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Ep. #1135: Jake Xerxes Fussell

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Post date September 17, 2026
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Jake Xerxes Fussell returns to discuss his new album, The Old Beloved Path, us meeting up at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival just moments before I took my daughter to see AC/DC, Jake’s limited experiences at big shows beyond Bob Dylan’s and a band he’d love to see one day, a lengthy discussion about “Rock Island Line” and The Compleat Beatles, contemplating aging and transience, the historical implications of musical interpretation and adaptation, why Jake would rather write a book than a song, working with Ben Whiteley, upcoming shows, other future plans, and much more.

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Ep. #1034: Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan’s ‘Through The Open Window’

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Post date November 1, 2025
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Sean Wilentz is here to discuss co-producing Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963, New Jersey and New York City, his family’s roots in the 1960s Greenwich Village folk community, his Bob Dylan fandom origins, why he was asked to helm this volume, write its liner notes, and what he learned about Dylan, the variety of Dylan’s voices and gifts as a music interpreter, the evolution of recording technology and live bootlegs, our experiences at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, the subtlety of Dylan’s political songs, this era of Dylan’s music and the recent film, A Complete Unknown, Dylan using social media, Sean’s next book, the Court of History podcast, and much more.

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Ep. #935: Elijah Wald on ‘A Complete Unknown’

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Post date December 23, 2024

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Elijah Wald is here to discuss the new Bob Dylan film, A Complete Unknown, which is based on his 2015 book, Dylan Goes Electric! Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties, Dylan tweeting praise for his book, being from Dylan’s world, why the Newport Folk Festival became a generational nexus point for music in the 1960s, his access to unreleased Newport audio and film footage by the likes of Murray Lerner, what he makes of A Complete Unknown’s depictions of real people and events, how it’s more brooding than the comical Dylan and Joan Baez really were, his new book about Jellyroll Morton, other future plans, and much more.

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