410 - Bob Dylan - Time Out of Mind - Rita Wilson
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EPISODE SUMMARY:
How do you go about summarizing the life and work of an artist like Bob Dylan? You could begin at the beginning, charting the elder statesmen of American folk music's various transformations and incarnations throughout perhaps one of the most influential and highly regarded careers in history. But given Dylan's prolific nature, that's a task that requires an entire, monumental project of its own to ensure it gives this mysterious, mythological figure of music his due credit. So why not instead dive in around 1997, when Dylan's renown and critical reception was flagging a bit, leading the man to release the unprecedentedly revealing and vulnerable look inside his thoughts and feelings that is the album Time Out Of Mind? While a self-proclaimed BD fan, beloved actress Rita Wilson admits she came across this album by accident years after it was released. But instantaneously she was transported to the artist's darkly rich inner world of loneliness and shadows, and has come to fully endorse the record as the career re-invigorating masterwork it came to be hailed as by the world. Rita also acknowledges the brilliant lyricism and storytelling therein which deeply affected her own songwriting on all four of her albums.
SHOW NOTES:
00:15 – Intro
11:15 – Just a girl with a guitar
14:30 – A man of mystery
18:30 – Accidental discovery
27:30 – A different kind of country song
36:30 – Open to interpretation
45:00 – The truth about show business
58:45 – Stories behind the songs
1:04:45 – An unlikely partnership
1:19:30 – Facts!
1:28:15 – Choking in front of Spartacus
1:30:00 – Outro/New music