Recordings of Bob Dylan Book Club Discussions
We began to record our meetings with our November 2024 meeting (the Bob Dylan Book Club’s first meeting was in August 2023). Be forewarned, our videos are fairly rough and unedited. Videos are listed by date—the most recent ones at the top.
2026
September 13th: Jim Windolf’s Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other and the World. RECORDING.
July 12th: Kevin Kane’s Seeking Mirth And Beauty, with the author and discussion host Peter White RECORDING.
June 14th: Keith Nainby and John Radosta’s Bob Dylan in Performance with the authors and discussion host Peter White
NOTE: the original recording failed so the three of us recorded a separate conversation about this Book of the Month.
RECORDING.
May 17th: Bob Dylan’s visit to the USSR in July 1985 with author Krilli Razumov and host Peter White. RECORDING.
April 12th: Surviving in a Ruthless World: Bob Dylan’s Voyage to Infidels with author Terry Gans and host Peter White.
RECORDING.
March 22nd: Bob Dylan as Filmmaker: No Time to Think with author Michael Glover Smith and host Christopher Vanni. RECORDING
February 8th: Minstrel Boy with author Christopher Gregory. WE HAD AUDIO PROBLEMS SO THE RECORDING
BEGINS MID-STREAM. RECORDING
January 11th: Mixing Up the Medicine with Terry Gans. RECORDING
2025
December 7th: My Greenwich Village: Dave, Bob, and Me by Terri Thal, with Karen Lievense leading our discussion. RECORDING.
November 16th: What Did You Hear? The Music of Bob Dylan with the author, Steven Rings, with 6 Club members leading the discussion. ALSO NOTE THAT THE RECORDING STARTS AFTER JON LASSER ASKED HIS FIRST QUESTION. THAT QUESTION WAS: “Your book sees change imperfection as a deliberate strategy. Though it may be speculative, why do you think Dylan employs this strategy?” RECORDING
October 17th: Robin Witting interviewed by Peter White (Robin attended the Tarantula meeting on October 12th but could not participate in the discussion due to technical issues, RECORDING HERE.
October 12th: Tarantula, with 6 Club members participating as discussion leaders RECORDING .
September 14th: Together Through Life with author Matthew Ingate RECORDING.
July 13th: Bill Allison and John Bauldie’s Chameleon Poet: Bob Dylans Search for Self. No recording available
June 8th: Jeff Passe and Deborah Viveros: The challenges of writing with Bob Dylan in mind—in any genre RECORDING.
May 18th: Bob Dylan and William Shakespeare: The True Performing of It RECORDING [Note: after the meeting Andrew Muir pointed out that he had mispoken—He mentioned Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues but then went on to talk about “strike another match, go start anew” (a line from It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue) and he talked about Shakespeare’s Sonnet 100 being alluded to on a “Love and Theft” song whereas it was alluded to in “Crossing the Rubicon” from Rough and Rowdy Ways. Muir also reports that when he taked on a version of Desolation Row from 1992, this thoughts derived from two different performances of Desolation that were from two different years.]
April 13th: Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God RECORDING
March 16th: A Complete Unknown, the Shooting Script, & Chronicles Volume One RECORDING
February 9th: Blood on the Tracks: Dylan’s Masterpiece in Blue RECORDING
January 5th: Dylan and Me: 50 Years of Aventures, with author Louie Kemp, bosted by Daniel Singer RECORDING
2024
December 8th: Bob Dylan in Minnesota with co-authors Matt Steichen and Paul Metsa RECORDING
November 10: Gary Browning & Constantine Sandis,Dylan at 80 with contributing author Laura Tenschert, host of the Definitely Dylan podcast RECORDING .