Albums from 2025 & late 2024 that have been on heavy rotation. My favourite 3: Tweedy’s impressive sprawling 3LP effort. Just wonderful. So many great songs. Cameron Winter. Heavy Metal. A unique voice. Is he taking the piss? Van Morrison’s Remembering Now. His best album in a decade… maybe

One more celebratory post from me. Aren’t we the lucky ones. #bobdylan #happybirthday

Another book recommendation. #Underland by #RobertMacfarlane. Incredible journeys under the earth’s surface. Communicating tree roots & fungal networks, caves, catacombs, cities beneath cities, meltwater, glacial moulins, underground rivers. Maybe avoid if claustrophobic #BookSky #books

1/4 3 books recently enjoyed. All quite short & easy to devour. 1. Where Are You Tonight? Jochen Markhorst 2. Notebook. Tom Cox 3. Question 7. Richard Flanagan #books @jochenmarkhorst.bsky.social @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social

New vegetation on Kangaroo Island rising like a phoenix from the ashes. Some of the plant species absolutely rely on fires to release their podded seeds. It’s a beautiful landscape out here. #southaustralia #australia #kangarooisland #australia #trees #bushfires

The stark, skeletal remains of the scorched trees on Kangaroo Island, burnt in the 2019/2020 fires, look amazing. In many areas they are heavily surrounded by new, dense, green vegetation. #southaustralia #australia #kangarooisland #australia #trees

Kangaroo Island sunrise #southaustralia #australia #kangarooisland #australia

The library grows thanks to @jochenmarkhorst.bsky.social

" sure, sex is great, but have you ever cracked open a new notebook and written something on the first page with a really nice pen?". Lovely line in The Notebook by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social .

A nice surprise in the mail today! It’s a Dutch postcard I can use as a bookmark when reading the highly enjoyable books by @jochenmarkhorst.bsky.social Snail mail is sure slow. Almost 4 weeks in transit to reach me down under. #bobdylan #bobdylanbooks #netherlands #utrecht

I'm well dressed, waiting on the last train #bobdylan youtu.be/2tv_XGd4Umo?...

I lost you awhile ago But still I don't know why I can't say your name Without a crow flying by Gotta watch my back now That you turned me around Got me walking backwards Into my hometown #gillianwelch #davidrawlings youtu.be/rO6SkStmhGY?...

1/2 Some of my very favourite Canadians 🇨🇦 #jonimitchell

"We got a radio jingle here for ya. Okay here we go it's named radio one you're the one for me." Radio one You're the only one …. for me Just turn that dial, Make your music worth while Jimi Hendrix #nowplaying #jimihendrix

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings Melbourne 28/1/25 concert review. Sunday night we’ll be there! Should be amazing. #gillianwelch #davidrawlings rhythms.com.au/worshipping-...

“World Gone Wrong is a beautiful record by a beautiful man. Readers in a hurry, I have to tell you: that's the review, really. The rest is indulgent speculation.“Robert Wyatt”. Dec 1993

1/3 Mojo Magazine #2 Dec 1993. Featuring k.d. lang on the cover. Bob Dylan’s World Gone Wrong in the album review section. Written by Robert Wyatt. #bobdylan #mojomagazine @mojomagazine.bsky.social

All Hallows’ Eve & More. Live at the Philharmonic Hall NYC, NY, 1964. This was what we had before the official Bootleg Series Vol 6) release. It also included Broadside Show, 1962. #bobdylan #bobdylanbootlegs #joanbaez

Finally took delivery of this record which has taken a while to be available in Oz, despite the album’s release in Jul 2024. Just in time for the Melbourne concert next week. Loads of Dylan & Neil Young “Easter eggs” within. #vinyl #vinylsky #nowplaying #gillianwelch #daverawlings #davidrawlings

You're standin' on solid rock You're standin' on sacred ground You're livin' on borrowed time And the winds of change Are blowin' down the line Shane Howard, 1982 (Solid Rock) #nowplaying #australia

Saturday afternoon jazz “Play Art Pepper, Thelonious Monk” #nowplaying #vinyl #vinylsky #jazz #jazzsky #ArtPepper #TheloniousMonk

2/2 The #Qmagazine review for Bob Dylan’s Oh Mercy. October 1989. Described as “Gothic”. There’s no disputing that it was an incredible release at the time. #bobdylan I’m very surprised to see that I used a highlighter! I must have been super-excited.

