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 to this brand new season,

season eight of this podcast, ridiculous. I don't know if I've mentioned this before. I can't

remember if I've mentioned this on the show before. I don't think I have. I would go back and

listen, but it's absolutely tortured to hear my own voice.

But I think in the break between the last two seasons, it was, we hit a million downloads,

one million downloads on this podcast. So I just wanted to say thank you. What an insane mark to cross a million downloads. That's absolutely blown my mind. So thank you for doing that.

Thank you for listening. Thank you for downloading every single time the podcast has returned.

Thank you if you have bought a coffee. This is a kind of a little like tipping system if you like.

Helps keep the podcast running. Helps keep the podcast uploaded to the server costs and all that.

So thank you to Marcus who has done that. Hello to Dino. Hi to Sarah.

Jay.

Thank you for supporting.

Hi to Walt, too, who has supported recently.

And hi to J.F., who has also supported via Buy Me a Coffee.

There's a link in this episode's description.

Let's get to today's episode, shall we? And I'm afraid to say, we're following a kind of good album, or

I know, like a middling Bob Dylan album in the last episode with a disappointing Bob Dylan

album. In fact, an album that some have called his worst. I think it probably is his worst,

because it's not even really an album. It doesn't even, you can't even really call it a bad

album because it's just a sort of collection of songs that are a bit lumped together in a slightly horrible commercial

way. So we're going to take a look at it and try and work out if it's really quite bad or if there's

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