Bob Dylan Approximately

Daniel Crespin and Kerry Shale

A podcast about all things Bob Dylan...approximately. Actors Kerry Shale and Daniel Crespin - a Canadian Boomer and an English Millennial - dive deeply into a mutual love of Bob Dylan's work. Content Warning ⚠️ : Flippant humour, mysterious lyrics, and unexpected tangents. For bonus episodes, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/c/BobDylanApproximately Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 15 DEC

    EP#9 - I Want a Danville Girl

    Was Dylan’s voice “at its peak of nasality” on I Want You? How does it figure in A Complete Unknown? Why was the lonesome organ grinder crying? Who was Joni Mitchell’s biggest influence as a songwriter? What’s the possible Brian Jones connection? Who said, “love and sex hang everybody up… it’s just whatever two souls happen to be.” Which album is worse: Knocked Out Loaded or Down In the Groove? Which song is superior: Brownsville Girl or New Danville Girl? Which 80’s Road movie do they remind you of? Who doesn’t love Ruby? What’s the difference between a flea market and a swap meet? Was Jimmy Ringo (Gregory Peck) standing in for Bob Dylan in The Gunfighter? Song 1: I Want You https://open.spotify.com/track/7tJQ4Ekp2vN3NlI3vJJW3v?si=61eec8b108004c47 Song 2: New Danville Girl https://open.spotify.com/track/2mtFuEkmXvFFirYgkPZqGQ?si=65093657eb9d40d9 Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership! Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately Follow us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669 Recorded at Lipsync Post Engineer: Roisin King  Producer: Robin Guise Editor: Daniel Crespin Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    52 min
  2. 8 DEC · BONUS

    Bonus EP#8 (TEASER) - Chronicles: Volume One (Part III) (BDA Book Club III)

    This is a teaser of Bonus EP# - Chronicles: Volume One (Part III) (BDA Book Club III). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month. Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership! Is America still “wrapped up in a blanket of rage”? Which Mohawk/Jewish guitarist stupefied Dylan? What if Bob had played the Woodstock Festival? Who were the “buncha dickheads on autostroke”? Is BD the opposite of Bill Maher and James Joyce? Who was Sun Pie and which Dylan lyric did he write? Why did Allen Ginsberg force Kerry to buy his book? Bob Dylan Book Club Recommendations: Dan / Ghost Rider by Neil Peart Kerry / A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately Follow us on YouTube youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    21 min
  3. 1 DEC

    EP#8 - The Men the Authorities Came to Blame

    Is Dylan’s Lenny Bruce an execrable song, or actually quite good? Which chat show host interviewed both Bob and Lenny? Which seminal album cover featured both of them? What links Peter Cook, Robert de Niro and Bob Fosse? Who is Dylan talking to when he describes Lenny as “more of an outlaw than you ever were?” Was Rubin Carter ever the Number One contender for the Middleweight crown? Who was the portly Irishman who cried out “My God! They’ve killed them all” in Dylan and Levy’s Hurricane? How many lawsuits were initiated by the song (and the movie)? Which Hollywood actress climbed into the ring with Bob? Who is Winston Watson? Song 1: Lenny Bruce https://open.spotify.com/track/5d59AKrvfX5vA4gVQAaEBq?si=5542ab3688874259 Song 2: Hurricane https://open.spotify.com/track/1lqMLr9Wj7SM2F9AikGcxN?si=2a74dbf502234f8e Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership! Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately Follow us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669 Recorded at Lipsync Post Engineer: Roisin King  Producer: Robin Guise Editor: Daniel Crespin Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    51 min
  4. 24 NOV · BONUS

    Bonus EP#7 (TEASER) - Chronicles: Volume One (Part II) (BDA Book Club II)

