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Inside Dylan's Brain
By Duff McDonald
People have long wondered what goes on in Bob Dylan’s mind. But if you pay attention to what the recent Pulitzer Prize-winner says
and plays on his XM satellite-radio program, Theme Time Radio Hour, you can actually get a pretty good idea. Here, by cataloguing
the themes has chosen for the episodes, the artists he has favored, and Dylan’s other preferences and quirks, Vanity Fair has
constructed a revealing portrait of America’s most enigmatic musician. Below is a near-exhaustive, up-to-date list, expanding on the
version printed in our May issue.
The Voice
Ellen Barkin
The Themes
Weather, Mother, Drinking, Baseball, Coffee
Jail, Fathers, Wedding, Divorce, Summer
Flowers, Cars, Rich Man/Poor Man, The Devil, Eyes
Dogs, Friends & Neighbors, Radio, The Bible, Musical Maps
School, Telephone, Water, Time, Guns
Halloween, Dance, Sleep, Food, Thanksgiving Leftovers
Tennessee, Moon, Countdown, Christmas, Women’s Names
Hair, Musical Instruments, Luck, Tears, Laughter
Heart, Shoes, Color, Texas, Trains
Fools, New York, Death & Taxes, Spring Cleaning, Hello
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Youth & Age, Days of the Week, California, Classic Rock, Cadillac
Head to Toe, Smokin’, Dreams, Party, Countdown
One, Walkin’, Around the World, Lock & Key, Mail
President’s Day, Doctors, Danger, Birds, Joe
Heat, Cold
Artists He Plays
Nine times: George Jones
Eight times: Tom Waits, Dinah Washington
Seven times: Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, Louis Armstrong, Van Morrison
Six times: Buddy Johnson, Elvis Costello, Frank Sinatra, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Louis Jordan, Muddy Waters, Porter
Wagoner, The Rolling Stones
Five times: Anita O’Day, Buck Owens, Howlin’ Wolf, James Brown, The Stanley Brothers
Four times: Bessie Smith, Big Joe Turner, Billie Holiday, Charlie Poole, Chuck Berry, Ella Johnson, Fats Domino, Fats Waller, Irma
Thomas, June Christy, Little Walter, Loretta Lynn, Los Lobos, Prince Buster, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, Slim Gaillard, Smiley
Lewis, Sonny Boy Williamson II, The Beatles, The Carter Family, The Everly Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, Wynonie Harris
Three times: Bo Diddley, Bobbie Womack, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Eddie “Cleanhead” Vinson, Elvis Presley,
Ernest Tubb, Etta James, Hank Ballard, Hank Penny, Hank Snow, Harry Nilsson, Huey “Piano” Smith, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy
Rodgers, Johnny Tyler, Joni Mitchell, Lefty Frizzell, Lou Reed, Memphis Slim, Merle Haggard, Milton Brown & His Musical
Brownies, Otis Redding, Ricky Nelson, Roy Brown, Roy Orbison, Ruth Brown, Ry Cooder, Sam Cooke, Sir Douglas Quintet, Sister
Rosetta Tharpe, The Clash, The Drifters, The Ink Spots, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Staples Singers,
Wanda Jackson, Warren Smith, Webb Pierce, Willie Nelson
Brothers
The Allen Brothers, The Bailes Brothers, The Chambers Brothers, The Clancy Brothers, The Everly Brothers, The Flying Burrito
Brothers, The Lebron Brothers, The Louvin Brothers, The Maddox Brothers, The Mills Brothers, The Monroe Brothers, The Neville
Brothers, The Osborne Brothers, The Stanley Brothers
Sisters
The Andrews Sisters, The Davis Sisters, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sister Wynona Carr, Sister Rose
“Little” People
Little Eva, Little Johnny Taylor, Little Junior Parker, Little Millette
Little Milton, Little Miss Cornshucks, Little Richard, Little Walter, Little Willie John
The Playboys
Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys , Vince Taylor & The Playboys , L.C. Smith & His Southern Playboys , Jimmie Revard & His
Oklahoma Playboys
The Years
—50% the songs he has played were recorded before 1960.
—Only 9% of the songs he has played were recorded in the 1980s or more recently.
