Power

Oct 22 - Santa Barbara, CA -  Santa Barbara County Bowl

Oct 24 - San Diego, CA -  Valley View Casino Center 

Oct 26 - Los Angeles, CA -  Hollywood Bowl

Oct 29 - Broomfield, CO -  1st Bank Center

Oct 30 - Broomfield, CO -  1st Bank Center

Nov 01 - Grand Prairie, TX -  Verizon Theatre

Nov 02 - Tulsa, OK -  BOK Center

Nov 03 - Omaha, NE -  CenturyLink Center

Nov 05 - Madison, WI -  Alliant Energy Center

Nov 07 - St. Paul, MN -  Xcel Energy Center 

Nov 08 - Milwaukee, WI -  BMO Harris Bradley Center 

Nov 09 - Chicago, IL -  United Center

Nov 12 - Grand Rapids, MI -  Van Andel Arena

Nov 13 - Detroit, MI -  Palace of Auburn Hills

Nov 14 - Toronto, ON -  Air Canada Centre

Nov 16 - Montreal, QC -  Bell Centre Bell Centre

Nov 18 - Boston, MA TD Banknorth Garden 

Nov 19 - Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center

Nov 20 - Washington, DC Verizon Center

Nov 21 - Brooklyn, NY Barclays Center

Access All Areas (blog) has been updated with "A Few Random Thoughts On Tempest"

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New Album Formats

I have spent much of today trying to confirm the various formats for the new Bob Dylan album, “Tempest”. Unfortunately, Sony UK were as much in the dark as we were. However, some information has been forthcoming and I have now seen a Press Release made by Sony, Germany, which covers many of the important aspects of the album. There will be:–

1) A “standard” CD jewel case release.

2) A “deluxe” CD release.*

3) A double vinyl LP release.

4) iTunes release.

*Whilst it is extremely unlikely that the “deluxe” CD release will contain any extra music, confirmation of differences between the two releases has not yet been confirmed. It seems likely however, that the deluxe edition but will contain more paper, i.e. a deluxe booklet of some sort.

Currently, Sony UK does not have prices for these products but as soon as the details are confirmed ISIS will take pre-release orders as usual.  Stay tuned!

Possible origin for "Tempest" cover artwork - Here

New Bob Dylan Studio Album

Bob Dylan’s new studio album is scheduled for release on September 11, 2012. Produced by Bob Dylan under his Jack Frost pseudonym, the album is entitled “Tempest”.

As stated previously in ISIS the album will contain 10 tracks:

1. Duquesne Whistle

2. Soon After Midnight

3. Narrow Way

4. Long and Wasted Years

5. Pay In Blood

6. Scarlet Town

7. Early Roman Kings

8. Tin Angel

9. Tempest

10. Roll On John

As stated in the new issue of ISIS (to be mailed later this week) the album is said by those who have heard it to be Dylan’s best for quite some time.

If our previous information is correct, the 10-song album is 68 minutes long and contains songs about Titanic and John Lennon.

Available to pre-order from ISIS as soon as price is confirmed by Sony UK.

Access All Areas (Blog) has been updated with a review of last nights German show.

Full details HERE

Hop Farm Set List

1. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat (Bob on Korg keyboard) 
2. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Bob on guitar) 
3. Things Have Changed (Bob centre stage with harp) 
4. Tangled Up In Blue (Bob centre stage with harp) 
5. Cry a While (Bob center stage with harp) 
6. Love Sick (Bob on grand piano) 
7. Ballad Of Hollis Brown (Bob centre stage with harp) 
8. Spirit On The Water (Bob on grand piano) 
9. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Bob centre stage with harp) 
10. A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (Bob on grand piano) 
11. Highway 61 Revisited (Bob on grand piano) 
12. Can’t Wait (Bob on grand piano) 
13. Thunder On The Mountain (Bob on grand piano) 
14. Ballad Of AaThin Man (Bob centre stage with harp) 
15. Like a Rolling Stone (Bob on grand piano) 
16. All Along The Watchtower (Bob on grand piano)

Also see Access All Areas

Photo: Neil Carver-Smith

More Tour Dates Added

September 2: Bethel Woods Center for the Arts, Bethel, New York, USA (Capacity 15,000)
September 6: Artpark, Lewiston, New York, USA (Capacity 15,000)
September 7: Mountain Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA (Capacity ?)        
September 8: Mohegan Sun Arena, Uncasville, Connecticut, USA (Capacity 10,000)
September 9: Star Pavilion, Hershey, Pennsylvania, USA (Capacity 8,000)

Further Tour Dates Added

August 15: Rimrock Auto Arena at MetraPark,  Billings, Montana, USA

August 21: Taylor Arena, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Summer North American Tour Dates

Hop Farm Festival, Fun & Food

Mr. Bob and Mark Knopfler

As stated in ISIS back in February, Bob Dylan and Mark Knopfler will tour the United States together this Fall. After the success of their joint tour of Europe, Dylan and Knopfler will play concerts in the Upper Midwest and down the East Coast of America. By the time this tour starts both artists should have new albums to promote!

