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NASHVILLE CATS: THE MAKING OF BLONDE ON BLONDE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 7th December 2023
Bill Nighy presents the definitive story of what really went down on tape, and in the studio, during the recording of Bob Dylan's classic album Blonde On Blonde.
In February 1966, Bob rolled in to Nashville to work on his seventh studio album. Following only partially successful sessions in New York, the decision had been taken to relocate to the Colombia label's Music Row studios. Nashville Cats looks at the music that resulted from the unlikely alliance between seasoned country music veterans, accustomed to fixed time studio sessions, and the more erratic modus operandi favoured by the wiry hipster poet.
Generally regarded as the high watermark of Dylan's most creatively intense period, Blonde On Blonde was recalled by the songwriter himself as being "the closest I ever got to the sound I hear in my mind...it's that thin wild mercury sound". Bill Nighy narrates a tale of in-studio composition, musicians by turns bemused, exasperated and inspired, and an artist operating at the very zenith of his talent.
Nashville Cats features newly sourced interviews with the key participants on these historic studio recording dates including musicians Al Kooper, Charlie McCoy, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, Wayne Moss, Henry Strzelecki and Joe South. The documentary also features the perspective of Producer Bob Johnston, the man responsible for convincing Dylan to record in Nashville, and reveals the real story behind the supposed symbolism of its famous cover shot care of Jerry Schatzberg, the man behind the lens.
HIGHWAY 61: FIFTY YEARS ON (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 Extra broadcast: 25th July 2022
Andy Kershaw re-examines the Bob Dylan album that changed popular music and his life.
Beginning with the resounding hit of a snare drum, Like A Rolling Stone starts Bob Dylan's first fully electrified album, Highway 61 Revisited.
When he first heard the song in his mother's car, Bruce Springsteen said it was "like somebody kicked open the door to your mind." The album represents the birth of rock music, as opposed to the pop or beat music that preceded its release.
It sounds as subversive now as it did in 1965.
Besides revolutionising popular music, the album transformed the life of broadcaster Andy Kershaw. For him, nothing would be the same after Highway 61.
Andy travels to America to meet the surviving musicians and hear the extraordinary stories behind the recording sessions.
Dylan was only 24 years old when he walked into Columbia Studio A in New York City to record the album in June 1965. For a masterpiece record, it is all the more remarkable that almost no preparation, and absolutely no rehearsal, went into it.
Al Kooper, who was brought in as an observer, tells how he mistakenly and fortunately found himself playing the organ on Like A Rolling Stone, discovering the song's melody on the spot.
Bassist Harvey Brooks talks about the patience that was required to work with the unorthodox Dylan. Legendary Nashville musician Charlie McCoy describes how he was accidentally brought in to play the memorable Spanish-sounding guitar on Desolation Row.
And Keith Richards provides a surprising take on Highway 61's legacy.
Producer: Colin McNulty
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in October 2015.
BOB DYLAN'S BIG FREEZE (320kbs-m4a/130mb/57mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 9th December 2020
Bob Harris tells the story of Bob Dylan's extraordinary two month stay in London during the freezing winter of 1962-3. We hear from the people who bumped into him and sent him on his way, from the folk clubs of Accrington to the tailors of Carnaby Street.
In the summer of 1962, Dylan had been spotted by BBC director Phillip Saville in a Greenwich Village basement and invited over to appear in Evan Jones's play, Madhouse On Castle Street. Receiving a fee of 500 guineas, Dylan duly flew to London to star alongside David Warner.
While he was in London, Dylan stayed with Martin Carthy, who remembers chopping up a piano for firewood during that long cold winter! While in London, Dylan became a regular figure on the burgeoning folk club circuit.
Eventually, under the pseudonym of Blind Boy Grunt, Dylan also cut an LP, recorded in the basement of Dobell's record shop on Charing Cross Road with the help of a crate of Guinness.
Dylan's eight week stay resulted in a burst of original songs (including Don't Think Twice It's Alright, Bob Dylan's Dream) which were heavily influenced by his exposure to traditional English folk.
First broadcast on Radio 2 in November 2008, and repeated to complement the 6 Music Michael Kiwanuka Artist Collection.
