Sign on the Window

The first Mixed Up Confusion of 2018 isn't one that we planned for or hoped to do. Dolores O'Riordan of The Cranberries passed away on January 15, 2018. Hugely influential in Kelly's life, we couldn't not talk about them. Perhaps it's best to note the times for the music we play for you to try to get the gist of how we approached our week of listening. We began with "Empty" (8:05), "Zombie" (12:45), "Copycat" (16:50), "Salvation" (26:00), "I Shot John Lennon" (28:30), "Dreams" (30:15), "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee" (35:00) and "Roses" (41:30). RIP Dolores.

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

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Sign on the Window is the Bob Dylan podcast that you need but maybe not the one you want. Every week we select a Bob Dylan song at random, live with it, then come back to talk about it. This week: "Sara" off 1976's Desire. 

Daniel and Kelly dive deep into Sara and Bob. She's one of those cornerstones on which Dylan, the singer-songwriter at least, rests and we've talked about her circuitously, so why not just dive in? We talk Sara, Bob, the lyrics, what constitutes a love song, and how DESIRE and Scarlet Rivera can seemingly never falter in Kelly's ears. 

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next week: looking into a stagnant pool

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Sign on the Window is a Bob Dylan podcast where we randomly select a song, listen to it for a week, then dive into it. This week (well, last week) we discussed "Born in Time" off 1990's Under the Red Sky (and its Oh, Mercy aspirants). 

A pretty straight-forward episode where we talk mood, theme, and the weather.

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next "week:" Don't ever leave me, don't ever go...

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"Shakespeare's last play was called The Tempest. It wasn't called just plain Tempest. The name of my record is just plain . It's two different titles." 

Season 2 has officially begun. This week, Daniel and Kelly look at 2012's "Pay in Blood" from Tempest. 

They talk context, Dylan's voice, Obama, C.L. Blood and the Civil War and slavery. We aren't starting small in 2018. 

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Next week: You came, you saw, just like the law.

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To is a very special New Years Day short episode from Sign on the Window! We've had a lot of fun this last week but today, we're picking our first song of 2018, looking at Woody Guthrie's 1943 New Years Rulin's, and listening to the song I've begun every New Year since 2010. 2018 is gonna be huge, and amazing, and we can't wait to have you along for the ride. Next week: Low cards are what I've got / but I'll play this hand whether I like it or not

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It's true that 2017 is almost over, but in addition to this podcast, we've also been alive and, thus, enjoyed lots of music, books, television, movies, other podcasts, all kinds of things!  

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

We'll be back on Sunday to rank our Dylan songs from Season 1. See you then!

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To piggyback on our Christmas episode, Kelly and I also talked for a few minutes about something crazy we did this year: SIGN ON THE WINDOW. If you've ever thought about doing a podcast, or just doing the thing, maybe there's some inspiration inside, maybe? Otherwise, we just talk about how we went from talkers to doers and how we're excited to get into Season 2! 

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

We'll be back on Thursday for our Top 20 of 2017 and what we're looking forward to in 2018. See you then!

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Ho ho ho! Merry Christmas from Sign on the Window! This Christmas, unwrap our (and your) newest tradition. We dive into Bob Dylan's 2009 Christmas in the Heart. 

In contrasting this deeply misunderstood record, we cast Dylan up against the heavyweights of North Pole karaoke bars: Gladys Knight and the Pips, Destiny's Child, Christina Aguilera, Dean Martin, Dolly Parton, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Nat King Cole - to name a few. 

To follow along, please head over to Spotify for our Christmas 2017 playlist.

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We'll see you Tuesday for another special episode!

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Sign on the Window presents... Truuuuuuuue Crime! Spooky! Because Hollis Brown committed the unspeakable (but singable) and we didn't have room, here's what Mixed Up Confusion was created to serve! Today we talk famous cases of familicide. 

We got the heavy hitters: Robert William Fisher, Bradford Bishop, Chris Benoit, Lizzy Borden. We got the historical: Abel Clemmons, Captain James Purrington, Thomas George Woolfolk. We got the early 20th century: George Hassell, Charlie Lawson. We got people too close to today that'll make you feel downright horrible. Daniel also becomes a newsie when he reads the headlines like Rosa Wurzer's from 1901: "KILLS HER SIX CHILDREN.; Crazed by Poverty, Woman Throws Them in a Well, Jumps In, and Deliberately Drowns Them." Or Edwin Stephens from 1905: "INSANE SHOTS END FAMILY. HORRIBLE TRAGEDY AT A ROSS VALLEY CHICKEN RANCH; Sickly Stephens Murders Wife and Three Children in Their Beds, Fatally Shoots Two Remaining Children, Fires at Milkman, Then Takes His Own Life." In the end, John Boecker in 1897 and Lillie May Curtis in 1938 connected (and still connects) "Ballad of Hollis Brown" to this day: "IOWA FARMER'S AWFUL ACT; John Boecker Killed His Wife and Five Children at Night and Then Committed Suicide. ANOTHER CHILD FATALLY SHOT No Motive for the Tragedy Yet Disclosed, Although It is Intimated that There Was Trouble About the Farm;" and "A mother who told officers she was ill and unable to provide for her family killed six of her nine children as they slept at a lonely farm, home near here last night, kissing each good-bye before and after shooting them." 

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Season 1 is ova. We will be back for Season 2 on January 8, 2018. We <3 all we've been able to share and can't wait to keep this show expanding into the new year!

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“Preach what ought to be but ensure it never is in the present tense.” 

Welcome to the final episode of Season 1 of Sign on the Window! This week, we leave you with the exquisite "Ballad of Hollis Brown" and talk Exodusters, mass murderers, the number seven and if there is any light left after Dylan's final chord. 

As always, full show notes at our website. You can also follow along with our weekly real-time Spotify playlist – See That My Playlist is Kept Clean – and join the conversation on Twitter, message us on Facebook, and like on Instagram. And if you're loving us, consider our Patreon. For as little as one dollar you get early access to every episode we do as soon as they're edited (and a dedicated feed just for you) and exclusive content that'll only ever be on Patreon. Thanks!

Join us on Thursday for a special edition of Mixed Up Confusion!!! Next episode: Ho Ho Ho!

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