Positively Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan will be the host of a new music show on XM Satellite Radio sometime in spring 2006. The show will feature music hand-picked by Dylan, commentary on music and other topics, as well as interviews with special guests. Plus – and that might be another little surprise – he will answer e-mails from XM subscribers.
Now 64 years old, Bob Dylan said in a statement on his new career as a radio DJ: “Songs and music have always inspired me. A lot of my own songs have been played on the radio, but this is the first time I’ve ever been on the other side of the mic.”
XM Satellite is a leading subscription radio and has been luring other high profile names to boost its profiles. It features 160 commercial-free digital music channels and a playlist with access to over 2 million titles.
According to XM it has more than 5 million subscribers.

XM Satellite Radio Website: http://www.xmradio.com

Celebrating four decades of Bob Dylan’s “Like A Rolling Stone”, the greatest rock song of all times according to Rolling Stone magazine, “Radio Open Source” presented author Greil Marcus in a discussion on the song, the times that brought it along and the way it changed popular music and culture since.
Marcus has just recently published his new book “Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads”. “Open Source” is a nationally syndicated public radio show based in Boston. Its program is based on listeners’ suggestions. You can find their website at www.radioopensource.org .
Marcus did a great job making the listeners relive the mid-1960s and the cultural atmosphere surrounding the creation of the song. He shared personal memories as well as biographical facts about Dylan’s life until 1965: from his musical beginnings in High School to the early influences by his “folk president” Woody Guthrie, the “Don’t Look Back” documentary, his Beatles-inspired going electric and finally the chaotic recording sessions on June 15 and 16, 1965 in Columbia’s Studio A in New York City that lead to an “accident” that would change the history of popular music forever (Greil Marcus).

Download the complete aired program from the page “Like a Rolling Stone,” 40 Years On: http://www.radioopensource.org/still-rolling-forty-years-on/