HeyJaredShadow Chasing
A newsletter by Graley Herren about contexts and conversations in Bob Dylan's art
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Cincinnati Greatest Hits (opens the original)
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Dylan in Cincinnati is now available wherever you get your books. I’m very grateful to those who contributed blurbs: Laura Tenschert, Ray Padgett, Court Carney, and the NET maestro Andrew Muir. I also want to thank Erin Callahan for making the trip to Cincinnati to interview me for her wonderful podcast Infinity Goes Up on Trial. I especially want to thank readers of Shadow Chasing for your generous support as I’ve workshopped the chapters which eventually turned into this book.I really apprecia
Cincinnati Greatest Hits (opens the original)
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I hope you enjoyed Volume 1 of Cincinnati Greatest Hits. In this second volume, we’ll resume our countdown with the Top Ten original songs Dylan has performed in the city. In the third volume, I’ll treat you to a dozen of his best covers. If these amazing performances whet your appetite for more Dylan in Cincinnati, then please consider getting a copy of my book:<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2UVZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:stee
Cincinnati Greatest Hits (opens the original)
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Dylan in Cincinnati will be published next month by the University Press of Mississippi. From the start, Shadow Chasing has been my laboratory for experimenting on this project and my display case for sharing first drafts. I’ve benefitted enormously from readers’ encouragement and feedback throughout the process. This feels like a shared accomplishment—thank you!Counting down to the book launch, I thought it would be fun to compile a Cincinnati Greatest Hits package. A lot of Dylan fans love lis
Patti & Robert in Black & White (opens the original)
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Patti Smith last spoke with Robert Mapplethorpe on March 8, 1989, the day before he died. During that final conversation, he asked her to tell “our story,” and she promised she would. She attempted to fulfill this vow multiple times, including the long poem The Coral Sea. However, as she writes near the end of Just Kids, “our story was obliged to wait until I could find the right voice” (288).I think Smith found the right voice by approaching her subject as a composition in black and white, an a
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