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New Mix: Bob Dylan, Sparks, Darlingside, Annie Bartholomew, more

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🗓️ 13 June 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Bob Boilen shares new songs (in one case, a new recording) from a few of his favorite artists, plus discoveries from Montana and Alaska.

Featured Artists And Songs:
1. Bob Dylan: "When I Paint My Masterpiece," from Shadow Kingdom
2. Annie Bartholomew: "All for the Klondike's Gold," from Sisters of White Chapel
3. Darlingside: "Eliza I See," from Everything Is Alive
4. Sparks: "Nothing Is As Good As They Say It Is," from The Girl Is Crying In Her Latte
5. Alaska Reid: "Back To This," from Disenchanter
6. Buck Meek: "Haunted Mountain," from Haunted Mountain

Transcript

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0:00.0

For our music, you're connected to all songs considered I'm Bob Boylin with the sounds of Bob Dylan

0:05.5

reimagining Bob Dylan. In 2021 Bob Dylan's tour, like most tours, were sidetracked by Covid,

0:13.8

and along with T-bone Burnett, Don Was, Greg Lee's and others, Bob Dylan dug into the first half

0:20.0

of his career and recorded 13 songs for a streaming webcast. The project is called Shadow Kingdom,

0:27.2

and now those early songs reimagined are out, and the album is fascinating. And while I've always

0:34.8

preferred the original Dylan versions to any of the ones I've heard at concerts over the years,

0:39.4

I really like what he's done on this record. The 13 songs flow seamlessly from one to another.

0:45.9

I'd like to play the opening track, when I paint my masterpiece. A song first released by the band

0:52.1

in 1971, a Dylan version of first appeared on a greatest hits album later that year,

0:57.8

but here's the 21st century version.

1:22.1

For the streets of Rome, I feel the rubble, ancient footprints are everywhere,

1:45.1

and I feel the rubble, ancient footprints are everywhere, and I feel the rubble,

2:11.8

I'm going to wash my clothes, scrape off all the weeds,

2:19.3

and unlock the doors and turn my back on the world for a while.

2:25.1

I'll stay right there until I paint my masterpiece,

2:35.1

while the hours of spent inside the Coliseum,

2:40.2

I'll stay right there until I paint my masterpiece,

2:50.2

while the hours of spent inside the Coliseum,

3:00.2

I'll stay right there until I paint my masterpiece,

3:07.1

train wheels, right into the back of my memory,

3:14.2

when I ran on a hilltop, followed in a bag of wilds.

3:22.2

Someday, everything's going to be different,

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