Bob Dylan - Handsome Molly [Compact Collect]
Bob Dylan - Sally Gal [Trade Mark Of Quality]
Bob Dylan - This Land Is Your Land [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - I Was Young When I Left Home [Columbia]
Susan Maughan - Bobby's Girl
Jet Harris & Tony Meehan - Diamonds
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Columbia]
Derek Lamb - Money Rolls In [Folkways]
Martin Carthy - Lord Franklin [Topic]
Bob Dylan - Dink's Song [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Sally Gal [Trade Mark Of Quality]
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream [CBS]
Jack Elliott - Ludlow Massacre [Prestige]
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Masters Of War [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind (Live Appearance On The Madhouse On Castle Street, BBC TV, 1963)
Bob Dylan - Ballad Of The Gliding Swan (Live Appearance On The Madhouse On Castle Street, BBC TV, 1963) [Scorpio]
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall [Columbia]
Martin Carthy - Lord Franklin [Topic]
Martin Carthy - Scarborough Fair [Topic]
Bob Dylan - Girl From The North Country [CBS]
Bob Dylan - I Shall Be Free
Bob Dylan - Boots Of Spanish Leather [CBS]
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - With God On Our Side [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance [CBS]
Bob Dylan & Eric Von Schmidt & Richard Fariña - Xmas Island [Free Reed]
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind [Columbia]
BOB DYLAN: CHANGING TIMES - 6. 1989: OH MERCY (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 21st December 2016
John Wilson continues to explore Bob Dylan's career at the end of three decades - 1969, 1979 and 1989 - and, with the help of those who have worked with and written about the enigmatic star, assesses the ways in which he re-invented himself at those times.
Tonight John looks back at 1989 and the album Oh Mercy, which was seen as a comeback and was the first album Dylan had written entirely himself for four years. Recorded in an imposing house in New Orleans and produced by Daniel Lanois (who had been recommended to Dylan by Bono), it was a return to form.
Dylan also stepped up his touring schedule, clocking up ninety nine concerts - an average he has kept up more or less every year since then on what he described as his 'never-ending' tour.
First broadcast on 6 Music in 2009.
Bob Dylan - Most Of The Time [CBS]
Bob Dylan - What Good Am I? [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Disease Of Conceit [CBS]
Bob Dylan - What Was It You Wanted [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Shooting Star [Columbia]
BOB DYLAN: CHANGING TIMES - 5. 1989: OH MERCY (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 20th December 2016
John Wilson continues to explore Bob Dylan's career at the end of three decades - 1969, 1979 and 1989 - and, with the help of those who have worked with and written about the enigmatic star, assesses the ways in which he re-invented himself at those times.
Tonight John looks back at 1989 and the album Oh Mercy, which was seen as a comeback and was the first album Dylan had written entirely himself for four years. Recorded in an imposing house in New Orleans and produced by Daniel Lanois (who had been recommended to Dylan by Bono). It was a return to form.
Dylan also stepped up his touring schedule, clocking up ninety nine concerts - an average he has kept up more or less every year since then on what he described as his 'never-ending' tour.
First broadcast on 6 Music in 2009.
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heavens Door (Live) [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Political World [Columbia]
Al Jolson - You Made Me Love You [Spectrum]
Bob Dylan - Where Teardops Fall [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Everything Is Broken [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Ring Them Bells [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Man In The Long Black Coat [CBS]
BOB DYLAN: CHANGING TIMES - 4. 1979: SLOW TRAIN COMING (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 16th December 2016
John Wilson looks back to 1979 when once again Bob Dylan marked the end of a decade by making some major changes in his life and career. He embraced Christianity, spent several months in Bible School and recorded a Gospel album, Slow Train Coming. When he tried to evangelize Jerry Wexler in the studio, the wily producer replied 'Bob, you're dealing with a sixty-two-year-old confirmed Jewish atheist. I'm hopeless. Let's just make an album'.
To the frustration of some of his fans, subsequent concerts were all-Gospel events. Dylan refused to play any of his old material, tended to give sermons between songs - even dismissing hecklers who demanded rock-n-roll with the words. 'You wanna rock-n-roll you can go down and rock-n-roll. You can go see Kiss and you rock-n-roll all your way down to the pit.'.
First broadcast on 6 Music in 2009.
