An episode about twins, doubles & duality from the radio archives.
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Bob Dylan's iPod (with Tim Swaddling)
Legend has it that Bob Dylan once left his iPod behind and someone copied the contents.
With Canadian musician and songwriter (and future Bob Dylan podcaster) Tim Swaddling).
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Songs in this episode:
“Let Me Play With Your Poodle” - Hank Penny (Theme Time Radio Hour ep. Thanksgiving Leftovers. CORRECTION: Bob actually played the version by Tampa Red & Big Maceo, but he played several other songs by Hank Penny on the show)
“Smoking in the Boys Room” - Brownsville Station (Theme Time Radio Hour ep. Smoking)
“Mansion on the Hill” - Vernon Oxford
“You Hit Me Like an Atomic Bomb” - Fay Simmons
“Jumping at the Record Shop” - Slim Gaillard
“Whatcha Gonna Do” - George Jones
“It’s a Great, Great Pleasure” - Louis Jordan
“Dragnet For Jesus” - Sister Wynona Carr
“When I Stop Dreaming” - Louvin Brothers
“Killer Joe” - Toots Thielman
"April is the cruelest month": Shipwrecks, Heartbreak & TS Eliot
Laura revisits a radio episode from the archives about April anniversaries, some good, many disastrous. And there’s a little side quest about Bob Dylan and Modernist poetry.
One note – I forgot to mention that the performance of “Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most” is by Betty Carter.
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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN II with Rebecca Slaman and Britt Eisnor
Laura is joined by Britt and Rebecca to talk about A Complete Unknown, the new Bob Dylan biopic directed by James Mangold, starring Timothée Chalamet, Edward Norton, Elle Fanning, and Monica Barbaro.
We talk about letting go of the pressure to be chill about the film, biopics as acts of translation, and the sexual tension between Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash.
Rebecca would like to add that she realised that it was Al Kooper and not Bobby Neuwirth who put on Bob’s “clown shirt” at Newport.
You can watch our conversation here.
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Theme music by Robert Chaney
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A COMPLETE UNKNOWN with Michael Glover Smith
It’s taken over five years, but the new Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (directed by James Mangold and starring Timothée Chalamet) is finally hitting cinemas. So… is it good?
I called up Chicago-based filmmaker Michael Glover Smith to talk about the film, what it gets right, what it gets wrong, and how it compares to other films like I’m Not There.
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Theme music by Robert Chaney
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