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| 1. HELLO - Sherman Williams Orchestra | |||
| 2. OUVRE CETTE PORTE (OPEN THIS DOOR) - Adam Hebert & The Country Playboys | |||
| 3. LET'S HAVE A PARTY - Wanda Jackson | |||
| 4. THREE HEARTS IN A TANGLE - James Brown | |||
| 5. CHANGED THE LOCKS - Lucinda Williams | |||
| 6. THERE'S A FIRE - The Gaylads | |||
| 7. WALKIN' WITH FRANKIE - Frankie Lee Sims | |||
| 8. 7 HEURES DU MATIN - Jacqueline Taieb | |||
| 9. A PRETTY GIRL (A CADILLAC AND SOME MONEY) - Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra - vocal Ricky Harper | |||
| 10. JAKE WALK BLUES - Allen Brothers | |||
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. FIRST I LOOK AT THE PURSE - The Contours | |||
| 2. RHODE ISLAND IS FAMOUS FOR YOU - Blossom Dearie | |||
| 3. REEFER MAN - Baron Lee & The Mill Blue Rhythm Band | |||
| 4. DIAMOND JOE - The Georgia Crackers | |||
| 5. MAKE US ONE - Miriam Makeba | |||
| 6. SHE'S SCATTERED EVERYWHERE - Archibald | |||
| 7. CIGAREETES, WHUSKEY AND WILD WILD WOMEN - Red Ingle & The Natural Seven: Vocal by Red Ingle and the Might And Main Street Choral Society | |||
| 8. TEAR-STAINED LETTER - Jo-El Sonnier | |||
| 9. SOUS LE CIEL DE PARIS - Edith Piaf | |||
| 10. THE GLORY OF LOVE - The Velvetones | |||
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Ever since the 1960s, Bob Dylan has stayed ahead of the game by constantly surprising his followers, and one of the greatest recent surprises came in May 2006 when he suddenly emerged in a brand new role – as that of a radio DJ.
The first of Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour programmes was broadcast on XM Satellite Radio, and since then the most celebrated singer-songwriter in America has recorded 100 programmes, each devoted to a particular theme, such as weather, cars, police or work, and making use of a bravely eclectic and adventurous range of other people’s music. Here was a DJ who broke right away from the constraints of top 40 format shows and provided a reminder of how exciting radio can be.
Dylan’s programmes have been broadcast in the UK on Radio 2 and 6 Music (and were subsequently available on iPlayer), and now comes the second of a companion series of compilation albums of the songs that Dylan chose. He can’t actually be heard on this set, and although there are extensive sleeve notes about each track, there is no reminder of which of Dylan’s themes each song was used to illustrate. No matter, though, as the songs are intriguing, constantly unexpected, and range from the (occasionally) well-known to the obscure, covering everything from early R&B to soul, blues, Cajun, rockabilly, jazz, country, reggae, Latin, chanson, and even novelty songs (Dylan clearly has a sense of humour).
The better-known artists include the great French chanteuse Édith Piaf, Jamaican star Desmond Dekker (with the glorious Shanty Town), blues legend Mississippi John Hurt, South African diva Miriam Makeba, Dionne Warwick (with her 1968 hit Do You Know the Way to San Jose), experimental rock hero Captain Beefheart, heard here on his compelling and insistent 1982 recording Ice Cream For Crow, and country star Lucinda Williams, with her angry country classic Changed The Locks.
But the lesser-known tracks are even more intriguing, and these include the moody but stomping 7 Heures du Matin, which includes a nod to The Who’s My Generation and was recorded in 1968 by the French-based Tunisian singer Jacqueline Taïeb, and the truly wacky Hunting Tigers Out in India (Yah), recorded in 1930 by Hal Swain and including the line, “It’s no use stroking them and saying ‘puss puss’”. Who would have thought Dylan would go for a lyric like that? --Robin Denselow
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* The release of Ace Records' first Theme Time Radio Hour compilation in February 2008 was a huge success both critically and commercially and Ace now proudly present another double CD featuring the highlights of the second radio series of "Theme Time Radio Hour, with your host Bob Dylan".
* 50 tracks spanning the history of recorded music showcased in the radio show have been selected: all styles, all genres, all decades are here. Dylan's legendary eclectic taste and vast musical knowledge touches all bases.
