{"id":9020,"date":"2026-02-26T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/major-new-bob-dylan-1966-exhibition-unveiled-as-uncut-marks-the-60th-anniversary-of-dylans-wildest-year-153398\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T16:12:23","slug":"major-new-bob-dylan-1966-exhibition-unveiled-as-uncut-marks-the-60th-anniversary-of-dylans-wildest-year-153398","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/major-new-bob-dylan-1966-exhibition-unveiled-as-uncut-marks-the-60th-anniversary-of-dylans-wildest-year-153398\/","title":{"rendered":"Major new Bob Dylan 1966 exhibition unveiled as Uncut marks the 60th anniversary of Dylan\u2019s wildest year"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa has given Uncut<\/em> an exclusive preview of its plans for a major new exhibition exploring Dylan\u2019s work in 1966, and the firestorm that surrounded it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa has given Uncut<\/em> an exclusive preview of its plans for a major new exhibition exploring Dylan\u2019s work in 1966, and the firestorm that surrounded it.<\/p>\n

The revelations come as part of the 13-page cover story in the new Uncut<\/em> marking the 60th<\/sup> anniversary of that watershed year in Dylan\u2019s career, also featuring new interviews with Dylan\u2019s bandmates and others offering glimpses of Dylan at work during the making of Blonde On Blonde<\/em>; and a deep dive examination of how Dylan\u2019s controversial \u201966 tour with The Hawks was received in the British Isles.<\/p>\n

Uncut\u2019s April 2026 issue is available to buy here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Uncut\u2019s April 2026 issue is available to buy here<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Scheduled to open this summer, the Dylan Center\u2019s new exhibition, titled Thin Wild Mercury<\/em>, is set to be its most ambitious yet. \u201c1966 is a remarkable period,\u201d the show\u2019s curator, Mark Davidson, tells Uncut<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s on a different level. It\u2019s basically Dylan creating some of the most iconic music he\u2019s made\u2013while taking on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davidson guides Uncut<\/em> through key areas of Thin Wild Mercury<\/em>, which will plunder the contents of the Bob Dylan Archive and beyond to mount an immersive, multi-media experience, showcasing artefacts including Dylan\u2019s own working manuscripts, rare audio, vintage promotional material and ephemera, unseen photographs and recently restored film footage to examine Dylan\u2019s blazing creative journey across 1966 in unprecedentedly rich detail and depth: from writing and recording Blonde On Blonde<\/em> and hitting the road with the Hawks, to jousting with the world\u2019s media and sitting for Andy Warhol. \u201cIt\u2019s Dylan as spectacle, in a very combative way,\u201d Davidson says: \u201c\u2018This is me \u2013 deal with it<\/em>.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the issue, in a new interview, veteran multi-instrumentalist Charlie McCoy, the band leader on Blonde On Blonde<\/em>, gives Uncut<\/em> his first-person account of recording the music Dylan has called \u201cthe closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNone of us had ever seen anything like it before,\u201d McCoy says, recalling a sequence of late-night sessions that turned Nashville on its head. \u201cWe\u2019d do anything to stay awake, because you never did know when Dylan was going to say, \u2018OK: now let\u2019s do it.\u2019 He could be ready to go any minute.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alongside McCoy\u2019s vivid testimony of 4AM calls, other eyewitnesses describe encounters with Dylan around the making of the record, and we uncover a nugget about Johnny Cash\u2019s connection to the album that has gone unreported for six decades.<\/p>\n

Additionally, scouring the archives of the regional press, from the Ballymena Weekly Telegraph<\/em> to the Stratford-Upon-Avon Herald<\/em>, Uncut<\/em> reconstructs how things played out in real time when Dylan and the Hawks brought the divisive battle to \u201cgo electric\u201d to the UK and Ireland. Revisiting hostile reviewers (\u201cA noisy, blaring, ear-splitting disaster\u201d), traumatised fans (\u201cI started to cry\u201d), and frothing journalists (\u201cDon\u2019t ban this weasel-like little man. TIME WILL SHOW HIM FOR WHAT HE\u2019S REALLY WORTH\u201d), we capture a series of snapshots along the speeding, tumultuous road to \u201cJudas!\u201d<\/p>\n

Finally, we report on Where The Music Had To Go \u2013 a major new biography exploring Dylan\u2019s relationship with The Beatles, including a dive into their 1966 hook-up at London\u2019s Mayfair hotel, Dylan\u2019s visit to Liverpool and the Dylan vs Lennon limousine double-header filmed in DA Penebaker\u2019s Eat The Document film. \u201cThere are lost film scenes with Dylan and Lennon together,\u201d author Jim Windolf tells Uncut. \u201cAt the Bob Dylan Center archive, I found notes written by Dylan while he was editing Eat the Document (probably in July 1966) that seem to pertain to Dylan-Lennon scenes, apart from the limo footage. Still a mystery, when and where those scenes would have been filmed\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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