This podcast tells the story behind this picture of Bruce and a devoted fan with brassy daughter in the Borders bookstore in Minneapolis on October 4, 2004.

Two hearts are better than one . . .

Incident on Lake & Hennepin (33 min. podcast)

Springsteen Podcast: A House Haunted: Two Slants on “My Father’s House” (32 min.)

Series of Dreams & What It Means (32 min.)

A Disclaimer: If you’re looking for the final Word on Dylan’s “Series of Dreams,” you might as well keep on keeping on to another joint.   There are many brilliant analysts who could add all sorts of insights, amendments, qualifiers, and so on to whatever we say about the song.   As with many Dylan songs that are riddles wrapped in mysteries inside enigmas, our slants on it are works-in-progress, to be continued indefinitely.  Just take what you need and the leave the rest.  And if you got your own two cents’ worth or more to share, add your own insights in the Comments section.  J.B.

St. Paddy’s at the White Horse Tavern: The Songs & Singers Who Influenced Dylan (70 min).

Can you correctly identify the fifteen Dylan recordings (song title and/or legit album release) that go with the melodies in the podcast? Here they are in order of appearance.

1.   Farewell to Tarwathie/Farewell Angelina

2.   Brennan on the Moor/Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie

3.   Lord Randall/A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall

4.   Come All Ye Tramps and Hawkers/I Pity the Poor Immigrant

5.   Fenario/Pretty Peggy O (first album)

6.   Lord Franklin/Bob Dylan’s Dream

7.   The Road to Dundee/The Walls of Red Wing

8.   Cambric Shirt/Girl from the North Country

9.   The Patriot Game/With God On Our Side

10. Fair Nottamun Town/Masters of War

11.  Lass of Loch Royale/Kingsport Town

12.  Barbara Allen (Gaslight  ’62)

13.  Joe Hill/I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine

14.  Farewell to Sicily/The Times They Are a’ Changing (still not wholly convinced about this one)

15.  The Parting Glass/Restless Farewell

Love and Theft_ Dylan and the Issue of Plagiarism (Expanded!)

Some Dylan plagiarism readings:

http://www.rockademia-u.com/?page_id=425

“If I Was a Master Thief . . .” (from the blog Imaginary Boundaries)

“A Master Thief . . .”  (from a blog called Muddy Water): http://www.muddywatermagazine.com/A-Master-Thief-intro–1.html

A list of borrowings from Rolling Stone:

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2006/09/15/bob-dylans-greatest-thefts/

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Dylan-Beatles-Middle8-Pt-01

Dylan-Beatles-Middle8-Pt-02

(How Music Changed When the King of Folk Met the Kings of Pop)

See our blog for a follow ups on podcasts  by Prof. Rusty Omens

Dylan Does the Book of Love

Visions of Visions of Johanna

Lovers’ Emotions: An Analysis of Visions of Johanna

Podcast #1: “My Generation”

Professor Rusty Omens

My Generation (Growing Up in Public)

In March, J.B. Pariah’s

enhanced podcast on Dylan’s

“Visions of Johanna”!

Plus: Podcasts on

“Dylan, the Beatles and the Middle Eight,”

“Series of Dreams,” and “Love and Theft.”