Bob Dylan- Theme Time Radio Hour

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Bob Dylan- Theme Time Radio Hour

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As you may already know
Bob Dylan has a radio show
every Wednesday at XM Satellite Radio:
http://www.xmradio.com/bobdylan/

I think that you need a
subscription to listen to the radio but
here you can download three of the past shows:

http://tinyurl.com/j5s99


Note:You will find the needed password
on the same page



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Opened it with Stuffit expander and UnRarX. Thanks Dem!!
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Glad you made it lightning.

And here is an article from Observer about the
very fisrt show of 3rd May on "weather".
In the link I gave above you can also find
the next two shows on "Mom" (10th May)
and "Drink" (17th May).



Bob Dylan - Theme Time Radio Hour
XM Radio 3 May 2006
BD's first radio show.


"This weatherman knows which way the wind blows "
No one would have expected Dylan the shock jock, emulating the on-air behaviour of a Howard Stern or Chris Moyles and discussing his interest in women's underwear. But it certainly is a shock to hear this voice of several generations behind the mic - stretching vowels out, teasing us, smiling half the time.

After 'Blow, Wind, Blow' by that giant of Chicago blues, Muddy Waters, our host for the next hour continues: 'Chicago is known as the Windy City, but it's not the windiest city in the US; the windiest city is Dodge City, Kansas. Other windy cities are Amarillo, Texas; Rochester, Minneso-taaa ... all of which beat Chicago.' Didn't someone once say you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows? Turns out that Dylan himself is a something of a meteorologist, besides his other talents.

As on his last album, Love and Theft, he pays homage to the music that continues to inspire him, flipping from gospel to calypso to Judy Garland. He's showing off his collection (he has assembled a true historian's archive) - and that, after all, is the motivation of any great DJ.
Hey Mister DJ ...

After decades as music's most enigmatic icon, Bob Dylan has stunned his fans by becoming a DJ for an American station. And The Observer has had an exclusive preview of his first broadcast

David Smith
Sunday April 23, 2006
The Observer

It starts with the sound of rain. A woman's voice tells us it is night in the city, and a nurse is smoking the last cigarette in the pack. Then comes a nasal, gravelly voice, more familiar in song: 'It's time for Theme Time Radio Hour. Dreams, schemes and themes.' The career of Bob Dylan, radio DJ, has begun.

Once the most iconic recluse in the music business, Dylan will spring a surprise on fans next month by broadcasting a weekly music show across America. His debut behind the mic, due to be broadcast on 3 May, has been heard exclusively in advance by The Observer.

As the quaint title, Theme Time Radio Hour, implies, it is a simple format, even old-fashioned. Taking a different theme each week, Dylan introduces his favourite records with a wry line or pithy anecdote, then lets the music do the talking. First is 'weather'. Sounding utterly imperturbable in his new role, he drawls in characteristically rhythmic tones: 'Today's show, all about the weather. Curious about what the weather looks like? Just look out your window, take a walk outside. We're gonna start out with the great Muddy Waters, one of the ancients by now, who all moderns prize.' He has been provided with a digital recording kit so that he can present the hour-long programme from home, studio or tour bus. He sends a playlist to XM Satellite Radio's researchers, who then assemble the music around his narration.

Future shows will be built around themes such as 'cars', 'dance', 'police' and 'whisky' and also feature special guests including songwriter Elvis Costello, film star Charlie Sheen, Penn Jillette, the TV illusionist, and comedians Sarah Silverman and Jimmy Kimmel. Dylan will read and answer selected emails sent by listeners - a thrill for fans who have regarded him as a Messiah-like figure of unreachable mystique.

The playlist for the first show ranges from Muddy Waters's 'Blow, Wind, Blow' to Dean Martin's 'I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine', from Jimi Hendrix's 'The Wind Cries Mary' to Judy Garland's 'Come Rain or Come Shine'. The list, much of it from the Fifties, offers a fascinating insight into the sources of Dylan's musical inspiration. But there is no place for the counter-culture hero's own nod to meteorological mischief, 'Blowin' In The Wind'.

Radio is a natural return to Dylan's roots. In his youth, Robert Zimmerman, as he was then called, was an avid listener, first to blues and country music stations broadcasting from New Orleans, then to the first stirrings of rock'n'roll.

It took three years for XM's chief creative programming officer, Lee Abrams, to persuade Dylan, 65 next month, to do the show. He said: 'With Theme Time Radio Hour, Bob redefines "cool radio" by combining a sense of intellect with edginess in a way that hasn't been on radio before. Bob has put a lot of work into his XM show, and it's clear that he's having a good time behind the mic.' XM, whose presenters include Dylan's friend and fellow musician Tom Petty, is America's biggest satellite radio service with more than 6.5m subscribers and 170 digital channels. As subscription-based, ad-free satellite radio grows rapidly in popularity, the Washington-based service is battling for listeners with Sirius, which poached 'shock jock' Howard Stern from terrestrial radio in a ?282m five-year deal.

