Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law – Details, episodes & analysis

Welcome to the final episode of the show. It's a map and a key to your door, a Last Waltz, and a final salute to Bob Dylan, holiness, and being free with the Band, Van Morrison, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young and many more. Check out the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan wherever fine books are sold, and learn about related projects at mangodlaw.com. We are proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcasts Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We are still living on Tulsa time, reflecting back on the World of Bob Dylan conference in Tulsa at the beginning of June. This time we're talking about how Dylan plays inside and outside the lines of authenticity, roots, race, and the never-ending tour of the popular music hustle. Our very special guest is music impresario Mark Montgomery French, whose encyclopedic knowledge of music, framing of cultural questions, humor, and creativity will keep you riveted. This is a conversation that takes on tough, essential questions about race and music. Mark is just the person to go deep with those questions with honesty, wisdom, and grace. San Francisco-native Mark Montgomery French is an award-winning film composer with the group Spiky Blimp, Creative Director and Co-Producer of Glide Church’s Sunday Online Celebration, host of the podcast “All Your Favorite Music is (Probably)…”, staff writer at PopMatters, and the manager of critically acclaimed queer country band Secret Emchy Society and classic power-punk band The Furys. He’s also a music historian noted for his talk All Your Favorite Music is (Probably) Black, the series 28 Days, 28 Black Music Documentaries, and Uppity Music—Your Guide to Unsung Black Departure Albums. He was formerly the co-leader of the ’90s progressive funk band Endangered Species. Find out more about Mark's work at www.mmfrench.com. Check out the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan wherever fine books are sold, and learn about related projects at mangodlaw.com. We are proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcasts Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Episode 4 of Season Three in which Scott Warmuth unpacks the secret history of Bob Dylan's art of composition in a mind-blowing conversation. Check out Bob Dylan's bookshelf or a taste of the inventory from which Dylan invents music on the album Love and Theft. This is a fascinating journey into the mind of Dylan as a quirky, cunning, brilliant master of words and music. Find the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan inspired by the podcast wherever books are sold and learn more about the project at www.mangodlaw.com. We are proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcasts Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No regrets, Coyote. And we really mean that. What better way to get into the depths of peerless artists Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, how they intersect, and how they work then by speaking with David Yaffe, author of Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown and Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell. David is an esteemed and eminently creative music critic and scholar, a Professor of Humanities at Syracuse University, and his new substack Trouble Man: Musings of David Yaffe is a wonderful, wistful way to journey through pop music and pop culture with a true maven and storytelling. Check it out! If you haven’t stayed up for hours talking bout music, your favorites songs and artists, you haven't lived as a music fan. Have a taste of that with David, the second guest in an incredible line-up of music writers and thinkers who will join us this season. Purchase About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan wherever books are sold and visit www.mangodlaw.com for information on upcoming events, show notes, and more. We are proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcasts Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Much of what we know about the gods of rock comes from their music. But it is the rock star interview, pioneered by the rock bible Rolling Stone magazine as named after Dylan’s own song, where testaments of rock and roll were given. Kind of like an oral tradition to the sacred texts of the songs, kind of a new testament to the old, explaining the gaps, coloring the personal details, humanizing the gods.  This has been rock journalist Sylvie Simmons' unique role in the rock and roll mythology for 45 years. We talk here a great deal about Leonard Cohen, his intersection with Dylan, how Cohen and Dylan work, how rock’s mythmakers play, and what all of this might mean from a very personal lens framed by a truly thoughtful, knowledgeable rock and roll pro joining us by the good old-fashioned landline from San Francisco. It's a wonderful conversation. Welcome to Episode 2 of Season 3 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law, the podcast that inspired the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan. The book is on sale right now wherever books are sold. We're proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcasts Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was a weekend afternoon in March at Florida International University, and there was hardly another person in sight where a collection of Dylan's work — work as important as any painter of his age if not for the paintings themselves but rather because of the artist – offered a frame to begin looking one last time at Bob Dylan in this, the final season of this podcast, Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. We're talking Dylan the artist, the creator, the restless spirit of our time, who never gets bored. Read the book About Man and God Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan, published on May 3, 2022. We are proud to be part of the Pantheon Podcast Network. All music in this podcast illustrates and educates. Purchase these great tracks wherever music is streamed or sold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For this final episode of Season 2, we’re going to stick with what it’s really all about, what seeps through nearly all of our best entertainment, novels, movies, and dreams. Meatloaf of anti-vaxxing blessed memory said it too: Two out of three ain’t bad, but without that missing one, well, your goose is cooked.  In the words of the great Mike Patton: What is it?  It’s love.  Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: Bob Dylan in Love. Visit www.mangodlaw.com for info on the book, show notes, event information, and more. We're proud to be a part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It was a sad-eyed lady of the lowlands who came and never really stayed. Bob Dylan surely knows how this feels. We're talking those mothers and muses and sad eyed lady blues. Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: Mothers and Muses. Visit www.mangodlaw.com for info on the book, show notes, event information, and more. We're proud to be a part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It happened in a coffee shop in Philly. We're talking about the new book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan, which is available for sale now as an ebook wherever books are sold and as a pre-order paperback prior to the May 3, 2022 release date. Picking up on themes from the book, David Billotti and I touch upon Bob Dylan and race, memory, and how he awakened something in midwestern kids like us that he, one Robert Allen Zimmerman, had once upon a time had awakened in him, also a midwestern kid, seeking and searching for something only music could provide. Welcome to Episode 8 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law: One More Cup of Coffee for the Road. Visit www.mangodlaw.com for info on the book, show notes, event information, and more. We're proud to be a part of the Pantheon Podcast network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We’re reflecting on light and timelessness and inspired by the holiday season here today, including both a new bit where Bob Dylan and Tom Waits share a sailor’s mouth as well as two oldies and goodies from Holiday Specialettes of seasons past. Welcome to Episode 7 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law. Lights and Festivals. It has three parts, one right after the other. Now let’s get lit. Visit www.mangodlaw.com for info on the new book, show notes, event information, and more. Order the e-book or pre-order the paperback of About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan. We're proud to be a part of the Pantheon Podcast network! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices