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Julian Lage joins Dylan band mid-tour
T2 Online and Guitar World report that guitarist Julian Lage has joined Bob Dylan’s current tour band, apparently replacing Doug Lancio without a formal announcement. T2 says Lancio played the first seven June shows and left after the June 14 Greek Theatre show in Berkeley; Lage first appeared June 17 at the Santa Barbara Bowl and continued through at least six subsequent shows. Guitar World’s Phil Weller notes that a Dylan spokesperson, via a Los Angeles Times report, could not confirm whether Lage’s role is temporary or extended.
Why it matters
A mid-tour guitar-chair change involving one of jazz’s highest-profile players could materially reshape Dylan’s live arrangements and setlist direction.
Sources & driving stories
T2 ONLINE
T2 Online coverageGUITAR WORLD · Phil Weller
Guitar World coverageHandwritten 'I'm Not There' draft surfaces for auction
Floridafarmersmarkets reported that a handwritten draft associated with Bob Dylan’s “I’m Not There” surfaced inside an Allen Ginsberg paperback once owned by Sally Grossman, wife of Dylan manager Albert Grossman. The report says Ginsberg had given the book to Grossman, providing a provenance link to Dylan’s late-1960s circle. The fragment is expected to sell for an estimated £20,000 to £40,000.
Why it matters
The find adds a potentially significant artifact to the documented paper trail around Dylan’s 1967 Basement Tapes-era writing.
Sources & driving stories
FLORIDAFARMERSMARKETS
Floridafarmersmarkets coverageWorth noting
WORTH NOTING
Dylan-Dead 1986 miniseries begins
Flaggingdown published the first installment of Jesse Jarnow’s four-part reconstruction of Dylan and the Grateful Dead’s five 1986 co-headlining shows, starting with the June 26 Metrodome concert in Minneapolis.
WORTH NOTING
Marcus notes strong Berkeley reaction
In Greil Marcus’s June 26 Q&A, a reader report described Dylan’s June 14 Berkeley Greek Theatre show as superb, singling out a tense band sound and “Crossing the Rubicon” recast as a blues military march.
WORTH NOTING
Dylan tops CBS songbook citations
AOL reported that Dylan was named the most-cited artist in CBS’s Essential American Songbook project, a new canonization signal around his catalog.
Still unclear
OPEN QUESTION
Is Lage temporary or a new fixture?
Dylan’s organization has not clarified the duration of Julian Lage’s role, and the band’s guitar personnel often affects the tour’s arrangements and repertoire.
OPEN QUESTION
How firm is the lyric-fragment provenance?
The auction estimate depends heavily on the documented chain linking the paperback, Ginsberg, Sally Grossman, and Dylan’s 1967 writing period.