In our Fanfare Season 3 opener, Paris-based podcaster and author Oliver Gee, the creator of The Earful Tower, bravely invites Bob Dylan to dinner. The prospect had us trembling in our boots (of Spanish leather) at first, not only because we love Dylan’s music and are not at all sure that we’ll manage to play it as cool as he always does–even in our imaginations!–but also because there is an entire world of Dylanologists out there, puzzling until their puzzlers are sore over this enigmatic giant of American music. Born Robert Zimmerman in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1941, Dylan is, as former U.S. President Barack Obama put it, “still chasing that sound.” In this episode, we put on our thinking caps and wayfarers and reflect on the man, the masks, and most of all, the music.

Show Notes:

Check out Oliver Gee’s The Earful Tower! Listen here. 

Oliver Gee @theearfultower

Monica Ainley DLV @monicaainleyDLV

Emma Knight @emmalknight 

Listen to our Dinner with Bob Dylan playlist

We mention this great podcast: Is It Rolling Bob? Talking Dylan with Lucas Hare and Kerry Shale

We mention the New Yorker editor David Remnick, who has written a few pieces about Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech in 2016

Patti Smith performing “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall” when she accepts the prize on Bob Dylan’s behalf

President Obama awarding Bob Dylan the Medal of Freedom in 2012 

The Clinton Heylin biography we mention: The Double Life of Bob Dylan

Cauliflower Tacos with Cashew Crema recipe via Bon Appetit 

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