Stephen Daniel ArnoffDec 2, 2021Season Two - Ep 6 | Dylan Covered and UncoveredRick Beato, a master music explainer, offers his take on Adele's magical formula for music. We talk about her world-conquering version on...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffOct 31, 2021Season Two - Ep 4-5 | Welcome to Stansville, Mr. Dylan with Rebecca Slaman Here we are with the sheepish grin, the spiraling smoke, the inane questions, and Dylan at his dudeliest: Bob Dylan's San Francisco Press...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffOct 22, 2021Season Two - Ep 3 | Bob Dylan's Halloween HootenannyThe one that got away, Mavis Staples and her fabulous family bring new light to the one of the worst packs of monsters in Dylan's canon:...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffOct 1, 2021Season Two - Ep 2 | Bootlegging: Bob Dylan's Salvation Goes Up on TrialThere is no "New Danville Girl," and hence to "Brownsville Girl," without heading back to the well from which traditional songs are...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffSep 19, 2021Season Two - Ep 1 | Life or Death: Why Charlie Watts and Bob Dylan Matter [Listen to Life or Death? Why Charlie Watts and Bob Dylan Matter.] Rock and roll mortality has, like all things rock and roll, its own...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffAug 29, 2021Episode Ten: Bringing It All Back Home | Part TwoWe spent a lot of time in Kansas in Bringing It All Back Home | Part One, thinking about John Brown and Bloody Kansas on the threshold of...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Episode Two: The Art of Memory"I'll Remember You" with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (1985) It may have had a lot of rough musical moments including a muddy stage...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Episode 1: Salvation"I practice a faith that's been long abandoned/Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road" - Bob Dylan, "Ain't Talkin' (2006) We open...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Episode 3: Mapping AmericaDr. Martin Luther King | "I Have a Dream" (1963) In an episode on Bob Dylan and mapping America, Dr Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream"...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Episode Four: Before the LawJohnny Cash, Dylan's mentor, advocate, and friend, didn't mind telling the Law where to go, an outlaw rock and roller high priest (who...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Episode Five: LoveClips and snippets of songs that inspired the romps and rumbles of Episode Five of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law.
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Episode Six: TeachersHere's the syllabus, the four-part harmony of Bob Dylan's literary roots, front and center as man unpacks myth: Buddy Holly, Moby Dick,...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Episode Seven: Dylan and the DeadJerry Garcia rightfully stands on stage for the entirety of this episode. For his chill, weird, boundless, virtuosic creativity into the...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Holiday Specialette Part One | HannukahIt's time. We're facing the December dilemma. And we're checking it twice. Looks like it's worth about $300 mil or so. What should we...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Holiday Specialette: Part Two | Must Be Santa!Here comes Part Two of our first ever holiday bonus, and Saint Nick is front and center... There's a lot to say about this madcap house...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Why Dylan Matters - A Conversation with Richard ThomasOur conversation with Richard Thomas of Harvard University and the author of Why Dylan Matters does indeed speak for itself. But who best...
Stephen Daniel ArnoffJul 19, 2021Bringing It All Back Home - Part OneEven the president of the United States must have to stand... for something. And in this case, he stands for something about Bob Dylan's...