This week, in celebration of International Women’s Day this week, the playlist for Definitely Dylan Live was chosen by female Dylan fans!
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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:
Shelter From The Storm - Hard Rain
Million Dollar Bash
Mutineer (live, Warren Zevon cover)
Tight Connection To My Heart
Caribbean Wind (Biograph version)
The Times We’ve Known (live, Charles Aznavour cover)
Santa Fe
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:
Roll On John (from Tempest, snippet)
Roll On John (1962)
Going Going Gone (from Planet Waves)
Death Is Not The End (from Down In the Groove)
Delia (live at the Supper Club, NYC, 17 November 1993)
I Can’t Get You Off Of My Mind (Hank Williams cover)
Stay With Me (from Shadows In The Night)
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:
Miss The Mississippi
Hard Times
Blues Stay Away From Me (with Joan Baez at the Savoy Hotel 4 May 1965)
Just Like A Woman (Take 4)
Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence (Take 2)
Dear friends,
I’m very excited to announce that I’ll soon be launching the first season of the Definitely Dylan podcast! I’ve always been asked why DD isn’t a podcast, and the reason was simple: I wanted to be able to play songs in their entirety (impossible on a podcast due to issues with copyright law).
So why a podcast now? Over the course of the last 13 months, I’ve created 40 episodes of Definitely Dylan. That’s 40 hours of great music and original commentary, all written and produced by yours truly. I’m immensely proud of my work, but the main limitation of this format has always been the weekly deadline. The kind of show I want to make for my audience is entertaining, informative, and ambitious - and that takes work. The pressures of the weekly deadline and live-on-air recording have often left me frustrated when it felt like my work was cut short and I couldn’t fully do the topic justice.
So what will the podcast be like? Definitely Dylan has always aspired to fresh and original explorations of Dylan’s work, and the podcast will take this to the next level, allowing me to finally bring my listeners the show I’ve always wanted to make.
So what happens to the radio show on Resonance FM? The radio show is not going anywhere! I will continue to be on your airwaves every Sunday at 4PM GMT, nerding out about all things Dylan and playing rare tracks. Expect a little less structure and a little more spontaneity, with frequent guests.
Two Definitely Dylan shows then? Yes. But to avoid confusion, we’ll call the radio show Definitely Dylan Live, as opposed to the Definitely Dylan podcast. Both will eventually be featured on the website definitelydylan.com (the podcast will also be available in all the usual places).
When is all this happening? While the release date for the podcast is still a few weeks away (watch this space!), the radio show will be switching formats this Sunday, 17 February 2019.
You will be able to find all the Live radio shows in the Listen section of this website!
I’m very excited about these changes, and about what the future holds for Definitely Dylan. I can’t wait to share what I’ve been working on!
Thanks for your support,
Laura Tenschert
