{"id":1570,"date":"2015-08-18T02:00:51","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T06:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dylanradio.com\/?p=1570"},"modified":"2015-08-18T07:46:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T11:46:44","slug":"the-ballad-of-bob-dylan-a-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/the-ballad-of-bob-dylan-a-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SrkMkr\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-1571\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dylanradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/AudioBookBalladofBobDylan.jpg\" alt=\"AudioBookBalladofBobDylan\" width=\"300\" height=\"451\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve got another audiobook treat for you!\u00a0 Tune in tonight at 8pm Atlantic (7pm Eastern, 6pm Central, 4pm Pacific, 12am London, 11am Sydney) for the first in a 13-part series of Daniel Mark Epstein&#8217;s book &#8220;The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Drawing on revelatory interviews, a rich analysis of lyrics, and a lifelong study of one of the greatest songwriters of our time, Daniel Mark Epstein delivers a singular, nuanced, and insightful examination of Bob Dylan: the poet, the musician, and the man. Interweaving in-depth conversations with Dylan collaborators and contemporaries &#8211; including Eric Andersen,Tom Paxton, Woody Guthrie&#8217;s daughter, Nora Guthrie, Ramblin&#8217; Jack Elliott, Pete Seeger, Maria Muldaur, John P.Hammond, and many others &#8211; Epstein crafts a vivid and unforgettable portrait of the inimitable poet and performer.\u00a0 Readers of Christopher Ricks&#8217; Dylan&#8217;s Visions of Sin, the Dylan autobiography, Chronicles, or Sean Wilentz&#8217;s Dylan in America, as well as fans enthralled by expository musician stories, such as Keith Richards&#8217; Life and Patti Smith&#8217;s Just Kids, will be captivated by Epstein&#8217;s unprecedented and incisive look at Bob Dylan, music&#8217;s most ineffable creator.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I hope you&#8217;ll like what you hear, and if you enjoy the book, <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1SrkMkr\" target=\"_blank\">be sure to pick up your own copy at Amazon<\/a>.\u00a0 Thanks for tuning in!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve got another audiobook treat for you!\u00a0 Tune in tonight at 8pm Atlantic (7pm Eastern, 6pm Central, 4pm Pacific, 12am London, 11am Sydney) for the first in a 13-part series of Daniel Mark Epstein&#8217;s book &#8220;The Ballad of Bob Dylan: A Portrait.&#8221; Drawing on revelatory interviews, a rich analysis of lyrics, and a lifelong study [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1570"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1578,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1570\/revisions\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dylanradio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}