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News: Bob Dylan Announces 2026 UK Tour Including Five Nights At Royal Festival Hall

Bob Dylan will return to the UK this November and December for a run of theatre performances, including five nights at London’s Royal Festival Hall, continuing the latest chapter of…

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News: Dylan Returns to UK for November Shows on Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour

Bob Dylan is back – 2025 UK & Ireland tour kicks off this November

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News: Cat Power sings Dylan: The 1966 Royal Albert Hall concert touring Australia – March 2025

Cat Power’s Tribute to Bob Dylan’s Historic 1966 Concert Lands in Australia in 2025

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SEE: Emma Swift – ‘You’re A Big Girl Now’: a Dylan tune comes of age in Emma’s hands

MY, BUT she knows how to get inside a song and bring out the emotional depth, the resonance, the beauty, does singer-songwriter Emma Swift. Coming out of Nashville, Tennessee, Emma…

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SEE: Emma Swift’s gorgeous ‘Queen Jane Approximately’

AUSTRALIAN chanteuse, Nashville resident and partner of Robyn Hitchcock, Emma Swift has saddled up to ride into your hearts with the video for her cover of Dylan’s “Queen Jane Approximately.” …

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Album Review: Bob Dylan – Rough and Rowdy Ways

The bard’s long-awaited album, the first of new material in eight years, burgeons with a young man’s enthusiasm but an older gentleman’s wisdom and experience. The ten tracks produce an…

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Track: Bob Dylan – False Prophet

A release as surprising and enigmatic as the prior “I Contain Multitudes” and “Murder Most Foul”, “False Prophet” foreshadows Dylan’s “Rough and Rowdy Ways”. Although much is different across his…

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Classic Album: Bob Dylan – Oh Mercy

As the 80s drew to a close it was difficult to escape the conclusion that Bob Dylan‘s muse had been largely AWOL since 1976’s Desire. Since that album’s release there had…

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Not Forgotten: Bob Dylan – John Wesley Harding

Music changed forever in 1967, primarily because in the wake of Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, it was firmly established that the long player had finally wrestled the mantle…

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Not Forgotten: Bob Dylan – Christmas in the Heart

Ah, Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the Heart. Oh how music fans far and wide chuckled at the idea of one of the 20th Century’s song writing icons deciding that it…

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