A Bob Dylan Primer

A Bob Dylan Primer

A Podcast by Michael Hacker

  • 59 minutes 42 seconds
    Nothing but Affection
    A small departure, this episode traces my personal journey with Dylan’s work and music. Highlights include watching Dylan’s house get built in Malibu, seeing The Last Waltz in person, getting the weakest handshake of all...
    29 April 2022, 7:27 pm
  • 39 minutes 42 seconds
    Goodbye is too Good a Word
    As we say fare thee well, Dylan drops his best music in years Episode links: Spotify playlist for A Bob Dylan Primer Episode 15 Dylan – Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech Bob Dylan speech at the 2016...
    2 June 2020, 10:28 pm
  • 35 minutes 35 seconds
    Modern Times, Olden Times
    40 years after showing up in New York, Dylan propels himself headfirst into the 21st century with a quartet of ferociously strong albums and a sweet book that tells more than the most telling tell-all....
    4 May 2020, 4:53 pm
  • 31 minutes 15 seconds
    Time is in the Mind
    Never a dull moment for Mr. D, he contracts a serious infection of the heart, sings for the Pope, and releases his strongest album in 20 years.   Episode links: Not Dark Yet – Dylan...
    23 March 2020, 11:03 pm
  • 26 minutes 1 second
    Beginning the Next Beginning
    Dylan somehow stops his creative slide at the end of the 1980s and turns it all around, again. Episode links: Dylan Live – 1993 TV Special – Hard Times Dylan – Live in Paris –...
    18 February 2020, 7:47 pm
  • 33 minutes 24 seconds
    Synthesizer Dylan
    Few who lived through the nineteen-eighties would claim the decade as their greatest era. Dylan is no exception. Episode links: Dylan 1985 – Dylan rehearses We Are The World (very entertaining) Dylan 1986 – Press...
    9 January 2020, 6:41 pm
  • 27 minutes 39 seconds
    A Voice in the Wilderness
    Twenty years into his career, Bob Dylan unleashes his most shocking transformation …and finds religion. Episode links: Bob Dylan – June 1978 Live – Like a Rolling Stone Bob Dylan 1980 Toronto – Pressing On...
    14 October 2019, 7:52 pm
  • 31 minutes 9 seconds
    Blood, Desire, and The Last Waltz
    It seemed like Bob Dylan was finished. Then he emerged with what many consider the strongest album of his long career.   Episode links: Tangled Up in Blue – Rolling Thunder 1975 Bob Dylan 1974...
    16 September 2019, 9:37 pm
  • 28 minutes 57 seconds
    The Movie’ll Be Like A Song
    Would you believe Dylan almost became a movie director? A slight detour from the chronology as we take a look at Bob Dylan, filmmaker. Hear all about it in Episode 8, The Movie’ll Be Like...
    31 July 2019, 4:56 pm
  • 23 minutes 59 seconds
    What’s New?
    The sixties are ending, long live the sixties. How does the single most iconic performer leave the decade that defined him and move in the 1970s? Find out in Episode 7 of A Bob Dylan...
    24 June 2019, 6:57 pm
  • 21 minutes 9 seconds
    Country Pie
    In 1969, America is coming apart at the seams. Rock music is exploding into densely complex forms. Bob Dylan releases an album of pure … country music   Episode links: Dylan and Johnny Cash –...
    30 April 2019, 7:29 pm
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