We should have seen it coming, that Bob Dylan would move to the Scottish Highlands. In a song called “Highlands” off his Time Out of Mind album, he squawks, “Well, my heart’s in the Highlands wherever I roam/that’s where I’ll be when I get called home.” Now, it’s rumored around the tiny village of Strathspey that Dylan’s brother David Zimmerman has bought the 10-bedroom Aultmore House for $4 million on behalf of the singer. The Edwardian estate on 25 acres has views of the Abernethy Forest and the Cairngorms and was previously a luxury $6,000-a-night bed and breakfast. A spokesman from the real estate agency said, “We can confirm we have sold the property to a member of Bob Dylan’s family.” (Scotsman)

Says Alan Taylor in the Sunday Herald: “Aultmore may have been bought for Dylan by his younger brother, David Zimmerman, for whom many Dylanophiles harbour mixed feelings. He it was, for example, who on hearing the first version of Blood On The Tracks – the best album ever – told Dylan that it would never sell and that he really ought to think about re-recording several of the numbers.”