The Times They Are A-Changin’

Emails have been received by ticket holders regarding a change in the start time of the July 15 concert in Nimes, France. The email states that instead of starting at 8.30 pm as indicated on the tickets and at the presales, the start time has been brought forward half-an-hour to 8 pm. All tickets will remain valid.

Photos of Bob at the Presidential Medal Award Ceremony

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2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom Award Ceremony

Today, Tuesday May 29, Bob Dylan will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom in an East Room ceremony at the White House at which President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will be present.

The event can be seen live at 3:25pm (ET). Further details Here.

Bob Dylan’s New Album: The Story So Far

Bob Dylan on Pawn Stars

The episode entitled “Like A Rolling Chum” with Chumlee tracking down Dylan to sign a copy of “Self Portrait” will be shown on Virgin Channel 242 and Sky Channel 156 at 3.00pm and again at 5.30pm (UK time) on Sunday May 27.

Bob Dylan Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

Bob Dylan has been named by President Barack Obama as one of 13 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Medal of Freedom is the United States of America’s highest civilian honour. The medal recognizes those individuals who have made “an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavours”. It was established in 1963 and replaced the earlier Medal of Freedom that was established by President Harry S. Truman in 1945.

President Obama said, “These extraordinary honourees come from different backgrounds and different walks of life, but each of them has made a lasting contribution to the life of our Nation. They’ve challenged us, they’ve inspired us, and they’ve made the world a better place. I look forward to recognizing them with this award.”

The announcement was made on April 26, 2012. The awards will be presented at the White House in late spring.

The Minneapolis Hotel Tape & The Gaslight Café CD

Released in the UK on CD by BDA Records on May 8, 2012 (but available to pre order NOW from ISIS), “The Minneapolis Hotel Tape & The Gaslight Café” follows BDA’s releases of the Carnegie Chapter Hall concert and the Minneapolis Party Tape earlier this year (2012). Recorded in September and December 1961, both of these new recordings are presented in superb quality, especially considering the early dates of the recordings and the type of equipment used. The CD features all six songs from Dylan’s Gaslight Café set and 18 of the songs performed at the home of Bonnie Beecher in Minneapolis on December 22, 1961. For copyright reasons, BDA has omitted tracks previously released by Columbia Records. This release is presented in deluxe packaging with a booklet of notes. Order your copy HERE

New Tour Date Announced - July 16, 2012

After much talk about the possibility of Bob Dylan playing several festivals in Italy, confirmation has just arrived that he will appear at a literary and music festival in Barolo. The four-day “Collisioni Festival” (Collision Festival) runs from July 13-16 with Dylan appearing on the final evening. The event will take place in the Piazza Colbert in Barolo, Italy. Capacity 4,000. Tickets on sale April 18. This concert, the only Italian show, helps to fill the previous gap between shows in France on July 15 and 18.

Levon Helm

Levon Helm in the Final Stages of his Battle with Cancer

For The Love Of The Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival

ISIS has just been informed that a new documentary film celebrating the roots of the Cambridge, Massachusetts folk music scene will premiere at the 2012 Boston International Film Festival on Tuesday April 17, 2012.

ISIS subscribers will, I’m sure, remember a recent article written by James O’Brien and published in ISIS issue 159 (November 2011). The piece revealed information about a previously unknown reel-to-reel tape recording of Bob Dylan performing at Club 47 in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Sunday, April 21, 1963.

The tape includes ‘Talkin’ World War III Blues’, a Dylan duet with Eric von Schmidt on ‘Glory, Glory’, and a partial recording of Dylan singing ‘With God On Our Side’, which cuts off just before the last line of the sixth verse. Dylan refers to the song’s title as ‘With God On My Side’.

The lyric differences between the Club 47 performance of ‘Talkin’ World War III Blues’ (the earliest known recording of the song) and later performances are all covered in O’Brien’s article.

The new documentary film, entitled “For The Love Of The Music: The Club 47 Folk Revival”, centres around the iconic Harvard Square coffeehouse, now known as Club Passim, where Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Judy Collins and many others got their starts in the early years of the folk revival.