Guest Commentators
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Six times: Penn Jillette, Tom Waits
Five times: Billy Vera, Deke Dickerson, Elvis Costello, Richard Lewis
Three times: Jack White, Jimmy Kimmel, John C. Reilly, Luke Wilson, Marianne Faithful, Matt Groening, Peter Wolf, Ricky Gervais
Poets References
Aesop, W.H. Auden, St. Basil, Bertolt Brecht, Gwendolyn Brooks
Charles Bukowski, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gregory Corso, Stephen Crane
e.e. cummings, TS Eliot, Robert Frost, Ted Hughes, C.S. Lewis
Christopher Marlowe, Sylvia Plath, Alexander Pope, Rainer Maria Rilke
Anne Sexton, Shakespeare, Gertrude Stein, Jonathan Swift
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Butler Yeats
Authors Referenced
Cervantes, Anton Chekhov, Herman Hesse, Oliver Wendell Holmes, James Joyce, Jack Kerouac, Marcel Proust, Edgar Allan Poe
Playwrights Referenced
Molière, George Bernard Shaw
Movies Referenced
As Good As It Gets, An Affair to Remember, The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Barfly, Blow, Blue Hawaii, Blue Velvet, Bonnie & Clyde
Casablanca, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Charlie Chan’s Greatest Case
Chinatown, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Coffee and Cigarettes
Cool Hand Luke, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, For a Few Dollars More
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Godfather, It’s a Wonderful Life
Life of Brian, The Maltese Falcon, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou
The Lost Weekend, The Night of the Hunter, Night Train, Paper Moon
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, The Player, Raising Arizona, Rock & Roll High School
Rocky III, Runaway Train, The Shawshank Redemption, Sleeping Beauty
Snow White, Spinal Tap, Strangers on a Train, Streetcar Named Desire
Sweet Smell of Success, Taxi Driver, The Ten Commandments, The 39 Steps
The Wild Bunch
Television Shows Referenced
The Beverly Hillbillies, Chico and the Man, The Ed Sullivan Show
Hee Haw, Josie and the Pussycats, The Honeymooners
Leave it to Beaver, Lil’ Abner, Welcome Back Kotter
Sanford and Son, Roots, 60 Minutes
The Simpsons, The Sopranos, The Tonight Show, The Wire
History Lessons From Bob
Famous Electric Chairs (e.g. Old Sparky and Gruesome Gerty)
Famous People Who Were Cheerleaders (e.g. Ann Margaret, George W. Bush)
Famous People Who Were Valedictorians (e.g. Cindy Crawford, William Rehnquist, Weird Al – “I wonder if William Rehnquist gave
the same type of speech as Weird Al. Somehow I doubt it.”)
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Famous People Who Had Burials At Sea (e.g. Steve McQueen, Ingrid Bergman, Vincent Price, Jerry Garcia)
History of the Wobblies, the U.S. labor organization
People Who Died While Playing Cards (e.g. Wild Bill Hickok, Al Jolson, Buster Keaton, the gangster Arnold Rothstein)
Famous People Who Drove Cadillacs (e.g. Pope Pius XII, Teddy Roosevelt, Bill Clinton)
History of Constantinople
Useful Tips
How to Hang Dry Wall
What to Pack When You’re Traveling
How to Walk Like A Runway Model
How to Give Yourself Dreadlocks
One-Liners
“Hope all you listeners won’t accuse me of cronyism just because I occasionally play records by people I know.”
“The distinctive voice of Aaron Neville. A lot of people think we sing the same.”
Re: Gene Autry’s Cowboy Code—“I’m not ashamed to say that I live my life according to that code. Quite a man, that Gene Autry.”
“Fred Astaire, the smoothest dancer known to man.”
Re: Berna Dean—“Here’s a woman who sure doesn’t sound like she sleeps alone.”
“John Lee….one of those guys that always sounds better without a band. Thirteen bars here, eleven bars there, nine there. Doesn’t
matter to him. Nobody can do more with less than John Lee Hooker.”
Re: Endless Sleep – “This next song is not for the faint of heart.”
Re: Johnny Hicks – “A man who sounds like he’s got a smile in his voice.”
“America is certainly the great melting pot. Where else could someone like Slim Gaillard sing a tribute to matzoh balls and gefilte
fish? It’s the kind of thing that makes me proud to be an American. Sing it, Slim.”
“It’s a quarter of a million miles from earth to the moon, and there’s no one I’d rather go with than Dinah Washington.”
Re: Six Pack to Go – “One of the great beer drinking songs of all time.”
Re: Leadbelly – “One of the few ex-cons who recorded a popular children’s album.”
“A lot of people who play one kind won’t play with people who play another kind, but me personally, I never understood any kind of
border patrol when it comes to music.”
“Some people call Bob [Seger] the poor man’s Bruce Springsteen, but personally, I always thought Bruce was the rich man’s Bob
Seger. Love ‘em both, though.”
Re: Red Headed Woman – “Boy, you hear a record like that, and you wish more Rockabilly bands had trumpets.”
