Show Notes
This is a teaser of Bonus EP# - Chronicles: Volume One (Part III) (BDA Book Club III). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.
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Is America still “wrapped up in a blanket of rage”? Which Mohawk/Jewish guitarist stupefied Dylan? What if Bob had played the Woodstock Festival? Who were the “buncha dickheads on autostroke”? Is BD the opposite of Bill Maher and James Joyce? Who was Sun Pie and which Dylan lyric did he write? Why did Allen Ginsberg force Kerry to buy his book?
Bob Dylan Book Club Recommendations:
Dan / Ghost Rider by Neil Peart Kerry / A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
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