What Did You Hear: listening to the music of Bob Dylan

Writing about and scholarship of Bob Dylan tends to focus on the words - he's a Nobel Prize winner for literature, after all - but his music deserves a deeper look too. Between the jangling guitar sound, rusty-hinge vocal stylings, and highly variable intonation, his unpolished and constantly shifting attitude towards performing his own music demands a long conversation with Steven Rings, author of What Did You Hear: The Music of Bob Dylan. Title: Things Have ChangedArtist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: The Essential Bob DylanLabel: Columbia Title: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Artist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: The Freewheelin' Bob DylanLabel: Columbia Title: Lord Randall Artist: Jean RitchieComposer: Jean RitchieAlbum: Ballads (From Her Appalachian Family Tradition)Label: Smithsonian Folkways Title: 1913 MassacreArtist: Woody GuthrieComposer: Woody GuthrieAlbum: Documentary # 1: StruggleLabel: Asch Records Title: Song To WoodyArtist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: Bob DylanLabel: Columbia Title: It's Hard On We Poor FarmersComposer: TraditionalAlbum: Archival Title: Running ScaredArtist: Roy OrbisonComposer: Roy Orbison & Joe MelsonAlbum: CryingLabel: London Records Title: Lay Lady LayArtist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: Nashville SkylineLabel: Columbia Title: One More Cup of CoffeeArtist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: DesireLabel: Columbia Title: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Artist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: The Concert For Bangla DeshLabel: Apple Records Title: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Artist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: Live 1975 (The Rolling Thunder Revue)Label: Columbia Title: The Jean GenieArtist: David BowieComposer: David Bowie & Mick RonsonAlbum: Aladdin SaneLabel: RCA Victor Title: It's Gonna RainArtist: Steve ReichComposer: Steve ReichAlbum: Works: 1965-1995Label: Nonesuch Title: A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall Artist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: The Great Music Experience 1994 Title: I Believe In YouArtist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: Slow Train ComingLabel: CBS Title: Blind Willie McTell (Take 5 - Infidels Outtake)Artist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 16Label: Third Man Records Title: Blind Willie McTellArtist: Bob DylanComposer: Bob DylanAlbum: The Bootleg Series Volumes 1 - 3 [Rare & Unreleased] 1961-1991Label: Columbia The Music Show is made on Gadigal, Gundungurra, Kaurna, and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country Country Technical production by Ann-Marie Debettencor

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This episode was published on Mar 22, 2026.

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