Welcome to the final episode of the show. It's a map and a key to your door, a Last Waltz, and a final salute to Bob Dylan, holiness, and being free with the Band, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and many more. Check out the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan wherever fine books are sold, and learn about related projects at mangodlaw.com. We are proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcasts Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are still living on Tulsa time, reflecting back on the World of Bob Dylan conference in Tulsa at the beginning of June. This time we're talking about how Dylan plays inside and outside the lines of authenticity, roots, race, and the never-ending tour of the popular music hustle. Our very special guest is music impresario Mark Montgomery French, whose encyclopedic knowledge of music, framing of cultural questions, humor, and creativity will keep you riveted. This is a conversation that...

We are still living on Tulsa time, reflecting back on the World of Bob Dylan conference in Oklahoma at the beginning of June in a world gone wrong when Bob Dylan gets it all wrong. The set-up of these four stories of Dylan going off the path actually leads us back to where this podcast began three years ago. The destination for Dylan has always been salvation. Four paths, four windows, four doorways frame Dylan wrestling with salvation, bargaining for salvation, and somehow, walking himself...

It's time for the Bob Dylan's Top Ten - Bob Dylan's Ten Commandments, that is. Welcome to Bob Dylan and the Bible, a journey through the values, schemes, hopes and dreams that Bob Dylan holds sacred that might just be rules to consider living by ourselves. Check out the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan wherever fine books are sold, and learn about related projects at mangodlaw.com. We are proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcasts Network. Learn more about your...

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...

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...

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. Check out the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual...

Bob Dylan and Philip Roth have been defining artists of their era. Where do they intersect and what does it mean? We're talking sex, intimacy, prophecy, and America in the first of a four part series on Bob Dylan and the Book.

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 of Yale University.

This is the tale of Bob Dylan’s sweetest musical friendship – the story of a brother, a seeker, a peerless peer, and a pal to lend a hand. We're talkin' Bob Dylan and George Harrison.

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. Find the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan inspired by the podcast wherever...

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. Find the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan inspired by the podcast wherever...

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,...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

For this final episode of Season 2, we’re going to stick with what it’s really all about, what seeps through nearly all of our best entertainment, novels, movies, and dreams. Meatloaf of anti-vaxxing blessed memory said it too: Two out of three ain’t bad, but without that missing one, well, your goose is cooked.  In the words of the great Mike Patton: What is it?  It’s love.  Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: Bob Dylan in Love. Visit www.mangodlaw.com...

For this final episode of Season 2, we’re going to stick with what it’s really all about, what seeps through nearly all of our best entertainment, novels, movies, and dreams. Meatloaf of anti-vaxxing blessed memory said it too: Two out of three ain’t bad, but without that missing one, well, your goose is cooked.  In the words of the great Mike Patton: What is it?  It’s love.  Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: Bob Dylan in Love. Visit www.mangodlaw.com...

It was a sad-eyed lady of the lowlands who came and never really stayed. Bob Dylan surely knows how this feels. We're talking those mothers and muses and sad eyed lady blues. Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: Mothers and Muses. Visit www.mangodlaw.com for info on the book, show notes, event information, and more. We're proud to be a part of the Pantheon Podcast network.

It was a sad-eyed lady of the lowlands who came and never really stayed. Bob Dylan surely knows how this feels. We're talking those mothers and muses and sad eyed lady blues. Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: Mothers and Muses. Visit www.mangodlaw.com for info on the book, show notes, event information, and more. We're proud to be a part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It happened in a coffee shop in Philly. We're talking about the new book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan, which is available for sale now as an ebook wherever books are sold and as a pre-order paperback prior to the May 3, 2022 release date. Picking up on themes from the book, David Billotti and I touch upon Bob Dylan and race, memory, and how he awakened something in midwestern kids like us that he, one Robert Allen Zimmerman, had once upon a time had awakened in...

It happened in a coffee shop in Philly. We're talking about the new book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan, which is available for sale now as an ebook wherever books are sold and as a pre-order paperback prior to the May 3, 2022 release date. Picking up on themes from the book, David Billotti and I touch upon Bob Dylan and race, memory, and how he awakened something in midwestern kids like us that he, one Robert Allen Zimmerman, had once upon a time had awakened in...