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A podcast about Bob Dylan, his music & anything else. Featuring conversations and original analysis of Bob Dylan’s work.
Épisodes 66
We listened to all 39 Discs of Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder 1976 Live (with Ray Padgett)
On the 6th of November, Bob Dylan released Rolling Thunder: The 1976 Live Recordings, a 39 disc box set of all the professionally recorded shows from the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue. I wanted to …
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On the 6th of November, Bob Dylan released Rolling Thunder: The 1976 Live Recordings, a 39 disc box set of all the professionally recorded shows from the second leg of the Rolling Thunder Revue.
I wanted to dive deeper into this sprawling new release, so I called up Ray Padgett, the man behind the best Dylan newsletter, Flagging Down the Double E's, where he recently published an amazing companion guide to the box set. We talk about our favourites from the set, what made '76 different from '75, and whether the crazy arrangement of "Tangled Up in Blue" was in fact, as Rob Stoner insists, "just stupid".
Find Ray's Listening Guide to the 1976 box set here.
You can also still grab one of the last remaining copies of his 1976 zine.
By the way, I take it all back, I listened to "Dink's Song" again and I love it!
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What happened when Bob Dylan met the Pope?
While on tour in Italy, Bob Dylan stopped by the Vatican on 4th of November to meet Pope Leo XIV in a private meeting. Read the Vatican's official press release here.After we recorded this, Ray Padgett …
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While on tour in Italy, Bob Dylan stopped by the Vatican on 4th of November to meet Pope Leo XIV in a private meeting. Read the Vatican's official press release here.
After we recorded this, Ray Padgett published an interview with Antonio Spadaro, who facilitated the meeting.
You can read Laura's review of the Zurich show here.
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Bob Dylan Never Wanted You to Hear this Song?? (Bob Dylan Hotline #17)
In this week's Bob Dylan Hotline, we're talking about "Love is Just a Four Letter Word", a song written but never recorded by Bob Dylan, before it was then popularised by Joan Baez. What was it about this song …
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In this week's Bob Dylan Hotline, we're talking about "Love is Just a Four Letter Word", a song written but never recorded by Bob Dylan, before it was then popularised by Joan Baez.
What was it about this song that Dylan might have made Dylan shy to release it? Could it have been a little too personal?
If you're interested in the Patreon episode about Dylan the Ghostwriter, you can find that here.
You can see “Love is Just A Four Letter Word” in the Dont Look Back songbook here.
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Bob Dylan's Mysterious Injury (Bob Dylan Hotline #16)
In his memoir, Chronicles Volume One (2004), Bob Dylan reveals that he suffered a severe hand injury in the late 1980s. Little is known about the circumstances of his incident that Bob Dylan seems to ascribe a …
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In his memoir, Chronicles Volume One (2004), Bob Dylan reveals that he suffered a severe hand injury in the late 1980s. Little is known about the circumstances of his incident that Bob Dylan seems to ascribe a symbolic meaning. One of our listeners was intrigued and so were we, so let's talk about it.
The Fred Bals article we refer to a few times can be found here.
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Writing about Bob Dylan's Performances (with Graley Herren)
Laura talks to Graley Herren about his new book, Dylan in Cincinnati, the challenges of writing about performance, and our shared love for Paul Williams.Order his new book Dylan in Cincinnati here.His book …
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Laura talks to Graley Herren about his new book, Dylan in Cincinnati, the challenges of writing about performance, and our shared love for Paul Williams.
Order his new book Dylan in Cincinnati here.
His book Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s "Time Out of Mind" can be found here.
Some essays of his that I love and mention in the episode:
"Young Goodman Dylan: Chronicles at the Crossroads”
"Gender Performance in Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song"
“Dylan and the Kennedy Assassination”
For more, head to his Substack Shadow Chasing.
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Bob Dylan and Gospel Music (Bob Dylan Hotline #15)
In today’s Bob Dylan Hotline we talk about Bob Dylan and gospel music – the ties he had to the genre before his conversion to Christianity, and the enduring impact it had in the decades that followed.Check out …
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In today’s Bob Dylan Hotline we talk about Bob Dylan and gospel music – the ties he had to the genre before his conversion to Christianity, and the enduring impact it had in the decades that followed.
Check out the trailer for the documentary Say Amen, Somebody here.
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New Rolling Thunder '76 Live Box Set and Dylan's Summer Songs (Bob Dylan Hotline #14)
Happy Equinox! What better day to look back on summer and that's exactly what we're doing in this conversation. What do you think? What are your favourite Bob Dylan summer songs? Or do you associate his music …
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Happy Equinox! What better day to look back on summer and that's exactly what we're doing in this conversation. What do you think? What are your favourite Bob Dylan summer songs? Or do you associate his music with another season entirely?
