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On the Off-Ramp to Weirdness City with “The Philosophy of Modern Song”

This one is for Sonny Webster, Ben Rollins, Nina Fitzgerald-Washington, Lester Hawkins, and all the gang at Elmo’s.

Dec 11, 2022

On the Off-Ramp to Weirdness City with “The Philosophy of Modern Song”

Dec 11, 2022

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Messrs. Burr and Hamilton Answer Mr. Dylan’s Calamitous Instagram Posts

“This Mr. Dylan is a poet of chaos. His work is a collage of disjointed images and surrealist nonsense.”

Sep 21

Messrs. Burr and Hamilton Answer Mr. Dylan’s Calamitous Instagram Posts

Sep 21

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Voices from the Grave: Bob Dylan’s Digital Séances, Achilles’ Choice, and the Art of Living

Jul 7

Voices from the Grave: Bob Dylan’s Digital Séances, Achilles’ Choice, and the Art of Living

Jul 7

Psycho Froggie Quesque C’est?

Tales from Bob Dylan’s Instagram

Sep 21

Psycho Froggie Quesque C’est?

Sep 21

Stories from Dylan’s Instagram: The Shangri-Las — Shadows in the Street

The architect of the Shangri-Las was one George “Shadow” Morton, a hard-drinking producer who possessed the ability to compose and arrange…

Jul 18

Stories from Dylan’s Instagram: The Shangri-Las — Shadows in the Street

Jul 18

Walks with Hawks

I’ve had a propensity for ah, “enthusiasms,” since I was a kid. Those could be anything from racing MG-TDs to bee-keeping, to rocketry, to…

Jun 28

Walks with Hawks

Jun 28

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Bob Dylan’s Lost Theme Time iPod

Theme Time Radio Hour Music That Never Was, That Might Have Been, And Could Still Be

Jun 22

Bob Dylan’s Lost Theme Time iPod

Jun 22

The Measure of Dreams: “A Rainy Night In Soho” and its Echoes in Bob Dylan’s World

Shane MacGowan’s “A Rainy Night In Soho” is a profoundly evocative piece of songwriting that has, since its 1986 release, garnered a…

Jun 20

The Measure of Dreams: “A Rainy Night In Soho” and its Echoes in Bob Dylan’s World

Jun 20

More Stories from Bob Dylan’s Instagram: Stephen Foster, Paul Robeson, and “My Old Kentucky Home”

Jun 17

More Stories from Bob Dylan’s Instagram: Stephen Foster, Paul Robeson, and “My Old Kentucky Home”

Jun 17

Ol’ Hickory and Ol’ Hoagy: More from Bob Dylan’s Instagram

Andrew Jackson Giving one of His Final Speeches

Jun 14

Ol’ Hickory and Ol’ Hoagy: More from Bob Dylan’s Instagram

Jun 14

Fred Bals

Fred Bals

Corporate Storyteller. Tech enthusiast. Mini Cooper fanboy. One-time chronicler of Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour. Husband of Peggy. Human of Lily Rose.

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