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    Shelter from the Storm: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of “Blood on the Tracks” – SOLD OUT

    In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Bob Dylan’s classic album “Blood on the Tracks,” the Bob Dylan Center will present a major multi-artist concert featuring an exciting array of musicians for whom Dylan and his 1975 song cycle remain touchstones of inspiration and wonderment. This one-night-only event will take place on Friday, Jan. 24, 2025 at Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa’s 100-year-old honky-tonk where Dylan himself has performed.

    With acclaimed actor Luke Wilson serving as emcee, the concert will highlight all of the songs on “Blood on the Tracks,” including “Tangled Up in Blue,” “Simple Twist of Fate” and “Shelter from the Storm,” as well as a wide assortment of other Dylan songs from across his expansive discography, all performed bygd a house band and a rotating cast of featured performers.

    Confirmed participants include (in alphabetical order): Nashville

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    “People make up their past, they remember what they want, they forget the rest.”

    So says Timothée Chalamet, who plays Bob Dylan in the brilliant new film, A Complete Unknown, in a tense confrontation with Elle Fanning, who plays Sylvie Russo, a character based on Dylan’s on-and-off NYC girlfriend Suze Rotolo, as she prods him to share more about his mysterious past. Of course, he doesn’t, setting the stage for the enduring mystery of perhaps the greatest singer-songwriter of all time, a puzzle that continues to intrigue us.

    I was fortunate to attend an advance screening of the movie over the weekend, and I can assure you, the buzz around this film is real. A Complete Unknown deserves all the accolades you’ve been hearing – including three Golden Globe nominations and Oscar talk for Chalamet, as well as for Edward Norton, who plays a perfect Pete Seeger. At the screening, the sold-out Newport audience widely applauded the film as the closing credits rolled; no one yelle

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    Bob Dylan’s Famous Moment in A Complete Unknown

    It’s easy to make the mistake that a key scene in A Complete Unknown, the new biopic about Bob Dylan’s early career, involved a mere disagreement about style and instrumentation. The scene depicts the famous moment at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival when Dylan “went electric,” outraging the acoustic folk music crowd and prompting folk icon Pete Seeger, the composer of “If I Had a Hammer,” to try to turn off the power, saying later that if he had had an axe, he would have cut the cables. Years later, Seeger claimed that he was concerned only because the sound was “distorted,” but there’s good reason to be skeptical about that claim. When Dylan launched into “Maggie’s Farm,” he had turned his back not just on acoustic-only music but on Seeger’s idea of music as agitprop. Dylan had chosen art over politics.

    From his early days in Greenwich Village, which the movie lovingly evokes, Dylan was something of a Seeger protégé, regarded as

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