Ray Padgett

Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3). rfpadgett AT gmail

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My book Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members is officially out today!!!

A short(ish) thread…

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@JohnFugelsang Not only that!

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The Traveling Wilburys never performed a single live show—but what would have happened if they had? I investigated all the times the various Wilburys performed Wilburys songs in their OWN shows.

Which Wilbury performed the most Wilbury material?

https://t.co/Mrq5fQgn3B

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“I wrote these songs in…a trancelike, hypnotic state. This is how I feel? Why do I feel like that? And who’s the me that feels this way? I couldn’t tell you that either. But I know that those songs are just in my genes and I couldn’t stop them comin’ out.”
— Bob on Modern Times

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@ontdeltaoutlaw That line is hate speech

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Interesting that of all the people disagreeing, barely anyone is arguing for Rough and Rowdy (it’s almost all L&T). A couple years ago I think it would have been cited more. Did the endless tour burn people out on it? Surprised it’s not more in the conversation (it should be!)

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Happy 20th birthday to Bob’s best album of the 21st century

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TIL that Bob Dylan once played a city called Worms

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@Steven_Hyden Are you counting each disc of Triplicate as a separate album?

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Happy 20th birthday to Bob’s best album of the 21st century

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@whitecitycinema That's true, but more I meant there's one song that has proven irredeemable live. E**** R**** K****

(self-censoring so I don't accidentally manifest him playing it again)

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@whitecitycinema I put Tempest in the second tier only because I think all those songs sounded so much better live when his voice improved.

(Well, all the songs except one)

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@whitecitycinema Off the gut I'd probably go MT > RARW > L&T but the top three are all so close

[billing for columbine @resentfulincel]

With Dolly Parton dead, who is now the most universally beloved woman in America? Is there one? Nobody really cares about like, Oprah, Julia Roberts, or Jennifer Aniston anymore.

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@t0mbstoneblues I assume you've given Life, Death, Love, And Freedom a try? The one Dylan covered a song from. "If I Die Sudden" and "Troubled Land" on that album rule too.

(Then again my other fave album of his is Scarecrow so…)

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Funny that after yesterday's hack all that's left on the official Dylan Twitter account is just random replies written by some social media manager a decade ago

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What’s the matter with me I don’t have much to say

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Get ready for a super chooglin' version of Enter Sandman

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https://t.co/rkHBwJLW9p

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Every time Bob Dylan has played the iconic Royal Albert Hall—from 1965 all the way up to 2024.

After one gig, John Lennon tells Dylan, “Maybe they didn’t get it. It’s the price of being ahead of your time.”
Dylan: “Maybe, but I’m only twenty minutes ahead, so I won’t get far.”

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.@ithrewtheglass on anything 80s-Dylan related is an instant listen

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We sat down with @ithrewtheglass to talk about the classic middle-aged dude hangout record, Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1.

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@jtramsay GE Smith Acoustic must be in a different van