Episode 95: Bob Dylan’s Nashville Recordings

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2014

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Jay McDowell is the Multimedia/Assistant Museum Exhibit Curator at the Musician’s Hall Of Fame And Museum and he’s sharing stories about Bob Dylan and the musicians who played on his Nashville sessions. He shares stories about Charlie McCoy, Hargus “Pig”… Continue Reading →

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0:00.0	I'm sitting in my car in the parking lot back behind Sun Studios and I'm getting ready to go in and I'm going to record some songs tonight. I'm pretty excited about that. There's going to be a TV
0:22.3	crew there filming it. I guess they have a thing called Sun Studio Sessions, and whatever they
0:29.3	film on me tonight will be turned into a one-hour TV show and will air on PBS stations across
0:36.1	the United States sometime late in 2015.
0:40.7	But keep an eye out for that.
0:42.0	I'm kind of excited about it, but for now I'm just sitting here in the car,
0:46.3	waiting for the tour groups to leave and a chance for me to go in and sing some songs.
1:20.9	Yeah. songs. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.
1:28.3	I'm sitting here in my car in a parking lot behind the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. This is a personal journal. This is a bit of an experiment.
1:32.3	I like to say right up front that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided to do it anyway.
1:38.3	And this show is founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.
1:42.3	There's a creative individual and the person experiencing it.
1:46.0	Everything else is an artificial filter. This is a way for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.
1:53.0	My guest this week is Jay McDowell. Jay is the Multimedia Assistant Museum Exhibit Curator at the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum here in Nashville.
2:04.1	You can find out everything you need to know about the Hall of Fame at Musicianshall of Fame.com.
2:11.0	A lot of you guys may know Jay is the bass player in BR 549.
2:16.5	He toured all over the world with them. He's a great bass player,
2:19.9	great performer, and he's even a better guy. I really enjoy being around Jay. But he got this
2:25.1	job at the Musicians Hall of Fame, and he gets to be around some pretty amazing people and some
2:30.4	legendary instruments. It's one of my favorite things here in Nashville is visiting
2:36.4	the Musicians Hall of Fame. And if you're in Nashville, I highly recommend that you stop in.
2:42.3	This is just one of the best stops. And if you're listening to this show, you're the perfect
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