The 105-minute film features 30 on-camera interviews with Baez, Rush, Collins, Taj Mahal, Maria Muldaur, Geoff Muldaur, Jim Kweskin, Jackie Washington, Jim Rooney, Peter Rowan and many others. It also features previously unreleased music and rare photographs, featuring Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and others. Included in the film are the audio recordings of the three Dylan performances mentioned above and written about by O’Brien in his ISIS article.

Peter Coyote narrates the film, which documents the fateful day in 1958 when a young unknown singer named Joan Baez talked her way into becoming the first folk act to play the tiny Mount Auburn Street jazz club. From there, the film documents how the club came to play a major role in the American folk revival, which peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

“For The Love Of The Music” will premiere at 6pm at the Boston International Film Festival, April 17, 2012, at the Loews Theatre / AMC Boston Common. Tickets for the premiere are $12. The film will also screen at the SENE Film, Music and Arts Festival at Brooklyn Coffee and Tea House in Providence, RI on Friday April 13, 6:00 PM EST. Further screenings will hopefully be arranged for later this year and one would anticipate there will eventually be a DVD release.

check out the trailer http://bit.ly/Club47film

Further Tour Dates Announced

July 7: Salzburg Arena, Salzburg, Austria
July 15: Festival De Nimes, Nimes, France.

ISIS 161

ISIS 161 is currently at the printer and will be mailed out to subscribers next week.

Tour Update 

June 30: Hop Farm Festival, Paddock Wood, Kent, England
July 2: Zitadelle Spandau, Berlin, Germany
July 3: Freilichtbühne Junge Garde, Dresden, Germany
July 4: Kunst!Rasen Gronau, Bonn, Germany  
July 6: Schlosshof, Bad Mergentheim, Germany
July 8: Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland
July 13: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, Festival Grounds, Benicàssim, Spain
July 18: Les Nuits De Fourvière Festival, Grand Théatre, Lyon, France  
July 20:  Bayonne Arena, Bayonne, France  
July 22:  Festival des Vieilles Charrues, Vielles Charrues, Carhaix, France
August: Piazza Signorelli, Toscona, Cortona Art Festival, Cortona, Italy (not confirmed)

A clutch of new concerts dates, mainly in Germany, have just been announced for Bob Dylan’s Summer Tour of Europe. More dates are still to be announced, especially in and Spain and possibly also in Italy.

As expected, the date for Bob Dylan’s appearance at Hop Farm Festival has been confirmed as Saturday June 30th. Priced at £150.00, Weekend Tickets are now on sale. This ticket includes the three-day festival plus four days of camping and car parking. Currently, there are no Day Tickets for sale, though these were made available for the 2010 festival. Day Tickets being made available will depend on sales of the full Weekend Tickets. In other words, if they can sell the festival out with Weekend Tickets only, no Day Tickets will be issued.   

Even More Tour News

June 29-1: Hop Farm Festival, Paddock Wood, Kent, England (exact date to be confirmed)    
July 4: Kunst!Rasen Gronau, Bonn, Germany  (not confirmed)  
July 12-15: Festival Internacional de Benicàssim, Festival Grounds, Benicàssim, Spain (exact date to be confirmed)  
July 18:  Fourviere Nights Festival, Lyon, France  
July 20:  Bayonne Arena, Bayonne, France - (not confirmed)  
July 22:  Festival des Vieilles Charrues, Vielles Charrues, Carhaix, France

Many more dates to be announced, especially in Germany and Spain.

More Tour News

Vince Power has announced that Bob Dylan will again headline the Hop Farm Festival. The festival will be staged over the weekend of Friday, June 29 – Sunday July 1, 2012 at Hop Farm, Paddock Wood, Kent. The UK promoter had said that Dylan would not play the Britain in 2012 (as in concerts proper) however, as I state in our “Something’s Happening” pages in ISIS Magazine, “festivals are always tempting”.

Thanks to Wiebke for spotting this.

Dylan will also headline at the Benicassim festival (FIB). The Benicassim International Festival will be held from 12 to 15 July in the coastal town of Castellón in Spain.

Just Announced...

05 May Heredia, Costa Rica – Palacio de Deportes – Capacity 6,000

Even More On South America

Two further shows are now booked for the Mexican leg of Bob Dylan’s South American tour. These are May 7, Monterrey at the Auditorio Banamex, and May 9, Guadalajara at the Auditorio Telmex. A second show in Mexico City (May 12) should be confirmed shortly.

