IRT Magazine

If you look hard enough, the full episodes of Bob Dylan’s celebrated XM radio show are available as MP3 downloads.  However, it is nice to have some kind of a hard copy testament to the pioneering program, which finds Zimm and his cronies stitching together mosaics of music from all over the spectrum under the auspices of a singular theme, be it time or beer or fathers or mothers or Christmas or eyes or colors or jail or what have you. This two-disc set gets the kitchen sink aesthetic of Theme Time Radio Hour perfectly, with a hodgepodge collection that isn’t afraid to segue Duke Ellington into Chuck Berry into Bing Crosby, or Carl Perkins into Bill Monroe and make it all sound sensible in each other’s company; which is, after all, why the show is the modern airwaves classic that it is anyhow. –Ed.

Last Modified : September 1st, 2008
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