My name is Ben Barrow, and this is Bob Dylan album by album, a podcast that brings you an in-death look at each Bob Dylan studio recording record by record.

Except that's not really what's happening on this episode. We'll get at that in a second.

First, though, let me say, I feel like I always say this on the podcast, but the podcast will return at some point soon.

I do get messages between every single season of this show

from people saying, it's finished, isn't it?

It's never coming back.

It is coming back, always.

We just take long, luxurious breaks between seasons.

Actually, it's just reminded me.

I think I've told this story in the podcast before,

so forgive me for repeating myself,

but I was giving a speech about creating audio

recently at this kind of audio workshop thing and one of my suggestions or one of my kind of

kind of pillars of the entire thing was saying if you are going to publish audio if you are going to

be a podcaster or a radio presenter like I am or whatever, you must, must, must,

must, must do it regularly. You must, must, must publish regularly. And as I was saying,

I thought, hmm, we're about six months into the year and I've barely released 10 episodes of this

podcast. So this is not the way to do it, but, you know, this is just, this is mainly

for my personal enjoyment of this podcast and the enjoyment of other Dylan fans.

So anyway, the podcast will return for season eight very, very soon.

Meantime, I thought I'd use this interim period to bring you some different episodes.

I was doing a Patreon until recently.

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