The Observer asked Charlie Gillett, the musicologist and BBC World Service DJ, to listen to Dylan's debut. He said: 'The programme is seamless and natural - it's how radio should be. His growly commentary is charming. It draws you in and you never for a moment think he's playing games, which he's supposedly notorious for doing.

'In each case he's got something to say and it all hangs beautifully together. To put Jimi Hendrix and Judy Garland together and not make it sound weird is an impressive achievement. The lack of adverts is also a big boon. For his audience it's absolutely perfect.'

Another Dylan devotee, poet laureate Andrew Motion, says of the playlist: 'It has a good mixture; it may not enhance the legend, but it very engagingly confirms a good many things we know - about the eclecticism of his taste, and about his skill in combining light-heartedness with seriousness.'

The bad news for British fans is that, although the show can be heard online, it is available only to people with a US billing address. So few here will hear Dylan sign off his first outing with the words: 'Well, the old clock on the wall says it's time to go. Until next week, you are all my sunshine. If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember, at least you don't have to shovel it.'

Bob's playlist choices

Blow, Wind, Blow - Muddy Waters

You Are My Sunshine - Jimmie Davis

California Sun - Joe Jones

Just Walking in the Rain - The Prisonaires

After the Clouds Roll Away - The Consolers

Let the Four Winds Blow - Fats Domino

Raining in my Heart - Slim Harpo

Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra

The Wind Cries Mary - Jimi Hendrix

Come Rain or Come Shine - Judy Garland

It's Raining - Irma Thomas

Stormy Weather - The Spaniels

Jamaica Hurricane - Lord Beginner

A Place in the Sun - Stevie Wonder (Italian version)

Uncloudy Day - The Staple Singers

I Don't Care if the Sun Don't Shine - Dean Martin

Keep on the Sunny Side - The Carter Family



The story that he tells about the recording of 'Just Walking In the Rain' by the Prisonaires and their tragic singer Johnny Bragg lends it a whole other side. Most importantly, like everything he plays, the song's a cracker. He's probably making some sort of point about the value of modern music. Put it this way: he doesn't pick 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' by Travis.

Dylan once wrote about the anodyne radio stations of his youth, 'filled with empty pleasantries'. He remembers listening to Roy Orbison, but 'next to Roy the playlist was strictly dullsville ... It all came at you like you didn't have a brain.' One shudders to think of what he might make of a world in which Moyles is paid ?630,000 a year. He describes the Santa Ana winds as being 'always on the edge of hellfire ... like the winds of the Apocalypse'; this is authentic Dylanesque language, steeped in biblical intensity, rather than the idiom of Nuts magazine.

Later, introducing 'After the Clouds Roll Away', he muses: 'I don't know what kind of clouds might be rolling away, but they're probably the alto-cirrus or the alto-stratus ...' The triumph of Dylan's show is that it really is unlike anything else you could hear, and as such is priceless.

Caspar Llewellyn Smith is the editor of Observer Music Monthly
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Show # 3 is the best: Drinking. He even plays Charles Aznavour "I Drink" ( 'Je Bois in English) showing the greatest respect for the chansonnier. However he doesn't seem to know that 27 years earlier Jacques Brel wrote L'Ivrogne which seemed all too similar to "Je Bois" and even more powerful. Just got the chance to listen to all three shows yesterday. Blues and Country and Western seems to be Dylan's main fare but he throws in all kinds of interesting things from authentic calypso to Judy Garland to LL Cool J. Dylan himself wears the hat of a black bluesman and makes informative and droll commentary. Three cheers for old Bob Dylan. Chapeau bas. Don't miss these shows.
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Yeap, the shows are great.

A model for what a radio show
should be.

Good for him and us that he went
from lingerie advertising to radio jockeying :P

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i'm enjoying the Bob Dylan radio show very much. listening to them gives the feel of driving on a country road late at night while on a long road trip. its like a radio show from an earlier time.
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Tomorrow , May 24 , is Dylan's 65th birthday and his 4th radio show , on baseball. Young Bobby Dylan is ready to receive his first social security check (ha!) so have a mint julep in his honor and hope somebody posts the next show.
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Cate Blanchett to play Bob Dylan in movie:

I really have to see this...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060524/en ... 0524214752
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Radio show #4 themed on baseball is here:
http://www.rapidshared.org/index.php?t=item&id=37124

And here is an article from CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
http://tinyurl.com/or3kc


Focus is on Dylan in satellite radio debut: Themed shows on XM
Dave Hoekstra

Bob Dylan grew up under the big skies of rural Minnesota. On a clear night through a tiny radio, he listened to American music on distant 50,000-watt stations. He embraced the rebel vibrations of Sun Records in Memphis and was hypnotized by the tremolo guitar of Roebuck "Pops" Staples in Mississippi. The radio was a window to a world he had to see.

He saw it. Now you can hear it.

"Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan" debuted Wednesday on XM Satellite Radio (Channel 40, Deep Tracks). The hourlong show is a collection of musical postcards from Dylan's journey through life.

Each show is themed, and Dylan, 65, introduces songs with colorful insight. Wednesday's debut was "The Weather," and his playlist included Muddy Waters' "Blow Wind Blow," Lord Beginner's "Jamaica Hurricane" and the Staple Singers' "Uncloudy Day." When Dylan introduced Slim Harpo's "Raining in My Heart," he said, "Slim wrote a bunch of these songs with his wife, Lavelle." Then he cracked up laughing, adding, "Boy, I wish I had a wife like that to help me write songs."

The debut show also featured drop-in radio jingles from "WSBA -- Your Place in the Sun!" (from Harrisburg, Pa.), ambient thunder and wind sounds, and a shout-out from comedienne Sarah Silverman.

Next Wednesday, Dylan celebrates "Mother's Day," and expect a future show of drinking songs.

'You don't have to shovel it'

Lee Abrams, XM chief creative programming officer, spent two years negotiating the deal with Dylan. On his blog, he reported that Dylan owns "something like 12 XM radios" and that one of Dylan's favorite XM stations is Hank's Place, a station that plays old country music against a honky-tonk backdrop with beer bottle caps busting in the background.

As a DJ, Dylan hams it up with his trademark bent phrasing, introducing Muddy Waters from "the windy city of Chic-cog-oooo" and reminding listeners how much Elvis wanted to be "Deeeeeeean" before playing "I Don't Care If the Sun Don't Shine" by Dean Martin with Paul Weston and the Dixieland Eight. He actually closed out the show this way: "Until next week, you are all my sunshine. If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember at least you don't have to shovel it."

And, yes: You can understand Dylan on radio better than you can in concert.

The show's main challenge will be to keep the music as fascinating as its host. Dylan, in recent years, has been slowly emerging from his cocoon, and people latch on to what he has to say. On Wednesday, Dylan introduced Jimi Hendrix's "The Wind Cries Mary" by suggesting that Hendrix was attempting to write a Curtis Mayfield song. After Dylan finished talking, it was easy to tune out the Hendrix tune we've heard a thousand times.

"Yes, initially people are going to focus on the novelty of Bob Dylan talking," Abrams said Wednesday from his XM office in Washington, D.C. "But as the show progresses, people will get used to that and focus on the whole show."

Making less than Stern

"Theme Time Radio Hour" is produced by Eddie Gorodetsky, a longtime player in Dylan's camp. Gorodetsky is a former writer for "Saturday Night Live" and appeared in Dylan's 2003 cut-and-paste film "Masked and Anonymous." Gorodetsky secures the old radio jingles and air checks.

Abrams, 54, grew up on Chicago radio in suburban Homewood- Flossmoor. "The shows are produced more like a movie," he said, "with pieces being put together instead of sitting them in a studio and saying, 'Hey Bob, you've got an hour to do your show.' I know he had a DAT player when he was in New Orleans and Memphis [last week]. I'm sure he recorded people. It may have been some guy in a diner or another artist. He's collecting pieces of sound that fit into the themes. He might do some shows completely live. It is all up to him."

Abrams would not discuss terms of the multiyear deal. He did say Dylan is being paid less than Howard Stern on Sirius ($500 million for a five-year deal).

"Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan" is encored at 5 p.m. Friday and 7 p.m. Sunday on Deep Tracks, XM 40. The show also appears at 7 p.m. Monday, 4 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m. Wednesday and 4 a.m. and 10 a.m. Monday on The Village, XM 15.
Complete track lists from each show are posted at
http://www.xmradio.com/bobdylan.

Fans can also e-mail questions and music requests to Bob Dylan through
bobdylan@xmradio.com.


Copyright CHICAGO SUN-TIMES 2006


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Post by Kush »

Here's the entire Jazzfest concert:
http://knkisser.blogspot.com/2006/05/bo ... -jazz.html

Sounds like it was a rollicking show. And you can sorta understand him.

Shouldnt this thread be elsewhere?
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According to the logic of this board, yes. It "should" be in "Other Music".

I read an article about this, and they talked about him like the legend blablabla that years of reclusion had contributed to his myth. :? I was wondering, like you, if they were in the "good thread". Or what? Did they mistaken them with Leonard Cohen, again (and vice versa?).

Did he has "years of reclusion" also? I thought I could ask here to people who know him well to answer this.
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He's been a reclusive figure since 1966. His years of seclusion were for a few years after a motorcycle accident (whose details are sketchy) from that time.
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You are right.

Jarkko/ Tom please move
this thread to the "Other Music"
section or wherever you think it belongs.

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Thanks Kush. So, he did. I guess that only celebrity - in itself - is a form or reclusion. Seclusion. Solitude. What do you think, Hank Williams?
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Radio shows #5 (Coffee) and #6 (Jail) available here:

http://tinyurl.com/j5s99


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