Bob Dylan - Gonna Change My Way Of Thinking [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Do Right To Me Baby (Do Unto Others) [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - When He Returns [CBS]
Bob Dylan - When You Gonna Wake Up [Columbia]
BOB DYLAN: CHANGING TIMES - 3. 1979: SLOW TRAIN COMING (320kbs-m4a/69mb/30mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 15th December 2016
John Wilson looks back to 1979, when, once again, Bob Dylan marked the end of a decade by making some major changes in his life and career. He embraced Christianity, spent several months in Bible School and recorded a Gospel album, Slow Train Coming. When he tried to evangelize Jerry Wexler in the studio, the wily producer replied 'Bob, you're dealing with a sixty-two-year-old confirmed Jewish atheist. I'm hopeless. Let's just make an album'.
To the frustration of some of his fans, subsequent concerts were all-Gospel events. Dylan refused to play any of his old material, tended to give sermons between songs - even dismissing hecklers who demanded rock-n-roll with the words. 'You wanna rock-n-roll you can go down and rock-n-roll. You can go see Kiss and you rock-n-roll all your way down to the pit.'.
First broadcast on 6 Music in 2009.
Bob Dylan - Gotta Serve Somebody [Columbia]
Bob Dylan & The Band - Precious Angel [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - I Believe In You [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Slow Train [Columbia]
BOB DYLAN: CHANGING TIMES - 2. 1969: NASHVILLE SKYLINE (320kbs-m4a/65mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 14th December 2016
Another chance to hear a series assessing Bob Dylan's career at the end of three decades - 1969, 1979 and 1989 - and, with the help of those who have worked with and written about the enigmatic star, exploring the ways in which he re-invented himself at those times.
Part 1: 1969 - Nashville Skyline.
Having been out of the public eye for quite some time, Dylan returned with a new album, a new sound and new look in 1969. The album Nashville Skyline surprised many with its simple country-tinged songs. He appeared on Johnny Cash's TV show and chose to return to the concert stage not at Woodstock, but at the Isle of Wight Festival.
In this programme we hear from Judy Gascoyne, who was housekeeper for Bob and Sara Dylan while they stayed at a farm on the island to rehearse with The Band in a barn. Bob entertained his friends The Beatles at the farm and played tennis with them. We also hear from Dylan biographer Howard Sounes and musician and Dylan chronicler Sid Griffin as well as former England cricket captain Bob Willis, who added the name Dylan to his forenames and has seen Dylan live around fifty times.
First broadcast on 6 Music in 2009.
Bob Dylan - Peggy Day [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - One More Night [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Country Pie [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (Live) [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Let It Be Me [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - All The Tired Horses [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Tell Me That It Isn't True [Columbia]
BOB DYLAN: CHANGING TIMES - 1. 1969: NASHVILLE SKYLINE (320kbs-m4a/67mb/29mins)
BBC Radio 6 Music broadcast: 13th December 2016
Shortly after Bob Dylan receipt of his Nobel prize for literature, there's another chance to hear a series assessing Bob Dylan's career at the end of three decades - 1969, 1979 and 1989 - and, with the help of those who have worked with and written about the enigmatic star, exploring the ways in which he re-invented himself at those times.
Part 1: 1969 - Nashville Skyline.
Having been out of the public eye for quite some time, Dylan returned with a new album, a new sound and new look in 1969. The album Nashville Skyline surprised many with its simple country-tinged songs. He appeared on Johnny Cash's TV show and chose to return to the concert stage not at Woodstock, but at the Isle of Wight Festival.
In this programme we hear from Judy Gascoyne, who was housekeeper for Bob and Sara Dylan while they stayed at a farm on the island to rehearse with The Band in a barn. Bob entertained his friends The Beatles at the farm and played tennis with them. We also hear from Dylan biographer Howard Sounes and musician and Dylan chronicler Sid Griffin as well as former England cricket captain Bob Willis, who added the name Dylan to his forenames and has seen Dylan live around fifty times.
First broadcast on 6 Music in 2009.
