4/1/2021: "I'm Going to Woodstock": Cities Where Bob Dylan Recorded pt 8

We continue our twelve-part series featuring the cities where Dylan recorded his studio albums over the decades. Part eight cheats a little because Dylan didn't actually record a studio album in Woodstock or Saugerties, New York. Yet, he wrote nearly 100 songs here and recorded scores of demos that were eventually released, eight years later, as THE BASEMENT TAPES. Because the influence and importance of Woodstock on Dylan's story looms large, I decided to include Woodstock in our series. In this episode, we listen to some of the earliest covers of the songs Dylan wrote in Woodstock, we hear from (now obscure) musicians that Dylan knew in his early visits to Woodstock in 1963 and 1964, and we hear other recordings made in Woodstock. We also celebrate Levon Helm, who so embodied the comradery, conviviality, and cooperation of the Woodstock arts scene. In "20 Pounds of Headlines," we round up news from the world of Bob Dylan and in "Who Did It Better?" we ask you who did "Quinn the Eskimo" better: Bob Dylan, as recorded in Big Pink in Saugerties, New York or Manfred Mann?