All of a sudden, everything is about Bob Dylan.
You know, you can watch DA Pennebaker’s famous documentary, “Don’t Look Back,” for free on the Criterion Channel website.
Meanwhile, “A Complete Unknown” picked up $4 million yesterday on its second day of release. The James Mangold movie is so much of a hit that Timothee Chalamet’s soundtrack album is in the top 20 on iTunes.
Dylan was never a chartbuster. But today he has FIVE albums on the top 200, three in the top 20. His catalog is booming. “The Essential Bob Dylan” is number 5. Also on the chart is “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” the original Greatest Hits album, and “Blood on the Tracks.”
The times, they are a-changing!
New Dylan fans can also check out The Basement Tapes, with the Band, Nashville Skyline, Desire (one of my faves), and Shadow Kingdom, an album Dylan recorded during the pandemic that really is gold. We were lucky to get it.
