Boston Harold Podcast

Still from "Sweetheart Like You" video (Bob Dylan VEVO)   Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast.  Carla Olson interview, September 7, 2021 ( If  not available, click here ) My special guest today is singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer Carla Olson. Among her credits are starting two bands with future Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine, forging her own career with the Textones, appearing in Bob Dylan’s 1983 video for “Sweetheart Like You” (miming Mick Taylor’s guitar solo), then covering “Clean Cut Kid” (with Ry Cooder) one year before Dylan released it.* Olson went on to record with Taylor, and has collaborated with many other artists over the years, including Gene Clark and John York of the Byrds, Percy Sledge, Ian McLagan (who played, along with Taylor, on Dylan's 1984 European tour), the Electric Flag’s Barry Goldberg, John Fogerty, lyricist Pete Brown, Joe Louis Walker, Manfred Mann’s Paul Jones, Allan Clarke of the Hollies, Don Henley, and Poco’s R...

Ten years ago, I posted this: Sky full of  fi re, pain pourin' down - Bob Dylan and 9/11 September 10, 2011 2:07 PM MST I was so looking forward to September 11, 2001. At the time, I was a buyer for a record store chain, eagerly  anticipating the release of  Bob Dylan 's new album, "Love and Theft," scheduled for that day. I expected to spend hours tracking sales, anticipating big numbers. After work, I planned to drive two hours to see Lucinda Williams at the State Theatre in Portland, Maine, and maybe pick up the "Limited Edition" version of "Love and Theft" on the way. The release of Dylan's new album felt like vindication. A friend sent me an advanced copy, and I had been listening to it virtually nonstop ever since. I could not get over how great it was, and hoped it would further enhance the trajectory of Dylan's career. Before the release of 1997's Time Out Of Mind , I was often mocked by co-workers for my continued allegianc...

  (Sony Legacy) What follows is my review of the newest installment of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series -Volume 16 - Springtime in New York … out September 17.  (bobdylan.com ) It’s a five disc set covering the first half of the 1980s, and it’s basically divided into three sections related to three albums. The first two discs (from 1980-81) begin with the end of the SAVED era but focuses on the sessions for the 1981 album SHOT OF LOVE. Discs three and four document the sessions for his 1983 album  INFIDELS, and the final disc takes us on a journey from the unfairly neglected Real Live to 1985’s EMPIRE BURLESQUE.  Trailer First I’d like to place this set in perspective. It’s been 30 years since the first Bootleg Series was released. The1991 box set was jointly presented as volumes 1, 2 and 3. It was a massive collection of tracks which was released to compete with Dylan’s legacy, and his own commercial currency, which was at a low point at the time. Unsure what to do wi...