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As mentioned a couple of weeks ago in Bob Dylan :: After The Crash (1967-1970), back in 2005 AD posted the unreleased tracks from Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash’s 1968 sessions. With the Legacy reissue of Johnny Cash At Folsom Prison and the October release of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 8 (more on […]

Following the amphetamine-paced frenzy of his 1966 European tour, Bob Dylan retreated to his home in Woodstock, NY. It was there that, on July 29th, the artist crashed his Triumph 500 motorcycle. While the details of the crash, and subsequent injuries, remain somewhat of a mystery, Dylan, reflecting on the pivotal event, later […]

Album artwork: Does it indeed affect our listening experience, and if so, how? Scratch the Surface is a new feature on Aquarium Drunkard that that takes a look at some dubious/in(famous) cover art choices. Not surprisingly, we kick off the series with one of our favorite LPs, Bob Dylan’s Blood on the […]

Bob Dylan and session musicians :: Muscle Shoals, AL - 1980 (Recording the Saved LP)
This weekend I watched the latest installment of the Under Review series continued focus on Bob Dylan entitled Both Ends Of The Rainbow. I believe this was number three in the Dylan series, taking us though his career from 1978 to […]

Hardcore Dylan-phile nitpicking aside, there is a lot to love about the (official) Basement Tapes. While many of these recordings (from 1967/68) were originally known on the bootleg circuit from the unofficial comp The Great White Wonder, a number of them received overdubs and general sprucing up before being released, seven years later, as […]

Last week the Bob Dylan canon saw yet another re-packing; this time in the form of DYLAN, a career-spanning three disc retrospective chronicling the artist’s four decades of studio recordings. While Dylan purists and pundits will undoubtedly own the majority of the albums these tracks are pulled from, the set does lay out (over the […]