Waiting for Hank: Fred at Dreamtime has sleuthed out a little anecdotal evidence regarding Bob Dylan’s “Hank Williams Project” — i.e. the project of getting other songwriters to put music to the lyrics found in Hank’s briefcase after he died. Specifically, Fred’s post is about a story that appeared in March 2009 on a Lucinda Williams website, describing Lucinda’s contribution to the album. Further assurance that the project is real (not that we doubted that) and that it is inching along slowly but surely. I do hope we get to hear it this year.

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Forgetful is unforgettable: Bob’s poignant live arrangement of Forgetful Heart (previous post to this one) is touching a lot of people, I think. Mary at BabyBlueOnline posts some reflections on it, including another two cents from Yours Truly.

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There’s a new blog called Dylan Songs, which invites you to “share your art, music, poems, stories, videos, personal memories and creations that have been influenced by Dylan.” I don’t know who’s behind it, but it did get a promotion on the official Bob Dylan Twitter feed. In any case, the first thing posted is an interesting short-story by sometime RWB correspondent Kim Luisi. Read it at this link: Searching for Allen Ginsberg.

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Last night in Sauget, Illinois, Bob Dylan again performed Forgetful Heart and Jolene, and also introduced the brilliant and emotive ballad This Dream of You. For reasons I can’t comprehend, we somehow don’t seem to have the audio yet. (It’s like we’re back in the 20th century or something!)

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