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Bob Dylan Baffles Fans With Faux Vintage Letters and Essays on Patreon

Rolling Stone·@AndyGreene·2 months ago
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By Andy Greene Over the past couple of years, Bob Dylan has embraced the Internet in bizarre and unexpected ways. He’s used his official Twitter account to wish a happy birthday to a mysterious figure named “Mary Jo” he planned on seeing in Frankfort, shouted out Dooky Chase’s Restaurant in New Orleans, and talked about running into a member of the Buffalo Sabres in an elevator in Prague. His Instagram page is rarely used to promote his music, but is instead a hodgepodge of vintage video clips, including Les Paul’s appearance at a 1988 Van Halen concert, a James Cagney monologue from the 1949 film noir White Heat, and even Machine Gun Kelly freestyle rapping at a record store back in 2016. But he somehow managed to up the weirdness by a significant margin over the weekend, when he shared a link to an official Bob Dylan Patreon account that offers fans “a living archive of lectures from the grave, letters never sent, and original short stories curated by Bob Dylan” for $5.00 a month.…

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