A Bob Dylan Primer

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A Bob Dylan Primer episodes

April 29, 2022 Nothing but Affection
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 time from the man, and several trips to the new Dylan mecca in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Episode links:
Bob Dylan – Live from the Ryman Auditorium – Nashvile – March 23, 2022
Bob Dylan – Incredible 2020 Interview with Jann Wenner
Bob Dylan – November 3, 2021 – Chicago – complete concert
1 hr
April 29, 2022 16 – Nothing but Affection
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 time from the man, and several trips to the new Dylan mecca in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Episode links:
Bob Dylan – Live from the Ryman Auditorium – Nashvile – March 23, 2022
Bob Dylan – Incredible 2020 Interview with Jann Wenner
Bob Dylan – November 3, 2021 – Chicago – complete concert
1 hr
April 29, 202216 - Nothing but Affection
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 time from the man, and several trips to the new Dylan mecca in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Episode links:
Bob Dylan – Live from the Ryman Auditorium – Nashvile – March 23, 2022
Bob Dylan – Incredible 2020 Interview with Jann Wenner
Bob Dylan – November 3, 2021 – Chicago – complete concert
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1 hr
June 02, 2020 Goodbye is too Good a Word
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 – Live at The Beacon NYC – Dec 2019
Definitely Dylan Podcast – Episode about “Murder Most Foul”
40 min
May 04, 2020 Modern Times, Olden Times
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 – NPR Radio Interview Re Chronicles
36 min
March 23, 2020 Time is in the Mind
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
32 min
February 18, 2020 Beginning the Next Beginning
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 – February 23, 1993 – Simple Twist of Faith
Dylan – Live w/Orchestra – Nara, Japan – May 22, 1994 – Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
Dylan – Live at Woodstock II – August 14, 1994 – Complete Concert
Dylan – Live at Stratford-on-Avon – July 14, 1995 – Tears of Rage
Dylan – Live from Prague – 1995 – Shelter from the Storm
Bob Dylan Meets The Pope 1997
Dylan – November 12, 1996 – Dubuque, Iowa – Craziest Show Ever

27 min
January 09, 2020 Synthesizer Dylan
Few who lived through the nineteen-eighties would claim the decade as their greatest era. Dylan is no exception.

Episode links:
Dylan 1985 – Dylan rehearses We Are The World (very entertaining)
Dylan 1986 – Press Conference – Sydney, Australia
Bob Dylan with Tom Petty – Live in Australia 1986
Dylan & The Dead – The Times They Are A-Changin’ – July 4, 1987
34 min
October 14, 2019 A Voice in the Wilderness
Twenty years into his career, Bob Dylan unleashes his most shocking transformation

…and finds religion.
Episode links:
Bob Dylan – June 1978 Live – Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan 1980 Toronto – Pressing On
Bob Dylan – long intro about the Bible 1980
Bob Dylan – Jesus Met the Woman at the Well
Bob Dylan – What Can I do for You?
28 min
September 16, 2019 Blood, Desire, and The Last Waltz
It seemed like Bob Dylan was finished.

Then he emerged with what many consider the strongest album of his long career.

Episode links:
Tangled Up in Blue – Rolling Thunder 1975
Bob Dylan 1974 Tour Footage (St. Louis)
Bob Dylan – The Last Waltz – Forever Young & Baby, Let me Follow you Down
Bob Dylan – Rolling Thunder 1976 – Ft. Collins, Colorado
Bob Dylan – Hurricane – live on PBS, 1975
32 min

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A Bob Dylan Primer is a series of broadcasts dedicated to the work and life of Bob Dylan. The first season consists of 12 episodes, appearing approximately once a month, and covering the time period…