"Radio Radio" Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour - Vol 4 - disc 1

Bob Dylan transformed songwriting in the 20th century by dumping everything into a creative blender, from beat poetry to ancient ballads restrung with vibrantly new lyrics, and he has been inherently postmodern, well aware -- even if it was by accident -- of how to navigate the emerging ocean of pop culture and the blessing/curse of celebrity...
...And he's done it with his integrity and privacy intact -- quite a feat. And he's done it, for the most part, in public -- he releases studio albums regularly, he tours in never-ending fashion, and, since 2006, he has hosted Bob Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour on the airwaves. His shows aren’t just some celebrity DJ spinning favorite records (although Dylan obviously loves what he spins on the air), but are really concise history lessons in American music in all genres and eras, from blues, folk, and country to jazz, R&B, soul, rock & roll, bebop, country, and even rap and spoken word, embracing the entire spectrum of ordered recorded sound from the early 1900s forward. Releases like this one, which collects 110 of the sides Dylan has spun on his show, reveal just how impressive all of it is. From an incredibly diverse litany of recording artists that includes Mel Blanc, Lefty Frizzell, Ike Turner, Brenda Lee, Steve Allen, Roy Rogers, Tex Ritter, Cousin Emmy, Billie Holiday, Peppermint Harris, and many, many others, Dylan clusters songs around themes ranging from powerful topics like money, war, and happiness to whimsical ones like fruit, cats, sugar, and candy, until what he has assembled is a delightfully varied playlist of what we have been singing about, complaining about, celebrating, berating, adoring, and bemoaning for the past 200 years. Dylan's own recorded legacy is a testament to his searching intelligence and vision, but so, too, is his radio show. Call it all a dialogue with America. Hopefully everyone is listening. (Steve Leggett, Allmusic)

CD 1:
1. That's Want They Want - Jerry McCain & His Upstarts 2. You Put It in, I'll Take It Out - Papa Charlie Jackson 3. Money - Mel Blanc 4. My Baby's Just Like Money - Lefty Frizzell 5. Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash - The Clovers 6. You Can't Take It With You - Jesse Price 7. Gimme My Dime Back, Give Me My Money - Moon Mullican & His Blue Ridge Playboys 8. Money Honey - The Drifters w/Clyde McPhatter 9. You Can't Take It With You - Young John Watson 10. All Night Long - Joe Houston & His Rockets, Oscar Peterson Group 11. The Way You Look Tonight - Fred Astaire w/The Oscar Peterson Group 12. Midnight Shift - Buddy Holly 13. In the Night - Professor Longhair 14. Black Night - Charles Brown 15. I Can't Get Started - Anita O'Day w/The Buddy Bregman Orchestra 16. I'm Beginning to See the Light - Peggy Lee 17. Begin the Beguine - Artie Shaw w/The Artie Shaw Orchestra 18. This Is the End - Buddy Guy 19. She Made My Blood Run Cold - Ike Turner 20. Transfusion - Nervous Norvus 21. Bloodstains on the Wall - Honeyboy 22. Bloodshot - The String Kings 23. I've Got Blood in My Eyes for You - The Mississippi Sheiks 24. G.I. Jive - Louis Jordan & His Tympany Five 25. Fightin' in the War With Spain - Wilmer Watts & The Lonely Eagles 26. The Battle of New Orleans - Johnny Horton 27. The Cold War With You - Floyd Tillman 28. The Forgotten Soldier Boy - The Monroe Brothers
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