And of course we had to talk about the new upcoming Rolling Thunder Live 1976 box set!
One correction: Fort Collins is in COLORADO, I have no idea why I said Florida. I’m sorry about that.
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Dylan, Dolly, and Gender Expectations (Bob Dylan Hotline #13)
In this episode of the Bob Dylan Hotline, we give our opinion on Bob Dylan ~as women~. Is that different from other episodes, you might ask? Not really, but this time we're talking about talking about Bob Dylan …
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In this episode of the Bob Dylan Hotline, we give our opinion on Bob Dylan ~as women~. Is that different from other episodes, you might ask? Not really, but this time we're talking about talking about Bob Dylan as women. The conversation took us in many different directions because we had a lot to say.
You can find our earlier conversation on Women and Dylan here.
A few notes:
00:18 - A note on the almost impossible popularity of Dolly Parton. The phenomenon of a woman becoming very popular very quickly until the public turns on her and starts tearing her down has now been dubbed as “getting womaned”, since it rarely happens to men to this extent.
00:22 - There are luckily a few examples for “kookie” women, from Björk to Kate Bush to Erykah Badu to name just a few, but I think Rebecca’s point was more regarding how willing the public is to accept that kookiness as part of Bob Dylan's character, while female artists are more likely to be reduced to their kookiness.
00:35 - I’m really interested in how some of Dylan’s early songs challenge the conventional gender dynamic. “It Ain’t Me Babe” is a rejection of romantic stereotypes, but songs like “Hero Blues” and “John Brown” are about women encouraging a harmful masculinity rooted in violence and aggression. For more on this, check out my talk on Bob Dylan’s Heroic Masculinity here.
00:51 - In this context, also consider the re-written lyrics to “To Be Alone With You”, where he sings about wishing to be back in his “true love’s arms / She likes older men, they can’t resist her charms”. Here he directly writes from the place of an “older man”. The same is true for “Spirit on the Water” where he resist the accusation that he’s “over the hill” or past his prime and insists that, given a chance, he’s show her a “whoppin’ good time”.
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Good As I Been to You and World Gone Wrong (with Jake Xerxes Fussell)
In this episode Laura talks to Jake Xerxes Fussell about Bob Dylan the folksinger, and the albums Good As I Been to You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993). We discuss the song selection, their textured beauty …
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In this episode Laura talks to Jake Xerxes Fussell about Bob Dylan the folksinger, and the albums Good As I Been to You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993). We discuss the song selection, their textured beauty, and what they can retroactively tell us about that moment in Dylan’s career.
Jake Xerxes Fussell is a guitarist and singer from Columbus, Georgia, who arranges and performs traditional folksongs. He has released five studio albums and recently co-composed (with James Elkington) a feature length soundtrack film score.
He tours regularly in the United States, Canada, and Europe. His sixth and forthcoming album, “The Old Beloved Path,” will be released by Fat Possum Records on September 18th.
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Bob Dylan's Fashion (Bob Dylan Hotline #12)
Today we're talking about Bob Dylan's fashion through the years! What's your favourite outfit Bob Dylan has worn, or which style do you most associate with him? You can read Graley Herren's excellent essay on …
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Today we're talking about Bob Dylan's fashion through the years!
What's your favourite outfit Bob Dylan has worn, or which style do you most associate with him?
You can read Graley Herren's excellent essay on gender performance in Bob Dylan's The Philosophy of Modern Song here.
And the other essay we mention about Gorgeous George can be found on Graley's Substack.
Check out Ray's interview with JJ Holiday, who played with Bob Dylan on Letterman in 1984 and lent him his outfit here.
Around 01:13, I'm talking about the chapter on "There Stands the Glass" in The Philosophy of Modern Song, where Dylan writes about the history of tailors Nuta Kotlyarenko, or Nudie Cohn, and Manuel Cuevas.
Follow Britt Eisnor on Instagram for great in depth research in to a lot of Dylan and The Band related topics, but also content on Bob's fashion.
Shot_of_love_69 – whose name is Alaina – who made the beautiful jacket for Britt is also a must-follow.
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Our Favourite Bob Dylan Vocals (some of them) (Bob Dylan Hotline #11)
In this week's Bob Dylan Hotline, we're talking about Bob Dylan's vocals! What do YOU think his sexiest, spookiest, and most moving vocals are? This question comes from Graley Herren, one of the most referenced …
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In this week's Bob Dylan Hotline, we're talking about Bob Dylan's vocals! What do YOU think his sexiest, spookiest, and most moving vocals are?
