Laura and James A. Smith from The Popular Show have a late night conversation about the Bootleg Series and Time Out of Mind
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Laura and Robert talk about Bob Dylan's new Bootleg Series, what it tells us about Time Out of Mind, and whether or not accordions can be sexy
You can purchase the new Bootleg Series in various formats here.
Listen to the interview with Mark Howard on the Dylan.fm podcast here.
Graley Herren’s book Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" is available here.
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Stories, myths, and narratives – as the Bob Dylan Center opened this May, another Bob Dylan exhibition was coming to a close. What stories are these two Dylan museums telling & what do they reveal about how Bob Dylan wants to be seen?
In part two of this series on the crafting of Bob Dylan's legacy, we take a look at the stories told by two very different museums dedicated to Bob Dylan's work: the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, and the Retrospectrum exhibition of Dylan's visual art. Laura interviews the curators of the BDC, Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, and talks about how Dylan the Painter has become part of the Dylan Myth.
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Watch my Florida paper on Time in Dylan’s music, paintings, and Shadow Kingdom here.
Here’s the article “In His Own Words: Why Bob Dylan Paints”.
Find out more about the Bob Dylan Center here.
The Retrospectrum catalogue (£85) is available here.
Read Rebecca Slaman’s review of Retrospectrum here.
This is the first of two conversations about the crafting of Bob Dylan’s legacy.
My guest is freelance writer Rebecca Slaman, with whom I talk about Dylan films, the future of Dylan fandom, and his underrated sense of humour!.
Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @ithrewtheglass.
The version of “Desolation Row” is from 12 April, 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. You can watch it in full along with others from that year here.
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I want to share the presentation I gave as part of the Dylan at FIU Symposium in Miami, FL on 9 April, 2022, organised by the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab.
I've included our Q&A at the end, but you can watch the complete panel, "Beyond Generations Symposium: Conversation about Dylan as Artist, Thinker, Poet, Performer," with Richard F. Thomas, Rebecca Slaman, and Anne Margaret Daniel here.
Thank you to Rebecca Friedman and Enrique Roswell for making this event possible, and for editing the footage from the live stream to include the slides. You can listen to Definitely Dylan on the podcast platform of your choice.
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This week is also the last chance to get your hands on the "This is what a Bob Dylan fan looks like" t-shirts, which you can find in the shop.
A small note: One of the examples for Dylan's Deep Focus paintings, "The Novelist" (doesn't he look like Leonard Cohen?), has not actually been identified as a film still yet. A lot of the paintings come from films, and they all share that pictorial depth and cinematic quality, but for the sake of accuracy, it should be pointed out that it's possible that particular image doesn't come from a film.
