My name is Ben Burrell and welcome back to Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that brings you an in-depth look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record.

Welcome to season six, hope all is good. The last time these episodes were going out, we were in the thick of lockdown here in the United Kingdom.

I hope things are slightly improving where you are in terms of the weird

year. We've all just had things are slowly, slowly starting to get back to normal here in the

United Kingdom and I hope things are the same where you are right now. If you missed the little

announcement, then this is a special season of the podcast. Season 6 is looking at blonde on blonde

and blonde on blonde only.

The entire season is dedicated to that incredible record.

I can't wait to go through this album with you.

We're going to do two songs per episode and have a look at everything from the artwork to the studio, to the players, to the aftermath, everything.

This first episode looks at the first two tracks and also the

album's difficult early recording process, which was a tough time, I think, for Dylan. Before we get

to that, if you missed another announcement, then in the slightly weird year we've all just had,

I set up a brand new show called Bob did an album by album extra. It's on Patreon and the idea is that I bring up a brand new show called Bob Dylan album by album extra.

It's on Patreon and the idea is that I bring you a show every couple of weeks on Dylan,

not just his albums, but similar shows to this.

So looking at his songs, looking at his career, there's interviews up there as well.

Come and join us as a great little community over there.

You can find a link to the Patreon page in this episode's description. Also, not only do you get extra content, but obviously you're supporting the show as well, keeping the show going, keeping it financially viable, because

there's quite a few outlays when you put out a show like this. So come and join us over there for

the content and to support the show. And also,

as I say, there's a nice little community developing over there. Not only do you get that

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