This question comes from Graley Herren, one of the most referenced people on this podcast because we think he's great, and he has a new book coming out in September, which traces Dylan's career through the lens of his performances in just one city! Pre-order your copy of Dylan in Cincinnati here.
Also check out Graley's Substack.
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The State of Dylanology (Bob Dylan Hotline #10)
In this week’s Bob Dylan Hotline we talk about the state of Dylanology, Dylan Studies, whatever you may call it, as well as the groundwork laid by fans. Plus, Rebecca reports back from when Bob Dylan Long Hot …
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In this week’s Bob Dylan Hotline we talk about the state of Dylanology, Dylan Studies, whatever you may call it, as well as the groundwork laid by fans. Plus, Rebecca reports back from when Bob Dylan Long Hot Summer stopped at Forest Hills, Queens!
Check out the Dylan Review here.
You can download the pdf of Bob Dylan Interviews by Artur Jarosinski here.
The Olof Bjorner site I mentioned is now part of BobServe.
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Bob Dylan's Early Murder Ballads: "Her heart blood did flow"
When Bob Dylan began his career, murder ballads were having a bit of a moment. In this episode, we’ll look into the influence these songs had on the young artist, and how they inspired a particular subset of …
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When Bob Dylan began his career, murder ballads were having a bit of a moment. In this episode, we’ll look into the influence these songs had on the young artist, and how they inspired a particular subset of his own early songs.
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Bob Dylan's Pronouns (Bob Dylan Hotline #9)
This week on the Bob Dylan Hotline Laura and Rebecca are talking about Bob Dylan's pronouns! In 1978, Bob Dylan told Craig McGregor, "Tangled Up In Blue [was] the first [song] I ever wrote that I felt free …
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This week on the Bob Dylan Hotline Laura and Rebecca are talking about Bob Dylan's pronouns!
In 1978, Bob Dylan told Craig McGregor,
"Tangled Up In Blue [was] the first [song] I ever wrote that I felt free enough to change all the... what is it, the tenses around, is that what it is? [...] The he and the she and the I and the you, and the we and the us–I figured it was all the same anyway – I could throw them all in where they floated right – and it works on that level."
How does this changing around of pronouns affect how we hear the song? And why does Dylan favour writing in the second person rather than the first? Joni Mitchell has something to say about that.
You can listen to Rebecca talk about "Like a Rolling Stone" on the Pod Dylan podcast here.
Find the Substack version of Graley Herren's essay on "Sweetheart Like You" here.
In case anyone's interested in what I did end up talking about at the conference about Bob Dylan and Masculinity conference, you can watch my talk here.
The line from "I Contain Multitudes" about "four pistols and two large knives" is from Shelby Foote's history of the Civil War, as James Adams (bob_notes on Twitter/X) noted here.
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The Sinatra Trilogy (with Sam Sodomsky)
This week Laura talks to writer, editor, and musician Sam Sodomsky about the trilogy of Great American Songbook albums, Shadows in the Night (2015), Fallen Angels (2016), and Triplicate (2017) – a move that for …
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This week Laura talks to writer, editor, and musician Sam Sodomsky about the trilogy of Great American Songbook albums, Shadows in the Night (2015), Fallen Angels (2016), and Triplicate (2017) – a move that for some legacy artists might be predictable, but that for Bob Dylan was a real curveball.
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Do we still need the album? (Bob Dylan Hotline #8)
In this week’s Bob Dylan Hotline Laura and Rebecca about the way we listen to music – how do shifts in technology affect the way artists present their work and does that change the way we relate to it? Is the …
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In this week’s Bob Dylan Hotline Laura and Rebecca about the way we listen to music – how do shifts in technology affect the way artists present their work and does that change the way we relate to it? Is the album still relevant or on its way out? And how does all this affect what we consider to be part of the Bob Dylan canon?
I barely ended up quoting from it, but do yourself a favour and read Graley Herren's excellent essay on Bob Dylan's 1980 San Francisco Residency.
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Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney (Bob Dylan Hotline #7)
This week on the Bob Dylan Hotline we're talking about Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney – two extraordinary artists whose paths have crossed several times over the decade, and whose influence on the other has been …
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This week on the Bob Dylan Hotline we're talking about Bob Dylan and Paul McCartney – two extraordinary artists whose paths have crossed several times over the decade, and whose influence on the other has been significant. They're similar in some ways, very different in others – let's talk about it!
Watch the video of this conversation on YouTube.
