Recent Change List



2004

April 12 - Added some links to other sites.

2003

July 25, 2003 - Lots of links fixed, typos fixed, etc...

2001

May 12, 1001 - I've added several 1979 boots to the Unauthorized Recordings section.

May 12, 2001 - I've added news of a Gospel Tribute Album which was announced as "in the works" on rec.music.dylan. Here's the link.

March 24, 2001 - I've added an excerpt from a 1997 sermon by Pat Kahnke, on "What would Jesus say to Bob Dylan." Here's the link.

March 24, 2001 - I've added some materials by Chuck Girard (Love Song) concerning Bob Dylan. Here's the link.

March 24, 2001 - I've included a link to the Kenn Gulliksen article (updated March 23, 2001) in the "Is Dylan Still" article.

March 24, 2001 - I've begun updating an extensive calendar chronicling events in Dylan's life, concerts and setlists over the time period November 17, 1978 through December 8, 1981. Here's the link.

March 23, 2001 - I've put up the article from April 25, 1999 about Kenn Gulliksen in which Kenn discusses Dylan's current (as of then) spiritual condition, soliciting prayer for Dylan. Here's the link.

March 17, 2001 - I've put up a link to the Telegraph pages.

February 23, 2001 - I'm continuing to work on the site. Correcting some spelling errors on the Lyric Commentary pages. (Thanks, Richard!)

January 9, 2001 - I've continued working on the site. Changes to the "Is Dylan Still" essay to update based on more recent information are among the more major changes.

2000

July 28, 2000 - I've begun to work on this site again. I've started mending some broken links and updating some dated items. If you see any broken links, please let me know by an email to bill@billparr.org. Or, if you'd like to contribute something for inclusion in the Slow Train Coming Home Page, send it to me.

1997

August 24, 1997 - I've added a major new section to the Slow Train Coming Home page, containing side by side presentation of Dylan lyrics and Scripture to illustrate the linkages. I'm adding songs slowly, to check back from time to time to see more.

June 2, 1997 - I've added another Graeme C. Beaton essay, this time on Dylan's allowing "Times" to be used by Coopers & Lybrand. Check it out.

June 1, 1997 - Good news about Dylan. Check out the link listed in the May 31, 1997 change - Dylan has left the hospital!

May 31, 1997 - I've added a link on the top level home page to information from the EDLIS home page about Dylan's current medical condition. Let's all keep Bob in our prayers.

May 12, 1997 - I've added a new section on pictures, Advertisements, . . . which are Dylan-related. It's linked to the top level page, or find it at http://web.utk.edu/~wparr/graphics.html.

Also, check out the pictures added along with a review of the Huntsville, Alabama show from May 3, 1997. At http://web.utk.edu/~wparr/concertreviews.html.

April 24, 1997 - I've added a review of the April 22, 1997 Indiana, Pennsylvania concert, with a jpeg of the cue sheet, as annotated by someone before the show, and used by Dylan.

March 25, 1997 -- I've finally tracked down the March 13, 1983 Shirley Eder gossip column which has the quote from Dylan, "I am a humanist." Check it out before you give it any credence. Thanks to Ron Chester for an assist in finding the Detroit Free Press database.

January 1, 1997 -- I've added a link, at the top level page, to a site providing Bible versions searchable by verse, by subject, by words, . . .


1996


December 31, 1996 -- I've added links of God Knows and Jokerman to Scripture, provided by John Henry.

November 19 -- I've added an essay by Christopher Rollason on Man in the Long Black Coat, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Calvinism.

September 22 -- I've added commentary on In the Summertime by Christian Mobley (based on his rec.music.dylan post).

July 7 -- I've added two reviews of the April 17, 1980 concert in Massey Hall in Toronto. Find them in the Concert Reviews section.

June 30 -- I've added to the section on unofficial recordings. And made a correction on the date of the Farewell Bloomfield concert.

June 29 -- I've gotten information on the Slow Train Coming and Saved recording sessions loaded up. You can access this from the top level Slow Train Coming home page.

