Meet seven month old puppy Dandelion. She's been suffering at NYC ACC for days. They could have sent this little dog to one of many New York City area vets who offer care to shelter animals for free or at a huge discount. Please get her out of there today. Adopt, foster, rescue her. Please repost 🙏

TOMORROW NIGHT! Friday Sept 26, 8pm The Séamus Ennis Centre, Naul, Dublin: tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

This Friday - September 26, 8pm at Naul, Dublin: tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Two weeks today, just outside Dublin, Ireland. Why not come over? IS BOB DYLAN NOW HISTORY? IS BOB DYLAN NOW HISTORY? IS BOB DYLAN NOW HISTORY? I'm returning to The Séamus Ennis Arts Centre stage, to give this new talk with audio & footage: tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

There are parallels between Robert Browning & Dylan in my books, but today I found a parallel in their attitude to questions about their work. OED editor James Murray: "I believe Browning once answered a request for explanation of a passage with "I really do not know: ask the Browning Society."

Final weekend of our summer sale. Use the voucher code SUMMER25 at checkout to get 25% off Bob Dylan titles:

Final weekend of our summer sale. Use the voucher code SUMMER25 at checkout to get 25% off. www.route-online.com/all-books/ca...

Published in Japan 52 years ago yesterday:

A very happy birthday to the original Bob Dylan scholar, Michael Gray @michaelgray1.bsky.social

IS BOB DYLAN NOW HISTORY? Seamus Heaney Arts Centre, Sept 26, 8pm: talk with audio & footage: for anyone young, is 84-year-old Bob Dylan now just a historical figure? What history might he embody? Why he might matters In two halves with an interval. Tickets: tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

IS BOB DYLAN NOW HISTORY? Seamus Heaney Arts Centre, Sept 26, 8pm: talk with audio & footage: for anyone young, is 84-year-old Bob Dylan now just a historical figure? What history might he embody? Why he might matters In two halves with an interval. Tickets: tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

Collect ‘Em All. Nothing better for Dylan fanatics.

It's already 2 years since the 50th Anniversary edition! Actually this 3-volume 2023 edition doesn't reprint the first but the 3rd, final version of the book: the 630,000-word "Song & Dance Man III" published UK at the end of C20, 2000 in the USA. And the text below is taken from its preface:

This is invaluable:

Wish I could attend this. Steve, you must be thrilled: I know that Elvis is your favourite:

Out now: the summer 2025 edition, including a short new piece of mine linking early C19 poetry, Thomas Hardy, Rabbit Brown and Bob: thedylanreview.org

The wonderful Maurice Williams died 1 year ago today. Here is his inspired hit single 'Stay' and its fine and very earworm-inducing b-side, 'Do You Believe?': www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Z_... and www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECH1...

"IS BOB DYLAN NOW HISTORY?" The one talk I'm giving later this year (embedded with audio & footage) is at a great small venue outside Dublin in late September. Tickets are on sale now: tseac.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

White hat AND center stage

Our splendid dog Iris, this afternoon:

Great review of a fantastic new bio!

Maybe that Meta AI isn't so bad after all:

This is pretty good (despite the windbaggery of the intro by Gay Byrne): www.youtube.com/watch?v=PweU...

Thank you so much for this: a great compliment and gracefully expressed:

Hopelessly poor recording of a performance in front of an indifferent, disrespectful crowd - which is a pity, because the vocal performance has some beautiful touches:

Honestly, they nailed the vibe.

Jolly enough. Not the Tuesday Weld I'd hoped for.

Help us have a great weekend! We are struggling for funds at the moment, every purchase helps! (UK only, sadly.) #BookSky

#BobDylanOnThisDay youtu.be/JXa1-o1muZs?... Changing Of The Guards Live debut Paris 05 07 1978

#BobDylanOnathisDay youtu.be/1InCcT909h8?... Abandoned Love 03 07 1975 expectingrain.com/dok/books/en...

Meet Betty. She was a tiny puppy adopted from BARC Houston in 2022. Now she's A1839877 back at BARC as a stray. We have a pledge for her full transport to a good foster anywhere, as well as initial vetting and heartworm treatment. Can you foster her? Rescues, please help! The perfect dog. RT

I'm hoping (perhaps even assuming) that someone (perhaps even @raypadgett.bsky.social) will soon post a complete recording of Bob's Times They Are A-Changin' from the other night.

The Chayns - Live With The Moon [US, Surf, Garage] (1966) https://redd.it/fwo0wk https://youtu.be/VaDI7p5COEA

We'll be setting up our stall at the West Didsbury Makers Market tomorrow, 11am-4pm. It's in Withington Hospital Car Park, just off Burton Road. We'll have a new book on the table and plenty of other #RouteSummerReads goodies. Pre-browse online here: www.route-online.com

It's the appropriate time of the year for me to plug my YA novel set during Glastonbury 2000, the last Glasto before the fences went up. I was one of 250,000 there. Interlocking stories, so many performers no longer with us eg John Martyn, David Bowie, Matthew Jay. www.amazon.co.uk/FESTIVAL-Gla...

Look out across the fields... Gazing out the window 6.30 this morning:

I'm hoping (perhaps even assuming) that someone (perhaps even @raypadgett.bsky.social) will soon post a complete recording of Bob's Times They Are A-Changin' from the other night.

Strongly recommended:

So witty as well as elegant:

THIS IS INCREDIBLE

#BobDylan #DylanSky #MusicSky 🎧 Day 27: Night After Night Bob Dylan's Gloria Estefan period starts and stops with this song. Most people think it works horribly, but I kind of love it. Ronnie Wood makes an appearance in the video. youtu.be/Fs3eEB5_VJY?...

I finished writing the 630,000 words of "Song & Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan" 26 years ago today. Images: hardback; 1st paperback edition; 2004 paperback reprint; and, I'm grateful to see, Irish poet Paul Muldoon with a copy; plus the 2023 three-volume paperback republication:

Completely marvellous from start to finish:

"'That ear,' Bob Dylan once remarked. 'I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian.'” Brian Wilson, Pop Auteur and Leader of the Beach Boys, Dies at 82 (gift link):

So interesting, though not (of course) quite so perfect as the version released first on the B-side of the 'Watching The River Flow' single. Terrific piano sound on both. And such a lovely song:

Hahahaha!

Yes!!

BBC-TV's 3-part series "Jane Austen: Rise of a Genius" is exceptionally good (in spite of a couple of irritating talking heads). When I was at school, Austen was taught as an unexplained old novelist to be venerated. What this series does so well is emphasise, and prove, how very radical she was.

Seen by my spies in Exeter, Devon: