Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode tackles the fine lines of comedic timing and just what happened at Bear Mountain in Dylan’s “Talkin’ Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues.”

initial reactions + guitar (5:00) | context, the actual bear mountain picnic, and writing disasters (9:00) | versions (22:00) | song itself + comedic timing (27:30) | does this song work today? (36:00) | we’re a real podcast with a playlist (44:15) | recommendations (1:00:30) | endings (1:20:00)

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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features warehouse eyes, Arabian drums and a new game that’s sweeping the nation — it’s “Sad Eyed Lady from the Lowlands,” off 1966’s Blonde on Blonde.

initial reactions (5:00) | context and episode setup (6:00) | versions (9:45) | song itself — is this a good love song? a new game from sign on the window! (31:00): chorus (36:30), verse 1 (39:45), verse 2 (46:50), verse 3 (51:50), verse 4 (56:30), verse 5 (1:01:50) | does this song work today? (1:04:30) | we’re a real podcast & playlist (1:09:30) | recommendations (1:16:00) | endings (1:28:00)

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Next episode: Maybe we just better call off the picnic

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Daniel and Kelly are – blessedly – back! Well, we recorded this in early July and life is just now catching up to it. In case you forgot, we're listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features 1967’s “Drifter’s Escape.”

context and episode setup (5:00) | initial thoughts & versions — john wesley harding, take 1 on bootleg series, vol. 15, live from 2000 + covers from jimi hendriz, joan baez, and patti smith (8:00) | song itself (23:00) | does this song work today? (45:00) | we’re a real podcast with a real playlist (50:00) | recommendations (1:00:30) | endings (1:08:00)

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Next episode: My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drum

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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features overloaded harmonica of “On A Night Like This.”

initial reactions (5:00) | song itself — please send info on accordions, talkin’ timelines, 1970-75 as its own piece; part i: narrative flow; part ii: horniest dylan record?; part iii: nature as temple, plus a long attempt to fit burn, burn, burn into the dylan canon (8:45) | does this work today? (41:00) | playlist (47:00) | recommendations (56:00) | endings (1:16:00)

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Context (5:00)

Song Itself (8:45) — send us info on accordions & talkin’ timelines & let’s see 1970-75 as its own piece

Part I: Narrative Flow

Part II: Horniest Dylan Record?

Part III: Nature as Template (at 37:00 including a crazy roman candle analogy)

Does this work today? (41:00)

Real Podcast and Playlist (47:00)

Recommendations (56:00)

Endings (1:16:00)

Pin

Jury

Timetable

Cell

Rent

References

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Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features Bob and Suze (and Carla) (and Mary). We’re talking “Ballad in Plain D.”

initial reactions (4:00) | context and episode setup (8:00) — punctuated by hooligans in their racecars | bob and suze (14:30) | let’s talk about this mistake (21:30) | part i: once loved a girl (26:00) | part ii: family matters (31:15) | part iii: bob dylan, philanderer (39:00) | part iv: tumbling dice (46:30) | part v: bird on a wire (50:00) | part vi: one dimensional (1:02:30) | does this song work today? (1:07:45) | we’re a real podcast & playlist (1:18:00) | recommendations (1:27:30) | endings (1:41:00)

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Next episode: burn, burn. burn

Initial Thoughts (4:00)

Context (8:00) — punctuated with hooligans in racecars

Bob and Suze (14:30)

Let’s talk about this mistake (21:30)

Part I: Once Loved A Girl (26:00)

Part II: Family Matters (31:15)

Part III: Bob Dylan, Philanderer (39:00)

Part IV: Tumbling Dice (46:30)

Part V: A Bird on a Wire (50:00)

Part VI: One Dimensional (1:02:30)

Does This Song Work Today? (1:07:45)

Real Podcast and Playlist (1:18:00)

Recommendations (1:27:30)

Endings (1:41:00)

Cooperation

Indulge

Rate

Finger

Reference

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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features stabbing pains and twists of fate.

initial reactions (3:30) | context (6:45) | versions (12:30) | music (25:00) | song itself (33:00) | does this song work today? (1:03:30) | playlist (1:08:30) | recommendations (1:16:40) | endings (1:28:30)

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Next episode: He could look at you and pick out a weakness and suddenly grab it and use it on you. Which is what he did with everybody. He’d find their vulnerable spots and just demolish them… It was just devastating, the way he could twist somebody’s words back on themselves and make them feel he was right and they were wrong.

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Daniel and Kelly (and Kindra) are listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features copious booze and drunken renditions of Dylan’s “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere.”

st. patrick’s greeting & warning (1:00) | initial thoughts (3:00) | context (11:40) | versions (16:40) | discourse on basement tapes for kindra, totally not for kelly (37:00) | drinks and the song itself (54:50) | does this song work today? (1:14:30) | playlist (1:19:00) | recommendations (1:24:00) | endings (1:36:00)

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Daniel and Kelly are listening to Dylan one random song (and now show) at a time. This episode features Dylan's latest West Coast leg of the Rough and Rowdy Ways world tour – May 31, 2022 at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall in Portland, Oregon.

Part 1 (1:00) — Initial Thoughts (on Portland, Yondr, money laundering, demographics and Dylan’s voice (1:00)

Part 2 (12:00) — Watching the River Flow — Band Intros — Most Likely You'll Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) — I Contain Multitudes — False Prophet — When I Paint My Masterpiece — Black Rider — I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight — Interpreter Shoutout — Bob’s Manic Claps — When was the last time Bob was in Portland? 2014 — My Own Version of You — Crossing the Rubicon — To Be Alone With You — Key West — Gotta Serve Somebody — Discourse on Tony’s hat and losing most of a $22 vodka soda — I Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You — Melancholy Mood (featuring Stray Cat Strut) — Mother of Muses (but should’ve been Must Be Santa) — Goodbye Jimmy Reed — Band Intros hard to hear — Every Grain of Sand (Not Salt)

Part 3 (47:45) — Final Thoughts (summaries, thinking of time and seeing bands we love into old age and a post-show riff on Waffle/Huddle House

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Next show: Sooner rather than later...

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Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features our return, like Bob, to the music industry — “Talkin’ New York” from 1962’s Bob Dylan.

bob dylan news and updates (5:00) | been to nyc? (11:30) | initial thoughts (14:20) | context (18:30) | music (23:30) | song itself: prologue (26:00), part 1: new york town (28:30), part 2: folk scene (37:30), part 3: movin’ on (43:30) | does this work today? (51:30) | playlist (54:00) | recommendations (1:05:30) | ending (1:23:30)

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Next episode: a debaucherous time where you're not allowed to leave...

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Daniel and Kelly are totally listening to Bow Wow Wow one random song at a time. This episode features a familiar tune, “I Want Candy.”

initial reactions (2:20) | context and episode setup (3:50) | strangeloves (5:20) | song itself (12:00) | bow wow wow (18:10) | music video (29:10) | a fine point on what it’ll take going forward (35:00) | does it work today? (37:50) | playlist (42:00) | recommendations (46:30) | endings (51:10)

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Next episode: Captain Love speaking, some turbulence on board

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Daniel and Kelly listening to Dylan one random song at a time. This episode features Silly Nelly, Jones, the dumb blonde, Daniel, Turtle, Kelly and some future mashed potatoes.

initial reactions (3:50) | context and episode setup (4:30) | versions (8:30) | the song itself (20:00) | does it work? (32:45) | playlist (35:40) | recommendations (48:00) | endings (1:03:00)

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Next episode: New York Times said it was the coldest winter in seventeen years / I didn't feel so cold then

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