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In this second episode in our Series on the new Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan (Vol.1) we talk to author Michael Gray about Chapter Two: Dylan and The Literary Tradition. We talk about the influence both classical english writers as well as both early and modern American writers had on Dylan, and what he came to do with that influence.

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As in the prior episode, we'll listen to passages from the book and then Michael comments, adds new thoughts, and answers questions. The book selections for Chapter Two are read in this episode by Allison Rapp, a music writer based in New York.

The Song & Dance Man book was first released in 1972 in the UK, and 1973 in the US. It was updated twice before, in the early 80's and late 90's - eventually growing to over 900 pages. It's been loved by Dylan Scholars and fans for all these decades - The Observer (London) Said: "A mammoth work of scholarship, often enthralling and never less than illuminating." After over a decade out of print, is is being re-issued in three volumes for it's 50th Anniversary - with the full text and extensive footnotes of the Third Edition reproduced in full.

You can order Vol. 1 of the re-release series on Amazon in print or on kindle.

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LINKS:

• Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan Vol.1 (Amazon)
• Pt 1 of this Podcast Series - Chapter One: Dylan and Folk Music
• Song & Dance Man - Book Website
• Michael Gray Website
• Pod Dylan - Michael Gray on 'Too Late'
• Music Books Podcast - Michal Gray on Song & Dance Man
• Allison Rapp - Website
• Allison Rapp - Writing

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Scott Warmuth is a Dylan fan, scholar, and researcher who is known as the guy who discovered the 'late period' writing style of Bob Dylan by identifying hundreds of influences and borrowed lyric sources across all kinds of books, movies, magazines, and more.

In this episode he points his magnifying glass at Time Out Of Mind and shares with us some of the sources that 'inspired' Dylan as he was creating the songs on this album. We'll hear about Henry Rollins, Johnny & Jack, and others who's writings have inspired or empowered the lyrics of Bob Dylan.

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• Scott Warmuth on The Bobcats Podcast
• Scott Warmuth on Man and God and Law Podcast
• Scott Warmuth in the book - The Dylanologists (Amazon)

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Make You Feel My Love is a song that has received a lot of attention - but not entirely out of admiration - a lot of Dylan fans just don't like it. On this episode Laura Tenschert talks about the song and those reactions.

Laura is a writer, podcaster and musician who runs Definitely Dylan where she looks at art and creativity through the lens of Bob Dylan’s work. Definitely Dylan is a podcast and has an active Patreon with exclusive content and monthly online events. She is also a member of the board at the Institute of Bob Dylan Studies in Tulsa, OK.

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This Podcast replays a talk Laura give to one of our Members-Only Online events, and then includes the Q&A Session from that day plus another discussion about the song we had a few weeks later. All this gives us time to dig into the song, the controversy it inspires among some Dylan fans and critics, and allows Laura to look more deeply into the song itself.

LINKS:

• Definitely Dylan - Website
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Dylan.FM is a podcast that good deep into specific Bob Dylan albums or periods - for months at a time. There are also some ‘special subject’ podcasts along the way. The show has featured Time Out Of Mind Engineers Mark Howard (1992 Mix) and Michael Brauer (2022 Mix), Authors Micheal Gray, Graley Herren, Howard Sounes and others, Musicians Robyn Hitchcock, Wesley Stace and others, and Dylanologists including Scott Warmuth, Laura Tenschert, and many more. Member of The FM Podcasts Network.

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Five respected music writers - each with recent reviews of Bob Dylan's new book - joined us to share their thoughts and discuss the contents of this incredible work. Our panel includes Anne Margaret Daniel, Seth Rogovoy, Allison Rapp, David Yaffe, and David Hajdu (Bio's below).

They share their favorite entries from the book, the songs they’re listening to differently now, their views on Dylan’s writing style , and the ever-present question of who helped or worked with Bob on the project came up more than once.

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Panelist Biographies and Links:

• Anne Margaret Daniel teaches at the New School University in New York City and at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson. Her essays on literature, music (often Bob Dylan), books, and culture have appeared for the past twenty-five years in books, critical editions, magazines, and journals including The New York Times, Hot Press, The Spectator, and The Times Literary Supplement. Anne Margaret has degrees from Harvard (A.B.), Georgetown (M.A.), University of Virginia School of Law (J.D.) and Princeton (Ph.D). - Website: https://www.annemargaretdaniel.com/
• Seth Rogovoy is the author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet (Scribner, 2009), The Essential Klezmer (Algonquin, 2000), and the upcoming Within You WIthout You: Listening to George Harrison (Oxford Univ. Press, fall 2023). Seth is a contributing editor at The Forward and produces a Substack newsletter, Everything Is Broken. Seth lives in Hudson, N.Y. - Website - Review
• Allison Rapp is a music and culture journalist based in New York City. Her work has appeared in Brooklyn Magazine, Rock Cellar, City Limits, and more. She currently works as an assistant editor at Ultimate Classic Rock. - Website - Review
• David Yaffe is a professor of humanities at Syracuse, and the author of Fascinating Rhythm (Princeton), Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown (Yale) and Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell (FSG), winner of the ASCAP Virgil Thomson/Deems Taylor award, a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year, and has been translated into five languages. He has been a frequent contributor for Air Mail since 2021, and has written for many other publications, including The New York Review of Books, New York Magazine, The Paris Review, The Nation, Slate, and The New York Times. He is at work on a book about Leonard Cohen. - Website - Review
• David Hajdu is the music critic for The Nation and a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Before joining The Nation in January 2015, he served for more than 10 years as the music critic for The New Republic. He is the author of 8 books including Positively 4th Street, The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan,Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina. David currently serves on the National Council on the Humanities. - Website - Review

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Michael Gray invented analysis and criticism of Bob Dylan songs with the 1972/3 release of Song & Dance Man. And over the last 50 years and through two major updates of that book, he has remained one of our best and most eloquent of the Dylan scholars.

In this episode we talk about the Good As I Been To You / World Gone Wrong chapter from Song & Dance Man III. The discussion is centered around quotes from the book, I read them and Michael reacts and expounds on his thoughts. We cover 10 of the album's 13 songs.

What you'll hear, in the excerpts in in Michaels comments, is a masterclass on Bob Dylan criticism and analysis.

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LINKS:

• Michael Gray's Website
• Outtakes on Bob Dylan by Michael Gray (Book)
• Good As He's Been To Us - John Wesley Harding (1993 Review from Stereophile)
• Good As I Been To You - CD (Amazon)
• Good As I Been To You - Vinyl (Amazon)

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