Why are we discussing a Jimi Hendrix tune? Is All Along The Watchtower, Dylan’s most-performed song, a critique of the Music and Acting Industry? Who recorded the most boring cover version? The best? Who in their right mind releases a major album two days after Christmas? How did Elvis come to sing his only Dylan song? Who loves an outlaw? What did Ozzy Osbourne say about the Beatles? What does Daniel Crespin say? What do you say?

What two words from The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest keep us up at night? What did The Saturday Evening Post say about Dylan and his manager? Is Judas Priest a band or a minced oath? What were the terms of Bob’s recording contract after 1967? What do Disraeli Gears, the first Doors album and Donovan’s Greatest Hits have in common?

Song 1: Frankie Lee and Judas Priest https://open.spotify.com/track/1XXHPSNbmHgi8EJvO3yGyd?si=e9872ae97e2e4351

Song 2: A Day in the Life https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ?si=b00f2e3c6edb48d6

Song 3: All Along the Watchtower https://open.spotify.com/track/0Fnb2pfBfu0ka33d6Yki17?si=493ee084a53d4d70

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Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Tim Sketchley

Producer: Robin Guise

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

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This is a teaser of Bonus EP#5 - Don't Look Back (BDA Film Club II). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.

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Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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"There's very little you can say about the music industry that's not true", says our first guest, the legendary Mr David Hepworth, in this special extended episode (available in both audio and video formats). But does he really believe that Dylan invented the pop-punk band Busted? Where does he say is the best place to listen to Nick Drake outtakes? Has attending a Bruce Springsteen concert "turned into football"? Who does David think is at the top of the pecking order: Cruise, McCartney, or Dylan? And what's it like walking into a room directly behind Mick Jagger?

David's Song Choice: https://open.spotify.com/track/7hMhO4oenpVkVaM5bNkEbz?si=mIVqMjW0TvSTfQwR7UOHZg

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Tom Stringer

Producer: Robin Guise

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

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This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#4 - I'm Not There/A Complete Unknown (BDA Film Club I). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.

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Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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Why did Mandy Patinkin use his Johnny Cash voice when covering 'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts'? Has there ever been a more unreliable narrator than Bob Dylan? Or a more out-of-tune harmonica intro? Was Bob's acting in 'Masked and Anonymous' awful, or way ahead of its time? Was Rocky Raccoon a Dylan tribute song? Do pen-knives actually kill?

Is 'Motorpsycho Nitemare' the first draft of 'Bob Dylan's 115th Dream?' How does Rita - the farmer's daughter - manage to look like Anita Ekberg and Tony Perkins simultaneously? Why does the song's protagonist dig Fidel Castro's beard specifically and cows in general? Can an "unpatriotic, rotten, Doctor, Commie rat" actually pound a farmhouse?

Song 1: Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts https://open.spotify.com/track/4MKun9QQhoapVvhp2uxJif?si=52fcd279bb0e4e51

Song 2: Motorpsycho Nitemare https://open.spotify.com/track/0ioneAuNJzdZmKCOi9XaYN?si=8256b049438149b8

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Nevan Brothers

Producer: Robin Guise

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

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This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#3 - Dylan and Women (Part II). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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Who was Dylan’s first choice to produce Infidels? The spirit of which Beat

poet lurks behind the lyrics to Jokerman? Do I smell goats roasting over fire

and brimstone or is it my imagination? Have you heard the one about the old

man in the church who faced down the Devil? What’s the story behind Dylan

and the Plugz on Late Night with Letterman?

Why does “Why Dylan Matters” by Richard F Thomas matter? If every

window’s made of glass, why does Dylan bother mentioning it? What’s the

point of the violence in the Beyond Here Lies Nothing video? Is the song

romantic or anti-romantic? Where does the Together Through Life cover art

come from? Does Dylan have an exile obsession?

Song 1: Jokerman https://open.spotify.com/track/6cuHkcRUqtQhtJ4sWCkd1q?si=b9401c7c3ba2481b

Song 2: Beyond Here Lies Nothin' https://open.spotify.com/track/5pAWVctic0ClLM714mmqAI?si=7103e09f5f9c40d1

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Nevan Brothers

Producer: Robin Guise 

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#2 - Dylan and Women (Part I). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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Who is Rosie? Who said, “Polyrhythm has its place but it doesn’t work for knife-like lyrics trying to convey majesty and heroism”? Was Bob writing about the state of Mississippi, the state of the nation or the state of a relationship? Or Elvis? Is the older, sardonic, raised-eyebrow Dylan superior to the younger, sneery Bob?

Who wrote about Highway 61 that “it was my place in the universe. Always felt like it was in my blood”? Whose grandfather and uncle were Mack the Finger and Louis the King? Where does boxing fit into the story? What’s with all those numbers? Was Dylan hip to Lord Buckley’s jive? And how does he have the balls to keep on keepin’ on?

Song 1: Mississippi https://open.spotify.com/track/6iCUV1fm0Ag3Jg8zFniarc?si=373f30009de044c9

Song 2: Highway 61 Revisited https://open.spotify.com/track/6os5B6xjuke9YfBKH3tu1e?si=bd351ea6e0e247a1

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Roisin King

Producer: Robin Guise 

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

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This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#1 - What is This Shit? It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now, as well as early access to Episode 2 - Highway 61 Through Mississippi.

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

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Who is Señor and why won’t he answer questions? What was the Lincoln County War? Who was Marvin Mitchelson? What did he invent? What did Dan find himself apologising about at LAMDA? What life advice did Kerry receive from Sir Toby Belch at the Old Vic Theatre? Why is there no harmonica on Street-Legal? Who was the old man on the train?

Is New Morning an album of domestic bliss or spiritual death? What do Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton and Oedipus have to do with Time Passes Slowly? Did young Bobby Z play a non-speaking Roman soldier in a touring passion play? Why are the fish floating, not swimming? How scary is nature and what did Woody Allen have to say about it?

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If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod

Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Song 1: https://open.spotify.com/track/1OfDlFzUCAo0v83TgHKRaq?si=9137bf5d1f8c4503

Song 2: https://open.spotify.com/track/0J2CxlVvgNqAvO3SxwKHUm?si=21d1358170d64f77

Recorded at Lipsync Post

Engineer: Roisin King

Producer: Robin Guise 

Editor: Daniel Crespin

Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.