Hard Rain & Slow Trains: Bob Dylan & Fellow Travelers
A weekly radio program featuring the music of Bob Dylan, his contemporaries, and his antecedents. Broadcast weekly on Thursdays from 8-9 pm PST on KEPW (97.3 FM-LP), available on www.kepw.org. Hosted by Dan. Artwork by Selena Dugan-Fields.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 71 minutes
- Episodes
- 171
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
4/21/2022: "A Highway of Diamonds": Bob Dylan in April of 1962
Join us for a tour of Bob Dylan's professional life in April of 1962 as we travel "A Highway of Diamonds" back 60 years ago to the month and visit Dylan as he writes "Blowin' in the Wind," begins the…
01:00:25 |
Fri 22 Apr 2022
4/14/2022: TEMPEST at Ten: Ruination Day
This episode continues a monthly, ten-part series celebrating the tenth anniversary of TEMPEST. Broadcasting on April 14th, the 110th anniversary of the Titanic's fateful convergence with the iceberg…
01:05:05 |
Fri 15 Apr 2022
4/7/2022: "Rough and Rowdy Ways" World Wide Tour: A Musical Expedition pt 2
This episode continues the expedition we began last week, following the musical map Dylan has drawn for us as the spring tour winds to a close. The weekly news segment "20 Pounds of Headlines" keeps …
01:11:07 |
Thu 07 Apr 2022
3/31/2022: "Rough and Rowdy Ways" World Wide Tour: A Musical Expedition pt 1
Dylan has told us that he is a musical expeditionary. In the midst of his band introductions throughout the fall and spring tours he mentioned performers local to the city he is playing. Join us for …
01:15:02 |
Fri 01 Apr 2022
3/24/2022: "May Your Song Always Be Sung": Series of Dreams
This episode continues our monthly series featuring a single Dylan song and today's episode occurs the day after the 33rd anniversary of the recording of "Series of Dreams" in New Orleans, where Dyla…
01:21:36 |
Fri 25 Mar 2022
3/17/2022: "A Highway of Diamonds": Bob Dylan in March of 1962
The recording session with Victoria Spivey & Big Joe Williams, playing some tunes at a NYC apartment gathering, finishing "Let Me Die in My Footsteps, writing "Talking Folklore Center," and, of cours…
01:00:34 |
Fri 18 Mar 2022
3/10/2022: Spring 2022 Tour: The First Week
This episode covers highlights of the first week of Bob Dylan's Spring 2022 tour, focusing on performances from Tucson and Albuquerque. In addition to performances from Tucson and Albuquerque, you wi…
01:12:41 |
Fri 11 Mar 2022
3/3/2022: Pregame: Spring 2022 Tour
Tonight, March 3rd, Bob Dylan returns to the stage for the first day of Dylan's 28-date concert tour through the Southwest and South of the United States. This "pregame" episode features music from t…
00:54:39 |
Fri 04 Mar 2022
2/24/2022: TEMPEST at Ten: "Duquesne Whistle"
This episode launches a monthly, ten-part series celebrating the tenth anniversary of TEMPEST by taking a deep dive into each of the album's songs. This first episode features the first track on the …
01:00:09 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
2/17/2022: "May Your Song Always Be Sung": "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again"
This episode continues our monthly series featuring a single Dylan song and today's episode occurs on the 56th anniversary of the recording of "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" in…
01:16:23 |
Fri 18 Feb 2022
2/10/2022: "A Highway of Diamonds": Bob Dylan in February of 1962
A February in NYC is cold, so let's duck out of the snow-filled Village streets and set our dial on the wireless radio to hear about a month in the professional life of Bob Dylan from 60 years ago. A…
01:02:38 |
Fri 11 Feb 2022
2/3/2022: "Ain't Gonna Hang No Picture Frame": Masked and Anonymous
This episode explores the meaning and the music of MASKED AND ANONYMOUS, which was filmed 20 years ago and released 19 years ago. In "20 Pounds of Headlines," we remember drummer Sam Lay, pianist Har…
01:11:06 |
Fri 04 Feb 2022
1/27/2022: "May Your Song Always Be Sung": "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
This episode kicks off an intermittent series that will feature a single song in order to both reveal how Dylan's performance of it changes over the decades and also to hear how the song changes in t…
01:48:52 |
Fri 28 Jan 2022
1/20/2022: "A Highway of Diamonds": Bob Dylan's Village in 1962
They say that the 60th anniversary is the diamond anniversary. This week, and throughout the year, we will periodically take a trip on "a highway of diamonds," exploring the events of Bob Dylan's car…
01:02:29 |
Fri 21 Jan 2022
1/13/2022: "Ride, Willie, Ride": Willie Nelson
This year marks the 60th anniversary of Nelson's first studio album, so why not now to feature one of the most prolific and poetic song craftsmen and singers to be included as one of Dylan's fellow t…
01:05:07 |
Fri 14 Jan 2022
1/6/2022: 2022: Hello Stranger
2022 says hello as a stranger, but it will go out an acquaintance, hopefully as a pal and not a nemesis. This episode plays Dylan songs & those of fellow travelers featuring strangers & looks expecta…
01:25:49 |
Fri 07 Jan 2022
12/30/2021: "In the Smoke of the Twilight": 2021 in Review
Our third annual end-of-year, year in review episode of HARD RAIN & SLOW TRAINS: BOB DYAN & FELLOW TRAVELERS looks back "in the smoke of the twilight" to a year highlighted by the SHADOW KINGDOM conc…
01:18:58 |
Thu 30 Dec 2021
12/23/2021: Nativity!
Our third annual Christmas episode of HARD RAIN & SLOW TRAINS: BOB DYLAN & FELLOW TRAVELERS. Enjoy the "Nativity" music of some fellow travelers while you either travel or stay indoors this holiday s…
01:03:33 |
Thu 23 Dec 2021
12/16/2021: Last Ones Standing pt 6: Mavis Staples
The sixth episode featuring fellow travelers who first recorded in the 1950s and who are still with us (the previous ones are from 7/15/2021, 6/3/2021, 9/3/2020, 5/14/2020, and 5/7/2020). This episod…
01:50:59 |
Fri 17 Dec 2021
12/9/2021: Postgame: Fall 2021 Tour
In November, Bob Dylan returned to the stage for the first time in 23 months. He performed 21 concerts, his last one wrapping up last week in Washington, DC. Join HARD RAIN & SLOW TRAINS: BOB DYLAN &…
01:12:42 |
Fri 10 Dec 2021
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