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Hello, my name is Ben Barrel and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that brings you an in-deaf look at each Bob Dylan's studio recording record by record.

Thank you for joining us for episode two of this season and thank you to everyone that has bought me a coffee over the last couple of weeks.

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hello to Pear, hello to Maria, who's bought six coffees, high roller. Thank you for that.

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then please do. You can find the Buy Me a Coffee link in the episode description as per usual. Keep listening to the end of this episode to find out where we're

going next. But right now, we're looking at a interesting record, maybe not just because what's on

tape, but because of what was around it at the same time. This is 1974's Planet Waves. I've just reached a place.

Well, well, I don't bend.

There's not much more to be said.

It's the type of the end.

I'm going.

I'm going. I'm going. I'm going.

I'm gone.

In some ways, Planet Waves should have been a huge album for Dylan.

It was his first number one, his first on a new label, and it features

a reunion with the band. It also has one of his most enduring songs in the form of Forever

Young, but it's often left in the dust by the seismic albums that would follow. As we'll

see, it was a case of the stars almost aligning. Dylan on a fresh record label back with

this famous backing band should have

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