PinnedMember-onlyReturn to Bob Dylan’s Shadow KingdomUPDATE 2 May 25, 2022: UPDATE 1: Clive Young of the Mix website published an interview with T Bone Burnett on 5/20/22 on the Ionic Originals disc technology, as well as Burnett’s plans for his NeoFidelity business. The full interview can be found at the link below, but the…Bob Dylan8 min read
Jul 19Member-onlyIt Rhymes with Doom: Bob Dylan’s Problems with the Space ProgramThe anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20 1969 had me thinking again about Bob Dylan’s 1983 album Infidels and specifically about the song “License to Kill” expressing Dylan’s distaste towards space exploration. There’s also a line about the moon in “Union Sundown” — “they used to…Bob Dylan6 min read
Jul 10Member-onlyLove & Theft: You Can Hear Bob Dylan’s New Blowin’ in the Wind and That’s Alright“I was blinded by the sun for a second. This big orange sun was coming up. I was driving straight into the sun, and I looked up into it even though I remember someone telling me a long ago when I was a kid never to look straight at the…Bob Dylan6 min read
Jun 12Member-onlyHoly Shea Stadium! The Batman, Beatles, and Bob Dylan Connection“I always loved Batman. The way I looked at it, you had to come from another planet to be Superman but I could be Batman. And you know I tried.” ~ Bob Dylan, Theme Time Radio Hour, October, 2008 — “Night” In June 1966…Bob Dylan13 min read
Mar 21Member-onlyBob Dylan Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour Speechifyin’Dylan began a 21-night tour of the Midwest and East Coast of the United States in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his first concert after twenty-three months due to the COVID-19 pandemic. …Bob Dylan12 min read
Feb 23Member-onlyThe Annotated “Weather” Theme Time Radio Hour — Episode 1Being a Compleat Transcript with Commentary of the premiere episode of Theme Time Radio Hour — First Broadcast Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 [Rain and wind sound effects] Ellen Barkin: It’s night time in the Big City. Rain is falling. Fog rolls in from…Bob Dylan25 min read
Jan 13Member-only“Call Me Fishmeal” — Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize for Literature“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.” ~ Groucho Marx, 1949 Bob Dylan has reacted to awards in varying ways, from unhappiness (the Tom Paine Award, the honorary Princeton degree), to delight (the Oscar for “Things have Changed”). …Bob Dylan Nobel Prize7 min read
Dec 17, 2021Member-onlyMore Than You Ever Needed to Know about Bob Dylan’s Christmas in the HeartThere had been rumors of Bob Dylan dabbling with the idea of an album of Christmas music for years. In fact Dylan had run through two Christmas songs — Silent Night and The Twelve Days of Christmas — during one of his 1983 “Infidels” recording sessions. …Bob Dylan7 min read
Jun 19, 2021Member-onlyWhat We Know and What We Can Guess About Bob Dylan’s “Shadow Kingdom”The Wise Old Owl and the Callow Youth of America return to discuss the meaning of “Shadow Kingdom” and Mr. D.’s upcoming streaming concert Callow Youth of America: Hey Woo! Long time no see. Wazzup! The Wise Old Owl: It’s pronounced “Who,” youngster, and unless you’ve been living under a rock you’ve heard about Bob Dylan’s streaming concert coming on July 18th. CYA: Clue me in, daddy-o. WOO: Here’s the June 16 Live…Bob Dylan12 min read
May 5, 2021Member-onlySpeechifyin’ — Bob Dylan Meets Tom Paine at the ECLC Civil Rights DinnerMyth has it that in 1963 a drunk Bob Dylan ad-libbed a speech at the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee (ECLC) “Bill of Rights” fund-raising dinner that didn’t mean much of anything except maybe as one of Dylan’s first steps in distancing himself from the progressive Left and finger-pointin’ songs. …Bob Dylan14 min read