Along with beginning his career performing traditional songs and finding inspiration in them as a singersongwriter during the so-called folk revival back in Greenwich Village in 1961, later returning exclusively to this music in the early 1990s with two albums of traditional songs, Good As I Been to You (1992) and World Gone Wrong (1993), Bob Dylan is currently hosting a radio program on XM satellite radio (the BBC has also recenlty begun to syndicate) called “Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan.” As of last Wednesday, January 31, we’re up to week 39, and the theme was “Tears.” There is a new theme each week and, as far as I know, there will be 52 shows total. Below I’ve listed the tracks from Episode 19 from which we got our “Oh Mary, Don’t You Weep” track on the S & P album (Disc 1) by The Swan Silvertones, with Bob’s intro saying, “There are a lot of tears in The Bible…”. In the comments for this post I’ve listed the themes from each week/episode. Do I even need to say that I highly recommend these programs? “Dreams, schemes, and themes...”
Episode 19: BIBLE
First aired on Wednesday, September 6, 2006
The Track Titles and Years:
Are You Bound For Heaven Or Hell - Rev. J.M. Gates - (1926)
Bottle and a Bible - The Yayhoos - (2001)
Samson and Delilah - Rev. Gary Davis - (1956)
He Will Set Your Fields on Fire - Kitty Wells - (1959)
Adam Come And Get Your Rib - Wynonie Harris - (1952)
The Old Ark's A'Moving - AA Gray & Seven Foot Dilly - (1930)
Denomination Blues - Washington Phillips - (1929)
I'm Using My Bible For A Road Map - The Four Internes - (1953)
Elijah Rock - Ollabelle with Amy Helm - (2004)
The Rivers Of Babylon - The Melodians - (1972)
John The Revelator - Blind Willie Johnson - (1930)
Boogie Woogie Preaching Man - Jess Willard - (1952)
Oh Mary, Don't You Weep - The Swan Silvertones - (1959)
That´s What The Good Book Says - The Robins - (1950)
2 comments:
You might have noticed that he keeps the “50 year rule” on many of the tracks from Episode 19: BIBLE. This is very often the case with his song selections each week.
Theme Time Radio Hour with Your Host Bob Dylan: List of Themes 1-39
[2006]
Episode 1: Weather
Episode 2: Mother
Episode 3: Drinking
Episode 4: Baseball Episode 5: Coffee
Episode 6: Jail
Episode 7: Father
Episode 8: Wedding
Episode 9: Divorce
Episode 10: Summer
Episode 11: Flowers
Episode 12: Cars
Episode 13: Rich Man, Poor Man
Episode 14: The Devil
Episode 15: Eyes Episode 16: Dogs
Episode 17: Friends & Neighbors
Episode 18: Radio
Episode 19: Bible
Episode 20: Map
Episode 21: School
Episode 22: Telephone
Episode 23: Water
Episode 24: Time
Episode 25: Guns
Episode 26: Halloween
Episode 27: Dance
Episode 28: Sleep
Episode 29: Food
Episode 30: Thanksgiving Leftovers
Episode 31: Tennessee
Episode 32: Moon
Episode 33: Countdown
Episode 34: 2-Hr Christmas/New Year's Special
[2007]
Episode 35: Women's Names Episode 36: Hair
Episode 37: Musical Instruments Episode 38: Luck
Episode 39: Tears
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We're in synch on several--Rev. Gary Davis, the Melodians, and Blind Willie Johnson...John the Revelator, to appear soon! Plus Mary Don't You Weep. Kitty Wells, too--she should be on our list. I'm surprised to see Rev. Thomas Dorsey not included here, somewhere--but maybe because the theme is strictly scrip[tural...
Remind the group how these can be downloaded!
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