recorded 60 years ago today in New York, with Michael Bloomfield & most of The Band. one of the most frustrating studio breakdowns ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhpz...

@emmaswiftsings.bsky.social on the Record Store Day podcast. A little Dylan and a lot on her great new LP podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Another reader writes… (thank you @alexwinter.com)

‘Billy Preston: That’s The Way God Planned It’: Watch The Trailer For Documentary About “Fifth Beatle” deadline.com/2026/01/bill.... 🍏

That IG post is something else, right? Chronicles is loaded w/bits from H.G. Wells novels (The Time Machine, The First Men in the Moon, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man) & there are a # of mentions of aliens, UFOs & the like in the Masked and Anonymous screenplay

GROOOVERS! This week’s LIVE from Tubby’s House lands on Tuesday Jan 20 at 8pm. With what would you like @emmaswiftsings & self to serenade you? Join us & your random host Tubby for 75+ minutes of music & babble (5 bonus points for spotting Ringo). robynhitchcockofficial.bandcamp.com/merch/live-f...

January 23rd 76 saw the release of “Station To Station” by David Bowie. To mark its 50th anniversary and 10 years since Bowie’s passing how about a listening party thus coming Saturday? @stevenc63.bsky.social @mychameleondays.bsky.social @pavementoyster.bsky.social @bookyvikki.bsky.social

“Jerry and I talked about the moment Bob Dylan came calling, and how it didn’t arrive as some cinematic no‑brainer. It came with weight. Doubt. With a real sense of loyalty to a band that had become family.” youtu.be/OXldGYg4w0c?....

record changer, september 1946.

Put together anonymously by a clearly devoted Fab Four fan, The Beatles Anthology Revisited is an 18-part, 28-hour podcast telling the band's story entirely in their own words, those who were there, and various TV and radio newsreels of the time. on.soundcloud.com/kH0bhV613yEH....

“Edge Dwellers: On The Beatles” By Michael Simmons. It’s on the journalism website Newsjunkie. newsjunkie.net/article/edge... “The band began to grow influenced by Bob Dylan and their own ambitions, taking pop music with them on that creative trip …”

In honor of Desire turning 50 this month, a new Now It Goes Like This (the series where I track a Dylan song's changing live arrangements) on "One More Cup of Coffee"

A reader writes…thank you @henningo.com 🙏

Art for art’s sake, money for godssakes www.kqed.org/arts/1398541...

another weir obscurity: the 1994 studio version of "easy answers" featuring neil young, who didn't get a songwriting credit but wrote the "shut your eyes..." verse, making it the only hunter/young collaboration. youtu.be/X4vxyTphyRs

Seconding this. I read the book before my own skiffle episodes not because I expected anything good but just because it was new and people would ask me about it. As it turned out @billybragg.bsky.social had written one of the best books on a musical genre I've read.

just remembered this 1985 photo (from a SEVA benefit) of weir with jonathan richman, who looks like he's trying to figure out how he ended up onstage with a grateful dead. incidentally, weir is singing "ripple," i think maybe the first time he sang a garcia/hunter song outside the dead.

Finishing writing a Patreon bonus on Cat Stevens. He's a far more interesting figure than it would appear, but sadly the only full book on him is his own autobiography, and he's even more prone than most to rewriting his own past (not events necessarily, but motives and thought processes).

Here’s my Substack piece on “One Long Pair of Eyes” with a new acoustic version included: open.substack.com/pub/robynhit...

I wrote a chapter for this new Leonard Cohen book alongside some great writers. Mine’s about Cohen covers. Preorder wherever you do such things

i wrote an afterword about bobby weir for @pitchfork.com, but probably could've kept going for a few more days. pitchfork.com/features/bob...

Today we’re looking back at Episode 165: ‘Dark Star’ by the Grateful Dead. Cocking in at 4.5 hours long, Andrew delves into the career of the American rock band - but also the historical and cultural context. Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and via the website: 500songs.com/podcast/epis...

My backstage Bob chats with Wilco's @mikaeljorgensen.bsky.social and Howlin Rain/Orcutt Shelley Miller's @silvercurrent.bsky.social First person I've ever spoken to who got into Bob via Tarantula…

GROOOVERS! Any requests for tonight’s Sunday Special LIVE from Tubby’s House? Join @emmaswiftsings.bsky.social & me for this one-off early 6pm US CT show for 75+ minutes of songs & chatter. Leave everything behind with us & we’ll lose it for you 👍 robynhitchcockofficial.bandcamp.com/merch/live-f...

for sickos only: the dead rehearse weir's original music for "ugliest girl in the world" before dylan got his hands on it. archive.org/details/gd19...

A GQ interview from 2019. www.gq.com/story/bob-we...

youtu.be/N4TLwdwvjsI?....

Bob Dylan writing about Bob Weir in The Philosophy of Modern Song

Bob Weir, Grateful Dead Co-Founder, Dead at 78 - Rolling Stone www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... .

Sad to report: RIP Bob Weir. "It is with profound sadness that we share the passing of Bobby Weir. He transitioned peacefully, surrounded by loved ones, after courageously beating cancer as only Bobby could. Unfortunately, he succumbed to underlying lung issues." www.instagram.com/p/DTWTKqKgKeP/

safe travels to bobby weir in the greater weirdness.

12 years ago I won a box of folklorist Alan Lomax’s videotape labels. Every so often I have a use for them. Here they are. Wow.

I am very happy to be playing tonight - Thursday January 8 - at Brown’s in Nashville, backed by the fab Rick Lollar + Jamie Davis. ☀️ We’re opening for Robyn Hitchcock and his fab band. 7pm, free as a bird 🦆 See ya there!

@robynhitchcock.bsky.social reflects on his awakening with a vivid memoir, 1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left, and an album, 1967: Vacations in the Past. He also discusses the newly remixed, remastered version of his 1988 album Globe of Frogs. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c....

disneyplus.com/browse/entit... "Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska Live 2025" on Disney+.

Great comment on my recent Rare Live revisit from someone who was at Dylan's Royal Festival Hall concert in 1964. The campaign for the full show to get an official release starts here.

Always assumed that Costello part was Bruce Thomas. Sad that this is how I discovered otherwise. RIP

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The Neil Young Archives team quietly dropped a recording of Neil Young and Crazy Horse‘s Feb. 25, 1970, show at Music Hall in Cincinnati.