Mojo Magazine's Michael Simmons on Bob Dylan, Al Kooper, Michael Bloomfield, and more!
Harold Lepidus, July 16, 2020 (c) On today's Boston Harold (Video) Podcast, I welcome Mojo Magazine' s Michael Simmons. His many accomplishments include writing the liner notes for Bob Dylan's Another Self Portrait: Bootleg Series Volume 10, as well as a compilation of original Dylan masters called The Music Which Inspired Girl From the North Country , Michael Bloomfield's From His Head to His Heart to His Hands box set (produced by his friend Al Kooper), plus releases by Kris Kristofferson, Phil Ochs, Kinky Friedman, Arthur Lee & Love, Gary Stewart, Paul Krassner, and a Mose Allison tribute. Simmons wrote a review of the new Bob Dylan album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, for the August issue of Mojo magazine, which is currently available in some areas of the world, with U.S. imports on the way (although one may have to look extra hard to find it during these rough and rowdy days). Here we talk about that album, how he got into Dylan and music journalism, ...
