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  • Talkin’ Bob Dylan Spinnerpalooza

    Talkin’ Bob Dylan Spinnerpalooza
    Jan 20 2025
    A Million $ Bash Roundtable We change it up a bit in the spirit of holiday festivities and the New Year. Today, we’re going to have a pretty open roundtable. Our regular Bashers will have the opportunity to let loose in response to some open-ended prompts and will be selected to speak via a randomized spinner. MDB Roundtable Panelists: Rob “Rockin’ Rob” Reginio teaches modern literature at Alfred University. He's currently at work on a book about Dylan's album John Wesley Harding. Nina Goss is Editor of or contributor to the volumes Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the 21st Century and Dylan at Play. She is a contributor to various anthologies and presented at the first World of Bob Dylan conference (2019), and Dylan and the Beats conference in Tulsa (2022). She teaches at Fordham University. Erin Callahan lives in the Houston, Texas, area where she teaches English at San Jacinto College. She has presented an
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    55 min
  • Interview with John Rodosta

    Interview with John Rodosta
    Jan 7 2025
    What Is It about Bob Dylan? A novelist and author of many short stories, John Radosta teaches high school English near Boston, Massachusetts. Under both a pseudonym and his real name, his fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Yellow Mama, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Wildside Black Cat, and Tough Crime. A veteran of more than 50 Bob Dylan concerts, he is the co-author with Keith Nainby of Bob Dylan in Performance: Song, Stage and Screen, as well as other Dylan and Woody Guthrie articles. You can find John’s crime fiction at this link. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thedylantantes.substack.com FM PODCAST NETWORK We're a proud member of The FM Podcast Network along with PodDylan - Dylan.FM - The Bob Dylan Primer - and more.
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    35 min
  • Interview with Peter White

    Interview with Peter White
    Dec 16 2024
    What Is It about Bob Dylan? Peter White is a retired professor of ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For 28 of his 33 years at the University he doubled as the Director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, an institution that has championed the concept of the "conservation garden," gardens that do well by environmental issues and biodiversity. He is the author of 150 papers and several books, the most recent of which is The World Atlas of Trees and Forests. Through six decades, Bob Dylan has been a constant, despite the many changes of Dylan, Peter himself. and the world around all of us. For 30 years he has hosted the Annual Bob Dylan Party. In 2024, the six-hour, no-breaks party featured 17 song leaders and 66 songs. Over the decades, the party has featured 266 Dylan songs at least once. In retirement Peter has joined the online Dylan scholarship and fandom world. In 2023 he co-founded It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Reading), a Zoom-based&
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    41 min
  • Interview with Christopher Vanni

    Interview with Christopher Vanni
    Oct 21 2024
    What Is It about Bob Dylan? Christopher Vanni is the author of two Substacks, one about Bob Dylan and one on Gene Clark, he's an advisor for the Bob Dylan Book Club—It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Reading—and he's the creator of a Bob Dylan Quiz that can be found on YouTube and in his feed on X. He is also passionate about golf, classic films, and history. Check out Christopher’s work using these links: Christopher Vanni (@Vanni621) / X (twitter.com) "The world don't need any more [blogs]" - Bob Dylan | Christopher Vanni | Substack The Fabulous Exploration of Gene Clark | Christopher Vanni | Substack It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Reading): A Bob Dylan Book Club Bob Dylan Quiz (youtube.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thedylantantes.substack.com FM PODCAST NETWORK We're a proud member of The FM Podcast Network along with PodDylan - Dylan.FM - The Bob Dylan Prim
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    34 min
  • Talkin’ Planet Waves

    Talkin’ Planet Waves
    Sep 30 2024
    A Million $ Bash Roundtable The 1974 album Planet Waves marked a series of firsts for Bob Dylan. It was his first official album with The Band. It was his first record not on the Columbia label. And it was, believe it or not, his first No. 1 album. The music represents, if not a return to form, a reset after the release of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and the Columbia-compiled revenge album called simply Dylan. Compositionally, it’s a musical way station between 1970’s New Morning and 1975’s Blood on the Tracks. The songs feel personal and even, at times, intimate. And the influence of The Band on the music is unmistakable—particularly Robbie Robertson’s always superb lead guitar and Garth Hudson’s meandering organ, which constantly threatens to explode the arrangements yet paradoxically is what holds them together. Dylan’s harmonica is pretty special too. The album’s opener, “On a Night Like This,” is a jaunty, accordion-driven love song. The lyrics are simple, rhyming
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    22 min
  • Talkin’ I’m Not There

    Talkin’ I’m Not There
    Sep 9 2024
    A Million $ Bash Roundtable We are entering a season of maximum hype for the Timothée Chamalet vehicle, James Mangold’s biopic of Bob Dylan, A Complete Unknown. The release date is December 25, 2024, and I, for one, can wait. It’s not that I don’t dearly love movies about Bob Dylan; it’s just that I don’t trust this particular director to create anything but a feel-good yawner complete with loving recreations of settings and a superficial interest in actual biographical events. But that’s me. Besides, haven’t we already traversed the Dylan bio-pic territory with I’m Not There? Granted, even diehard Dylan fans have found it hard to digest, but isn’t that how it should be? In my case, I think I’m Not There is about as suitable (and excellent) a crack at a Dylan bio-pic that we shall ever see. The eminent filmmaker Todd Haynes, is known for such masterpieces as Far from Heaven, The Velvet Goldmine, Carol, and last year’s May December. His first movie, the highly acclaimed and
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    21 min
  • Talkin’ The Basement Tapes, Part 2: The Dylan Originals

    Talkin’ The Basement Tapes, Part 2: The Dylan Originals
    Aug 19 2024
    A Million $ Bash Roundtable Last time we discussed just the covers that Bob Dylan and the members of what would become The Band recorded during the 1967 Basement Tapes sessions. Be sure to check out part 1 if you missed it. Today we are back with part 2 to explore the Bob Dylan originals recorded during those sessions. The common explanation is that Dylan was cranking out new compositions during what was otherwise his bucolic hiatus in Woodstock, NY, in order to sell them to others to record. If that is true, then the recordings we have scattered across various bootlegs, Columbia’s 1975 release entitled The Basement Tapes, and 2014’s The Bootleg Series Vol. 11: The Basement Tapes Complete consist largely of rehearsals and demos. Of course, both Dylan and the Band released some of the numbers themselves on separately recorded albums, including The Band’s debut, Music from Big Pink. Whatever the rational for composing these songs, performing them, and even recording them, we
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    23 min
  • Talkin’ The Basement Tapes, Part 1: The Covers

    Talkin’ The Basement Tapes, Part 1: The Covers
    Jul 22 2024
    A Million $ Bash Roundtable “It feels like this is probably what it sounds like in his head all the time.” -Graley Herren The Basement Tapes occupy a unique place of honor in the pantheon of Dylan legends. Coming just after two other legendary events—the “going electric” performance and subsequent tour and Dylan’s motorcycle accident—the 1967 recordings were a collaboration between Bob Dylan and his previous backing group who would soon after become the members of The Band. The tracks they laid down—first in Dylan’s house in Woodstock, NY, and then literally in the basement of the house dubbed Big Pink that three members of the Band rented—were never meant for the public. They consist of covers of pop songs, folk numbers, and blues. In addition They recorded a large number of Dylan originals, some apparently intended as demos for other musicians to record. Public interest in the sessions was piqued by the release of the Great White Wonder in 1969. Widely regarded as the first
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    21 min