Check out Dean's radio show the TEN AM here:
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Bob Dylan and Nostalgia (with Court Carney)
In this episode, Laura talks to history professor Court Carney about Bob Dylan and Nostalgia – Dylan’s relationship to the past and the future, The Odyssey, and Don Draper. Here are a few things we reference …
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In this episode, Laura talks to history professor Court Carney about Bob Dylan and Nostalgia – Dylan’s relationship to the past and the future, The Odyssey, and Don Draper.
Here are a few things we reference that you might want to check out:
Eric Lott’s book, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class, from which Dylan took the title of his 2001 album.
Mad Men - Carousel pitch
Mad Men - Don’t Think Twice scene
You can buy The Politics and Power of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances: “Play a Song for Me”, edited by Court and Erin C Callahan here.
You can read my essay in this collection, “Today and Tomorrow and Yesterday Too”, about Bob Dylan and Time in the 2020s –which I think is highly relevant in the context of this conversation– for free over on Patreon.
And you can watch the talk I gave in Miami about film, painting, and making time stand still over here:
Court’s Substack and website: https://www.courtcarney.com/
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Bob Dylan, Magic & Alchemy (Bob Dylan Hotline #6)
In today's Bob Dylan Hotline, Laura and Rebecca get a little mystical. Bob Dylan himself has often described the creative process as magical, and through the years has also been drawn to mysticism like the …
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In today's Bob Dylan Hotline, Laura and Rebecca get a little mystical. Bob Dylan himself has often described the creative process as magical, and through the years has also been drawn to mysticism like the Tarot. We talk about creativity as alchemy, which Tarot card Bob Dylan most identified with, and the spell that music can cast.
The Tarot deck we’re referring to is the Rider-Waite-Smith deck from 1909, illustrated by Pamela Coleman Smith.
Listen to the podcast episode about Creation and Creativity in "My Own Version of You" and "Mother of Muses" here.
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"Brownsville Girl": Bob Dylan's Most Cinematic Song (Bob Dylan Hotline #5)
Buried on one of Bob Dylan's lesser 80s albums, "Brownsville Girl" is consistently cited as one of his greatest and most ambitious songs. Co-written by playwright/screenwriter/director/actor Sam Shepard, the …
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Buried on one of Bob Dylan's lesser 80s albums, "Brownsville Girl" is consistently cited as one of his greatest and most ambitious songs. Co-written by playwright/screenwriter/director/actor Sam Shepard, the song originally came to life as "New Danville Girl”. It was recorded, put aside, and then ultimately rewritten and overdubbed before finally seeing the light of day.
Laura and Rebecca talk about creative collaboration, the alchemy of the songwriting process, and what we love about "Brownsville Girl"
Find the video of this conversation over on YouTube
Read Bill Lattanzi’s essay that we’re referring to over at the Dylan Review.
Find out more about Mason Moreno’s research into the Dylan/Shepard Tapes over on the Infinity Goes Up on Trialpodcast.
Read Sam Shepard’s play True Dylan over on Esquire.
Watch Gregory Peck’s entire speech introducing Bob Dylan here.
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This week on the Bob Dylan Hotline, Laura and Rebecca brainstorm the best songs and albums to introduce someone to Bob Dylan’s music.Send us your question to [email protected] …
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This week on the Bob Dylan Hotline, Laura and Rebecca brainstorm the best songs and albums to introduce someone to Bob Dylan’s music.
Send us your question to [email protected] ([email protected] for all other inquiries)
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Bob Dylan and The Beatles (with Jim Windolf)
Laura talks to Jim Windolf, music journalist and features editor at the New York Times, about his new book Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World, out now …
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Laura talks to Jim Windolf, music journalist and features editor at the New York Times, about his new book Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other – and the World, out now with Scribner (US) and White Rabbit (UK).
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Bob Dylan Hotline #3: What does Bob Dylan owe us?
Laura and Rebecca answer some more listener questions and talk parasocial relationships, the artist's humanity, and fan loyalty.Send us your question to [email protected] ([email protected] …
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Laura and Rebecca answer some more listener questions and talk parasocial relationships, the artist's humanity, and fan loyalty.
Send us your question to [email protected] ([email protected] for all other inquiries)
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Bob Dylan Hotline #2: Bob Dylan's Patreon & AI
Laura and Rebecca discuss the new Bob Dylan Patreon, AI, and eventually answer a question.Send us your question to [email protected] can support Definitely Dylan on Patreon or with a one-off donation …
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Laura and Rebecca discuss the new Bob Dylan Patreon, AI, and eventually answer a question.
Send us your question to [email protected]
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Bob Dylan Hotline #1: Movie Soundtracks and Dream Collabs
A new podcast segment, in which Laura and Rebecca answer your questions about all things Bob.This one's about movie soundtracks, collaborations, and Geese!Send us your question to [email protected] …
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A new podcast segment, in which Laura and Rebecca answer your questions about all things Bob.
