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Theme Time Radio Hour (TTRH) is a one hour radio show hosted by Bob Dylan. The first program was broadcast on May 3, 2006 on the Deep Tracks channel of XM Satellite Radio, a subscription-based satellite radio service. TTRH is broadcast every Wednesday at 10:00 am ET on Deep Tracks, with several "encore" repeats throughout the week on various channels, including an all-day showing on XMX.[1] DirecTV subscribers can also hear the show on the Deep Tracks simulcast on channel 840.
Theme Time Radio Hour reflects Bob Dylan's, and very probably producer Eddie Gorodetsky's, deep interest in and knowledge of music. Each episode is an eclectic brew of blues, rockabilly, soul music, bebop, rock-and-roll and pop music, centered around a "theme," with songs from artists as diverse as Patti Page to LL Cool J. Interspersed between the music segments are email readings (scripted rather than mail from actual listeners); phone calls (also scripted); old radio station i.d.'s, promos, and jingles; "def poet" poetry recitations; taped commentary from a variety of musicians and comedians; and thoughts from Dylan on the music and musicians, as well as other miscellanea related to the themes.
@edgarblythe,
A hard rain's gonna fall for Bob Dylan - online.
Dylan's new album will be streamed for free - yes that's right - for free one week early on National Public Radio's website.
Bob fights the power elite when his new two CD disc Tell Tale Signs begins streaming Tuesday September 30 at 12:01 AM.
It's the 8th volume of Bob's ongoing rarities - or as they used to be called 'bootlegs' - featuring basement tapes and underground alternative takes.
The LP will be released officially October 7 by Bob's long time distrib Columbia.
The sneak of a full LP is a first for NPR which has streamed live concert podcasts in the past.
@edgarblythe,
I love dylan. But I don't get into his new songs very much.
CHARLOTTE HALL, Md. " William Zantzinger, a Maryland socialite whose fatal beating of a black barmaid was recounted in a Bob Dylan protest song of the 1960s, was buried Friday. He was 69.
Zantzinger died Jan. 3. His family did not provide further details of his death, the Brinsfield-Echols Funeral Home said.
The tobacco farmer served six months and was fined $500 for manslaughter in 1963 for striking the 51-year-old barmaid with his cane for taking too long to serve him a drink. Hattie Carroll later died of a stroke. In the "Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," Dylan criticized different standards of justice meted out to whites and blacks.
Zantzinger was allowed to delay the start the sentence two weeks so he could harvest his tobacco crop and served the time in the Washington County jail, working in its kitchen.
"There is something wrong with this city when a white man can beat a colored woman to death and no one raises a hand to stop him," the Rev. Thomas C. Jackson said in his sermon at Gillis Memorial Church the Sunday after Carroll's death.
News accounts at the time said Zantzinger had been seen drinking with his wife at a dinner before a ball. While dining, Zantzinger told jurors he began hitting waitresses with the cane.
"I'd been smacking " tapping " waitresses on the tail, and they didn't say anything. I was just playing," Zantzinger told the jury in Hagerstown, where the case was tried.
"I had no other purpose than to have a good time," Zantzinger testified. "The last thing I intended was to harm or injure anyone. I never even thought about it."
Zantzinger, who later became a foreclosure auctioneer, didn't answer questions about Dylan's song for years. In 2001, he told Dylan biographer Howard Sounes the singer was "just a scum bag of the earth. I should have sued him and put him in jail. (The song is) a total lie."
A publicist for Dylan said the songwriter was not available for comment.
What we have here is just one more great example of the kind of world we
live in. Some changes have been made since then. Would this guy get away with killing Hattie Carroll today? No - I doubt that he would. But I also do doubt that he would ever get the death penalty for deliberately, knowingly committing murder. His attitude toward Bob Dylan & his song about Hattie Carroll shows what an unrepentent, self righteous, bigot, jerk & old shithead that man is. That's one piece of scum who should have spent his life in prison. And he says he was "just playing around". My ass; that man is a
cruel, backwoods, disgusting piece of white trash scum,a cretin & he really deserved to die for what he did to a poor old woman.
@edgarblythe,
edgarblythe wrote:
I love dylan. But I don't get into his new songs very much.
I agree, but I did recently hear one that I did like from a 1989 album - "Man In The Long Black Coat." If you haven't heard it, check it out. Joan Osborne did a great cover of it too.
@Brandon9000,
I am sure I have it. In 1964 I made a vow to buy his studio albums until he got too old to produce any or I got too old to buy any more. It's just a matter of looking over the song indexes on the covers.
http://video.newsweek.com/#?t=18540585001&l=25152707
Listen to a song off the yet to be released new album.
@edgarblythe,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS7BUoByfFA&feature=related
The first two lines are missing so here they are--
As walked out tonight in the mystic garden
The wounded flowers were dangling on the vine
I was passing.......
Strange though-an atheist being a Bobcat.
