S7 Ep4: Good As I Been To You

Bob Dylan: Album By Album

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🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Bob helps to save the first half of the 90s with a couple of albums of covers... but how does this LP stack up? Where do the songs come from? And how do they influence Dylan's originals?

We dive into Good As I Been To You.

This episode was written, produced and narrated by Ben Burrell.

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Burrell, and this is Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that brings you an in-depth look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record.
0:10.2	Well, hope you're good. Hope all is well in your world. We have quite a lot of Dylan news to get to.
0:15.9	Well, actually, I say quite a lot, but not really in terms of volume, but in terms of stuff to discuss.
0:22.3	He has announced a brand, well, he's back on tour for a start, but he's in terms of volume, but in terms of stuff to discuss. He has announced a brand,
0:27.0	well, he's back on tour for a start. He's announced a brand new book as well. And I love the fact that 18 years after his first autobiography, Chronicles Volume 1, we get a second book,
0:33.8	and it's not Chronicles Volume 2. Instead, it's a book called The Philosophy of Modern
0:41.5	Song, which is going to come out on the 8th of November. And it basically looks like a collection of
0:47.4	essays from Dylan on popular music, including the likes of Nina Simone and Elvis Costello and
0:52.5	Hank Williams. Apparently, Bob started writing the book in 2010, and this is a quote from the press release.
0:58.0	It says he analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes.
1:01.9	He breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song,
1:06.6	and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal.
1:14.1	So for someone that famously didn't like people analyzing his songs in this way, it seems old Bobby is analyzing people's songs in that way,
1:21.6	which is a bit of light relief, people like me who spend quite a lot of their day analyzing popular
1:26.9	music. But honestly, this looks really
1:29.0	exciting. You know, I don't know if we'd maybe have wanted this over a second chronicles. Who
1:34.9	knows? I think a second chronicles would have been nice. But also, it's just nice to get something new
1:40.4	from Bob that is a creative outlet that isn't what you'd expect.
1:45.4	You know, even at his age, he's still surprising us and bringing out things we're surprised
1:50.4	to see. So I'm really excited about that. The book, once again, is called the Philosophy of
1:54.9	Modern Song by Bob Didom. November the 8th is when it comes out. So a fair amount of time to
2:00.6	wait, a fair amount of time to wait, a fair amount of time
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