The Philosophy of Modern Song. We're going to take the title of Bob Dylan's recent book seriously and try to read between the lines: What is the philosophy here? What’s modern about it? Is there a code for living the good life embedded within? We’ll be calling on the writing of Father Richard Rohr for help. He’s a man of faith, myth, contemplation, and action whose work gives a parallel lay to Dylan’s philosophy of modern song. He, Dylan, is also a man of faith, myth, contemplation, and action. We’re going to see where these teachers and The Philosophy of Modern Song lead us.

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Join us for a discussion of Greil Marcus's new book Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs. It reads like an elegy in many ways — for Dylan as a figure both shaped by and shaping his times, and also of Marcus reflecting on his own journey with Dylan and rock 'n' roll as a whole. With his generous, eloquent, signature voice, it is hard to imagine hearing Dylan without Marcus's harmony. Discover the biography underneath the history in which facts are steppingstones for what really matters.

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We’re going bookish as this final season of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law comes to a close. From the bookends of Tarantula to the The Philosophy of Song, we are holding steady in the section marked Chronicles: Volume One. What's the wisdom of Dylan as a reader and author? What can be gleaned between the lines ofTarantula and Chronicles in particular? Find out in the second of a four part series on Bob Dylan and the Book.

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We’re going bookish as this final season of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law comes to a close. First up, from the bookends of "Like a Rolling Stone" to Portnoy's Complaint in the 1960's to masterworks in 1997 and prophecies at unexpected peaks of their careers in the 2000's, Bob Dylan and Philip Roth has been laid down the Man, God, and Law as well as any artists of their era. Where do they intersect and what does it mean? 

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We are going electric with Bob Dylan and  Professor Kathryn Lofton. 

Few pop culture moments have been analyzed more closely than Bob Dylan "going electric" at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. We ask what is all means for American religion, race, and music with our special guest, Kathryn Lofton.

Kathryn is the Lex Hixon Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies, Professor of History and Divinity, and FAS Dean of Humanities at Yale University. She has written extensively about capitalism, popular culture, and the secular, from her first book, Oprah: The Gospel of an Icon (2011) to the book Consuming Religion (2017), parsing the  relationship between religion and consumer capitalism from the Kardashian family to  Goldman Sachs. Her article on Dylan going electric in the Journal of Popular Music Studies knocked us off our feet. Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation about some of our most favorite topics in rock music, the life of the spirit, and more. 

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What are the greatest friendships in rock and roll? The Boss and the Big Man? Lennon and McCartney? Mick and Keith? Joni Mitchell and Prince? This episode, we’ve got perhaps Dylan’s sweetest friendship, and also a brother – a brother of the Wilbury kind. That’s right. Meet George Harrison and Bob Dylan.

Our guest Seth Rogovoy is the author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet, published by Scribner in 2009 and Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison, due from Oxford University Press in Fall 2023. Find more of Seth's writing at www.rogovoyreport.com.

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Welcome to Episode 4 of Season Three in which Scott Warmuth unpacks the secret history of Bob Dylan's art of composition in a mind-blowing conversation. Check out Bob Dylan's bookshelf or a taste of the inventory from which Dylan invents music on the album Love and Theft. This is a fascinating journey into the mind of Dylan as a quirky, cunning, brilliant master of words and music.

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No regrets, Coyote. And we really mean that.

What better way to get into the depths of peerless artists Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, how they intersect, and how they work then by speaking with David Yaffe, author of Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown and Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. David is an esteemed and eminently creative music critic and scholar, a Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University, and his new substack Trouble Man: Musings of David Yaffe is a wonderful, wistful way to journey through pop music and pop culture with a true maven and storytelling. Check it out!

If you haven’t stayed up for hours talking bout music, your favorites songs and artists, you haven't lived as a music fan. Have a taste of that with David, the second guest in an incredible line-up of music writers and thinkers who will join us this season.

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Much of what we know about the gods of rock comes from their music. But it is the rock star interview, pioneered by the rock bible Rolling Stone magazine as named after Dylan’s own song, where testaments of rock and roll were given. Kind of like an oral tradition to the sacred texts of the songs, kind of a new testament to the old, explaining the gaps, coloring the personal details, humanizing the gods. 

This has been rock journalist Sylvie Simmons' unique role in the rock and roll mythology for 45 years. We talk here a great deal about Leonard Cohen, his intersection with Dylan, how Cohen and Dylan work, how rock’s mythmakers play, and what all of this might mean from a very personal lens framed by a truly thoughtful, knowledgeable rock and roll pro joining us by the good old-fashioned landline from San Francisco. It's a wonderful conversation.

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It was a weekend afternoon in March at Florida International University, and there was hardly another person in sight where a collection of Dylan's work — work as important as any painter of his age if not for the paintings themselves but rather because of the artist – offered a frame to begin looking one last time at Bob Dylan in this, the final season of this podcast, Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. We're talking Dylan the artist, the creator, the restless spirit of our time, who never gets bored.

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