The Dylan/Knopfler Euro jaunt wrapped up in Hammersmith on Monday night. For the last few weeks Knopfler had been playing on the first few songs of Dylan's set each night, but on the last night he came back out for the final song of the tour. Nice touch at 3:58 when Knopfler sings "may your song always be sung" and gestures at Dylan. It's ragged and rough and not at all bad. Check out the smiles on Donnie Herron and Tony Garnier's faces as well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8du76uTjQsI

Knopfler's keyboard player, Guy Fletcher, kept a really interesting, if sometimes very trainspottery blog about the tour. Lots of insight into touring and all the banjo playing that went on backstage between the two bands all over Europe: http://guyfletcher.co.uk/index.php/diary/MK_2011_Dylan_Tour_Diary_

Uncle Bob Dylan, a thousand strings and some hollerin' and a-whoopin' at the Grammy Awards:

http://consequenceofsound.net/2011/02/13/watch-2011-grammy-performances-...

or:

http://theaudioperv.com/2011/02/13/bob-dylan-mumford-sons-the-avett-brot...

From his own website, here's Eno on necks, limps, rock and roll and, er, playing with himself.

http://brian-eno.net/#interview

As the title suggests, here's Jeff hiding the chords from the world:

Mavis Staples' new album (You Are Not Alone) will be released in September. Here's the title track, featuring the album producer, song writer and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy:

http://pitchfork.com/news/39375-new-mavis-staples-written-by-wilcos-jeff...

And here's a nice oddity: from Eindhoven in 1993, Bob - dressed in something like a small tent - is unexpectedly joined onstage by Liz. A not bad duet ensues:

Braving the blizzard old Bob and Tony Garnier (and a so far unidentified pianist) rolled up at the White House yesterday evening for a concert attended by President Obama.
Host Morgan Freeman lead us in:

Hell of a Christmas party at Bob's house. Must be Santa Claus, indeed.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/16/premiere-bob-...

Good old Wilco, offering us a sneak preview of their upcoming album, the imaginatively titled (and PIL referencing?) "Wilco (The Album)":

http://beta.wilcoworld.net/records/thealbum/

Self-styled "musical historian" Billy Bob Thornton and his band dropped in to a Canadian studio for a promo interview. Watch and cringe. After this aired the band got ill and had to cancel their remaining Canadian shows.

Ooops.

Apologies for that.
Bobdylan.com have announced that Dylan will play a show at the Roundhouse in London on April 26 (the day before the new album is released). Tickets, limited to two per person, go on sale through the Roundhouse website on Wednesday of this week.
All details at Bobdylan.com:
http://www.bobdylan.com/#/news/10638
http://www.bobdylan.com/#/tour

Sky Sports' Chris Skudder was at both of Wilco's recent Dublin shows, in the photo pit in front of the stage. Frontman Jeff Tweedy spotted him and thought he looked like Burt Bacharach. Here's Skudder's glowing review of the gigs along with the youtube link showing Skudder doing his best Bacharach look

http://www.skyarts.co.uk/SkyArts/Music/Article.aspx?artid=5112

PS Have I really timetravelled back to 1970?