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

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 4:
1. I'm My Own Grandpa - Lonzo And Oscar 2. Aunt Caroline Dyer Blues - The Memphis Jug Band 3. The Seventh Son - Willie Mabon 4. Ground Hog (Featuring Frank Moore & His Log Cabin Boys) - Cousin Emmy 5. The Monkey Speaks His Mind - Dave Bartholomew 6. Froggy Went a Courtin' - Tex Ritter 7. There's a Moose on the Loose - Roddy Jackson 8. Possum Song - Johnny Mercer 9. Bert the Turtle - Dick 'Two Ton' Baker 10. Calling All Cows - Lazy Bill Lucas & The Blues Rockers 11. Black Rat Swing - Memphis Minnie & Little Son Joe 12. When You're Smiling - Billie Holiday 13. Aint't Got No Home - Clarence "Frogman" Henry 14. End Of The Road - Jerry Lee Lewis 15. Boogie Uproar - Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 16. Rock of Gibraltar - Big Joe Turner 17. Strut That Thing - Cripple Clarence Lofton 18. Fujiyama Mama - Wanda Jackson 19. Fujiyama Mama - Annisteen Allen 20. Bad Boy - Clarence Palmer & The Jive Bombers 21. Goodbye (Baby) - Elmore James 22. Vaya Con Dios (Go With God) - Les Paul & Mary Ford 23. So Long, Good Luck and Goodbye - Weldon Rodgers & The Teen Kings 24. Sploghm - Slim Gaillard 25. See You Later Alligator - Bobby Charles 26. So Long, I'm Gone - Warren Smith 27. Bye Bye Fare Thee Well - Peppermint Harris 28. I'm Checkin' Out , Goo'm Bye - Duke Ellington & His Orchestra
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