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Bob Dylan Approximately

Daniel Crespin and Kerry Shale

A podcast about all things Bob Dylan...approximately.Actors Kerry Shale and Daniel Crespin - a Canadian Boomer and an English Millennial - dive deeply into a mutual love of Bob Dylan"s work.Content Warning ⚠️ : Flippant humour, mysterious lyrics, and unexpected tangents.For bonus episodes, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/c/BobDylanApproximately Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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47:10

EP#11 - Talkin' World War III Hollis Brown Blues

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2026/01/19

Was America Great when Dylan wrote The Ballad of Hollis Brown? What links the song to Othello’s pal, Iago? What’s the difference between being broke and having nothing? How did Dylan make that stabbing sound on his guitar? Who stole Ronnie Wood’s duvet? Which Bluegrass band named themselves after a brand of bib overalls?How does Talkin’ World War III Blues make use Shakespeare’s iambic verse? How does Donovan feature in the live version of the song? What’s with the lyrics on the official Dylan

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11:50

Bonus EP#10 (TEASER) - Yea! Heavy & A Pack of Wild...

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2026/01/12

This is a teaser of Bonus EP#10 - Yea! Heavy & A Pack of Wild Geese (The Second Pilot Episode). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now, for just £5 a month.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow

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1:10:02

EP#10 - Every Grain of Nish Kumar

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2026/01/05

Has our special guest, comedian Nish Kumar, officially entered his “Every Grain of Sand” era? What does screenwriting guru Robert McKee have to say about the song? Which small seed-eating bird was used as a cheap source of protein in Biblical times? Why did Nish try to avoid seeing Dylan in concert after 2002? Does he think Bob and Nick Cave have a duty to engage more fully with politics? Why does Nish owe Kerry a thank you? Is Daily Show guest host Jordan Klepper listening to (or watching) BDA?We

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15:34

Bonus EP#9 (TEASER) - Floating and Wiggling (The...

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/12/29

This is a teaser of Bonus EP#9 - Floating and Wiggling (The First Pilot Episode). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!This was our

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52:02

EP#9 - I Want a Danville Girl

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/12/15

Was Dylan’s voice “at its peak of nasality” on I Want You? How does it figure in A Complete Unknown? Why was the lonesome organ grinder crying? Who was Joni Mitchell’s biggest influence as a songwriter? What’s the possible Brian Jones connection? Who said, “love and sex hang everybody up… it’s just whatever two souls happen to be.”Which album is worse: Knocked Out Loaded or Down In the Groove? Which song is superior: Brownsville Girl or New Danville Girl? Which 80’s Road movie do they remind you of

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20:36

Bonus EP#8 (TEASER) - Chronicles: Volume One (Part...

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/12/08

This is a teaser of Bonus EP# - Chronicles: Volume One (Part III) (BDA Book Club III). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!Is America

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50:46

EP#8 - The Men the Authorities Came to Blame

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/12/01

Is Dylan’s Lenny Bruce an execrable song, or actually quite good? Which chat show host interviewed both Bob and Lenny? Which seminal album cover featured both of them? What links Peter Cook, Robert de Niro and Bob Fosse? Who is Dylan talking to when he describes Lenny as “more of an outlaw than you ever were?”Was Rubin Carter ever the Number One contender for the Middleweight crown? Who was the portly Irishman who cried out “My God! They’ve killed them all” in Dylan and Levy’s Hurricane? How many

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15:19

Bonus EP#7 (TEASER) - Chronicles: Volume One (Part...

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/11/24

This is a teaser of Bonus EP#7 - Chronicles: Volume One (Part II) (BDA Book Club II). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!Is America

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53:34

EP#7 - Tomorrow is a Red River Shore

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/11/17

Do we ever get over our first broken heart? What drove Billy Connolly’s kids crazy? What’s the connection between singing and acting? Between Dylan and Hemingway? Burton and Eastwood? Kerry and Ben Whishaw? How many of Dylan’s greatest songs, like Tomorrow Is A Long Time, have only three chords? Whose hills are alive with the sound of music?Is The Girl on the Red River shore Dylan’s muse? Or is she the girl from the film “Red River”? Is the sun actually the sun? Why has the “door” lyric in the song

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18:13

Bonus EP#6 (TEASER) - Chronicles: Volume One (Part I)...