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline Rag [Columbia]
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl From The North Country [CBS]
Johnny Cash - Wanted Man (Live) [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - To Be Alone With You [CBS]
Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away (Live)
Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away [CBS]
BOB DYLAN 70 - THE BOB DYLAN STORY AT 70 - 6. EPISODE 6 (320kbs-m4a/133mb/58mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 3rd July 2016
Kris Kristofferson concludes his profile of iconic singer / songwriter Bob Dylan.
Bob Dylan enters the new millennium on a critical high with his 30th studio album Love & Theft. He wins universal acclaim with the first volume of his autobiography, Chronicles, and collaborates with Martin Scorsese on the film biography No Direction Home. In 2006 he makes his debut as a DJ with Theme Time Radio Hour, which runs to100 episodes, and delights listeners with his idiosyncratic observations linking records. Just when you think he has no more surprises up his sleeve, in 2009 he cements himself into the festive season with the release of Christmas In The Heart.
The programme features interviews with broadcaster Paul Gambaccini, musician and Dylan biographer Sid Griffin and journalist Alan Jackson, who recalls interviewing Bob for a 2008 exhibition of his artwork.
First broadcast in 2011.
Bob Dylan - Thunder On The Mountain
Bob Dylan - Nettie Moore
Bob Dylan - Po' Boy
Bob Dylan - Mississippi
Bob Dylan - Lonesome Whistle (I Heard That)
Bob Dylan & Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Mr. Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan - When The Ship Comes In (Live)
Elvis Presley - (You're The) Devil In Disguise
Jack McDuff - Goodnight, It's Time To Go
Bob Dylan - Nettie Moore
Bob Dylan - Most Likely You Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
Bob Dylan - Beyond Here Lies Nothing
Bob Dylan - Here Comes Santa Claus
Jack Johnson - Mama You've Been On My Mind/A Fraction Of Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers - All Along The Watchtower
Cat Power - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Willie Nelson & Calexico - Señor (Tales Of Yankee Power)
Bob Dylan - Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine) (Mark Ronson Remix)
Bob Dylan - Red River Shore
Bob Dylan - Jolene
Bob Dylan - Winter Wonderland
Bob Dylan - Little Drummer Boy
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind
Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan - It Ain't Me Babe
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind
BOB DYLAN 70 - THE BOB DYLAN STORY AT 70 - 5. EPISODE 5 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 2nd July 2016
Another chance to hear Kris Kristofferson's six-part profile of his friend Bob Dylan.
It's 1976 and as the USA braces itself for the Bicentennial, Bob Dylan sets off in search of America - with a travelling band of musicians called The Rolling Thunder Review. He and The Band call time on performing together and hold a star-studded farewell concert in San Francisco called The Last Waltz. In an unexpected twist he is reborn as an evangelical Christian later that year resulting in three albums of inspirational material he released between 1979 and 1981. Bob performs at Live Aid, joins George Harrison and Roy Orbison in The Traveling Wilburys and finishes the decade on a critical high note with his 25th album Oh Mercy. Things Have Changed - Bob's first song of the 21st Century - is used in the film Wonder Boys and wins him a well-deserved Oscar.
The programme features the thoughts of George Harrison and Jeff Lynne, Live Aid organiser Bob Geldof, Dylan biographer Patrick Humphries and folk musician Tom Paxton.
First broadcast in 2011.
Bob Dylan - Somebody Touched Me
Bob Dylan - Grand Coulee Dam
Bob Dylan & The Band - Baby Let Me Follow You Down
Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
Bob Dylan - Hurricane
Bob Dylan - Lay Lady Lay (Live)
Bob Dylan & The Band - I Shall Be Released (Live)
Bob Dylan - Every Grain Of Sand
USA For Africa - We Are The World
Traveling Wilburys - Dirty World
Bob Dylan - Man In The Long Black Coat
Bob Dylan - Floater (Too Much To Ask)
Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm
Bob Dylan - Blackjack Davey
Bob Dylan - Political World
Bob Dylan - Everything Is Broken
Bob Dylan - My Blue Eyed Jane
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Live)
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
Bob Dylan - Things Have Changed
Bob Dylan - Make You Feel My Love
Bob Dylan - High Water (For Charley Patton)
BOB DYLAN 70 - THE BOB DYLAN STORY AT 70 - 4. EPISODE 4 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 1st July 2016
Another chance to hear Kris Kristofferson's profile of his friend Bob Dylan.