    This is a teaser of Bonus EP#7 - Chronicles: Volume One (Part II) (BDA Book Club II). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month. Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership! Is this our longest Bonus episode yet? Why did Dylan call the final chapter of his memoir River of Ice? Whose father asked, “don’t artists paint”? Which vocal tricks did Bob learn from Woody Guthrie? Did he really sing “Buffalo Skinners” for John Wayne on a Hawaiian film set? According to the man himself, what’s the proper pronunciation of “Suze”? From which London library did Dan steal his copy of On The Road? Which Roman cemetery houses Keats and Corso? Who wrote of “the forlorn rags of growing old”? Who loves Dostoevsky, Hemingway and Stephen King? Who reveres Michel Faber, Elizabeth Strout and Lyndon Johnson biographies? What do Lincoln, Socrates and Dylan have in common? Dan's Book Recommendation: On the Road by Jack Kerouac Kerry's Book Recommendation: Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately Follow us on YouTube youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel’s other podcast where he and Kerry met. It’s called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, or follow it on instagram @starvingartists_pod Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    15 min
  5. 17 NOV

    EP#7 - Tomorrow is a Red River Shore

    Do we ever get over our first broken heart? What drove Billy Connolly’s kids crazy? What’s the connection between singing and acting? Between Dylan and Hemingway? Burton and Eastwood? Kerry and Ben Whishaw? How many of Dylan’s greatest songs, like Tomorrow Is A Long Time, have only three chords? Whose hills are alive with the sound of music? Is The Girl on the Red River shore Dylan’s muse? Or is she the girl from the film “Red River”? Is the sun actually the sun? Why has the “door” lyric in the song been replaced on bobdylan.com? Why has Bob never played the song live? How did Dylan’s studio band members rate it? From which poem did Bob borrow “trapped in the fires of time”? Song 1: Tomorrow is a Long Time https://open.spotify.com/track/33sjOTo0KW2w7D9jaUA2pg?si=79f7c60d542f4e93 Song 2: Red River Shore https://open.spotify.com/track/429ZGMMQey0I7ga5TSX9k9?si=a732ceba20ee4b03 Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership! Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately Follow us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669 Recorded at Lipsync Post Engineer: Tim Sketchley Producer: Robin Guise Editor: Daniel Crespin Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    54 min
  6. 3 NOV

    EP#6 - Frankie Lee & Judas Priest, Said the Joker to the Thief

    Why are we discussing a Jimi Hendrix tune? Is All Along The Watchtower, Dylan’s most-performed song, a critique of the Music and Acting Industry? Who recorded the most boring cover version? The best? Who in their right mind releases a major album two days after Christmas? How did Elvis come to sing his only Dylan song? Who loves an outlaw? What did Ozzy Osbourne say about the Beatles? What does Daniel Crespin say? What do you say? What two words from The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest keep us up at night? What did The Saturday Evening Post say about Dylan and his manager? Is Judas Priest a band or a minced oath? What were the terms of Bob’s recording contract after 1967? What do Disraeli Gears, the first Doors album and Donovan’s Greatest Hits have in common? Song 1: Frankie Lee and Judas Priest https://open.spotify.com/track/1XXHPSNbmHgi8EJvO3yGyd?si=e9872ae97e2e4351 Song 2: A Day in the Life https://open.spotify.com/track/0hKRSZhUGEhKU6aNSPBACZ?si=b00f2e3c6edb48d6 Song 3: All Along the Watchtower https://open.spotify.com/track/0Fnb2pfBfu0ka33d6Yki17?si=493ee084a53d4d70 Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership! Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately Follow us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/starving-artists/id1667216427 Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669 Recorded at Lipsync Post Engineer: Tim Sketchley Producer: Robin Guise Editor: Daniel Crespin Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    55 min

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A podcast about all things Bob Dylan...approximately. Actors Kerry Shale and Daniel Crespin - a Canadian Boomer and an English Millennial - dive deeply into a mutual love of Bob Dylan's work. Content Warning ⚠️ : Flippant humour, mysterious lyrics, and unexpected tangents. For bonus episodes, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/c/BobDylanApproximately Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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