Friday, June 11, 2004:
           
Vietnam to Host World Peace Music Awards

This month Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Peter Paul & Mary and Country Joe & The Fish
will receive the United Nations' World Peace Music Award. The ceremony will
be held in Hanoi. ...

The voice of Joan Baez is synonymous with the civil rights and anti-war
movements of the 1960s. Her hit "We Shall Overcome" has become the anthem
of protests everywhere.

So it seems fitting that Joan Baez is among the six artists who will be
honored at the World Peace Music Awards in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.

Other recipients are Vietnam era stars Bob Dylan, Peter, Paul and Mary,
Harry Belafonte, and Country Joe and the Fish. All of them made significant
musical contributions to the anti-Vietnam war movement.

The sixth musician being honored is a Vietnamese song writer, Trinh Cong Son,
who's peace song Lullaby was a hit in Asia in 1969. Mr. Son died last year,
but his sister, Trinh Vinh Trinh was at the United Nations in New York Tues-
day when the award was announced.

"[For those of you who have] chosen Vietnam as the venue for 2004, and for
those of you who nominated my brother as one honoree for 2004 awards, I
thank you from the bottom of my heart," he said.

The World Peace Award concert will be held in the Vietnamese capital June 26.
It will feature several big names from around the world, including Lionel
Ritchie and Gloria Gaynor from the United States, as well the singing star
Hakim from Egypt.

At a news briefing Tuesday, Hakim performed together with the U.S. soul music
legend James Brown. Producer Miles Copeland says the goal of the Hanoi concert
will be to create musical combinations across national and cultural boundaries.

"For instance, Hakim, from Egypt, singing in Arabic and James Brown from the
United States singing in English," he said. "These sorts of combinations high-
light the purpose of the World Peace Awards, to show that by people working
together, we can bridge cultural and ethnic and political differences, and
that's really what it's all about."

Mr. Copeland says the World Peace Awards ceremony and concert will be televised
live by satellite. The first concert, held last year on the Indonesian island
of Bali, featured artists from more than 25 countries, and is believed to have
been seen in almost every country in the world.

  "The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan LIVE 1964 -
  Concert At Philharmonic Hall" has been released.



   The recording captures a 23-year-old Dylan at a transitional moment
   in his career, two months after the release of Another Side of Bob
   Dylan, the last acoustic album he would record before heading into
   the studio weeks after the Philharmonic Hall concert to embark on
   the experiment that would result in the electrified rock heard on
   Bringing It All Back Home, several songs from which he previewed
   at this concert. Live 1964 will take its place as the only and
   earliest official release of an all-acoustic Bob Dylan concert.

    Disc 1

    1. The Times They Are A-Changin'
    2. Spanish Harlem Incident
    3. Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
    4. To Ramona
    5. Who Killed Davey Moore?
    6. Gates of Eden
    7. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You
       Got To Stay All Night)
    8. It's Alright Ma, (I'm Only Bleeding)
    9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like
       We Never Have Met)
   10. Mr. Tambourine Man
   11. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

    Disc 2

    1. Talkin' World War III Blues
    2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
    3. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
    4. Mama, You Been On My Mind
    5. Silver Dagger
    6. With God On Our Side
    7. It Ain't Me, Babe
    8. All I Really Want to Do

  Bob Dylan's movie "masked and anonymous" has been released
  on DVD by Columbia TriStar Home Video.



   Music legend and Academy Award winner Bob Dylan (Best Song, Wonder Boys,
   2000) -- accompanied by Academy Award winner Jessica Lange (Best Actress
   in a Leading Role, Blue Sky, 1994), Penelope Cruz (Vanilla Sky), Jeff
   Bridges (Seabiscuit), John Goodman (O Brother, Where Art Thou?) and Luke
   Wilson (Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle) -- takes center stage in the
   craziest, funniest comedy of the year! Dylan is Jack Fate, a former
   traveling troubadour who is sprung from jail by his scheming manager to
   headline a sketchy and misguided benefit concert. With unforgettable cameo
   appearances by Angela Bassett, Bruce Dern, Ed Harris, Giovanni Ribisi,
   Mickey Rourke, and Christian Slater and featuring a sizzling soundtrack
   with four new Dylan recordings plus performances of Dylan classics from
   Los Lobos, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia and more!



   "Electrifying! A gold mine for Dylan's loyal legions! Dylan is as
   up-close as you've ever seen him." - Austin Scaggs,
   ROLLING STONE
   "Surprisingly amusing! Loaded with enough lyric references to keep
   Dylanologists freeze-framing for years!" -
   Chuck Wilson, LA WEEKLY

  DVD FEATURES

   • Director's Commentary
   • Deleted Scenes
   • The Making of "Masked and Anonymous"
   • Theatrical Trailers
   • Interactive Menus
   • Dolby Digital 5.1 (Audio English)
   • Subtitles: French
   • Closed Captioning
   • Widescreen Presentation

  BOB DYLAN'S HISTORIC 'HALLOWEEN CONCERT' RECEIVES OFFICIAL RELEASE AS
  LIVE 1964: CONCERT AT PHILHARMONIC HALL --  THE BOOTLEG SERIES VOLUME 6

