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In this week's Bob Dylan Hotline, we're talking about "Love is Just a Four Letter Word", a song written but never recorded by Bob Dylan, before it was then popularised by Joan Baez.
What was it about this song that Dylan might have made Dylan shy to release it? Could it have been a little too personal?
If you're interested in the Patreon episode about Dylan the Ghostwriter, you can find that here.
You can see “Love is Just A Four Letter Word” in the Dont Look Back songbook here.
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In his memoir, Chronicles Volume One (2004), Bob Dylan reveals that he suffered a severe hand injury in the late 1980s. Little is known about the circumstances of his incident that Bob Dylan seems to ascribe a symbolic meaning. One of our listeners was intrigued and so were we, so let's talk about it.
The Fred Bals article we refer to a few times can be found here.
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Laura talks to Graley Herren about his new book, Dylan in Cincinnati, the challenges of writing about performance, and our shared love for Paul Williams.
Order his new book Dylan in Cincinnati here.
His book Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan’s "Time Out of Mind" can be found here.
Some essays of his that I love and mention in the episode:
"Young Goodman Dylan: Chronicles at the Crossroads”
"Gender Performance in Dylan’s The Philosophy of Modern Song"
“Dylan and the Kennedy Assassination”
For more, head to his Substack Shadow Chasing.

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In today’s Bob Dylan Hotline we talk about Bob Dylan and gospel music – the ties he had to the genre before his conversion to Christianity, and the enduring impact it had in the decades that followed.
Check out the trailer for the documentary Say Amen, Somebody here.
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Rebecca’s bootleg version is here.

Happy Equinox! What better day to look back on summer and that's exactly what we're doing in this conversation. What do you think? What are your favourite Bob Dylan summer songs? Or do you associate his music with another season entirely?
And of course we had to talk about the new upcoming Rolling Thunder Live 1976 box set!
One correction: Fort Collins is in COLORADO, I have no idea why I said Florida. I’m sorry about that.
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