Re: How You Gonna Get Respect—“A political statement you can dance to.”
Re: Eddy Dugash and the Ah-Ha Playboys: “Sometimes you just play a record because you like the name of the band. I love the
name of this band, but I also love the record.”
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“Not all songs about crying are necessarily sad.”
Re: Robert Parker’s Barefootin’ – “The man who wrote the national anthem of shoelessness.”
Re: Jimmy Lewis – “He sounds as bad off as a rubber-nosed woodpecker in a petrified forest.”
“Willie Nelson’s tour bus runs on cooking oil….I’ve toured with Willie…sometimes late at night you can see us, I’m filling up my tank
at the gas station and he’s filling his up at Denny’s.”
“I always liked songs with parentheses in the title.”
Re: Dinah Washington’s Manhattan – “If there every was a love song to a city, I’d say it was this one.”
Re: Prince Buster’s Taxation – “Like all great artists, he was able to turn things that bothered him into three minutes of musical
pleasure. Like here.”
Re: Porter Wagoner’s Skid Row Joe – “Next up, a very sad song. A recitation. A sermon. A speechifying testification. From Porter
Wagoner, telling a tale of a sad man down on his luck in the dirty part of town.”
Re: Tex William’s Brother Drop Dead – “Some people die too soon. Others, you’re kind of hoping. Tex Williams has a song for such
a situation.”
Re: Sinatra singing Summer Wind—“West Coast weather is the weather of catastrophe. The Santa Ana winds are like the winds of
the apocalypse. But the summer wind that Frank’s singing about may be a little lighter. Come on in, Frank.”
Re: Charles Aznavour—“The Frank Sinatra of France…sings in six languages – French, English, Italian. He’s written over a thousand
songs…I only know about half of them.”
Re: Memphis Minnie—“Me and My Chauffeur Blues. One of the great blues songs of all time, one of the great car songs of all time,
one of the great chauffeur songs of all time, sung by one the great old ladies of all time - Memphis Minnie.”
Re: Joni Mitchell—“Joni and I go back a long ways. Not all the way back, but pretty far. I’ve been in a car with Joni. Joni was driving
a Lincoln. Excellent driver. I felt safe.”
Re: Howlin’ Wolf—“This next song is entirely without flaw and meets all the supreme standards of excellence.”
Re: Hank Williams—“One of the greatest songwriters who ever lived was Hank Williams, of course. Hank could be headstrong and
willful, a backslider and a reprobate, no stranger to bad deeds. However, underneath all of that, he was compassionate and
moralistic.”
Deep Thoughts
“I don’t trust a man who doesn’t tear up a little watching Old Yeller.”
“All of our shows are for truckers, if not about truckers.”
“They say the earth’s warmin’ up. Be careful of that global warming, and wear your sunscreen.”
“Music City USA – one of the only places where a banjo player can make a six figure income.”
“You know, every shut-eye ain’t sleep. Sometimes you’re sleeping in the ground, taking a dirt nap, saying the big Goodbye.”
“The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.”
“Sometimes when you look at a menu, it’s hard to decide what to get. Life is like that, full of difficult choices.”
“Lipstick traces on cigarettes can get you in trouble or remind you of the wonders of the night before.”
“Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can never hurt me…as opposed to when you grow up and you learn that…the pen
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is mightier than the sword. The world is fill of little contradictions like that.”
“I leave you with the words of Benjamin Franklin. ‘He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing
everything for money.’ Thank you, Ben. Peace out.”
Bad Jokes
“My friend’s wife is a really bad cook. I broke a tooth on her coffee.”
“I once had a friend who said liquor will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no
liquor.”
“A giraffe can go a long time without water. But he wants to see a menu right away.”
“I gave a bald-headed friend a comb. You know what he said? ‘I’ll never part with it.’”
“I don’t condone [blonde] jokes. I just repeat them in the public interest.”
“I want everybody to go out and paint their cars red and white tonight. We want a PINK CAR NATION.”
Recipes
Mint Julep
Four mint sprigs
3 oz of bourbon
1 tablespoon of powdered sugar
1 tablespoon water
Put the mint leaves, powdered sugar and water in a Collins glass. Fill the glass with shaved or crushed ice and then add bourbon.
Top that off with more ice. I like to garnish mine with a mint sprig. Serve it with a straw. Two or three of those and anything sounds
good!
Rum and Coca-Cola
Let me give you my recipe for a rum and Coca-Cola. Take a tall glass, put some ice in it, two fingers of Bombay rum, and a bottle of
Coca-Cola. Shake it up well and go drink it in the sunshine!
