Friends,

After a break of a couple of years Adastra in the UK are formally booking solo acoustic troubadour solos for me again. Indeed, I am gonna be pursuing this worldwide while we work on the next Coal Porters album (with John Wood, the legendary engineer of Beth Orton, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd et al).

Check out http://www.adastra-music.co.uk if you have time!

The circus was documented in the film Renaldo and Clara, the live album Hard Rain, and a TV concert special of the same name, while in between the two legs of the tour Dylan released the classic Desire album. It is this period of heightened creativity and personal drama that Dylan-authority, author, and musician Sid Griffin examines in Shelter from the Storm.

Interviewing many of the tour’s participants including musicians Roger McGuinn, T-Bone Burnett, Kinky Friedman, Arlo Guthrie, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, and tour manager Louie Kemp, Griffin mixes meticulous musical analysis into a gripping narrative in this definitive account the Rolling Thunder years.

Shelter From The Storm is in bookstores in the USA and Europe Now!

Order now from amazon.co.uk or amazon.com

Click here to view the interview or visit The Americana Gazette website to read the whole issue online.

A chat with Rolling Stone writer David Fricke on Sept. 11, 2010.

These seventeen photos were chosen by me to represent my humble musical
career for a chat with Rolling Stone writer David Fricke on Sept. 11, 2010 when David sat down with me at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee to discuss my life in music in front of friends, journalists, fans and those who undoubtedly thought they were in the museum’s Gene Autry Wing.

Listen to the full conversation below;

Or watch the video on YouTube at http://bit.ly/bGdXCn

I should stress I am not now, nor do I expect to be, a member of the Country Music Hall of Fame…that is merely where this public talk was held. It was real thrill as you can imagine and I thank everyone I have ever played music with for helping me get this far.

The captions were written by me.  As David and I spoke the slides and their accompanying captions were shown on a large screen above our heads. It was such a fulfilling moment for me…it was simply wonderful to think so many folks had been listening to my music after all and that my bands and their music made a difference in some small way to someone’s private and personal journey through Life.

A chat with Rolling Stone writer David Fricke on Sept. 11, 2010.

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For more about The Dylan Hours with Lisa Finnie visit the KCSN website.

The Dylan Hours, featuring the music of and related works by and about American singer-songwriter, author, musician and poet, Bob Dylan, airs every Sunday from 5–7pm on KCSN. The show is programmed, produced and hosted by Lisa Finnie, a Los Angeles–based singer–songwriter and longtime Bob Dylan fan. Lisa plays greatest hits and classic album cuts
along with rare and obscure tracks from Dylan’s five illustrious decades of recording.

The Dylan Hours is a theme–based show, and each week Lisa plays Dylan’s sound recordings that she links by various ideas, often selecting themes that relate to happenings in the world of Bob Dylan as well as general topics in the news, social and political events, holidays, the weather, etc. In addition to tying the songs together by theme, Lisa researches and incorporates background information about each track into her broadcast, such as musician and producer credits and recording session dates and locations.

Lisa also conducts periodic interviews with writers and artists who have participated in Bob-Dylan-related projects. Some special interview guests have included Princeton professor, historian and author, Sean Wilentz; former LA Times pop music critic and editor, Robert Hilburn; film director, Todd Haynes; cultural critic and author, Greil Marcus; author/musician/broadcaster, Sid Griffin; and musician/journalist, Michael Simmons.

The Basement Tapes were recorded during 1967, a year in which Dylan went publicly quiet yet wrote more classic songs than in any other year. In one 94,000 word book you can now read EXACTLY what Bob and The Band were up to at Big Pink as well as where, why and how they made this timeless music. Featuring interviews with Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Roger McGuinn, Joe Boyd, Manfred Mann, Band producer John Simon, Ronnie Hawkins and many more.

Available in all good bookshops and at amazon.com and amazon.co.uk