Dirt Road Blues is a special song on the Time Out Of Mind Album, for a number of reasons. Longtime Dylan Fan/Writer Matthew Zuckerman talks to us today about this song and how it fits – and doesn’t fit – on the album. Zuckerman is a freelance writer who has written for the International Herald Tribune, the Dylan fanzine Isis, …

Sean Latham is the Director of the Tulsa University Institute for Bob Dylan Studies, which is related to The Bob Dylan Archives and The Bob Dylan Center. He is also the Pauline McFarlin Walter Endowed Chair of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Tulsa where he serves as Editor of the James Joyce Quarterly and founding director of …

Scott Bunn writes a lot about Dylan songs at his ReclinerNotes.com website – and he’s covered Highlands from Time Out Of Mind twice. In this episode he reads his entire first full look at Highlands, and then shares with us a realization/theory he has about “The Waitress” which was the subject of his second post. Scott talks about the musical …

Jon Stewart is a musician and author, and holds a PHD in Music and is a huge Bob Dylan fan. His recent book is called Dylan, Lennon, Marx, and God and he talked to us about what the research he did for that book tells us about Dylan in relation to the songs on Time Out Of Mind. As a …

Ray Padgett is writing a new book that compiles 50+ interviews with musicians and others who’ve been involved with Bob Dylan’s live shows. It’s called Pledging My Time, and there is a pre-release IndieGoGo campaign running that allows you to pre-order the book and take advantage of special bonus offers. The campaign runs through December 16, 2022 to we talked …

Jeff Slate is a musician, writer, and radio host with a long and deep connection to Bob Dylan. He wrote the liner notes to the More Blood, More Tracks edition of The Bootleg Series, and has done several events for The Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa. He shares his insider’s view and personal memories on Time Out Of Mind in …

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 …

Mark Howard was the Engineer on Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind and Oh Mercy – in both cases working with Daniel Lanois. But in three plus decades he’s worked with dozens of great artists – Willie Nelson, Robert Plant, Dave Grohl, Rickie Lee Jones, and many many more. And he’s photographed all of these experiences. He has a new book …

Micheal Gray wrote the first serious critical book on Bob Dylan’s work in 1972’s Song and Dance Man, and for the 50 years since has remained one of the most respected and important voices even in the very large world that joined him in that effort. He’s expanded Song and Dance Man twice, wrote The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, and his …

Jochen Markhorst is a key member of the ring of Dylanologists who help the rest of us know about the references, influences, and ideas found in Dylan’s work. In hundreds of blog posts and 15 books he’s shared an impressive ability to put Bob’s work into context of other music, literature, poetry, and art. He joins us to share some …

Robyn Hitchcock is a broadly respected singer-songwriter with a lifetime of connections to Bob Dylan. He saw Bob Dylan perform at the Isle of Wight as a teenager in 1969, became the kind of songwriter that could only exist in the world after Dylan, and has regularly performed and recorded Dylan songs – for decades now. We asked Robyn to …

In our first live event, we kicked off with Dylan fan Michael Hacker sharing his personal history as a Dylan fan. He was at The Last Waltz, he saw an early gospel show, and much much more. And he’s gone on the ride ever since. Micheal also produced an excellent podcast summary of Dylan’s work called ‘A Bob Dylan Primer’ …

How do you listen to Bob Dylan? What do you listen for? Larry Starr is an emeritus professor of music history at the University of Washington, and the author of Listening to Bob Dylan. It’s a book that answers the question you might not have thought to ever ask. The book talks about the ‘musicality’ of Dylan, and shares ways …

An outtake from our S01.07 Premium Podcast. After he mentioned that Dylan’s 80’s and 90’s output shouldn’t be measured by his studio work, I asked Wes if he’d seen Bob live in those years. This Bonus Episode is the answer. He did. (This content is available only to Premium members.) LINKS Learn more about John Wesley Harding and Wesley Stace …

Wesley Stace was probably first known to Dylan fans by his stage name, John Wesley Harding – when he delivered great songs and albums from the late 80’s through the turn of the century – including ‘It Happened One Night’, ‘Here Comes The Groom’, ‘Awake’ and others. This century he’s continued to put out fine records and tour under his …

Ray Padgett is an expert on cover songs. He runs the Cover Me website that reviews and discusses all kinds of cover song performances, and published a book called Cover Me that take a deep dive into twenty of the most iconic cover songs in history (including All Along The Watchtower and Make You Feel My Love). We asked Ray …

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 …

Graley Herren is the author of ‘Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s Time Out Of Mind, and a professor (Chair of the English Department) at Xavier University in Cincinnati Ohio. He specializes in Modern Irish Literature, Modern Drama, Samuel Beckett, Don DeLillo, and Bob Dylan. He is the author of Samuel Beckett’s Plays on Film and Television, The Self-Reflexive Art of …

Mark Howard is an accomplished Engineer, Producer, and Musician – who worked with Bob Dylan as the Engineer on two of his most loved albums: Oh Mercy and Time Out Of Mind. In this conversation Mark tells us about the everything from the very beginning when Dylan drove himself up to the Teatro Studio for a different project, to 3am …

Time Out Of Mind followed 20 years in which Dylan was not always loved. In this episode we look at his career from 1977 through 1996 to understand where he was and to highlight how remarkable a comeback this album really was. We’ll revisit the less successful years and see how his relationship with fans, the press, and the culture …

In this episode Howard Sounes shares the results of the extensive work he did writing the biography ‘Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan’ which was recently updated for Dylan’s 80th. Howard tells us what he learned about the man, his life in the early 90’s before Time Out Of Mind, and then the making of and release of …

We’re moving all of our interviews into the podcast format – including all of those we’ve done so far (often in extended editions) and new ones as we move forward. These are all the interviews and presentations done for our Time Out Of Mind 25th Anniversary Celebration –  but in a new convenient podcast format. There is a public version …