Scott Warmuth

I appreciate your work here. My favorite category on the Dylan Pool, where folks handicap Bob Dylan setlists, are the wildcards. Gonna write, record & release a song called “Dylan Song Not On The List Played The First Time Live” and then get Bob to play it every night. 25 points a pop—I’ll clean up!

Bonus Track #4 with scholar and author Andrew Muir is out now! I am grateful to Andrew for taking time to talk with me, to share his brilliant insights on Dylan’s wordplay and performance, and invite me into his intellectual playground.

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"This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco, this ain’t no skin care routine!"

R.I.P. Bobby Hart, noted subversive.

Land of Truth and Liberty + pizza = Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Richard Prince's Wily 7-Hour 'Deposition' Video Is an Instant Classic | Artnet News Richard Prince recently showed his nearly 7-hour-long deposition in a copyright case as a video artwork. It's a doozy.

I watched Richard Prince's 7-hour 'Deposition.' In some small way, it refreshed my faith in art. news.artnet.com/art-world/ri...

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Typos make us human. Of course it’s New *Lost* City Ramblers. I lay out the Uncle John connection with receipts and commentary from John Cohen here: swarmuth.blogspot.com/2015/12/bob-...

Red, Jim, and Jack Anglin performed as the Anglin Twins and Red and billed themselves as "the South's favorite trio" in the 1930s. If we’re talking about hidden twins and identity in the work of Bob Dylan, which we just were in Tulsa, the Anglin Twins are yet another pair of doubles to consider.

And does Bob Dylan think about these things too? Well, yeah. Dig this exchange with David Gates in Newsweek from 1997.

When I hear “Searching for a Soldier’s Grave” I think about how Jack Anglin died in a car crash on the way to Patsy Cline’s funeral, leaving his brother Jim and his singing partner Johnnie Wright (husband of Kitty Wells) to have to soldier on without him. It adds layers to the song. A resonance.

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A cutthroat biz. If you recall, we talked in Tulsa about how Dylan’s use of Johnnie and Jack’s “Uncle John’s Bongos” plays a part in just 1 of the several stories happening at once in “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum”—that hidden tribute to John Cohen and the New List City Ramblers.
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Cool! Andy Greene writes, “Roy Acuff's World War Il-era folk song ‘Searching For a Soldier's Grave’” It’s only Acuff’s because he *bought* it. Eyolf Østrem notes “Written by Jim Anglin (1913-1987), who sold the copyrights to Roy Acuff.” Jim Anglin is the brother of Jack Anglin, of Johnnie & Jack.

Last Saturday I presented my paper "Several Stories Happening at Once: Intertext in ‘Love and Theft’" at The World of Bob Dylan 2025 conference. Such a receptive crowd! Brian Roberts and Eric Lott were also on the panel. An expanded version of my slides is on my IG: www.instagram.com/p/DMkYHLVOkQ...

22 years ago today, „Masked & Anonymous“ was released. Directed by Larry Charles and co-written with Bob Dylan, it’s a wonderful movie featuring an outstanding cast, intriguing dialogues and powerful musical performances — an artistic work that has stood the test of time.

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The M&A screenplay is just as dense as Chronicles: Volume One and “Love and Theft” when it comes to material incorporated from other sources. Larry Charles and I have touched base a couple of times. It still has *a lot* to give. Charles talks about writing with Dylan in his new book Comedy Samurai.

Denise Sullivan writes, “It's understandable if you missed the 80 year commemoration of the Trinity test, given the week that was.” I didn’t miss it, because I live in New Mexico. The haunting National Museum of Nuclear Science & History is just down the road, catty-corner from my local Costco.

I’d wager that the “reduced price” bit has its roots in an oral history captured by Junichi Saga in his book Memories of Silk and Straw. There’s an undeniable line that turns up in “Honest With Me” just a few pages later.

There is a 9 CD unabridged audiobook version of Chronicles: Volume One narrated by Nick Landrum.

I suppose that’s debatable. Dylan quotes a line from Shane in “Never Gonna Be the Same Again” (Don’t worry, baby, I don’t mind leaving
I’d just like it to be my idea”). Other Westerns are referenced in Masked and Anonymous. For example, Jake Fate echoes this Sterling Hayden line from Johnny Guitar.

Hey @michaelgray1.bsky.social, I saw that you posted, “I'm told that in ‘Shane’ the song Dixie is part of the sound track, with a scene where the camera pans slowly left to right across a small group of people; in M&A Dylan sings Dixie with a small audience & the camera pans across them likewise.”

Thinking of Chantal Akerman (June 6, 1950 – October 5, 2015). Bob Dylan has a couple of paintings based on shots from her 1977 film News from Home.

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Thanks to Steve Badolato for letting me know that he figured out that this Bob Dylan painting is based on a shot from Sweet Smell of Success. This brings the tally of films that have been identified as source material used in Bob Dylan’s paintings and drawings to 70. That’s a lot of movies!

There’s a Richard Prince/Bob Dylan centerfold in the Summer 2025 issue of Gagosian Quarterly. The accompanying text is an OK starting point for considering this stuff. (Bluesky insists on a censored version of the issue’s Picasso cover). gagosian.com/quarterly/is...

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