I’m late getting to this, but thanks to Jay for the link to this page at the NPR website, related to Suze Rotolo’s new book, “A Freewheelin’ Time.” You can read a generous introductory excerpt of the book there, and also listen to a 25 minute interview with Rotolo from the “Fresh Air” show. Maybe this isn’t the thing to say, but if you’re not curious enough about the book’s contents to buy it, but you are a little curious about it, you can probably satisfy that curiosity by visiting that page. Suze Rotolo comes across as sincere and, well, nice.

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Tomorrow is Bob Dylan’s birthday. He’ll be 67, and playing a gig in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on his way to Iceland and beyond. His birthday is being marked in Hibbing, Minnesota with the now regular Dylan Days festival. Here’s an article from the Duluth News Tribune on an exhibit at the Ironworld museum in nearby Chisholm, which explores Bob’s roots in the area.

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I enjoyed reading this piece by Leland Rucker, reminiscing about how a review he wrote of one of Dylan’s 1980 shows almost ended up printed on the Saved album cover. It’s also interesting to read the review all these years later, and it’s not hard to see why Dylan would have been taken with Rucker’s appreciative words.

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A new Dylan-related blog is Ramblings of a Ragged Clown, and the writer there makes an argument that Bob should use On a Night Like This as a show-opener, which argument then becomes an extended appreciation of that song and Planet Waves generally. Nice in particular because you don’t read much Planet Waves, do you? Maybe it’s obscured by all the dirt thrown up by the impact of the album that followed it, i.e. Blood On The Tracks.

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Housekeeping note: The eagle-eyed amongst RWB readers would have noticed that there are new doodads at the bottom of each post. Inspired by the recent upgrade of my WordPress platform — necessitated by hackers — I’ve been adding some compatible plug-ins (or again, to use the technical term, doodads). One automatically compares the content of each post with past posts in the database, and comes up with links to allegedly related content (some of which I might be better off leaving buried, but them’s the breaks). The other facilitates sharing the post on a “social bookmarking” site, or easily emailing the link to a friend, or indeed, to an enemy. Should your favorite social bookmarking site not be featured, by the way, drop me a line and I can probably rectify that. There being about 250 of those kinds of things these days, I didn’t choose the option of including a drop down menu with all of them in it, as it seemed to slow down the page loading significantly.

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