S03.07 Traveling Wilburys: A Little Help From Bob’s Friends w/Jeff Slate

Dylan's participation in The Traveling Wilburys was a clear career bright spot of the 1980s. What started as a few friends dropping by the house turned into a hit record.
Dylan's participation in The Traveling Wilburys was a clear career bright spot of the 1980s. What started as a few friends dropping by the house turned into a hit record.
Our discussion with Michael Gray on his book Song & Dance Man Vol.2, covers Chapter 4 which focuses on Groom Still Waiting At The Altar and also covers Angelina and Caribbean Wind.
Our discussion with Michael Gray on his book Song & Dance Man Vol.2, covers Chapter 4 which focuses on Groom Still Waiting At The Altar and also covers Angelina and Caribbean Wind.
No matter how you look at it, as compared just about any other period of his long career, Bob Dylan struggled in many ways in the mid 80's. We talk about the perception and reality of that struggle, along with his triumphs, with Professor Erin Callahan.
We continue our series with Michael Gray on Song & Dance Man, Vol. 2 with a discussion of two chapters on great songs from Bob's Born-Again Period. The first is Yonder Comes Sin, and outtake captured at a live show soundcheck, and unreleased until the Trouble No More Bootleg Series. The Second is the beloved Every Grain of Sand.
In this episode we talk to Dylan and Dead expert Harold Lepidus about all aspects of that history, the shows, the rehearsals, the inspiration, and the impact.
In this episode we talk about The Power and Politics of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances - Play a Song for Me, is anchored by chapters from co-editors Erin Callahan and Court Carney,
In this episode we talk about The Power and Politics of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances - Play a Song for Me, is anchored by chapters from co-editors Erin Callahan and Court Carney,
In this episode we talk about The Power and Politics of Bob Dylan’s Live Performances - Play a Song for Me, is anchored by chapters from co-editors Erin Callahan and Court Carney,
In this episode we talk with author Michael Gray about Chapter One of Volume 2 of Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan - Yonder Comes Sin, which was just released.
Much of the discussion is about Street-Legal, and how that album revealed Dylan's evolving search for salvation - in a way that perhaps foreshadowed the gospel years much more clearly than anyone caught at the time.