Definitely Dylan Live - 3 March 2019

This week on Definitely Dylan Live, Laura is joined in the studio by Swedish singer songwriter Benjamin Folke Thomas, who came bearing song requests from throughout Bob Dylan’s career. Together they discuss the Basement Tapes, Dylan’s 80s production, and the best website to learn to play Dylan songs on the guitar (http://dylanchords.info of course)!

If you’re interested in hearing Dylan’s cover of Warren Zevon’s Accidentally Like a Martyr, you can listen to it here. Also, here’s a beautiful alternative live version of Dylan singing Zevon’s Mutineer live in concert.

If you’d like to find out more about the song Caribbean Wind, you can listen to Episode #29.

What are your unpopular Dylan opinions?

Playlist:

1. Shelter From The Storm - Hard Rain

2. Million Dollar Bash

3. Mutineer (live, Warren Zevon cover)

4. Tight Connection To My Heart

5. Caribbean Wind (Biograph version)

6. The Times We’ve Known (live, Charles Aznavour cover)

7. Santa Fe

Definitely Dylan Live - 24 February 2019

This week on Definitely Dylan Live, we’re exploring Dylan through the years, with one song from each decade of Dylan’s career! Robert Chaney is back as Laura’s sidekick, and we have a surprise visit from our hero Simon Stanley Ward, who will be back on the programme sooner than you think!

A big correction and some additional info: there was a confusion of 90s sitcoms. Dylan had a cameo on Dharma & Greg (not on Will & Grace - why were there two shows with such similar titles?)! The story behind it was that Eddie Gorodetsky, a friend of Dylan’s, was a writer and director for Dharma and Greg and invited him to come on the show. Gorodetsky was also the producer, writer and co-creator of "Theme Time Radio Hour”! T-Bone Burnett was playing with him, but otherwise not working on the show. Guys! It’s incredible the things you can get confused when you’re live on air! Anyway, here’s a clip of Dylan’s hilarious guest appearance on the show.

Anyway, here’s the link to that incredible alternative vocal of Going Going Gone.

Playlist:

1. Roll On John (from Tempest, snippet)

2. Roll On John (1962)

3. Going Going Gone (from Planet Waves)

4. Death Is Not The End (from Down In the Groove)

5. Delia (live at the Supper Club, NYC, 17 November 1993)

6. I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind (Hank Williams cover)

7. Stay With Me (from Shadows In The Night)

Definitely Dylan Live - 17 February

Alright, let’s do this! This is the first episode of the new side of Definitely Dylan! It’s still all about Dylan, still featuring rare recordings and beautiful performances, but everything else is more off the cuff (while I’m working hard on bringing you a quality podcast full of analysis and commentary).

This week I’m joined by American singer songwriter Robert Chaney, whom you might remember from episode 22. Together we’re talking about the Dylan songs we’ve been particularly enjoying lately.

Here are some links to some things we talked about:

You can listen to the few unreleased tracks that are circulating from the Bromberg Sessions here.

Here’s a video of an interesting live performance of Hard Times from the Willie Nelson TV Special “The Big Six-0” from 1993. It’s worth noting that this was around the time Dylan and Nelson recorded their co-written song Heartland, which I played in the episode on Dylan’s duets.

And of course you should really check out that unreleased version of the Jimmie Rodgers song My Blue Eyed Jane, featuring Emmylou Harris on harmonies.

You can listen to Robert Chaney’s album Cracked Picture Frames on Spotify, and you can follow him on Instagram and like him on Facebook.

Playlist:

1. Miss The Mississippi

2. Hard Times

3. Blues Stay Away From Me (with Joan Baez at the Savoy Hotel 4 May 1965)

4. Just Like A Woman (Take 4)

5. Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence (Take 2)