  On March 23, Columbia/Legacy will release Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall --
  The Bootleg Series Volume 6, a two-CD set documenting the all-acoustic, October 31, 1964,
  Halloween-night concert by Bob Dylan at Philharmonic Hall in New York City. The recording
  captures a 23-year-old Dylan at a transitional moment in his career, two months after the
  release of Another Side of Bob Dylan, the last acoustic album he would record before heading
  into the studio weeks after the Philharmonic Hall concert to embark on the experiment that
  would result in the electrified rock heard on Bringing It All Back Home, several songs from
  which he previewed at this concert. Live 1964 will take its place as the only and earliest
  official release of an all-acoustic Bob Dylan concert.



  Live 1964 shows Dylan at the peak of his early performing powers. Less than three years
  since his first album was released, he offhandedly jokes with his audience, fending off
  enthusiastic hecklers with deft wit and snappy comebacks, only to turn around and deliver
  blisteringly intense versions of protest songs, folk tunes, talking blues, love ballads
  and a few theretofore unreleased, indefinable songs, including "Mr. Tambourine Man,"
  "Gates of Eden" and "It's Alright Ma," that would spark a musical revolution over the
  course of the next year.  Joan Baez appears as special guest on four tracks.



  Live 1964 comes in a brilliant box with a hardcover slipcase and a 52-page booklet with
  rare and previously unpublished photos by Daniel Kramer, Hank Parker and Sandy Speiser.
  The booklet includes a new essay by Sean Wilentz, the Princeton University-based historian
  and writer who attended the Halloween 1964 concert at age 13.



  (Click here for more details.)

    Disc 1

    1. The Times They Are A-Changin'
    2. Spanish Harlem Incident
    3. Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
    4. To Ramona
    5. Who Killed Davey Moore?
    6. Gates of Eden
    7. If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You
       Got To Stay All Night)
    8. It's Alright Ma, (I'm Only Bleeding)
    9. I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like
       We Never Have Met)
   10. Mr. Tambourine Man
   11. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall

    Disc 2

    1. Talkin' World War III Blues
    2. Don't Think Twice, It's All Right
    3. The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
    4. Mama, You Been On My Mind
    5. Silver Dagger
    6. With God On Our Side
    7. It Ain't Me, Babe
    8. All I Really Want to Do

  Bob Dylan was nominated for two Grammy awards, the National Acadamy
  of Recording Arts & Sciences announced on December 4th, 2003.

  His duet with Mavis Staples of his song "Gonna Change My Way of Thinking"
  was nominated in the Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals category.
  The recording can be found on the Columbia Records release
  "Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan".
  (Order "Gotta Serve Somebody")

  His recording of "Down in the Flood", from the "masked and anonymous"
  soundtrack album (Columbia Records/Sony Soundtrax) was nominated in the
  Best Male Rock Vocal Performance category.
  (Order the "masked and anonymous" Soundtrack)

  "Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs Of Bob Dylan" was nominated for
  "Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album".

  The 46th Grammy awards ceremony will be broadcast live on CBS
  on February 8, 2004.

     I was asked to give a statement on Johnny's passing and thought about
     writing a piece instead called "Cash Is King," because that is the way I
     really feel. In plain terms, Johnny was and is the North Star; you could
     guide your ship by him -- the greatest of the greats then and now. I first
     met him in '62 or '63 and saw him a lot in those years. Not so much
     recently, but in some kind of way he was with me more than people I see
     every day.

     There wasn't much music media in the early Sixties, and Sing Out! was
     the magazine covering all things folk in character. The editors had
     published a letter chastising me for the direction my music was going.
     Johnny wrote the magazine back an open letter telling the editors to shut
     up and let me sing, that I knew what I was doing. This was before I had
     ever met him, and the letter meant the world to me. I've kept the magazine
     to this day.

     Of course, I knew of him before he ever heard of me. In '55 or '56, "I
     Walk the Line" played all summer on the radio, and it was different than
     anything else you had ever heard. The record sounded like a voice from the
     middle of the earth. It was so powerful and moving. It was profound, and
     so was the tone of it, every line; deep and rich, awesome and mysterious
     all at once. "I Walk the Line" had a monumental presence and a certain
     type of majesty that was humbling. Even a simple line like "I find it
     very, very easy to be true" can take your measure. We can remember that
     and see how far we fall short of it.

     Johnny wrote thousands of lines like that. Truly he is what the land
     and country is all about, the heart and soul of it personified and what it
     means to be here; and he said it all in plain English. I think we can have
     recollections of him, but we can't define him any more than we can define
     a fountain of truth, light and beauty. If we want to know what it means to
     be mortal, we need look no further than the Man in Black. Blessed with a
     profound imagination, he used the gift to express all the various lost
     causes of the human soul. This is a miraculous and humbling thing. Listen
     to him, and he always brings you to your senses. He rises high above all,
     and he'll never die or be forgotten, even by persons not born yet --
     especially those persons -- and that is forever.