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/11/10

This is a teaser of Bonus EP#6 - Chronicles: Volume One (Part I) (BDA Book Club I). It is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now for just £5 a month. Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!Follow us on Instagram

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55:19

EP#6 - Frankie Lee & Judas Priest, Said the Joker to...

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/11/03

Why are we discussing a Jimi Hendrix tune? Is All Along The Watchtower, Dylan’s most-performed song, a critique of the Music and Acting Industry? Who recorded the most boring cover version? The best? Who in their right mind releases a major album two days after Christmas? How did Elvis come to sing his only Dylan song? Who loves an outlaw? What did Ozzy Osbourne say about the Beatles? What does Daniel Crespin say? What do you say?What two words from The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest keep us

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16:56

Bonus EP#5 (TEASER) - Don't Look Back (BDA Film Club II)

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/10/27

This is a teaser of Bonus EP#5 - Don't Look Back (BDA Film Club II). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximatelyFollow us on YouTube

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1:05:08

EP#5 - When David Hepworth Comes In

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/10/20

"There's very little you can say about the music industry that's not true", says our first guest, the legendary Mr David Hepworth, in this special extended episode (available in both audio and video formats). But does he really believe that Dylan invented the pop-punk band Busted? Where does he say is the best place to listen to Nick Drake outtakes? Has attending a Bruce Springsteen concert "turned into football"? Who does David think is at the top of the pecking order: Cruise, McCartney, or Dylan

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10:42

Bonus EP#4 (TEASER) - I'm Not There/A Complete...

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/10/13

This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#4 - I'm Not There/A Complete Unknown (BDA Film Club I). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!Follow us on Instagram

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53:34

EP#4 - Lily, Rosemary, Jack & Tony Perkins

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/10/06

Why did Mandy Patinkin use his Johnny Cash voice when covering 'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts'? Has there ever been a more unreliable narrator than Bob Dylan? Or a more out-of-tune harmonica intro? Was Bob's acting in 'Masked and Anonymous' awful, or way ahead of its time? Was Rocky Raccoon a Dylan tribute song? Do pen-knives actually kill?Is 'Motorpsycho Nitemare' the first draft of 'Bob Dylan's 115th Dream?' How does Rita - the farmer's daughter - manage to look like Anita Ekberg and Tony

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10:49

BONUS EP#3 (TEASER) - Dylan and Women (Part II)

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/09/28

This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#3 - Dylan and Women (Part II). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximatelyFollow us

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52:18

EP#3 - Beyond Here Lies Jokerman

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/09/22

Who was Dylan’s first choice to produce Infidels? The spirit of which Beat poet lurks behind the lyrics to Jokerman? Do I smell goats roasting over fire and brimstone, or is it my imagination? Have you heard the one about the old man in the church who faced down the Devil? What’s the story behind Dylan and the Plugz on Late Night with Letterman?Why does ‘Why Dylan Matters’ by Richard F. Thomas matter? If every window’s made of glass, why does Dylan bother mentioning it? What’s the point of the

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10:43

Bonus EP#2 (TEASER) - Dylan and Women (Part I)

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/09/15

This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#2 - Dylan and Women (Part I). It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your listenership!Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximatelyFollow us

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43:11

EP#2 - Highway 61 Through Mississippi

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/09/08

Who is Rosie? Who said, “Polyrhythm has its place but it doesn’t work for knife-like lyrics trying to convey majesty and heroism”? Was Bob writing about the state of Mississippi, the state of the nation or the state of a relationship? Or Elvis? Is the older, sardonic, raised-eyebrow Dylan superior to the younger, sneery Bob?Who wrote about Highway 61 that “it was my place in the universe. Always felt like it was in my blood”? Whose grandfather and uncle were Mack the Finger and Louis the King? Where

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10:43

Bonus EP#1 (TEASER) - What is This Shit?

Bob Dylan Approximately ·

2025/09/01

This is a teaser of the first ten minutes of Bonus EP#1 - What is This Shit? It is available to our Patreon subscribers right now, as well as early access to Episode 2 - Highway 61 Through Mississippi.Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast. Thanks for your

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