Information provided courtesy of the Bob Dylan Fan Club's annotated Theme Time project at http://www.thebobdylanfanclub.com/themetime/ where you'll find even more info/links than included here Lock and Key It’s night time in the big city A school teacher drinks alone They’re finally tearing down the old shoe factory “We’re gonna be locked up, locked out, keyed up, wound up, we’re gonna be talking about church keys and skate keys, we’ll listen to the key of C and learn about the key to good living. There’ll be lip locks, Loch Ness, time locks, and vapor locks. Before the end of it we might even get the key to the city. So I hope you’re all locked and loaded and sitting by your radio.” The Singers and The Songs Bessie Smith – Lock and Key “We’re gonna start it all off old school.” Sonny Boy Williamson – The Key (To Your Door) “Kind of a crazy march…sounds like they were all playing in different keys there for a minute. Personally, I don’t think it was actually the key to her door that he was looking for; maybe he was looking for the key to her chastity belt.” Adam Hebert & The Country Playboys – Ouvre Cette Porte Jimmy Nelson – Unlock the Lock Lucinda Williams – Changed the Lock “Time Magazine called her America’s best songwriter in 2002…I guess I was out of town.” Wynonie Harris – Somebody’s Changed the Lock on My Door Dusty Fletcher – Open the Door, Richard (partial clip) Jack McVea and His All Stars – Open the Door, Richard “See, that song can be done any kinda way…’bout time for it to come back again. Maybe I’ll even do it.” Little Walter – Key to the Highway Groovey Joe Poovey – Ten Long Fingers “Kind of a rockabilly, piano based version of Johnny B. Goode.” Henry ‘Red’ Allen – Who Stole the Lock on the Henhouse Door “One of the last great New Orleans trumpet players. He was overshadowed by Louis but he actually had a fresh approach. In the 60’s he was still playing, and Don Ellis called him the most creative and avant garde trumpet player in New York.” Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies – You’re Bound to Look Like a Monkey “You don’t get any more western swing than this.” The Detroit Cobras – You Don’t Knock Other People and Players Ma Rainey Robert Johnson Robert Nighthawk Robert Lockwood Jr. Howlin’ Wolf Mary Burnett Gus Cannon Clay Richard Belton Richard Big Joe Turner (clip played) Harry Houdini Kinky Freidman Bihari Brothers Jimmy Nelson Bing Crosby Gus Edwards Jimmy Valentine William Sydney Porter O. Henry Wynona Judd Louis Jordan Dick Haymes The Pied Pipers The Yokels Fred Allen Clive and Naomi (clip of Open the Door, Richard) Count Basie Eric Clapton Buddy Guy John Hammond Jr. Derek Trucks Band Junior Wells The Band Big Bill Broonzy Egyptians Sampson John the Baptist King Tut Francis Scott Key Kathleen Key Buster Keaton Tirzah Ellen Key (And of course I would be remiss if I did not mention) Alisha Keyes Carlos Santana Sri Chinmoy “difficult to pronounce poet” Don Ellis Sy Oliver Clarence Williams Gordo Pop Staples Porter Wagoner St. Peter Jesus Walt Whitman “safecracker of the soul” Places The Delta Louisiana Mississippi Georgia Arkansas Mexico City Santiago, Chile Jamaica Dallas, TX Louisiana Detroit Record Labels Trumpet Chess Swallow Records King Records Apollo Records Victor OK Records Vee-Jay Records Books, Stories, Movies, and Other Entertainment Webster’s Dictionary King Biscuit Radio show The Skeleton Key The Secret Life of Houdini A Retrieved Reformation Vaudeville The Chitlin’ Circuit Borat The Bible Ghostbusters (clip) Ben Hur Foghorn Leghorn (clip) Poems The Lock and The Key (Sri Chinmoy) The Imprisoned Soul (W.Whitman) Other Songs Johnny B. Goode Star Spangled Banner Guests Larry Ratso Sloman Amy Sedaris Luke Wilson Types of locks Cylinder locks Pin tumbler locks Combination locks Permutation locks Electronic locks Ignition locks Mortise locks Padlocks Bicycle locks Child safety locks Magnetic locks Warden locks Key card locks Bagels and Lox (in the northeastern states) Dreadlocks “Sometimes we tell you who wrote the song, what kind of music it is, who else recorded it, but you know sometimes we don’t get it right. I mean it’s important to remember this isn’t a classroom here; it’s music of the field, the pool hall, the back alley crap game, the barroom and the bedroom. We don’t want to make it dusty and academic. It’s full of sweat and blood, it’s like life itself. If every once in a while we get a name wrong, or we tell you it’s on the wrong label, it’s not gonna kill anybody…just listen to the music.”