My name is Ben Barrow 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.

Welcome back. I hope you're good. I hope all is well in your world. It is a gorgeous spring day as I record this in London town.

It's pretty good here in London at the moment. Nice weather. I probably should give you a little disclaimer, actually, though, at the start of the show, I'm feeling pretty tired today whilst recalling this. I've literally just got back off a stag do. If you're an American listener, I believe you call them a Bachelor Party. I was the one arranging that party as well. A weekend of activities were all down to me.

I'm disappointed to report that the group didn't want to sit around and talk about their

favourite Bob Dylan albums, which was quite upsetting. So instead we played football and went to some bars

and stuff like that. Actually, it just reminded me. Do you know what? This is why I'm mentioning it,

because over the weekend, I met not one, but two, it's just reminded me. Do you know what? This is why I'm mentioning it, because over the weekend I met not one,

but two, Bob Dylan,

album by album listeners on the streets of London.

I know.

This happens quite rarely,

so for it to happen twice in a weekend was quite surprising.

The first one was in a karaoke club.

Not the ideal setting to discuss Dylan,

but, you know, fine. And the second one

was a woman called Jessica, who, it turns out, works just around the corner from me and loves Bob Dylan,

and we had a long chat about Bob and his work. So that was really nice. So I'm so I did both of you.

And do you know, I think we should probably do it. We should at some point in the future, maybe before the podcast, before we run out of albums,

before the podcast, inevitably runs out of albums.

We should do a little Bob did an album by album, London listener meetup.

So I'll maybe arrange that for the next season.

Meantime, let's get to today's episode, shall we?

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