The Dylantantes Podcast

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Notes by an elite shock force of researchers, scholars, & stans on Bob Dylan &c. Another Side of Dylan Thinkers

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Talkin' Bob Dylan Spinnerpalooza

Jan 20 2025 54 mins

We change it up a bit in the spirit of holiday festivities and the New Year. Today, we’re going to have a pretty open roundtable. Our regular Bashers will have the opportunity to let loose in response to some open-ended prompts and will be selected to speak via a randomized spinner. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access t

Interview with John Radosta

Jan 06 2025 34 mins

A novelist and author of many short stories, John Radosta teaches high school English near Boston, Massachusetts. Under both a pseudonym and his real name, his fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Yellow Mama, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Wildside Black Cat, and Tough Crime. A veteran of more than 50 Bob Dylan concerts, he is the co-author with Keith Nainby of Bo

Interview with Peter White

Dec 16 2024 40 mins

Peter White is a retired professor of ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For 28 of his 33 years at the University he doubled as the Director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Through six decades, Bob Dylan has been a constant. For 30 years he has hosted the Annual Bob Dylan Party. In 2023 he co-founded It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Reading), a Zoom-based

Interview with Christopher Vanni

Oct 21 2024 34 mins

Christopher Vanni is the author of two Substacks, one about Bob Dylan and one on Gene Clark, he's an advisor for the Bob Dylan Book Club—It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Reading—and he's the creator of a Bob Dylan Quiz that can be found on YouTube and in his feed on X. He is also passionate about golf, classic films, and history. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss

Talkin' Planet Waves

Oct 01 2024 22 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thedylantantes.substack.comThe 1974 album Planet Waves marked a series of firsts for Bob Dylan. It was his first official album with The Band. It was his first record not on the Columbia label. And it was, believe it or not, his first No. 1 album.

Talkin' I'm Not There

Sep 09 2024 21 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thedylantantes.substack.comTodd Haynes' 2007 film, I’m Not There, is anything but your grandpa’s bio-pic. For one thing, absolutely no one in the film is named “Bob Dylan”—the feature’s ostensible subject. In fact, no one utters the words “Bob Dylan,” and many of the events depicted have, at most, a tange

Talkin' The Basement Tapes, Part 2: The Dylan Originals

Aug 19 2024 23 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thedylantantes.substack.comLast time we discussed just the covers that Bob Dylan and the members of what would become The Band recorded during the 1967 Basement Tapes sessions. Be sure to check out part 1 if you missed it.Today we are back with part 2 to explore the Bob Dylan originals recorded during those sessions.

Talkin' The Basement Tapes, Part 1: The Covers

Jul 22 2024 20 mins

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit thedylantantes.substack.comThe Basement Tapes occupy a unique place of honor in the pantheon of Dylan legends. Coming just after two other legendary events—the “going electric” performance and subsequent tour and Dylan’s motorcycle accident—the 1967 recordings were a collaboration between Bob Dylan and his prev

Interview with Scott Warmuth

Jul 08 2024 52 mins

Scott Warmuth is a writer and musician from Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research and observations on the writing strategies of Bob Dylan are widely acknowledged and frequently referenced, notably in Bob Dylan’s Lyrics 1983-2000. In 2014, writer Jonah Raskin dubbed Warmuth the dean of Dylanologists. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscriber

My Fraught Visit to the Bob Dylan Center Revisited

Jun 24 2024 29 mins

Back in September 2022, I posted a piece on The Dylantantes called My Fraught Visit to the Bob Dylan Center. It tells the tale of my friend and I traveling to the Center for the first time and our experience with activists in the Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Greenwood was the neighborhood famously known as Black Wall Street at the turn of the twentieth century, and it was