1/2 My oldest Q magazine is no. 37, from October 1989. Write ups included The Rolling Stones, INXS & Barry White. Album reviews included Dylan’s Oh Mercy, Lanois’s Acadie & Tears for Fears with The Seeds of Love. #bobdylan #therollingstones #Qmagazine

Woke to the news about Garth Hudson. Thanks for all the great music & may you rest in peace. #garthhudson #theband

I always enjoyed reading Mojo & Q mags. They had it all. Great stories about my favourite artists & the best album reviews. The first ever Mojo mag was released Nov 1993. Stories - Dylan meets The Beatles, & a great Von Morrison write up. @mojomagazine.bsky.social #bobdylan #thebeatles #vanmorrison

I was not woken by the rooster Nor by the crow’s tough song But the midnight cry of a blood red bird Brought this sleeplessness on #nowplaying #billcallahan This album’s first 5 songs never cease to amaze me. Dark & sparse songs loosely linked, with a storyline about a stranger in a strange town.

Is it hard to make arrangements with yourself, When you're old enough to repay but young enough to sell? #neilyoung #vinylsky #nowplaying #vinyl

8/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg. The Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concerts. Discs 7 & 8. Individual disc sleeves. #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

7/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg. The Genuine Royal Albert Hall Concerts. Discs 7 & 8. Free Trade Hall, Manchester, UK May 17, 1966 Royal Albert Hall, London, UK May 26, 1966 Royal Albert Hall, London, UK May 27, 1966 #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

6/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg. A Nightly Ritual. Discs 5 & 6. Continued #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

5/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg. A Nightly Ritual. Discs 5 & 6. Odeon Theatre, Liverpool, UK May 14, 1966 Glasgow Hotel Tape, Scotland May 19, 1966 Gaumont Theatre, Sheffield, UK May 16, 1966 Odeon Theatre, Birmingham, UK May 12, 1966 #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

4/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg. Disc 4. While the Establishment Burns. Dublin - mostly. Also Copenhagen & Edinburgh. #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

3/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg. Disc 3. Melbourne. The Children’s Crusade. #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

2/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg. Discs 1 & 2 Sydney. A Phoenix in April. #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband Concert later officially released as a standalone 2 LP set (which I have somewhere!)

1/8. The “Genuine Live 1966” Bob Dylan bootleg was a great 8CD set on “Scorpio”, available well before the 36CD official set. The whole thing was elegantly presented with booklets & sleeves for each CD. I only managed to have these as CDRs. Main cover shown. #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

Seems Bob has been inspired by my fan account. Lol

Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstasy #bobdylan #vinylsky #nowplaying Bingeing on all my favourites today

Good times are comin', I hear it everywhere I go #neilyoung #vinylsky #nowplaying

Mornings with Monk “Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington” 1955. #jazzsky #jazzmusic #jazz #theloniousmonk #dukeellington

Let there be songs to fill the air #thegratefuldead #gratefuldead #nowplaying #vinylsky #vinyl #jerrygarcia

Bob Dylan chatting about East Orange, NJ (1961). I have this snippet on “Early Dylan” a 2CD freely traded collection from “Dylantree”. Oddly, I also found it on Spotify. Not sure it’s available everywhere to listen to. open.spotify.com/track/2t6hry...

“East Orange Tape” 1961. A very early recording of Dylan playing songs at the home of Bob & Sid Gleason. Dylan was around 20yo at the time. Mine’s a CDR with home printed covers. YT link in the replies. #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan

Merry Christmas, Bluesky!!!

The morning view. #booksky #books #bobdylan #bobdylanbooks

The morning chair. #booksky #books #bobdylan #bobdylanbooks

Now give me some of what you're having I'll take you as a viper into my head A knife into my bed, arsenic when I'm fed And I dream a highway back to you #gillianwelch #daverawlings #nowplaying

Sunday morning jazz Sonny Rollins. The Bridge. 1962. Jim Hall on guitar. #jazzsky #jazzmusic #jazz #sonnyrollins #vinylsky #vinyl #nowplaying

“Wild Wolf” from the Complete Basement Tapes. #bobdylan #theband youtu.be/YAB8qXhxOuw?...

The Genuine Basement Tapes, vol 5. Last disc in this collection. I forgot to remember to forget her, I can't seem to get her off my mind. I thought I'd never miss her, But I found out somehow I think about her almost all the time. #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband

The Genuine Basement Tapes, vol 4. (I’m) All right in my heart but I can’t slumber And it’s too high for me to count, I can’t get the number I’m a fool for you, yes I’m a fool for you #bobdylanbootlegs #bobdylan #theband