Boston Harold Podcast

Hello and welcome to the Boston Harold Video Podcast. My very special guest today is author and Dylan scholar, Keith Miles.  In today's video chat, Miles discusses his two books, Bob Dylan in London: Troubadour Tale s, and the brand new  Bob Dylan in the Big Apple: Troubadour Tales of New York, as well as taking on the responsibility for restoring the original Troubadour Club in London, where Dylan played on his first trip to England.  Miles's parents took him to see Dylan at the 1969 Isle of Wight Festival when he was child too young to really appreciated what he was witnessing, but nine years later, he slept out overnight to get tickets to see Dylan at Earl's Court  We reminisced about the 2019 World of Bob Dylan Symposium in Tulsa, OK, how collaborating with women in his books is an important part of the Dylan scholarly process, and why he interviewed the notorious Dylan garbologist, A.J. Weberman, for his new book about Dylan in New York.   "Dylan in ...

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new acquisitions, and has shared an previously unreleased version of "He Was A Friend of Mine," and a previously unpublished photograph from 1963: (Credit: Gloria Stavers, Central Park, New York, 1963, courtesy of the Bob Dylan Archives.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) intervie...

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...

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...