What We Know and What We Can Guess About Bob Dylan’s “Shadow Kingdom”

Fred Bals
12 min readJun 19, 2021

The Wise Old Owl and the Callow Youth of America return to discuss the meaning of “Shadow Kingdom” and Mr. D.’s upcoming streaming concert

Callow Youth of America: Hey Woo! Long time no see. Wazzup!

The Wise Old Owl: It’s pronounced “Who,” youngster, and unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve heard about Bob Dylan’s streaming concert coming on July 18th.

CYA: Clue me in, daddy-o.

WOO: Here’s the June 16 Live Nation press release verbatim…

BOB DYLAN CONCERT SET TO AIR ON VEEPS JULY 18, BROADCAST PERFORMANCE WILL BE THE ARTIST’S FIRST IN NEARLY 30 YEARS

On Sunday, July 18, at 2pm PT, Veeps will present Bob Dylan in an exclusive concert performance. Shadow Kingdom will showcase the artist in an intimate setting as he presents renditions of songs from his extensive and renowned body of work created especially for this event. Tickets are $25 and access to this concert event will remain for 48 hours after the initial airing.

Shadow Kingdom will mark the artist’s first concert performance since December 2019, after his planned tours were cancelled due to the global pandemic, along with…

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Fred Bals

Corporate Storyteller. Tech enthusiast. Mini Cooper fanboy. One-time chronicler of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. Husband of Peggy. Human of Lily Rose.