Welcome to issue nine of Judas!
As I write this Dylan has begun another year’s touring and although
the set-lists may look predictable the arrangements are refreshingly,
dramatically altered in many cases. Good for him.
You will notice a New Morning theme through this issue, with
no less than three articles looking at that intriguing period. In issue
10 there will be another theme running through the general articles
and reviews; in this case it will be early acoustic Dylan, so if you
have anything you want to say on that please send it in. I am not saying
that we are doing theme issues as such, it is more a case of giving
a recurrent flavour to certain editions.
If you have resubscribed you will soon notice additions to the subscribers’
area of the Judas! website. Steve Lescure is generously giving
us his 'Dylan Commentaries'. In his own words, he is ‘…bringing
together information from a wide variety of sources - numerous books,
magazine articles, and the Internet - condensing it down into the essentials
and presenting it in an easy-to-digest format.’ This will eventually
cover all of Dylan’s official output; the debut album material
will be available in the near future. Also on our website we have started
an archive section to publish those issues of Judas! that have already
sold out.
We are delighted to begin our series of excerpts from Izzy Young's back
pages. These articles, notes and reviews can be found throughout the
issue, wherever you see the symbol and comprise reprints - or first
prints - from his notebooks as well as newspapers and magazines and
so forth, as dated.
I mentioned above that issue 10 will feature reviews, in fact it will
have more than we have ever had before as, due to a variety of reasons,
a number that we hoped would be in this issue will now appear where
Gordon Brown aims to be - in number 10. The Live 1964 set was
delayed and came too late for this issue but Jonathan Shimkin will be
reviewing that for us, following up on his highly acclaimed debut article
on ‘Mr. Tambourine Man’ in issue eight. Stephen Scobie’s
Alias Bob Dylan Revisited, Andy Gill and Kevin Odegard’s
A Simple Twist Of Fate and Glen Dundas’s latest edition
of Tangled Up In Tapes will all be featured and, of course,
it will be time again for Manuel Vardavas’s bootleg column.
As well as these reviews and (other) articles on early Dylan there is
lots more lined up for both issue 10 and beyond; so tell all your friends
to subscribe, the more subscribers the greater the chance of colour
photos inside the magazine after all.
We hope to have seen many of you at the 4th John Green Day before this
issue hits the streets, and then see you at some summer shows afterwards.
