(Poster art courtesy Alex Mohler)

An exciting competition to kick off the new year! DylanRadio already features a number of tracks of some of the best indie covers of Dylan’s music on the net, and now we’re going to determine who’s got the right stuff.  Who better to choose the best Dylan cover band than the fanatical listeners right here at DylanRadio.com?!

Complete details on how to become a part of the 1st Annual Battle of the Dylan Cover Bands can be found here:  www.DylanRadio.com/battle

You can also check out the “teaser” video for the battle on YouTube and MySpace.  Please help spread the word!

Sorry about the choppy feed these past two days!  Crazy trying to troubleshoot this bandwidth issue, but I think we’ve got it nailed.  I really don’t want the bandwidth bills to go up again, because you folks have been so great to the webcast already,  so hopefully we’ve got it under control for now.

I hope you make DylanRadio.com a part of your New Year celebration, as we’ll be playing the Theme Time Radio Hour season 1 & 2 “Countdown” episodes back to back, starting at 11pm station time (10pm Eastern) to count you down to 2009.  Get those requests ready to chime in the new year!

Here’s some more tasty bootleg treats that have just been added to the songpool for your enjoyment:

• Thin Wild Mercury Music (’65-’66 Studio Outtakes)
• November 11, 2008 @ Coral Gables, FL
• November 16, 2008 @ Ottawa, Canada
• June 28, 1992 @ Gothenburg, Sweden
• May 3, 1994 @ Evansville, Indiana
• Canadian Times Vol1 (Compilation from the Fall ‘08 tour)

Now don’t eat it all at once, or you’ll give yourself a tummy-ache.