A small departure, this episode traces my personal journey with Dylan’s work and music. Highlights include watching Dylan’s house get built in Malibu, seeing The Last Waltz in person, getting the weakest handshake of all time from the man, and several trips to the new Dylan mecca in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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As we say fare thee well, Dylan drops his best music in years

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40 years after showing up in New York, Dylan propels himself headfirst into the 21^st century with a quartet of ferociously strong albums and a sweet book that tells more than the most telling tell-all.

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Never a dull moment for Mr. D, he contracts a serious infection of the heart, sings for the Pope, and releases his strongest album in 20 years.
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Dylan somehow stops his creative slide at the end of the 1980s and turns it all around, again.
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Few who lived through the nineteen-eighties would claim the decade as their greatest era. Dylan is no exception.
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Twenty years into his career, Bob Dylan unleashes his most shocking transformation
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It seemed like Bob Dylan was finished.
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Would you believe Dylan almost became a movie director?
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The sixties are ending, long live the sixties. How does the single most iconic performer leave the decade that defined him and move in the 1970s? Find out in Episode 7 of A Bob Dylan Primer, What’s New?
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In 1969, America is coming apart at the seams. Rock music is exploding into densely complex forms. Bob Dylan releases an album of pure … country music
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“Live fast, die young” is the mantra of many a dead rock star – but what happens if you live fast, and survive? Maybe that’s the toughest test of all.
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A short intro about what is happening with this series of broadcasts – launching in January 2019. It’s rolling, Bob.