Hello, it's Ben Burrell here and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album.

This is not a new episode of the podcast.

It's something a little bit different.

We'll get to what it is in just a second.

First, though, I wanted to thank some people for buying coffees at the end of the last series.

Hello, Sion Morris.

Hi to Brian in Ireland.

That's very nonspecific.

Hi to NEO and hi to Ian W who bought loads of

coffee is very generous. Thanks for that. Richard, thank you to you. Another Ian, Ian M this time.

Hi to Tommy Byrne and Aman McGuinness and hi to Gregory and hi to Hugo and also Tom Wills and finally hi to Kiefer as well. Thank you so much for

that. If you enjoyed the last series of the podcast and you want to buy me a coffee, there's a

link in the episode description of this episode. So I thought I'd bring you something a little bit

different. I mentioned this at the end of the last podcast. I thought it would be

nice to bring you an episode of a different podcast I've done called Long Player, which is pretty much

the same as this, but I'm focusing on albums that aren't just from Bob. This is an episode looking

at Joni Mitchell. Now I'm guessing that if you are a fan of Dylan, then you might just be a fan of

Joni's work. This in particular for me is an album that sounds quite similar to some of Bob's recordings.

Not always in terms of sonics, although obviously they do share similar sonics with acoustic guitars and some kind of vocal performances.

But I feel like this album comes from a similar place as a lot of albums from Bob do.

I think albums like Blood on the Tracks, especially,

and maybe an album like Desire,

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