Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law

Where is America, especially in these trying times? Bob Dylan offers a map to America, but only for those willing to accept its original sin. Special guests Paul Simon and John Lennon join us.

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I mean, you're talking to a person that feels like he's walking around in the ruins of Pompeii all the time. It's always been that way for one reason or another. - Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone Interview (2001)

Like all great bards—Homer, the Psalmist, Shakespeare—Bob Dylan's creative superpower is his memory. The power of his art lies not just in what he remembers, but in how he remembers it. And this is the Art of Memory, an ancient technique for making the past become present in the lyric of the artist daring and skilled to mold it to his will. We're talkin' those Dylan and the Ancients blues. Join us for Episode Two of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: The Art of Memory.

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Every musician gets their start doing covers. The Beatles did Little Richard. The Stones, Chuck Berry. Aerosmith, the Stones. Pearl Jam, Neil Young. Nirvana, the Mekons. But what is revealed by a cover, and most particularly what is revealed by covering songs by Bob Dylan? We asked Adele, Richie Havens, Van Morrison, Iggy Pop, Nina Simone, and a few more pals. Find out the answer here!

This is Episode 6 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. Check out the forthcoming book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan and listen to all of our episodes here or wherever podcasts are found. For more info and a chance to receive a free ebook visit www.mangodlaw.com.

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What about Bob Dylan and God for those who cannot stand what religion does to the world? Can Dylan really be empathetic even with that Positively Fourth Street rage? And what do the Sages of Late Antiquity, Bob Dylan, and the Gospels all have in common? We're touching upon these questions and more with writer, thinker, and our expert guide to Bob Dylan in Stansville, Rebecca Slaman, Part Two of a two-part conversation.

This is Episode 5 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. Check out the forthcoming book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan and listen to all of our episodes here or wherever podcasts are found.

Find more from our guest Rebecca Slaman at https://rslaman.wixsite.com/website or on Twitter @ithrewtheglass. Rebecca has a new blog too: bawker.substack.com. Thank you, Rebecca, for a great conversation.

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Are eighty year-old rock stars talking to you directly on Twitter? Is Bob Dylan hot? What makes Dylan relevant to the grandchildren of his first fans? We're talking these questions and more with writer, thinker, and our expert guide to Bob Dylan in Stansville, Rebecca Slaman. This is Part One of a two-part conversation.

Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. Check out the forthcoming book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan and stayed tuned for more.

Find Rebecca at https://rslaman.wixsite.com/website or on Twitter @ithrewtheglass. She has a new blog too: bawker.substack.com. Thank you, Rebecca, for a great conversation.

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Welcome to Bob Dylan's Halloween Hootenanny!

One of Bob Dylan’s creative superpowers is to not be afraid of anything. His fearlessness as an artist means constant reinvention, forever changes in repertoire and style, pushing through low ebbs of popularity and ignoring minor blips of success like the Nobel Prize for Literature, responding to his own personal or spiritual concerns in private when celebrity demands constant exposure, and simply staying relevant and outlasting nearly all of his peers. But things do haunt him. They always have. There are ghosts in his machine. What are they? And should they scare us too?

This is Episode 3 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. Check out the forthcoming book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan and stayed tuned for more.

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“This wasn’t a failure of creativity. It was a failure of curation,” said Rolling Stone in its recent review of Bob Dylan's Springtime in New York, Volume 16 of the Bootleg Series. But what we have here is failure to communicate. Rolling Stone should know better. It should know how this music feels. A failure to curate? A failure to communicate?  A close listen to one song alone from the collection proves this review wrong. "New Danville Girl," please stand up. We are bootstrapping in Episode Two of Season Two of About Man and God and Law. Welcome to Bootlegging - Bob Dylan’s Salvation Goes Up on Trial.

Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. Check out the forthcoming book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan and stayed tuned for more.

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When a rock god dies, all of the music and myth of that shooting star shines a light into our eyes and memories. Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones' recent passing lit up the internet particularly brightly at a time when the darkness of mortality is on the minds of so many. In this episode, the first of season two, we're thinking about how to make sense of our inevitable end, and the power of music to make a finite life matter.

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It's been a while, but we're finally getting home. Understanding Bob Dylan as a teller of mythic tales (and something of a mythic figure himself), we're closing out Season One with a lesson in spiritual vision from "Like a Rolling Stone" that demands his fans and Dylan himself take on issues of race, sex, class, and essential purpose that haunt his greatest songs, but for which a resolution still remains in reach.

Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 1 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. Check out the forthcoming book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan and stayed tuned for more.

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With Bob Dylan's song maps to follow, we're heading straight into the heart of rock and roll mythology, a quest for a return home even when, like a rolling stone, there is no clear direction to get there. James Joyce and John Brown, a girl from Brownsville and Gregory Peck, and the ever prescient Warren Zevon bring us through part one of the final episode of Season One.

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