During 1967, while The Beatles release Sgt Pepper and The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd and The Doors are making their album debuts, Dylan rests at home in Woodstock as he recovers from his motorcycle crash of the previous summer. He records 150 songs at nearby Big Pink, a house rented by The Band, a handful of which would become the first bootleg recordings in rock history - The Basement Tapes. In 1968 he releases the country-tinged John Wesley Harding, his first studio album in almost two years, then he returns to Nashville to make an album with Johnny Cash. He performs alongside George Harrison and Ringo Starr at the Concert For Bangladesh. His 1973 album Planet Waves pleases the critics, but next Blood On The Tracks would send them into ecstasies and introduce Dylan to a whole new audience.
The programme features interviews with Tom McGuinness, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Robinson and Bob Geldof. Plus, narrator Kris Kristofferson remembers the time he spent with Dylan in Durango, Mexico making the film Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, for which Dylan wrote the classic Knocking On Heaven's Door.
First broadcast in 2011.
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline Rag
Bob Dylan - Country Pie
Bob Dylan & The Band - Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty Quinn)
Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower
Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash - Girl From The North Country
Bob Dylan - Living The Blues (Live)
Bob Dylan - Tonight I'll Be Staying Here With You
Bob Dylan - She Belongs To Me (Live)
Bob Dylan - On A Night Like This
Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
Bob Dylan - Simple Twist Of Fate
Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
Bob Dylan & George Harrison - If Not For You
Bob Dylan & George Harrison & Leon Russell & Ringo Starr - Just Like A Woman (Live)
Bob Dylan - Billy 4
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
Bob Dylan - Forever Young
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
BOB DYLAN 70 - THE BOB DYLAN STORY AT 70 - 3. EPISODE 3 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 30th June 2016
Another chance to hear Kris Kristofferson's profile of his friend Bob Dylan.
It's February 1966, and Bob Dylan travels to Nashville to shake up the town and make the best use of musicians Robbie Robertson, Charlie McCoy, Wayne Moss and Al Kooper on one of the greatest rock and roll albums ever made Blonde On Blonde. Kris Kristofferson remembers the recording sessions that went on through the night - he was working as a janitor in studio where the album was recorded. Bob undertakes a world tour with The Band taking in a performance at the Royal Albert Hall in London, with The Beatles in attendance, and a legendary confrontation between Dylan and the audience at Manchester's Free Trade Hall.
The programme features interviews with producer Bob Johnston and musicians Charlie McCoy and Robbie Robertson. Plus, Bob Geldof and Paul McCartney describe the excitement of Dylan's new electric sound and C P Lee, an audience member at the Free Trade Hall recalls the historic Manchester concert.
With classic tracks from Blonde On Blonde including Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and Just Like A Woman.
First broadcast in 2011.
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Bob Dylan - Visions Of Johanna
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Bob Dylan - Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Bob Dylan - Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands
Bob Dylan - Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
Bob Dylan - Just Like A Woman
Bob Dylan - I Don't Believe You (She Acts Like We Never Have Met)
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (Live)
Bob Dylan - She Belongs To Me
Bob Dylan - One Too Many Mornings (Live)
Bob Dylan - Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues (Live)
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone (Live)
Bob Dylan & The Band - This Wheel's On Fire
BOB DYLAN 70 - THE BOB DYLAN STORY AT 70 - 2. EPISODE 2 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/59mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 29th June 2016
Another chance to hear Kris Kristofferson's 2011 profile of Bob Dylan, his hero, inspiration and friend.
In the winter of 62/63 Bob makes his first trip to the UK - the British folk tradition would have a profound influence on his subsequent writing. In 1965 he releases the landmark album Bringing It All back Home, The Byrds have a worldwide hit with his song Mr Tambourine Man and Dylan is seen performing in an early music video to Subterranean Homesick Blues in D A Pennebaker's seminal film Don't Look Back. He is still only 24 years of age. His sixth studio album Highway 61 Revisited is released and Like A Rolling Stone, the opening track, is a top 10 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. His electric performance at the Newport Folk Festival gets a hostile response from the folk establishment.
