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

Goodbye is too Good a Word

Jun 2nd, 2020 39m 42s

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...

Modern Times, Olden Times

May 4th, 2020 35m 35s

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....

Time is in the Mind

Mar 23rd, 2020 31m 15s

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...

Beginning the Next Beginning

Feb 18th, 2020 26m 1s

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 –...

Synthesizer Dylan

Jan 9th, 2020 33m 24s

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...

A Voice in the Wilderness

Oct 14th, 2019 27m 39s

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...

Blood, Desire, and The Last Waltz

Sep 16th, 2019 31m 9s

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...

The Movie’ll Be Like A Song

Jul 31st, 2019 28m 57s

Would you believe Dylan almost became a movie director? A slight detour from the chronology as we take a look at Bob Dylan, filmmaker. Hear all about it in Episode 8, The Movie’ll Be Like...

What’s New?

Jun 24th, 2019 23m 59s

The sixties are ending, long live the sixties. How does the single most iconic performer leave the decade that defined him and move in the 1970s? Find out in Episode 7 of A Bob Dylan...

Country Pie

Apr 30th, 2019 21m 9s

In 1969, America is coming apart at the seams. Rock music is exploding into densely complex forms. Bob Dylan releases an album of pure … country music Episode links: Dylan and Johnny Cash –...

Basement Medicine

Apr 2nd, 2019 20m 5s

“Live fast, die young” is the mantra of many a dead rock star – but what happens if you live fast, and survive? Maybe that’s the toughest test of all.

04 - 1966, I Don’t Believe You

Feb 25th, 2019

Imagine you’ve bought a ticket to see your favorite artist in concert. Imagine then that you’re horrified at what that artist plays – would you consider them a traitor? Would you call them Judas?Episode links:Live Just Like A Woman – 1966

The First Rock Star

Jan 4th, 2019 19m 37s

What does it mean to be a “rock star?” Attitude? Swagger? Shades? Can a folk singer turn into a rock star? Let’s find out – Episode links: Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice –...

03 - The First Rock Star

Jan 4th, 2019

What does it mean to be a “rock star?” Attitude? Swagger? Shades? Can a folk singer turn into a rock star? Let’s find out –Episode links:Bob Dylan – Don’t Think Twice – England 1965Bob Dylan – Live at BBC Studios – 1965Dylan Goes Electri

02 - The Voice of a Generation

Jan 4th, 2019

Once, a single song could change the world. In 1963, a 22-year-old kid wrote a song called Blowin’ In The Wind … and it changed the world.Episode links:Dylan – Talkin’ John Birch (banned by Ed Sullivan Show)Bob Dylan – North Country Blues

01 - A Thousand Miles From Home

Dec 24th, 2018

Before television, a boy was born in springtime Minnesota. 25 years later he was the most beloved, and most reviled – pop star on the planet.Links:Greenwich Village Folk Riot – 1961Greenwich Village During the Beat-Nik Era FolkiesKingst