
r/bobdylan

Sketch I did with dried out markers
Did this sketch a few years back, and just rediscovered it and figured I’d share.
I like sketching with dried out markers, sometimes, because I feel it gives the image a kind of “done with chalk pastels “ effect, when I don’t have access to the real thing.
Would he cancel undersold shows?
A few shows here seem way undersold, the screenshot is Cincinnati - but Chicago is similarly wide open. Tickets are still pretty expensive. Do you think these shows are at risk of being cancelled?
This song blows my mind
Still as relevant as ever, prophetic, poetic…it’s just so perfect I had to make an appreciation post forgive me
THE SIX BOOKS BY BOB DYLAN: TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY?
YES - essential:
>Lyrics
>Chronicles
>Philosophy
MAYBE - desirable:
>Tarantula
MAYBE LATER - thin:
>Nobel Lecture
>Hollywood Foto-Rhetoric
Which Bob Dylan Albums to listen to
I am going through them but there are like 40 or something. Where should I stop listening, especially since (based off reviews) the quality drops off after a while
After completion, did Bob Dylan like his solo on “We are the World”?
What did his fans and audiences think about his part ?
Favourite opening guitar riff?
I like a lot, two that are currently on my mind are Watching the River Flow and One More Night - what’s yours?
New interview: Lucinda Williams on Bob Dylan
fascinating interview with Lucinda, paywall-free, on touring with Bob, meeting Bob, and Bob influences... https://www.boston.com/culture/entertainment/2026/05/20/lucinda-williams-on-bob-dylan-her-stroke-and-how-this-worlds-gone-wrong/?p1=hp_secondary
What’s your favorite use of a Dylan Song in media such as film, TV or even a mention in a book or story. For me it’s easily “Hurricane” playing as woofers on walks into the emporium in dazed and confused
Top 5 Favorite Bob songs?
Hey y’all, I wanted to discuss: if you had to pick a top 5 favorite songs from Bob’s discography (counting anything he’s worked on, so Wilburys are fair game for instance), what are they?
I am still exploring his wealth of music, but right now mine are:
Shelter From The Storm
I Want You
Masters of War
Lay Lady Lay
It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
Top 5 Dylan albums
- The times they are a changing
2.masterpieces
3.blood on the tracks
4.bringing it back home
5.time out of mind
Hm-blonde on blonde
Names in song titles.
How many can you think of without looking?
Here's mine
Johanna, Maggie, Joey, Lily, Rosemary, Jack, Sara
New tour theory
Bob ended the Rough And Rowdy Ways Tour earlier this month and will be beginning the “In Concert” tour in a few weeks. There’s been speculation about what the setlist will look like. The most likely option is that it will resemble the setlist Bob played on the touring Outlaw Music Festival last year, which was rather different than the Rough And Rowdy Ways tour. But with Outlaw the setlist was really unpredictable, only having 5 or 6 mainstay songs with the rest of the set being filled with covers or earlier songs that haven’t been performed in a while. So I think Bob was using the Outlaw fest to test out new arrangements of older songs for the next tour. I have a feeling Shadow Kingdom was supposed to do the same but he wasn’t happy with the end result. So I believe he’ll be playing the new arrangements of “‘Till I Fell In Love With You” “Masters Of War” “To Ramona” and maybe some we haven’t heard yet. This might seem obvious, or I could be totally wrong and he only plays Watchtower with a 2 hour jam session. But I’m interested to see how it goes.
STEVIE DIDN'T IMITATE BOB!
Down with this idea that Stevie Wonder did a Dylan impression for Bob to help him phrase his lines on "We Are The World"! Watch the video again. You clearly see Wonder singing a very high line along with Bob. Yet for the one comment on the video that points this out, there are 100 saying, wow that's so cool he busted out his Dylan impression. Bob is cut out of the frame so apparently people attribute his sounds to Stevie's mouth... somebody second this please
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (Nara, Japan, May 22, 1994)
One of my all-time favourite Dylan performances.
Did he really walk Bob Dylan up on stage in 1975?
Not even joking I genuinely wanna know