S7 Ep5: The Freewheelin' (Part 1)

Bob Dylan: Album By Album

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Our adventure with The Freewheelin' begins! We look at the origins of the album and its first two songs, both classics.

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

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0:00.0	My name is Ben Barrel 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, welcome back to the show. What an album we're looking at today. What are speaking of records. What a record we're looking at.
0:15.9	A really, really good album today. We're going to start our journey with the freewheeling. Before we go there, just a quick reminder, there is a new episode of Blood on the tracks out as we speak. This is my
0:26.2	favourite episode so far, I think. It's all about the Rolling Thunder review tour, which was
0:32.3	mad, wasn't it? Also, we have a look at Bob's bittersweet relationship with Joan Byers, and there's
0:40.1	a really nice bit of the episode where Dylan tells us the story of the Lafayette bar shootings
0:46.1	that Ruben Carter somehow got entangled with. So that's all on the latest episode of Blood on
0:51.2	the tracks. I'll put a link in this episode's description. Go and check
0:54.1	it out if you haven't done so already. Also in the episode's description is a link to the extra
0:59.9	episodes on Patreon. It's five pounds a month for you to get a weekly show. At the moment over
1:05.4	there we're having a look at the Omercy album, in depth, an incredible record. We have a look at
1:10.1	its origins at the themes of
1:11.6	that album obviously the songs and the collaboration between the artist and the producer
1:15.8	I'm loving doing that at the moment and they're available on the Patreon feed as we speak
1:20.7	let's say hello to some subscribers who are there hi to Rafael Lorito hi to Benjamin
1:27.3	hi to Michael Cormier hi to Vilda Fossid. Hi to Taj
1:32.2	H. Hi to Noel Roshetti. Parker. Parker. Hello. Ray H. Hello. And hi to James Firebrand as
1:41.2	well. You can sign up for an extra show on Patreon right now. The link is in this
1:45.9	episode's description. Thank you in advance. Let's get to today's episode, shall we? So speaking of
1:51.4	multi-part looks at an album, let's have our first look at the freewheeling. You know,
1:56.4	an incredibly important album for Dylan, his first album of notes, I think it's fair to say,
2:01.2	an album where it all begins, and it features some classic songs, two of which we'll look at
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