Theme Time Radio Hour is the mix-tapes collection we’ve all dreamed of making. It’s strange: one of the most elusive of performers now shares his thoughts with me on an almost daily basis. I’ve got them all in my iTunes and so, whenever I shuffle-play, I’ll always hear Bob Dylan’s voice, reading me a Robert Frost poem or making one of those wry digs he makes every time he plays a Beatles track. Last time, I looked there had been 69 shows. And so Robert eventually became his own dream, hosting Theme Time Radio Hour, week in, week out.
In dreams begin responsibilities, wrote Delmore Schwartz, poet, drunk, Lou Reed’s teacher. And the dee-jay would tell stories to go with the songs: about them, inspired by them, around them. It’d be a bridal outfit of a radio show: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. He’d link song with song, mixing and matching and combining and recombining them. This dee-jay would play records for Robert and his imaginary friends. And I think he had a dream of a radio dee-jay out there somewhere, distant enough to be mythic, close enough to be real. Here, young Robert took in all the musics that swam to him up all those rivers, that spilled out of all those long-haul buses, that drifted up the great natural wonder that the Cheyenne called Big Greasy River – and the first European to see it called the River of the Holy Ghost.īlues and folk and country and R&B, that’s what Robert’s dreams were made of. It sits between the two great spinal cords of the continent – to the west, the eternal geographical one, the Mississippi River, to the east, the old national one, Highway 61. It’s where the Greyhound Bus company was founded and headquartered for many years. Swim up any of the great rivers of the eastern United States (Canada, too) and it’s where you’ll end up, like a salmon returning to spawn. It’s the head point for the drainages to three great seas, the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. When Robert was growing up, it had the most lavishly appointed high school auditorium in the whole country. It’s a place that seems to doze on the periphery but is, in fact, also surprisingly at the heart of things. That giant hole was – and still is – the biggest of its kind in the world, an open-cast iron mine. It’s a nowhere town that was once called Alice but had its name changed when an enormous hole was dug where its new name used to be. This is what I think: he dreams of a small boy called Robert who lives in a small city, an industrial centre in a rural landscape. What, I wonder, do we dream of when we dream of Bob Dylan? And, more intriguingly, what does Bob Dylan dream of when he dreams of us? This fully authorised release is packaged with a 48 page booklet.
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50 songs and 75 years of musical dreams, schemes and themes drawn from the first series of the highly acclaimed Theme Time Radio Hour with your host, Bob Dylan.
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