BBQ
1 cup tomato sauce
1 cup vinegar
5 tablespoons Worcestershire
1 tablespoon butter
½ small onion
dash black pepper
cayenne pepper
1 ½ teaspoons salt
half cup water
Mix it all together in a large pan. Bring it to a quick boil. Reduce the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes. You can also figure out
your own secret ingredient and dump it to the mix. I like about three fingers of Tennessee sipping whiskey.
Figgy Pudding
4 oz of plain flour
a pinch of salt
4 oz bread crumbs
4 oz shredded suet
1 teaspoon mixed spice
1 teaspoon baking powder
3 oz dark soft brown sugar
8 oz chopped dried figs
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finely grated rind & the juice of one lemon
2 tablespoon milk
2 beaten eggs
“Sift salt and flour together, then mix with all the remaining dry ingredients. Add the figs, lemon rind and juice, milk and beaten
eggs. Beat them well. The mixture should have a soft dropping consistency. Put into a greased two-pint pudding basin, cover
securely, and steam for three hours. I like it served with heated golden syrup topping, and a generous pour of custard. Makes me
hungry just talking about it. My engineer Tex Carbone likes vanilla ice cream on it. I don’t understand that at all.”
The Perfect Meatball
3 minced cloves garlic
¼ cup vegetable oil (for frying)
1 pound ground meat (equal parts beef, pork, veal)
¼ cup grated Parmesan cheese
9 Saltine crackers, finely crushed
½ teaspoon salt
black pepper
oregano
dried basil
1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
¼ cup water
1 egg
1 teaspoon tomato paste
“Heat the oil over a low heat in a large Dutch oven. In a big bowl, add the meat, garlic, cheese, crackers, and spices. Mix lightly with
your fingers. Don’t be shy—get into it. In a small bowl, whisk the water, the egg, and the tomato paste. Add the egg mixture to the
meat mixture. Mix it lightly with your fingers. Form it into drum shapes, or balls. Cook in batches, over medium high heat, until its
browned on both sides. That will be about five minutes total. Serve ‘em up with some potatoes, or some spaghetti, or just make a
sandwich out of them. You're gonna love 'em."
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At 5:12 pm on April 9, 2008, Roryks wrote:
Your near-exhaustive list - brilliant, by the way - missed out the Wild At Heart movie reference in the recent "Heat" episode: Lula
Pace Fortune (Laura Dern)to Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage)"Uh oh. Baby, you'd better get me back to that hotel. You got me hotter
than Georgia asphalt."
At 8:55 am on April 10, 2008, Ambrose wrote:
Misspelled Ann-Margret.
At 9:21 am on April 10, 2008, Elcapitan wrote:
Excellent! Not to be one of those pedantic audience members Bob complains about, but you forgot in your movie references
"Alphaville,''from which Bob drew the great "Hey, Mr. Caution'' for the "Danger'' episode.
At 12:02 pm on April 10, 2008, Gilp wrote:
In Poets mentioned you missed out Robert Burns whom Dylan has referenced twice I recall........great article though.
At 12:08 pm on April 10, 2008, Scottwarmuth wrote:
One history lesson from Bob Dylan that people should pick up on is that what he presents as his own words may not actually be
original.
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Compare these quotes on Hank Williams -
Dylan: "Hank could be headstrong and willful, a backslider and a reprobate, no stranger to bad deeds. However, underneath all of
that, he was compassionate and moralistic."
Colin Escott: "If Hank Williams could be headstrong and willful, a backslider and a reprobate, then Luke the Drifter was
compassionate and moralistic, capable of dispensing all the sage advice that Hank Williams ignored."
You can find Escott's essay at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/williams_h.html
There are dozens of similar examples throughout Theme Time Radio Hour.
Bob has sticky fingers.
At 4:39 pm on April 10, 2008, DreamtimeFred wrote:
I'm still trying to figure out what the heck "Bombay Rum" is.
Those interested in even more TTRH trivia might like my blog/podcast, which can be found over at...
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At 8:36 pm on April 10, 2008, Cdanuloff wrote:
My favorite comment thus far: On the Musical Instruments show, after mentioning that the Harmonica is the most popular
instrument in the world, Bob paused and said: "You're Welcome."
At 9:57 pm on April 10, 2008, Tiptopshape wrote:
Bob Dylan is one unique character. This is a really interesting insight into the man and what he thinks about.
Good ol' Bad Bob.
At 6:59 pm on April 12, 2008, Roryks wrote:
Scottwarmuth - I doubt Dylan would deny his sticky-fingeredness. The show is so obviously - and wonderfully - scripted, every word
feels carefully chosen.
