This week Laura and Robert are doing what they do best (or at least what they enjoy the most): they listen to a colourful mix of Bob Dylan performances and then talk about them. Simple as that. Hope you enjoy it!
Playlist:
Shenandoah
People Get Ready (S.I.R. Studio Rehearsals)
I Shall Be Released (Basement Tapes version)
All or Nothing at All
I Want You (Live at Budokan)
Mutineer (live)
Girl From The North Country (Live, Madison Square Garden, New York City, 20 January, 1998)
This week, Laura talks to Jackie Lees and KG Miles, two Dylan fans from London who recognised a gap in the market for a Dylan-related travel guide leading fellow fans through the Big Smoke and decided to compile their own. We discuss the importance of the city for Bob Dylan’s career and talk about some of the amusing stories in the book. Their book, Dylan In London: Troubadour Tales is out now!
Playlist:
Blood In My Eyes
It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue - Marianne Faithfull
Slow Train (live 29 June 1981 in London, UK)
Subterranean Homesick Blues
(Btw, I noticed that I keep saying “City of London” when I just mean to refer to London, the city. I know that’s technically not correct and actually only refers to a part of the city. Ugh, sorry! -L)
UPDATE: You can now read the full transcript of this episode here.
In Chapter 2 of Definitely Dylan’s mini series on Bob Dylan’s Rough And Rowdy Ways, Laura discusses the myth and mystery of creation in “My Own Version Of You” and “Mother Of Muses”.What insight can these very different songs give us into the creative process of the songwriter? How do they portray the creator’s role in society? And what does any of this have to do with the Nobel medal?
Here's the radio episode in which we discuss Bob Dylan’s borrowings from Billy “The Kid” Emerson’s song “If Loving Is Believing” for Dylan’s “False Prophet”.
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Definitely Dylan wishes you all a Happy 2021, especially those of you who haven’t gotten rid of their Christmas trees yet! In the first episode of the new year, Laura and Robert play songs to help you shake out the post-holiday blues!
Playlist:
Three Angels (Early Take)
Huck’s Tune
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (from the Bootleg Series Vol. 4)
Marchin' to the City
Meet Me In The Morning (Take 1, Remake)
In the last radio episode of the year, Laura and Robert sink their teeth into the latest cloak-and-dagger Dylan release, the 50th Anniversary Collection with all previously unreleased recordings from the year 1970. We’re particularly putting our focus on the session from the 1 May where Dylan was joined in the studio by George Harrison. We discuss the impact of Harrison’s presence on Dylan’s performance, as well as what these recordings can tell us about Dylan’s creative process in the studio, and we wonder whether a particular harmonica solo in this session already foreshadowed a song released years later on Blood On The Tracks.
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Playlist:
Song To Woody
Yesterday
Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
All I Have To Do Is Dream
It Ain’t Me Babe
I Don’t Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
I’ll Be Home For Christmas