This one's about movie soundtracks, collaborations, and Geese!
Send us your question to [email protected]
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Bob Dylan as Filmmaker (with Michael Glover Smith)
In this episode I talk to Chicago-based filmmaker, author, and college professor Michael Glover Smith about Bob Dylan the filmmaker, specifically his work on Eat the Document (1972), Renaldo & Clara (1978), and …
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In this episode I talk to Chicago-based filmmaker, author, and college professor Michael Glover Smith about Bob Dylan the filmmaker, specifically his work on Eat the Document (1972), Renaldo & Clara (1978), and Masked & Anonymous (2003).
Michael’s new book Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think is published by McNidder & Grace on 2nd of March. If you’re in the Chicago area and interested in attending the book launch and screening of Masked & Anonymous on 35mm, you can get your tickets here.
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Being a Bob Dylan fan is a spectrum –whether you identify as a casual enjoyer if his music or a die-hard Bobcat, the umbrella is large and leaves room for multitudes. Over the past year, many Definitely Dylan …
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Being a Bob Dylan fan is a spectrum –whether you identify as a casual enjoyer if his music or a die-hard Bobcat, the umbrella is large and leaves room for multitudes.
Over the past year, many Definitely Dylan episodes have circled around the relationship between artist and audience, how Bob Dylan presents himself and how he is perceived. In the final conversation of 2025 (which you’re hearing in early 2026), we’re approaching this topic from a new angle.
My guest is Elizabeth Cantalamessa, an honest to god philosopher and one of the most fun people you can run into at a Bob Dylan show. We talk about Bob Dylan as the villain and trickster, selling out, and art as spiritual labour.
You can download the C. Thi Nguyen essay “Trust and Sincerity in Art” here.
Tiny correction:
The “Is there anything more American than America” wasn’t a Cadillac but a Chrysler commercial (watch it here). And btw, I’m burying this in the show notes because I’m not sure, but since we’re mentioning Lucy Sante at some point in this episode, I wanted to add that in her preface to Six Sermons for Bob Dylan (the book of sermons she wrote for the Trouble No More film), she mentions that she wrote a “Buick commercial” for him. As far as I’m aware, Dylan has never done a Buick commercial, unless you count the song “From a Buick 6”, so I’m wondering if she was maybe referring to this Chrysler commercial.Bob Dylan and Santana - Toy Guns clip
Bob Dylan and Neil Young - “More of the same”
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Bob Dylan vs. The Fans (with Rebecca Slaman)
Recently the founder of The Daily Dylan was asked to leave a Bob Dylan concert, apparently for having shared illegally recorded concert videos. Today we’re talking about the relationship between Bob Dylan and …
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Recently the founder of The Daily Dylan was asked to leave a Bob Dylan concert, apparently for having shared illegally recorded concert videos.
Today we’re talking about the relationship between Bob Dylan and his fans, particularly their ideas of how his music should be engaged with are at odds with the artist’s own.
Find more Rebecca Slaman on her Substack and Twitter. Book a Walking Tour of Bob Dylan’s NYC with Ramblin’ Tours and follow them on Instagram.
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You can support Definitely Dylan on Patreon or with a one-off donation at buymeacoffee.com/definitelydylan."Like a Complete Unknown": Bob Dylan the Stranger
Bob Dylan – the myth, the legend, the enigma? In this episode I revisit an old radio episode on Bob Dylan the Stranger.Get your Definitely Dylan baseball cap here.You can support Definitely Dylan on Patreon or …
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Bob Dylan – the myth, the legend, the enigma? In this episode I revisit an old radio episode on Bob Dylan the Stranger.
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You can support Definitely Dylan on Patreon or with a one-off donation at buymeacoffee.com/definitelydylan.Bob Dylan at Farm Aid 2025 (with Rebecca Slaman and Britt Eisnor)
Just over a week after I published a whole episode about how Bob Dylan doesn’t want to be filmed or photographed, he appeared as part of the 40th Farm Aid benefit concert, which was broadcast and live streamed …
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Just over a week after I published a whole episode about how Bob Dylan doesn’t want to be filmed or photographed, he appeared as part of the 40th Farm Aid benefit concert, which was broadcast and live streamed, giving us rare good quality footage of a present day Bob Dylan set!
I invited friends of the pod Rebecca Slaman and Britt Eisnor to discuss the occasion with me. The discussion of the actual Farm Aid set begins at 31:07.
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Watch Bob Dylan’s set at Farm Aid here.
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