* Similarly packaged to Volume 1, this CD features a deluxe colour booklet (packaged inside a slip case) with track-by-track notes by luminaries including Al Kooper, Jerry Dammers, Fred Dellar, Charlie Gillett, Mark Lamarr and many, many more. Long-time friend of Ace Billy Bragg contributes the introduction. The double CD has a mini-booklet inside with just the track listing and credits for the quick guide for listeners to see the contents.
* Compiled in association with the producer of the radio show, Eddie Gorodetsky, and Dylan's manager, Jeff Rosen, this is an officially approved release...
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Theme Time Radio Hour Season 2 with Bob Dylan,
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I bought this for my fiance. We occasionally had the great pleasure of driving home from somewhere and catching Theme Time Radio Hour With Your Host Bob Dylan- and the comments made by Bob Dylan were part of that great pleasure. So I sought to find recordings of the show which included the actual host. Entitled "Theme Time Radio Hour Season 2 with Bob Dylan " told me what I needed to know- that Bob would indeed be making the day of my dearest when he listened.
However. No. "With Bob Dylan" is not part of this recording. Not taking away from the genius of the material at all, it is magnificent and totally enjoyable. I just wish it actually included "Bob Dylan" as advertised on the cover. Alas, a product misrepresented by its title if ever one existed. So disappointed to have to write this.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A second helping of Bob's Pick n Mix,
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This review is from: Theme Time Radio Hour Season 2 With Your Host Bob Dylan (Audio CD)
Repeating all the plus points from Volume 1 - the beautiful design, the attention to detail , the retro stylings and most importantly the track selections - Theme Time Radio Hour Volume 2 is as delightful and revelatory a treasure trove as the first volume.
Bob Dylan has never been a a fan of the over-egging school of record production; when The Beatles and several million copyists were labouring over multi-track epics like Sgt Pepper and filling every available space with mellotrons and flutes and strings and sitars, and taking months to create a whole album, Bob Dylan moved in the complete opposite direction to the stripped down simplicity of John Wesley Harding. (Admittedly his lack of concern about this part of the process has led to some shoddy sounding work being released by him over the years - the original version of Street Legal for example, great album that it is, sounded like it had been recorded in a tin bath falling to the bottom of a quarry.) That preference for the spontaneous, the loose and the untampered with, is reflected in the song choices in this second collection of highlights from his radio shows. These are mainly recordings of a performance or a song, not tracks that have been pieced together over many hours by editing and re-recording. The virtues of this method are plain to hear - the music lives, breathes and swings, the overall tone is high spirited and exhilarating, the attitude is let's drink and dance and fall in love because who knows what may happen tomorrow. As ever the pleasures for me are discovering the totally unfamiliar material that I probably would not have sought out otherwise. I mean, I've never heard a Blossom Dearie song in all my life and now I keep playing her twinkly song here with its continental sweep and terrible puns ("Pencils/come from Pennsylvania"). I love Jacqueline Taieb's French 60s girl pop cherry bomb 7 Heures du Matin, I love Porter Waggoner's Cold Hard Facts of Life, a 3-minute country soap opera tragedy, I love the sheer crazy glee of Hello by the Sherman Williams Orchestra, which sounds like a proto Bonzo Dog Band track. (Indeed, there is an early version of Hunting Tigers out in India here too, which backs up my suspicion that Bob is a fan of the Bonzos school of musical silliness.) All you have to do to reap the full benefit is to just let your guard down a bit, open yourself up to the range of styles included and tune into the overall exuberance and humanity of such eclecticism. Once you get into the spirit of the thing you'll find that there really isn't a duff track here. I would be happy for Ace records to release one of these collections every year until they'd covered every song played by Bob the DJ. If that's not possible then volumes 3 and 4 at least would be nice.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another wonderfully eclectic collection from ACE.,
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Theme Time Radio Hour is one of the most original and enlightening music programmes on the air. It's brilliantly presented by Bob Dylan who plays an eclectic mix of often obscure records all linked by a theme. Dylan's knowledge of American popular music is immense and each programme is peppered with his unique combination of wit and wisdom.
So, Ace Records are to be congratulated for issuing this second officially approved double album containing 50 wonderful tracks of the kind of music to be heard on TTRH. The only thing missing is the man himself but that shouldn't deter anyone from acquiring this marvellous and wide-ranging selection of great music(from Desmond Dekker to Sun Ra!) expertly compiled in association with Eddie Grodetsky(producer of the show) and Jeff Rosen(Dylan's manager).
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