A Bob Dylan Primer

Recent Episodes

Nothing but Affection

Posted April 29, 2022 • 00:59:42

A small departure, this episode traces my personal journey with Dylan’s work and music. Highlights include watching Dylan’s house get built in Malibu, seeing The Last Waltz in person, getting the weakest handshake of all...

Goodbye is too Good a Word

Posted June 2, 2020 • 00:39:42

As we say fare thee well, Dylan drops his best music in years Episode links: Spotify playlist for A Bob Dylan Primer Episode 15 Dylan – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Bob Dylan speech at the 2016 Nobel Banquet, as read by American Ambassador to Sweden, Azita Raji Patti Smith – Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Nobel Prize Ceremony December 2016 Frank Sinatra – It Was a Very Good Year – Filmed Recording Live 1965 Dylan – The Night We Call it a Day – Video Dylan – The Night We Call it a Day – Live on Letterman Dylan – Girl from the North Country – London July 2019 Dylan – It Ain’t me Babe – Live at The Beacon December 2019 Definitely Dylan Podcast – Episode about “Murder Most Foul”

Modern Times, Olden Times

Posted May 4, 2020 • 00:35:35

40 years after showing up in New York, Dylan propels himself headfirst into the 21st century with a quartet of ferociously strong albums and a sweet book that tells more than the most telling tell-all. Episode links: Dylan – A Change is Gonna Come – 2004 Victoria’s Secret Ad – Love Sick Dylan – Must be Santa Dylan – Duquesne Whistle Dylan – Chronicles Vol. 1 Audiobook (read by Sean Penn) Dylan – NPR Radio Interview Re Chronicles

Time is in the Mind

Posted March 23, 2020 • 00:31:15

Never a dull moment for Mr. D, he contracts a serious infection of the heart, sings for the Pope, and releases his strongest album in 20 years. Episode links: Not Dark Yet – Dylan with Eric Clapton Love Sick – Dylan at the Grammys – SOY BOMB!!! – 1998 Time Out of Mind – Dylan – Complete Album/Different Live Versions The Sounds of Silence – Dylan with Paul Simon – 1999 Sugar Baby – Dylan – live May 5, 2002 Sugar Baby – Dock Boggs The Lonesome Road – Gene Austin The Lonesome Road – Fank Sinatra

Beginning the Next Beginning

Posted February 18, 2020 • 00:26:01

Dylan somehow stops his creative slide at the end of the 1980s and turns it all around, again. Episode links: Dylan Live – 1993 TV Special – Hard Times Dylan – Live in Paris –...