The Dylantantes

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The Dylantantes is a music podcast hosted by Jim Salvucci & The Dylantantes, with 43 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jim Salvucci & The Dylantantes hosts The Dylantantes, a music show with 43 episodes published.

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  Talkin' Bob Dylan Spinnerpalooza

  Jan 20, 202555 minS0

  <h2 >A Million $ Bash Roundtable</h2> <p>We change it up a bit in the spirit of holiday festivities and the New Year. Today, we’re going to have a pretty open roundtable. Our regular Bashers will have the opportunity to let loose in response to some open-ended prompts and will be selected to speak via a randomized spinner.</p> <h4 >MDB Roundtable Panelists:</h4> Rob “Rockin’ Rob” Reginio teaches modern literature at Alfred University.  He's currently at work on a book about Dylan's album John Wesley Harding. Nina Goss is Editor of or contributor to the volumes Tearing the World Apart...

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  Interview with John Rodosta

  Jan 7, 202535 minS0

  <h2 >What Is It about Bob Dylan?</h2> <p>A novelist and author of many short stories, John Radosta teaches high school English near Boston, Massachusetts. Under both a pseudonym and his real name, his fiction has appeared in many magazines, including Yellow Mama, Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Wildside Black Cat, and Tough Crime. A veteran of more than 50 Bob Dylan concerts, he is the co-author with Keith Nainby of Bob Dylan in Performance: Song, Stage and Screen, as well as other Dylan and Woody Guthrie articles.</p> <p>You can find John’s crime fiction at this link.</p> <p>This is a...

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  Interview with Peter White

  Dec 16, 202441 minS0

  <h2 >What Is It about Bob Dylan?</h2> <p>Peter White is a retired professor of ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For 28 of his 33 years at the University he doubled as the Director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, an institution that has championed the concept of the "conservation garden," gardens that do well by environmental issues and biodiversity. He is the author of 150 papers and several books, the most recent of which is The World Atlas of Trees and Forests.</p> <p>Through six decades, Bob Dylan has been a constant, despite the many ch...

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  Interview with Christopher Vanni

  Oct 21, 202434 minS0

  <h2 >What Is It about Bob Dylan?</h2> <p>Christopher Vanni is the author of two Substacks, one about Bob Dylan and one on Gene Clark, he's an advisor for the Bob Dylan Book Club—It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Reading—and he's the creator of a Bob Dylan Quiz that can be found on YouTube and in his feed on X. He is also passionate about golf, classic films, and history.</p> <p>Check out Christopher’s work using these links:</p> <p>Christopher Vanni (@Vanni621) / X (twitter.com) </p> <p>"The world don't need any more [blogs]" - Bob Dyla...

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  Talkin' Planet Waves

  Sep 30, 202422 minS0

  <h2 >A Million $ Bash Roundtable</h2> <p>The 1974 album Planet Waves marked a series of firsts for Bob Dylan. It was his first official album with The Band. It was his first record not on the Columbia label. And it was, believe it or not, his first No. 1 album.</p> <p>The music represents, if not a return to form, a reset after the release of Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid and the Columbia-compiled revenge album called simply Dylan. Compositionally, it’s a musical way station between 1970’s New Morning and 1975’s Blood on the Tracks.</p> <p>The songs feel p...

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