Bob Dylan has surprised fans by launching a Patreon.
This comes after the singer shared a flyer on his Instagram story, promoting his new Patreon series "Lectures From The Grave", costing $5 per month to view.
So far, this Patreon account includes six posts, the first simply showing am embedded video of a Mahalia Jackson performance, followed by three posts showing audio essays. These essays which read out in an AI voice, are based on former Vice President Aaron Burr, American folk legend Wild Bill, and a 19th century outlaw Frank James.
Another post, titled, 'Bull Rider (short story)', listing Marty Lombard as the author, telling the story of a man who looks for a Texan rodeo to try bull riding.
“The bus coughed me out somewhere past Amarillo, dust in my teeth and a sky that stretched out so wide it felt like it was laughing at me,” the post reads. “I had a duffel bag, two shirts, a paperback of The Sea Wolf with the spine cracked like an old man’s knuckles, and the kind of hunger you don’t fix with food.”
There is also a series called, 'Letters Never Sent', while there is a sole entry of a fictional letter written by Mark Twain to Rudolph Valentino, an Italian actor from the silent film era. Twain died in 1910 when Valentino was 14 years old.
The letter ends with Twain's signature, with the post attributed to the pen name, 'Herbert Foster'.
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This latest news has understandably led to confusion amongst Dylan's fans on social media.
“Bob Dylan AI history patreon just confirms he is in the very top percentile of weirdest/most inexplicable people ever born", one remarked, while another added: “Guaranteed to zig when you think he’ll zag every single time".
Last month, Bob Dylan began his 2026 World Tour with a cover of Eddie Cochran's, 'Nervous Breakdown' for the first time in his career. The performance took place at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha in Nebraska. Find out more on this from Nova here.
