Many of our assumptions about spiritual intention, sensual pleasure, and the essence of work, community, country, race, and the divine have germinated in Bob Dylan’s need to know what’s blowing in the wind. In a moment when the world we thought we knew seems like uncharted territory, About Man and God and Law hears sixty years of popular music anew, offering both a map and a manifesto for empathy and purpose for anyone seeking a life of meaning inspired by the songs they love. Stephen Daniel Arnoff injects the quest with an equal dose of academic bona fides mixed with a rock and roll irreverence. How does it feel? Let's find out together. Look for the book About Man & God & Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan coming in December from Morgan James Publishing. More at mangodlaw.com. Join the conversation at facebook.com/dylanmangodlaw.
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episode 2: 02: The Art of Memory
I mean, you're talking to a person that feels like he's walking around in the ruins of Pompeii all the time. It's always been that way for one reason or another. - Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone Interview (2001) Like all great bards—Homer, the Psalmist, Shakespeare—Bob Dylan's creative superpower is his memory. The power of his art lies not just in what he remembers, but in how he remembers it...
episode 1: 01: Salvation
I practice a faith that's been long abandoned/Ain't no altars on this long and lonesome road - Bob Dylan, "Ain't Talkin' (2006) Episode One of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law sets the stage for how Bob Dylan recast popular music with the questions of purpose and meaning that had defined religion for millennia. In the words of Bruce Springsteen, Dylan's songs could contain the whole world. We're uncovering Dylan's rock and roll revolution of the spirit in all of its glorious disruption...
episode 16: 16: Bob Dylan Covered and Uncovered
Every musician gets their start doing covers. The Beatles did Little Richard. The Stones, Chuck Berry. Aerosmith, the Stones. Pearl Jam, Neil Young. Nirvana, the Mekons. But what is revealed by a cover, and most particularly what is revealed by covering songs by Bob Dylan? We asked Adele, Richie Havens, Van Morrison, Iggy Pop, Nina Simone, and a few more pals. Find out the answer here! This is Episode 6 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law...
episode 15: 15: Welcome to Stansville, Mr. Dylan: A Conversation with Rebecca Slaman | Part 2
What about Bob Dylan and God for those who cannot stand what religion does to the world? Can Dylan really be empathetic even with that Positively Fourth Street rage? And what do the Sages of Late Antiquity, Bob Dylan, and the Gospels all have in common? We're touching upon these questions and more with writer, thinker, and our expert guide to Bob Dylan in Stansville, Rebecca Slaman, Part Two of a two-part conversation. This is Episode 5 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law...
episode 14: 14: Welcome to Stansville, Mr. Dylan: A Conversation with Rebecca Slaman
Are eighty year-old rock stars talking to you directly on Twitter? Is Bob Dylan hot? What makes Dylan relevant to the grandchildren of his first fans? We're talking these questions and more with writer, thinker, and our expert guide to Bob Dylan in Stansville, Rebecca Slaman. This is Part One of a two-part conversation. Welcome to Episode 4 of Season 2 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law...
episode 13: 13: Bob Dylan's Halloween Hootenanny
Welcome to Bob Dylan's Halloween Hootenanny! One of Bob Dylan’s creative superpowers is to not be afraid of anything...
episode 12: 12: Bootlegging - Bob Dylan's Salvation Up on Trial
“This wasn’t a failure of creativity. It was a failure of curation,” said Rolling Stone in its recent review of Bob Dylan's Springtime in New York, Volume 16 of the Bootleg Series. But what we have here is failure to communicate. Rolling Stone should know better. It should know how this music feels. A failure to curate? A failure to communicate? A close listen to one song alone from the collection proves this review wrong. "New Danville Girl," please stand up...
episode 11: 11: Life or Death? Why Charlie Watts and Bob Dylan Matter
When a rock god dies, all of the music and myth of that shooting star shines a light into our eyes and memories. Charlie Watts of the Rolling Stones' recent passing lit up the internet particularly brightly at a time when the darkness of mortality is on the minds of so many. In this episode, the first of season two, we're thinking about how to make sense of our inevitable end, and the power of music to make a finite life matter...
episode 10: 10: Bringing It All Back Home | Part Two
It's been a while, but we're finally getting home. Understanding Bob Dylan as a teller of mythic tales (and something of a mythic figure himself), we're closing out Season One with a lesson in spiritual vision from "Like a Rolling Stone" that demands his fans and Dylan himself take on issues of race, sex, class, and essential purpose that haunt his greatest songs, but for which a resolution still remains in reach. Welcome to Episode 10 of Season 1 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law...
episode 9: 09: Bringing It All Back Home - Part One
With Bob Dylan's song maps to follow, we're heading straight into the heart of rock and roll mythology, a quest for a return home even when, like a rolling stone, there is no clear direction to get there. James Joyce and John Brown, a girl from Brownsville and Gregory Peck, and the ever prescient Warren Zevon bring us through part one of the final episode of Season One. Welcome to Episode 9 of Season 1 of Bob Dylan: About Man and God and Law...