Tag: Bob Dylan
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Episode 2241: The Albums of 1975 Part Two: The Critics
This week, we tune our ears back 50 years to 1975 and flip through some of the albums released in that year. Each episode will examine those records from a different angle. In the second part of the series, we run down some of the critical choices for best album of 1975, including lists from Paste, Rolling Stone and the Village Voice’s Pazz and Jop.
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Episode 2190: Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration with Steven Routledge and Justin Steiner, Part One
This Dylan Hall of Fame induction comes out of left field – as Steven Routledge himself says – but it hits home. Steven and Justin Steiner get together to discuss this double album set recorded at Madison Square Garden in October of 1992 and released in 1993.
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Episode 2159: Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame: Infidels and Blood on the Tracks with Mike Snider
Mike Snider conducts a Bob Dylan Hall of Fame induction ceremony in this episode, enshrining the 1983 album Infidels, which is one of the artist’s strongest albums of the eighties. He also inducts Dylan’s landmark 1974 album, Blood on the Tracks, a highly personal and cathartic masterpiece.
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Episode 2112: Happy 60th Birthday to … the First Music Video?
A clip from the movie Don’t Look Back was filmed 60 years ago today in London. Many believe Bob Dylan’s so-called “Subterranean Homesick Blues” film was the forerunner of the music video movement that came to prominence in the 1980s.
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Episode 2109: Old Time Music Redux: Bascom Lamar Lunsford
Harris King takes over the hosting chair today, giving us a great overview of the old-time musician Bascom Lamar Lunceford, the “Minstrel of the Appalachians.”
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Episode 2106: Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame: Nashville Skyline with Bob Peterson
Bob Peterson joins Patrick to induct Dylan’s left-turn into country music – the short but oh-so-sweet Nashville Skyline – into the Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame.
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Episode 2105: Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame: Slow Train Coming with Kurt Gallagher
Listen as our good friend Kurt Gallagher checks in from the suburbs of NYC, inducting Dylan’s 1979 LP, Slow Train Coming, the first of his so-called Christian albums.
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Episode 2093: Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame: Time Out of Mind with Justin Steiner
Justin Steiner joins Patrick to induct Dylan’s 30th studio album, 1997’s Time Out of Mind. The album’s sound (and Daniel Lanios production) are discussed as well as some of Justin’s favorite songs (and his Dylan CD collection).
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Episode 2092: Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame: Planet Waves with Mark Neese
Mark Neese grabs his favorite bench and inducts the 1974 album Planet Waves into the Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame. Recorded with the Band as backup musicians, the record features songs like “Forever Young” and “On A Night Like This.”
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Episode 2090: Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame: Street-Legal with Harris King
On this episode, we induct a fourth album into the Bob Dylan Album Hall of Fame. Harris King joins Patrick to discuss Dylan’s 1978 studio album Street-Legal, with classic tracks “Senor (Tales of Yankee Power)” and “Where Are You Tonight? (Journey Through Dark Heat).”