Hello friends, this is Ben Burrell here. I hope you're doing all right. I hope all is well in your

worlds. It's been a good time to be a Dylan fan recently, hasn't it? We've had so much good stuff.

I don't know about you, but I thought the live streamed gig, if we can call it that, Shadow Kingdom

was excellent. I really, really enjoyed it. Also, we are getting another addition to the bootleg series very soon as well, which is going to be interesting, I think.

It's focusing on a part of Dylan's 80s period, which, as we know, wasn't his best quality-wise, but I think it was a fascinating period of his career, nonetheless.

So, yeah, good time to be a Dylan fan, is what I'm trying to say.

The main purpose for me speaking to you on this mini episode is just to highlight what has been

going on on the Patreon feed recently. As I'm sure you know, I've banged on about this quite a lot on

this podcast. We have a bonus show called Bob Dylan, album by album extra on the Patreon feed,

where you subscribe, it's £5 a month, and there's an episode every other week.

Episodes like the ones you get here, they are scripted with audio inserts,

and they're obviously not just focusing on albums.

We've done episodes recently having a look at songs like Up to Me and series of dreams.

Also, I've done a line by line

analysis of Love Miner Zero and there was a line by line analysis on the lonesome death

of Hattie Carroll as well. There's interviews on there with people that have played with Dylan,

most notably Charlie McCoy and Scarlett Rivera. There's a fourth coming episode all about

Dylan's first trip to London and how

that had a huge impact on his songwriting at that time and actually write through for a number of years,

to be honest. There's also bonus episodes on there as well that pop up from time to time that are not

scripted. They're just me chatting with other Dylan fans or me doing list shows, doing

like worst to best of his 70s albums and stuff like that. So there's loads of content on

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