THE BOB CATS NEWSLETTER MARCH 20, 2020. CELEBRATING THE ART AND THE MANY LIVES OF • NOBEL PRIZE LAUREATE SONG & DANCE MAN. INSPIRED BY AND THE SPIRIT IN WHICH IT WAS MADE. ESTABLISHED 2006 BY PETER HOLST • 13 YEARS AND RUNNING. HTTPS://THEBOBCATSNEWSLETTER.WORDPRESS.COM

Welcome to another edition of the Bob Cats Newsletter. It's night time in the big city and doctor Thelonious Mann is busy by the car wreck while the night nurse is away making a telephone call in the lobby of the Saint James Hotel. A streetcar named Mambrino goes by empty but for an octogenarian in an Italian suit and a fedora mumbling a kaddish for his late lover of Kaliningrad and a blessing for the little ones in exile, grey glaucoma speckled gaze following telephone lines. The Bentley’s beyond repair, the 18th century cast iron street lamp still standing. Ancient dried bird droppings on the artfully tylered pavement. The good doctor Mann performs the Heimlich Maneuver skillfully and insistent for a way too long a time. The night nurse breathing hard into the mouthpiece, the night manager anxiously biding his time as Tyrone Garrison of Galway fame and fortune and his sweet and dear betrothed Ursula Vanderbilt, notorious for reckless behavior, smoking weed and treading barefoot on cobbles in the springtime, ask for the check, please. The cracked actor’s in quarantine on the top loft of The Black Swan, all bunkered up with wine and books, cans and pasta. Visits strictly restricted to family, friends and neighbors, the postman and waitresses of the bar, heartily holding court beneath oaken beams. Her clear blue eyes fling open, crimson curls dashed in blood, heir of York, barely sixteen. She draws breath and looks into the eyes of doctor Mann, exhausted, breathing hard, sweat dripping from his brow as he sits himself down on the asphalt arms around his knees, hat pushed back as the ambulance arrives. ••• NEWS FLASH DYLAN'S APRIL JAPAN TOUR CANCELLED FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. https://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2020/03/dylans-april-japan-shows-cancelled-for.html VIDEO: A BIT OF HEAVEN’S DOOR FROM MASKED AND ANONYMOUS. https://twitter.com/i/status/1239051979642544128 BOB DYLAN 79TH BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE • LARRY CAMPBELL & TERESA WILLIAMS WILLIE NILE LAURA CANTRELL A.O. • MAY 17, 2020 • CITY WINERY NEW YORK CITY. https://www.theatermania.com/shows/new-york-city-theater/positively-bob-dylan-79th-birthday-tribute-wlarry-campbell-and- teresa-_334214 ••• THE CONCERTS VIDEO AND AUDIO RECOMMENDATIONS. https://expectingrain.com/discussions/viewforum.php?f=40&sid=e1a25318701cc1e789a6004a593bdf30 ••• THE LYRICS TALKING HUGH BROWN: ANOTHER DYLAN ORIGINAL. https://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/13197 STEEL AND FEATHERS (DON’T EVER) • DYLAN SONG #595 • NIKKI JEAN & DARRYL HALL. https://bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/13158 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=75&v=tIRdRSKg_oY&feature=emb_logo https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=41&v=LSmXtqDvChg&feature=emb_logo ••• THE SONGS VIDEO: CAN’T WAIT • BEACON THEATRE NEW YORK NY • DECEMBER 3, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gir8-_FPqWA&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR1ov- kc_qnGcYf44GwZRRMpOckbWww_guV56vWIFgF-unCNMWHPyYzMYFU AUDIO: JUST LIKE TOM THUMB’S BLUES • OSAKA JAPAN • MARCH 6, 2001. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9EueevQc1A AUDIO: YOU’RE TOO LATE • DAYTONA FLORIDA • JANUARY 29, 1999. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyVLiLGtKNw THE ALBUMS MOVIES & THE DVD:S THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOL. 7: . • 2005. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2005/09/02/young-dylan-sounds-superb/ • 1966. https://www.popmatters.com/counterbalance-bob-dylan-blonde-2496122303.html VIDEO: TOKYO INTERVIEW • MARCH 10, 1986. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njbH2bkYIpA&feature=youtu.be ••• THE RADIO & THE POD AUDIO: DEFINITELY DYLAN LIVE • A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN SINGING DYLAN • MARCH 15, 2020. https://www.definitelydylan.com/listen/2020/3/15/definitely-dylan-live-15-march-2020 ••• THE ARTICLES BOOKS & ESSAYS THE PRIVATE BOB DYLAN • MARCH 29, 1991. https://ew.com/article/1991/03/29/private-bob-dylan/ BOB DYLAN AND SHAKESPEARE: BOOKS AND MUSIC ARE AN INSEPARABLE. https://www.flamingomag.com/2020/03/18/bob-dylan-capital-dame/ ••• THE ARCHIVES EXPECTING RAIN. https://www.expectingrain.com/ . http://www.notdarkyet.org NOMADIC VOICE https://www.facebook.com/nomadicvoice/ THE BOB DYLAN ARCHIVE. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/inside-the-bob-dylan-archive/ http://gtrnews.com/greater-tulsa-reporter/14825/bob-dylan-archive-now-open THE THEME TIME RADIO HOUR. http://www.themetimeradio.com/all/ http://expectingrain.com/discussions/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=87014 VIDEO: RENALDO & CLARA • 1978 • (3:44:34). https://rarefilmm.com/2018/10/renaldo-clara-1978/?fbclid=IwAR3_KXUBm8fPWq_vfWgHERr2t- FPJWXLSTPN8DQnL68U8O4yURLbuISS5Vg THE UNOFFICIAL BOB DYLAN • FREE LIBRARY. http://freelib.org/dylan/freelib.html BOB DYLAN LYRICS 1961-2012 CONCORDANCE. http://konkordans.se/2017_09_12_bob_dylan_lyrics_without_multiple_refrains_2004.txtplus1morefile.txt.WebConcordance/ framconc.htm THE UNIVERSITY OF TULSA • INSTITUTE FOR BOB DYLAN STUDIES. https://dylan.utulsa.edu/dylan-classroom-2018/ THE BOB DYLAN COMMENTARIES • ANALYSIS OF LYRICS: BOB DYLAN - . http://www.bobdylancommentaries.com/bob-dylan/your-no-good/ ••• “I had the same experience in New York with Bob Dylan and , before I moved to California. Dylan lived around the corner from me in the West Village. He’d come to my place and I’d visit him at his apartment and at his place in Woodstock. I knew The Band from their time before Dylan as The Hawks, when they were backing Ronnie Hawkins. The guys in The Band were all sincere, they had talent, and there was something there that was very soulful. Something began to happen and I didn’t feel alienated. • Charles Lloyd. https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/story/2020-03-15/charles-lloyd ••• THE COVERS • PINK. https://www.instagram.com/tv/B90HBXEJxP3/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading SEÑOR (TALES OF YANKEE POWER) • BILLY STRINGS & LIL SMOKIES. https://www.jambase.com/article/billy-strings-lil-smokies-bob-dylan-cover-video BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND • THE BEE GEES. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=46&v=AjbVNNXjOzk&feature=emb_logo IT AIN’T ME, BABE • JUNE CARTER & JOHNNY CASH. https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/johnny-cash-june-carter-bob-dylan-it-aint-me-babe-1973/