One of my favourite TTRH moments has to be when Dylan demonstrated his wind instrument prowess by "playing" Blowin' In The
Wind on the recorder. Absolutely priceless!
At 5:41 pm on April 13, 2008, Girlofthenorcalcountry wrote:
Nice to see this here. If you like this info you can see it all at the Bob Dylan Fan Club annotated theme time pages:
http://www.thebobdylanfanclub.com/themetime/index.htm
We've been posting this info show by show since Theme Time started. I more than suspect that we played an uncredited part in
helping with the research for this article. A quick search for the "one-liners" and "deep thoughts" at our site show exact matches
every time so far.
At 9:49 am on April 15, 2008, Ajweberman wrote:
I wrote a little poem about Dylan's radio program
I was tryin' to find my way home
But all I heard was a drone
Bouncing off a satellite
Crushin' the last lone American night
This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
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This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
I was spinnin' 'round a dead dial
Just another lost number in a file
Dancin' down a dark hole
Just searchin' for a world with some soul
This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
Is there anybody alive out there?
I want a thousand guitars
I want pounding drums
I want a million different voices speaking in tongues
This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
Is there anybody alive out there?
I was driving through the misty rain
Searchin' for a mystery train
Boppin' through the wild blue
Tryin' to make a connection to you
This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
This is radio nowhere, is there anybody alive out there?
Is there anybody alive out there
I just want to feel some rhythm
At 10:00 am on April 22, 2008, Joeb wrote:
It is odd that I don't see Big Joe Williams name on here anywhere.
At 10:10 am on April 22, 2008, Joeb wrote:
By the way. How many songs by Big Joe Williams has Bob played on his radio show? And how many times has Bob mentioned Big
Joe Williams on his radio show?
At 12:36 am on April 24, 2008, Gingeramelia wrote:
O my gosh! I just want to get down on my knees and kiss the feet of the people responsible for this Dylan information.
It is awesome! Thanks
ginger perry, boulder, co
At 6:58 pm on April 26, 2008, Ocgypsy wrote:
Tennessee Williams
He said he was one of his favorite
playwrights, read from Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof. You must re-listen to
all the shows & pay attention!
At 12:47 pm on April 28, 2008, ElsieVan wrote:
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What a beautifully designed spread! A perfect tribute to Milton Glaser's iconic Dylan poster. Bravo Beth Bartholomew and Andrew
Nimmo! Excellent job. I'm framing this.
At 8:21 pm on April 28, 2008, Janiestorm wrote:
how funny... i am currently doing a series of paintings with themes... Jacks, queens, kings, redheads, serial killers, vampires...etc. all
have one common body with different heads which can go on the body... I LOVE this approach to a radio show, Bob.
mj
At 9:12 pm on April 28, 2008, Billdarryl wrote:
Neat article.
My fav bad Bob joke from XM was from a night he played all moon-themed music.
"You know, they built a restaurant on the moon. The food is good, but it has no atmosphere."
At 10:36 pm on April 28, 2008, Violet wrote:
I agree with gingeramelia. Now that I know he has a show, I'll tune in from now on. Wow! The perfect meatball recipe--I've been
looking for it all my life. Thanks :-)
At 2:52 am on April 29, 2008, Slimslowslider wrote:
More jokes from Bob's show:
The Doctor told his patent to stop having intimate dinners for 4 people, unless there are 3 other people present!
He’s so laid back it takes him 2 hours to watch 60 minutes
A man said him and his wife were both happy for twenty years…. And then they met!
2 dogs talking: one dog says to the other you know you’re a crazy dog, you ought to see a psychiatrist, the other says yea, I’d love to
but I’m not allowed on the couch.
I nearly ran into a telephone operator on the way here today… it was a close call.
What do you do if you miss your mother in law? – reload and try again.
I just returned from a pleasure trip – I took my mother in law to the airport.
A man in texas said that he gets into his car in the morning and drives 8 hours to get to the other side of his ranch, I said I had a car
like that once.
Nothing else is like Bob's show, here's to many more.
At 7:25 pm on April 29, 2008, KayoFrisco wrote:
Dylan credits researchers and assistants on his radio show. Let's consider Bob as A source, not THE source, and an editor, of the
spoken material and song choices on his entertaining show.
At 7:31 pm on April 30, 2008, Ecclesiastes wrote:
I saw someone hand a copy of the Glaser poster to Peter Max, at a Max appearance, and ask him to sign it. He said " I would, but
Milton Glaser did that, not me... But I do know someone who would really like that, and I will trade you a drawing for it!"
At 6:38 am on May 1, 2008, Philosovich wrote:
Beautiful way to capture Dylan.
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