Boston Harold Podcast

A press release from the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, has announced new acquisitions, and has shared an previously unreleased version of "He Was A Friend of Mine," and a previously unpublished photograph from 1963: (Credit: Gloria Stavers, Central Park, New York, 1963, courtesy of the Bob Dylan Archives. Donated by Jeff Gold, Recordmedia) Details of the new acquisitions, from the press release, are as follows: The Madison Tapes  unearth Bob Dylan performances on two open-reel audio tapes recorded at the apartment of folk and blues musician Danny Kalb in Madison, Wisc., circa winter 1960­–1961, while Dylan was making his way from Minnesota to Greenwich Village.  Approximately 90 minutes in length, the first tape captures the 19-year-old Dylan performing more than 20 songs, including six Woody Guthrie tunes and classics by Jimmie Rodgers, the Stanley Brothers, Little Walter, Pete Seeger and Big Bill Broonzy. The proceedings were recorded by musician Jeff Chase. Revealed

Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast. My very special guest today is Bob Dylan scholar Seth Rogovoy.    (Scribner) Seth and I go way back … all the way back to High School! I used to read his record reviews in the Islip High School Buccaneer , the weekly school newspaper. Even then he had a unique and sophisticated writing style.  Journalist, concert promoter, and all-around media maven, Seth is also the author of two excellent books,  The Essential Klezmer  (Algonquin Books, 2000) and Bob Dylan - Prophet * Mystic * Poet (Scribner, 2009), with a third one on the way.  Seth's next book is tentatively titled Within You Without You - Listening to George Harrison (Oxford University Press), scheduled for publication in the fall of 2023 - the 60th anniversary of the birth of Beatlemania in the U.K.  Interview with Seth Rogovoy, via Zoom, October 28, 2021  Seth and I discussed many things in this wide-ranging video (via Zoom) interview, including favorite concerts, the

Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Podcast. My special guest today is drummer Colin Allen, who has played with  John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Stone the Crows, and Focus, among many others.  Along with guitarist Mick Taylor (The Bluesbreakers, the Rolling Stones), keyboardist Ian McLagan (Rod Stewart & the Faces, the Small Faces, the Rolling Stones), and bassist/songwriter Gregg Sutton (Andy Kaufman, later Lone Justice), Mr. Allen was a member of  Bob Dylan's band during his 1984 tour of Europe. "Real Live" 1984 US LP inner sleeve (Credit: Sony via Searching For A Gem )  Since one of the songs from the 1984 tour, the previously unreleased "Enough Is Enough," was included in the recent box set, Springtime in New York: 1980-1985, Bootleg Series Vol. 16 , I invited Mr. Allen to be interviewed for my blogcast page, and since he no longer does video interviews, he graciously agreed to do it by email.  Mr. Allen spent over six years writing his autobiograph