June 28 -- I've added a section devoted to Robin Jatko's work as EDLIS Statistics Agency manager. Also, a section devoted to unofficial recordings. Both accessible from the top level Slow Train Coming Home Page.

June 26 -- I've added an essay (abstract in English, text in German on Dylan and Christian themes by Peter Arzt.

May 25 -- I've added the update to the Telegraph site, available from the top level page. Lots of stuff from Issue #54.

May 5 -- I've added some commentary on lyrical relations between Larry Norman and Bob Dylan, with a link on the top level page.

April 25 -- I've added commentary on Down in the Flood by John Henry. Check the John Henry section for this. And som comments by Al Kooper on Dylan's shift from singing the Slow Train/Saved/Shot of Love songs exclusively to adding in a mix of older material. Find this material in the "They're planting stories in the press" section.

April 24 -- I've added more lyric commentaries, on some of the songs in Under the Red Sky.

April 20 -- I've added some material provided by John Henry linking Foot of Pride to Scripture references. You can find them through the John Henry link on the top level page.

April 7 -- I've added some more Dylan quotes, and a portion of an interview with Mark Knopfler regarding he and Dylan during the Slow Train Coming recording sessions. And I've added some quotes from Behind the Shades by Howie Wyeth and Steven Soles re T-Bone Burnett's relationship to Dylan.

April 6 -- I've added some more concert raps, and two interviews under "They're Planting Stories in the Press" in which others talk about Dylan. And lots more little stuff. I've also added some Biblical references to the story of Abraham and Isaac, juxtaposed against Dylan's "Highway 61 Revisited."

March 30 -- I've added five more of Dylan's concert raps, added some gifs around the lyric commentary section, and have added a portion of an interview with Larry Norman which touched on Bob Dylan. Also, commentary by Rob Zorn on Sweetheart Like You. And, a poem by John Henry.

March 29 -- I've done a lot of work providing some extra navigation help around the site, and added 6 more "raps" from the 1978 - 1981 concerts.

March 28 -- I've added another ten of Dylan's raps from the 1978 - 1981 concerts. You can find them at the link to Interviews and SPeeches at the top level Slow Train Coming page.

March 27 -- I've added 9 more of Dylan's "raps" from the 1978 - 1981 concerts. You can find them at the link to Interviews and Speeches on the top level Slow Train Coming page.

March 26 --- I've added a substantial essay, written by Rob Zorn, of analysis of the lyrics of Under the Red Sky. Great reading!

March 25 --- I've added a new section, linked to the top level page, called "They're planting stories in the press." This section gives comments made by others (not by Dylan) regarding relations of Christianity and Dylan.

March 22, 1996 --- I've added a new section, linked to the top level page, giving Concert Reviews. My intention is to capture two kinds of reviews: Reviews of Dylan concerts strongly relevant to the topic of this site, plus, in general, reviews of concerts I've written up. Thus far, only the Biloxi, Missippi concert (October 14, 1995) and excerpts from Paul Williams' review of the Bob Dylan / Patti Smith Paradise Lost tour are included. Also, I added Bill Youngblood's recollection of the October 10, 1986 Hugh Downs interview.

March 21, 1996 -- I've added Glynne Walley's lyric commentary on Shooting Star.
Also, added the quote from the Shirley Elder 1983 interview. I'd greatly appreciate seeing the complete interview, if anybody has same and could fax a copy to 423-531-0574.

March 20, 1996 --- I've added a lot of links to make it easier to navigate around the Slow Train Coming Home Page.

March 19, 1996 --- I added a quote from Larry Norman re Dylan's Slow Train Coming on the top level page, and supplied access to links to many other Dylan sites.

March 17, 1996 --- I added lots of interviews, from 1979 - 1991. More to enjoy. And if anybody has more precise dates and locations than I have supplied (or the names of the interviewers) I'd appreciate hearing. Just email me at bill@billparr.org

March 16, 1996 --- I added several interviews from the time period 1980 - 1981. Enjoy.

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Bill Parr
EDLIS Christianity and Dylan Agency
bill@billparr.org

My home page: http://web.utk.edu/~wparr
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