The programme features an interview with Martin Carthy, who talks about the influence traditional British folk music had on Dylan's work, and Peter Asher and Tom Robinson describe the importance of Dylan's arrival in the British pop charts. Also John Lennon and Carly Simon realise Dylan's lyrics mean so much more than anyone else's, Bob Geldof remembers the first time he heard Like A Rolling Stone and Joe Boyd, stage manager at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival recalls Dylan's controversial performance.
First broadcast in 2011.
Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [Sony Music]
Bob Dylan - Boots Of Spanish Leather [CBS]
Bob Dylan - When The Ship Comes In [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding) [Sony Music/Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Masters Of War [CBS]
Martin Carthy - Lord Franklin [Topic]
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Dream [CBS]
Bob Dylan - The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Mr. Tambourine Man [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Subterranean Homesick Blues [CBS]
Bob Dylan - She Belongs To Me [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone [CBS]
Bob Dylan - From A Buick 6 [CBS]
The Byrds - Mr. Tambourine Man [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's 115th Dream [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Maggie's Farm [CBS]
Bob Dylan - It's All Over Now, Baby Blue [Sony Music]
BOB DYLAN 70 - THE BOB DYLAN STORY AT 70 - 1. EPISODE 1 (320kbs-m4a/136mb/60mins)
BBC Radio 2 broadcast: 28th June 2016
Another chance to hear Kris Kristofferson's profile of legendary singer songwriter Bob Dylan.
Kris begins the story of his hero, his inspiration and his friend Bob Dylan in the first of this six-part series.
It's 1961 and Bob moves from Minnesota to New York, hoping to perform there and to visit his idol Woody Guthrie. Soon, he becomes the most talked about artist on the Greenwich Village folk scene and begins to write the songs that came to define the 1960s such as Blowin' In The Wind and The Times They Are A-Changin'.
The programme features interviews with Dylan's contemporaries Tom Paxton, Jim Kweskin and Dave Van Ronk, who remember his earliest songs and performances. Plus John Hammond, the man who signed Bob to Columbia Records, recalls the making of the 21 year old's debut record. Also, Paul Simon admits the time was right for a folk revival and Joan Baez gives a rare insight into her contribution to Dylan's success.
Bob himself talks about the music that influenced him as a young man, first hearing Woody Guthrie, meeting Peter, Paul and Mary and walking out of the influential Ed Sullivan TV Show in 1963.
Featured tracks include Song To Woody from Dylan's 1962 eponymous debut, Blowin' In The Wind from his landmark follow up The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan and title track from his third album The Times They Are A-Changin'.
First broadcast in 2011.
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Knockin' On Heaven's Door [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Walls Of Red Wing [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Pretty Boy Floyd [Chrome Dreams]
Bob Dylan - Song To Woody [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Baby, Let Me Follow You Down [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - House Of The Risin' Sun [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Man Of Constant Sorrow [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - To Ramona [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Masters Of War [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Don't Think Twice, It's All Right [CBS]
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Blowin' In The Wind [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Girl From The North Country [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall [Columbia]
Bob Dylan - Oxford Town [Columbia]
Joan Baez - Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word [Vanguard]
Bob Dylan - The Times They Are A-Changin' [CBS]
Bob Dylan - Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (Live) [Columbia]
16 5 66 (320kbs-m4a/64mb/28mins)
BBC Radio 4 broadcast: 14th May 2016
On Monday 16th of May, 1966 two of the greatest albums of all time were released. Through archive, interviews and music from The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and Bob Dylan's Blonde on Blonde, we tell the story of the music from that momentous day.
For the American music lover, the two albums would come to shape music history. Blonde on Blonde is considered Bob Dylan's magnum opus, while Pet Sounds is The Beach Boys' epic journey into the musical mind of Brian Wilson.
Fifty years on, we hear from those who remember that day - musicians who worked on the albums, and teenagers who saved up to buy the records but had a choice to make, Pet Sounds or Blonde on Blonde.
We hear of two lovers who danced in the kitchen to Pet Sounds. Wouldn't it Be Nice played as they talked of the future. On that day in 1966, Bob Dylan was playing in Sheffield, one of his forty or so worldwide shows. One Dylan fan remembers it like it was yesterday. The next day Dylan would play Manchester and be called "Judas".
One day, two musical visions.
Produced by Barney Rowntree and Shani Aviram
A Reduced Listening production for BBC Radio 4.