15 April Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Citibank Hall – Capacity 9,600
17 April Brasília – Ginásio Nilson, Nelson – Capacity 16,600
19 April Belo Horizonte, Brazil – Chevrolet Hall – Capacity 6,700 (Sold Out)
21 April São Paulo, Brazil – Credicard Hall – Capacity 7,500
22 April São Paulo, Brazil – Credicard Hall – Capacity 7,500
24 April Porto Alegre, Brazil – Pepsi On Stage – Capacity 7,200 (Sold Out)
26 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500 (Sold Out)
27 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500 (Sold Out)
28 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500
30 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500
02 May Santiago, Chile – Movistar Arena – Capacity 15,000
07 May Monterrey, Mexico – Fundidora Park, Auditorio Banamex – Capacity 7,000
09 May Guadalajara, Mexico – Auditorio Telmex – Maximum Capacity 11,500
11 May Mexico City, Mexico – Pepsi Center
12 May Mexico City, Mexico – Pepsi Center (to be confirmed)

No Knopfler

Guy Fletcher (a long-term member of Mark Knopfler’s band) has dismissed talk that Knopfler might have been in the studio with Bob Dylan as “nonsense”. This confirms what ISIS thought. It was our understanding that after delaying post-production work on his own album by two months to participate in the joint Dylan / Knopfler European tour that Knopfler was mixing his own album in British Grove Studios, a semi-private facility which he owns in Chiswick, West London, at the time Dylan was working on his album.

More On South America

Although not yet confirmed (March 14), it is understood that Bob Dylan will play a concert in Mexico City on May 11, 2012 as one of the opening events to launch the Pepsi Center, which is located in the World Trade Center building. Further South American dates are still to be announced.

Bob Dylan And The Band DVD

A documentary DVD focusing on Bob Dylan and The Band is scheduled for release later this year. Those taking part include Garth Hudson, Mickey Jones, Band producer John Simon, and singer Ronnie Hawkins.

Additions And a Change To South American Tour

Bob Dylan will now play a fourth show in the Teatro Gran Rex in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This fourth concert will take place on April 30, 2012. This date was previously allocated to a show in Santiago, Chile, which has now been rescheduled to May 2. The strange thing is, tickets for the original Santiago show on April 30 were supposed to have gone on sale on March 4, ten days before the date change.   

There is also a very strong rumour that Dylan will play the Palacio de Deportes in Heredia, Costa Rica in early May. The venue, with a capacity of about 10,000, is likely to play host to both Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney in May– though obviously not on the same bill. Both artists’ concerts are likely to be confirmed later this week. 

26 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500 (Sold Out)
27 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500 (Sold Out)
28 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500
30 April Buenos Aires, Argentina – Teatro Gran Rex – Capacity 3,500
02 May Santiago, Chile – Movistar Arena – Capacity 15,000

New Dylan Album In The Works (Update)

ISIS heard a little while back that Bob Dylan had been working on a new studio album but I decided to keep this under wraps until I could positively confirm the report(s). In any event, on Friday March 9 The Aspen Times published an interview with multi-instrumentalist David Hidalgo who revealed that he had recently finished recording sessions for a new Bob Dylan album.

The sessions took place at Groove Masters, a semi-private studio facility owned by Jackson Browne. The studio, on Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, is where Dylan recorded both “Christmas In The Heart” and “Together Through Life”, not too far from his home.

Hidalgo, who was brought in primarily to play accordion and guitar, ended up adding Mexican instruments to the album. The instruments, including tres (a guitar like instrument), were around the studio and Hidalgo says “He [Dylan] liked the sound. So we’d get it in there.” Hidalgo said the recording sessions were nothing like the earlier ones he had done with Dylan.

Sources have indicated that Dylan went into the studio with members of his tour band in January and may have spent up to two months working on the album, though whether this refers to recording or recording and mixing is not clear. It has been rumoured that Dylan might have used an outside producer on the sessions! It has also been rumoured that Mark Knopfler may have joined Dylan in the studio. However, it is my understanding that Knopfler was mixing his own album in Britain at around this time. Make of all of this what you will; only time will tell.

New Album News

Those who subscribe to the ISIS newsletter (mailed today) will undoubtedly recognize the veiled references to a new Bob Dylan album. We heard a little while back that Dylan has spent some considerable time earlier this year recording a new studio album in Los Angeles. This information was confirmed today by David Hidalgo in an interview with the Aspen Times, in which Hidalgo states he has recently finished recording sessions with Bob Dylan at Jackson Browne's LA Studio.

The studio in question, Groove Masters, a semi-private facility with a great reputation, is on Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, where Dylan recorded “Christmas In The Heart” and "Together Through Life",  not far from his home.

The interview can be read in full HERE

Thanks to Wiebke for the link

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