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PHOTO OPPORTUNITY BOB DYLAN AT HILL AUDITORIUM • NOVEMBER 1981. https://aadl.org/taxonomy/term/22955

••• FLASHES FROM THE PAST Don’t ever take yourself away Take a cab to that little old diner and take a Don’t ever take yourself to a place where I can’t stab find you At piecing together the steel and the feathers Don’t ever take yourself away that make me I will never leave you, I will never deceive you I’ll be right there walkin’ behind you I’ve been told my hand is a hard one to hold I fly or I sing but give me poison I’ll drink if you Take your time, take my confession, take my make me crime Take the halo I’m hiding and faith I got ridin’ Take my tears to water the flower garden on you Take my years so we can grow but Don’t ever take yourself away Rob me blind, I’d still see the best in human Don’t ever take yourself to a place where I can’t kind find you In the way you make this broken world all Don’t ever take yourself away shiny and new I will never leave you, I will never deceive you I’ll be right there walkin’ behind you.

(Steel And Feathers • Bob Dylan & Nikki Jean) ••• GOODBYE ERIC TAYLOR (1949-2020). https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/arts/music/eric-taylor-dead.html ••• GOOD NIGHT She would talk to the flowers, shy me away She would stay there for hours, I’d be on my way ••• HTTPS://THEBOBCATSNEWSLETTER.WORDPRESS.COM The Bob Cats Newsletter is inspired by Theme Time Radio Hour and the spirit in which it is made. All words by Peter Holst unless otherwise indicated, ’Flashes from the past’ by Bob Dylan. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, let me know and you’re off the hook. ©peterholst2020. •••