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2006 seems an odd year to look back at the top 100 albums of all time. I guess they couldn’t wait for a nice round number. Of course these lists are always a little ridiculous, but it does seem a little strange to me that many of the best albums since 2000 are retrospectives and […]

Gerry at the Dylan Daily (mentioned here on Tuesday) has made his way through all 161 pages of Mark Polizzotti’s Highway 61 Revisited and has this to say: The groaning Dylan shelves house a few books that are virtually unreadable, many that are merely OK, and a few which are, appropriately considering their subject, so

I know David put up the ukulele cover of The Smiths song by Zoe Woodbury-High before he took off, but I also ran across this at the Dizzies blog, referring to review in The Nation of the new Thomas Pynchon: The biggest surprise, not counting the space devoted to Lake Baikal, white slavery, Tamerlane’s tomb

Highway 61 Revisited is noticed on the Daily Dylan blog. I like the fact that Gerry follows describing the 33 1/3 books as “the dinky little series of album studies published by Continuum” by adding later that it is a “beautifully designed series.” There was also a quick mention of Michael Gray’s The Bob Dylan

It’s a quiet day at the office and there are still quite a few people out from Thanksgiving, so we were looking for something to listen to on the spare computers and ran across this archive of WFMU‘s Coffee Break for Heroes and Villains featuring guest Dan LeRoy, author of the 33 1/3 on the

Welcome back from the holiday weekend. Highway 61 Revisited got a nice mention in Under the Radar magazine. It got 8 blips out of 10. I think a blip is a kind of star only music cognoscenti know about. As one of the greatest albums in the history of recorded music, a turning point that

Congratulations to David & Emma,and a Happy Thanksgiving to the rest of you… graphic from The Onion: ‘Skywriter trailed by skyeditor.’

Just when it seems like order has been restored to the kingdom, and all was well in the land, something like this comes along and blows my mind…“Mike Watt Guests on Kelly Clarkson Record” No word yet on whether or not Raymond Pettibon will be doing the album art. Michael Fournier’s 33 1/3 book “Double

Sadi Ranson-Polizzatti has a nice review of the recent Bob Dylan concert in Boston over at Blog Critics. “I was glad specifically for “Highway 61 Revisited” not only because I love the song but because my husband just finished an entire book about the album which is fresh off the press and published by Continuum

I don’t know anything about Zoe Woodbury-High except that she’s from Portland (wouldn’t you know!), but this is delightful: There Is A Light That Never Goes Out