would have liked to see a new album somewhere in there


--- In bringingitallbackhomeclub@yahoogroups.com, "Michael Norville"
<prairiesedge@h...> wrote:
>
> Busy Year for Bob Dylan
>
> Tours, Scorsese movie and outtakes album slated for 2005
>
>
> Bob Dylan may need more than one cup of coffee for the road in
2005:
> The sixty-three-year-old legend's schedule includes a spring tour
> with country veteran Merle Haggard, a possible repeat of last
> summer's outing with Willie Nelson, the paperback release of his
best-
> selling memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, and a Martin Scorsese-
helmed
> documentary.
> First up is the two-month-long tour with Haggard, beginning Monday
in
> Seattle. The country singer-songwriter's 1969 hit "Okie From
> Muskogee" ("We don't burn no draft cards down on Main Street")
> assailed the counterculture that claimed Dylan as a leader. But
the
> sixty-seven-year-old Haggard says he's "as big a Bob Dylan fan as
> anybody. I haven't been a show opener for years, and I wouldn't
open
> for just anybody. But I'm honored to do it for Bob. There's a lot
of
> similarities between us: We both play guitar, we both live in
America
> and we're both probably better songwriters than we are singers."
>
> Haggard says he hasn't yet bought a copy of Chronicles, but more
than
> 500,000 others have. "It's an enormous success -- one of the best-
> selling memoirs of the year," says David Rosenthal, executive vice
> president of the book's publisher, Simon & Schuster, "Everything
> about this book has exceeded our expectations." Chronicles was
> nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, with a winner
to
> be announced on March 18th. (Another date to watch: Pulitzer Prize
> nominees are unveiled on April 4th.) A paperback version is due in
> October. Simon & Schuster also plans to publish Chronicles: Volume
> Two, but don't expect Dylan to deliver a manuscript anytime
> soon. "It'd be wonderful to have it in the next few years," says
> Rosenthal. "But we'll get it when we get it."
>
> The excavation of Dylan's past will continue in Scorsese's two-
part
> documentary, No Direction Home, due to air on PBS in September,
> followed by a DVD release. The three-and-a-half-hour film will
draw
> from ten hours of taped Dylan interviews, conducted by his
manager,
> Jeff Rosen. Using previously unseen footage from Dylan's archives,
> the movie will reportedly focus on the start of his career, from
1961
> to 1966. "It's nonfiction -- maybe," Scorsese said in
January. "With
> Bob Dylan, you never know."
>
> A two-CD collection of outtakes and live recordings used in the
film
> is tentatively set for an August 16th release, as the seventh
volume
> in Dylan's Bootleg Series. The documentary will also spawn the Bob
> Dylan Scrapbook, which will include Dylan artifacts such as lyric
> sheets and contracts.
>
> Meanwhile, Dylan is in the early stages of planning a second tour
> with Nelson. As for a new studio album, Dylan told Rolling Stone
in
> October that he has "a bunch" of new songs written and that he
hoped
> to record them "sometime in the beginning of the year."
>
> Bob Dylan tour dates:
>
> 3/7: Seattle, Paramount Theater
> 3/8: Seattle, Paramount Theater
> 3/9: Seattle, Paramount Theater
> 3/11: Portland, Chiles Center
> 3/12: Portland, Chiles Center
> 3/14: Oakland, Paramount Theater
> 3/15: Oakland, Paramount Theater
> 3/16: Oakland, Paramount Theater
> 3/18: Reno, NV, Reno Hilton
> 3/19: Las Vegas, Aladdin Theater
> 3/21: Los Angeles, Pantages Theater
> 3/22: Los Angeles, Pantages Theater
> 3/23: Los Angeles, Pantages Theater
> 3/25: Los Angeles, Pantages Theater
> 3/26: Los Angeles, Pantages Theater
> 3/28: Denver, Fillmore Auditorium
> 3/29: Denver, Fillmore Auditorium
> 4/1: Chicago, Auditorium Theater
> 4/2: Chicago, Auditorium Theater
> 4/3: Chicago, Auditorium Theater
> 4/5: Chicago, Auditorium Theater
> 4/6: Chicago, Auditorium Theater
> 4/8: Milwaukee, WI, Eagles Ballroom
> 4/9: Milwaukee, WI, Eagles Ballroom
> 4/11: Mt. Pleasant, MI, Soaring Eagle Casino and Resort
> 4/12: Detroit, Masonic Temple Theater
> 4/13: Buffalo, NY, Shea's Performing Arts Center
> 4/15: Boston, Orpheum Theater
> 4/16: Boston, Orpheum Theater
> 4/17: Boston, Orpheum Theater
> 4/19: Newark, NJ, New Jersey Performing Arts Center
> 4/20: Verona, NY, Turning Stone Casino and Resort
> 4/22: Mashantucket, CT, Foxwoods Resort Casino
> 4/24: Atlantic City, NJ, Borgata Resort Spa and Casino
> 4/25: New York, Beacon Theater
> 4/26: New York, Beacon Theater
> 4/28: New York, Beacon Theater
> 4/29: New York, Beacon Theater
> 4/30: New York, Beacon Theater