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Web photo courtesy of bbc.co.uk bbc.co.uk today reports that Bob Dylan via his website has responded to critics who claim he submitted to Chinese political censors’ demands and sent authorities the list of songs he planned to play on a recent visit there. Dylan stated that he played everything he…
Read More »Sitting among thousands of people at the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell tonight, witnessing Bob Dylan and his band lifting up the audience with powerful renditions of his songs, I had a thought: Dylan is like Moxie. In performance, he has become a completely singular mixture for which you either have the taste…
Read More »The Springfield Republican’s online site has an instant review of Bob Dylan’s performance at UMass Amherst last night. Read the review here. There may be tickets left for tonight’s show in Lowell. Check the Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell website.
Read More »Here’s my account of Bob Dylan’s Rolling Thunder Revue performance in the Costello Gymnasium of the University of Lowell on November 2, 1975—PM Dylan was excellent in Lowell last night. Baez was superb in Lowell last night. The Rolling Thunder Revue was really something in Lowell last night. Dylan, the singing poet…
Read More »Poet Allen Ginsberg and Bob Dylan in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan, courtesy of tangledupinlheurebleue.blogspot] Show flier for Rolling Thunder Revue at ULowell (1975) [Web photo courtesy of picasaweb.google.com] At Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery (1975) [Photo by Ken Regan] At Our Lady of Lourdes Grotto, Franco American School (1975)…
Read More »Here’s the latest news about music and film producer Jim Sampas, a Lowell native and brother of our brilliant rh.com photographer-in-residence Tony Sampas.–PM (web photo courtesy of metrowestdailynews.com) Jim’s latest project is “Subterranean Homesick Blues: A Tribute to Bob Dylan’s ‘Bringing It All Back Home’,” which came out a few days ago on…
Read More »The whole inside back page of the NYTimes Book Review today has an essay by Lee Siegel comparing the Tea Party with the Beats (Kerouac, Ginsberg, and the other Beat Generation writers of the 1950s and ’60s). The essay is a cultural stretch in many ways, but makes for surprising…
Read More »Here’s Paul Marion reading his poem, “Dylan Sings to Kerouac”, at Kerouac Park during this past weekend’s Jack Kerouac Literary Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. (Video posted on YouTube by “spannedy”) [youtube]uuSfWNu9gMY[/youtube]
Read More »Rita Savard of the Sun wrote a great background story about Bob Dylan and Lowell in nothing flat so that it hit the streets just as lots of people were talking about Dylan coming back to Lowell. Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg at Kerouac’s grave in Edson Cemetery, November 1975. We…
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