Craig Calcaterra, Steven Goldman & Mike Ferrin look at Bob Dylan's 1992 release "Good As I Been To You", a collection of folk & blues covers that actually helped pave the way for Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" and his late career renaissance.
Happy Holidays! Craig Calcaterra, Mike Ferrin & Steven Goldman peruse Bob Dylan's Christmas Compilation, "Christmas in the Heart". Is it the best Christmas Album ever? Well, it's certainly Bob's Best Christmas Record, so, there's that.
Steven Goldman, Craig Calcaterra & Mike Ferrin talk about The Soundtrack to "Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid" and the Sam Peckinpah movie that Dylan appeared in. It's more film review than music review, but, how did Dylan color inside the lines for this assignment?
Craig Calcaterra, Steven Goldman & Mike Ferrin discuss Bob Dylan's 2009 collaboration with Robert Hunter: Together Through Life. A gritty, yet jaunty little record that fits nicely into the middle tier of Bob's records.
Steven Goldman, Craig Calcaterra & Mike Ferrin spend this episode perusing the 1970 flop "Self Portrait". A haphazard collection of covers and a couple originals, was this record a truly a look into the soul of Bob Dylan? Did it really stink? Or is it just different?
For Episode 30, Steven Goldman, Craig Calcaterra & Mike Ferrin look at Dylan's 1990 release "Under a Red Sky". It's been universally panned. Is it as awful as its reputation? Is there merit to the ideas? How exactly does a bowl of soup "wiggle"? We'll discuss most of that.
Craig Calcaterra, Steven Goldman & Mike Ferrin are back, and, well, not better than ever. And this album certainly isn't either. They spend an hour talking about Shot of Love, what meaning there is to be found, and like most others, how a better album may be on the cutting room floor.
Craig, Steven & Mike announce a pause to the podcast following the news of the week.
You can blame Craig Calcaterra for this one...1986's Knocked Out Loaded is queued up and ready for us to drop the needle on it. Craig, Steven Goldman & Mike Ferrin discuss one of Dylan's most, um, infamous, albums that includes arguably his worst cover, and an epic that might get written up in the Corpus Christi Tribune
Bob Dylan's 1962 debut gets "The Treatment" from Craig Calcaterra, Steven Goldman and Mike Ferrin as the 3 discuss its place in the Dylan lexicon and Dylan's eventual impact on the Greenwich Folk Movement. They also talk about the film "Inside Llewyn Davis" and the shadow Dylan casts over the period piece that would've been a mere months before this album was cut.
The Boys (played by Craig Calcaterra, Mike Ferrin & Steven Goldman) are Back in town! But, instead of hanging out at Geno's, they're breaking down Bob Dylan's Country tinged 1969 almost LP Nashville Skyline. It's short (The album, not the podcast), fun, and an arrow towards New Morning.
A special anniversary edition of "Everything is Broken", as Steve, Craig & Mike welcome Clinton Heylin, Dylan biographer and author of "The Double Life of Bob Dylan: Volume I: 1941–1966 A Restless, Hungry Feeling." We nerd out talking to one of the foremost Dylan scholars and researchers. It's like a Birthday present for ourselves.
Steven Goldman, Craig Calcaterra & Mike Ferrin talk about outlaws, biblical figures, and the desire to be one's huckleberry with Bob Dylan's 1967 album John Wesley Harding. The album ran counter to the counter culture of 1967 music but wasn't really pop culture. It makes for an interesting album & potentially interesting discussion
Steven Goldman, Craig Calcaterra & Mike Ferrin Open the Great American Songbook, and find, stuffed deep in the spine on page 3781 Bob Dylan, and his 2015 Ode to Frank Sinatra "Shadows in the Night"
Steven Goldman, Craig Calcaterra & Mike Ferrin talk about the 1974 "reunion" album, Planet Waves. Dylan & The Band got together in the studio for some laughs, hijinks, and a very uneven collection of recordings that came ahead of their "Before the Flood" tour
Craig Calcaterra, Mike Ferrin, & Steven Goldman, mostly discuss, Highway 61 Revisited. "Mostly" because, really, what can be picked apart from an album that holds up well and still, well, owns.
Craig Calcaterra, Steven Goldman & Mike Ferrin talk about Bob Dylan's 1978 release Street Legal. It's the first real studio run for "The Dylanettes". It has a saxophone. It's got a really bad reputation. But, the album doesn't always miss and the panelist use it to learn how to love again.
Craig Calcaterra, Steven Goldman & Mike Ferrin discuss 2012's critically acclaimed"Tempest", Bob Dylan's 35th and darkest studio album.
Craig Calcaterra, Steven Goldman & Mike Ferrin discuss the "Final Comeback Album" (so far) of Bob Dylan's career: Time Out of Mind. They discuss whether it's dark or uplifting, whether the material was handled better by other musicians and producers, and whether The Braves should hit Ozzie Albies second to continue a grand tradition.
Steven Goldman, Craig Calcaterra & Mike Ferrin discuss Dylan's move from protest singer to emotional troubadour & humorist in Another Side of Bob Dylan which shows, well, another side of Bob Dylan.