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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 the Oklahoma Center for the Humanities.
The Institute for Bob Dylan Studies at Tulsa University is the academic arm associated with The Bob Dylan Center and Archives, and they host conferences and events, publish, and do research and writing on Bob Dylan.
The Institute produced the The World of Bob Dylan conference in 2019, before there was a Bob Dylan Center, and before the Archives were even in a permanent home. It was a fantastic event that attracted 500 Dylan researchers and lovers to Tulsa for 3-days of presentations and special events.
They've hosted a bunch of events since then, and are now gearing up for The World of Bob Dylan 2023 in early June. They're currently (through 1/15) accepting proposals papers or presentations for this event. Sean tells us what they learned in 2019, what they're planning for 2023, and a lot more.
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Dylan.FM is a Bob Dylan podcast that has featured Engineer Mark Howard, Authors Micheal Gray, Graley Herren, Musicians Robyn Hitchcock, Wesley Stace, and Dylanologists including Scott Warmuth, Laura Tenschert, and many more. Premium members get extended and bonus episodes and much more - Join Us. 
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The World of Bob Dylan 2023 - Save The Date
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The TU Institute for Bob Dylan Studies
Sean Latham on Twitter

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 so we talked with Ray to learn more about the book, about the campaign, and to find out what he's learned talking to all these Dylan insiders.
Who's in the book?: Jim Keltner, Winton Watson, Benmont Tench, Larry Cambell, Stan Lynch, Early Sound Crew (David Robb, Keith Dircks, Fuzzy Frazer), Billy Cross, Richard Fernandez (Tour Manager), Christopher Parker, John Wurster, Ray Benson, Dickey Betts, Jeff Bridges, Harvey Brooks, Gary Burke, Marshall Crenshaw, Karl Denson, Leslie Dowdall, Ramblin' Jack, Kinky Friedman, Freddy Koella, Barry Goldberg, Spooner Oldham, Michael 'Soy Bomb' Portnoy, Duke Robillard, Fred Tackett, Richard Thompson, Happy Traum, and more.
Ray talked with us in Episode 03 about the cover songs made from Time Out Of Mind. He runs the Cover.Me website which reviews and discusses all kinds of cover song performances, and he's published two earlier books, one 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), and a 33 1/3 book on Leonard Cohen's tribute album called I'm Your Fan.
Ray also runs a must-have Dylan email newsletter called Flagging Down The Double E’s. The newsletter does deep dives into legendary Dylan live shows, and has published some of the musician interviews that will be included in Pledging My Time.
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Pledging My Time Book IndieGoGo Campaign
Follow Ray Padgett on Twitter, Instagram
Flagging Down The Double E's newsletter (Substack)
Check out CoverMe Website
Ray's Cover Me book (Amazon)
Ray's 33 1/3rd Book: I'm Your Fan The Songs of Leonard Cohen

 
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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.
READ: 50+ REVIEWS OF DYLAN'S NEW BOOK
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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 N

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 latest work is Outtakes on Bob Dylan - a collection of writing from 1967 to 2021. He's also the author of books on Frank Zappa and Blind Willie McTell, and has written for RollingStone, The Guardian, Melody Maker and many more. The University of York conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Letters in English and Related Literature.
Today Micheal revisits and updates his thoughts on Time Out Of Mind, first expressed in Dylan fanzines and then Song And Dance Man III. He demonstrates his nuanced approach to evaluating and illuminating Dylan's work, and criticizing it when he feels it appropriate.
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LINKS:
MichealGray.net
Micheal Gray on Twitter : @1michaelgray1
BOOKS

Song and Dance Man III (ebay)
Outtakes on Bob Dylan (amazon)

 
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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 of his findings and thoughts on Cold Irons Bound from his book: Time Out Of Mind - The Rising of an Old Master. He tells us about the songs origin with Drummer David Kemper, he lines the song borrows from Ralph Stanley and The Stanley Brothers, and more.
Following his presentation, is a Q&A with Jochen on this song and they way he approaches Dylan's work.
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BOOKS:Time Out Of Mind - The Rising of an Old Master (Amazon)
15 Titles from Jochen Markhorst
(Includes Blood On The Track, Bringing It All Back Home, Blonde on Blonde, John Wesley Harding, Mississippi, Desolation Row, Crossing The Rubicon, and many more.
BLOG POSTS

Cold Irons Bound (Pt.1 - Pt.2 - Pt.3 - Pt.4 - Pt.5 - Pt.6)
More Writing at Untold Dylan

 
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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 join us as part of our series of discussions with songwriters and performers on Time Out Of Mind, to get his insights on Dylan in the years before TOOM, his first reactions to the album, his thoughts on the production and songwriting, and much more. We heard from a thoughtful man who's deeply considered Dylan and his work - and was kind enough to share those thoughts with us.
Robyn's latest album is called Shufflemania, released by Tiny Ghost Records, is being released on Oct 21, 2022. (Links below)
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LINKS:
RobynHitchcock.com
Robyn's Bandcamp Store - Order Shufflemania
Live Performances for #TOOM25 (Exclusive Show Video including Not Dark Yet)
Robyn Sings - 2LP Dylan Covers (AppleMusic) (Spotify)
Shufflemania (song from Shufflemania) Video on YouTube
The Raging Muse (song from Shufflemania) Video on YouTube
 
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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 given name - including the recently released 'Late Style'.
Wes has played a lot of Dylan covers, been to a lot of Dylan shows, and is quite the knowledgable fan -- as you'll hear in this episode. Wes shares his thoughts on Dylan in the 80's and early 90's, his initial reactions to hearing Time Out Of Mind, and his even greater love for Love and Theft.
This is the first in a series of interviews with working musicians, to learn how they think about TOOM and Dylan in general. It's also the first of two episodes with Wes, as he had so many interesting things to say that two episodes were necessary. 
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LINKS:
Learn more about John Wesley Harding and Wesley Stace at AllMusic.com
Follow Wesley Stace on Twitter
Visit WesleyStace.com or CabinetOfWonders.com
Wesley Stace's Books (Amazon)

Misfortune
by George
Charles Jessold: Considered As A Murder: A Novel
Out Loud: A Memoir

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.
LINKS:
Follow Scott Warmuth on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Blog
Scott Warmuth on The Bobcats Podcast
Scott Warmuth on Man and God and Law Podcast
Scott Warmuth in the book - The Dylanologists (Amazon)