Episode 5: The Ballad of Bob and J.R.

We wish you a happy and prosperous 2016! Thank you for listening. A quick prologue: we stop by the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, where they opened up a very cool exhibit in March of 2015. Then we move on to Newport, Rhode Island, where Pete Seeger is about to introduce Johnny Cash, an established country star playing for the first time to a folk festival audience. After a rough beginning, the show goes very well. Afterwards, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan—mutual fans—meet for the first time and begin a lifelong friendship. We then spend some time getting to know the Man in Black; we learn about the family tragedy that moved J.R. Cash to write and make music. We find out the real origins of “Folsom Prison Blues.” We leave Johnny Cash in Memphis for the meantime, and head north to Hibbing, Minnesota and check in on young Robert Allen Zimmerman. As a teen, Bobby is a leather-jacketed Rock N Roll rebel; but he takes on a new name and identity when he discovers folk music as a freshman at the University of Minnesota. He hears Woody Guthrie, decides he has to meet him, and makes his way to New York City to do just that. We use the lives and music of these two legends to tell about the events of the early Sixties in America. Bob Dylan plays before a tiny crowd in Mississippi and a huge one in Washington DC. Johnny Cash heads to the Far East on a USO tour and hears ominous rumors of new war brewing. And more. We also talk about that whole Bob Dylan: Voice of a Generation thing. We end up back where we started. It’s one year later, at Newport, summer of 1965. Bob Dylan plugs in, and Rock N Roll will never be the same. Another side of Bob Dylan? We think it’s the TRUE side of Bob Dylan. But you can draw your own conclusions. Give us your feedback & unhinged rants at: www.rocknrollarchaeology.com/ email: [email protected] www.facebook.com/TheRNRAP Twitter & Instagram: @rnrarchaeology EPISODE 5 PLAYLIST Follow rnrarchaeology on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/user/rocknrollarchaeology/playlist/1unrUM7RQM98LtvlSRs7Tb SHOW NOTES & CREDITS Songs from Episode 5 Bob Dylan: “Walking Down the Line,” from The Bootleg Series Volumes 1-3 (Rare And Unreleased) 1961-1991, 1994 Sony/BMG Records Johnny Cash, “Walking the Blues,” from The Fabulous Johnny Cash, 1958, Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding),” from Bringing it All Back Home, 1965 Columbia Records Pete Seeger: “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” from Waist Deep in the Big Muddy and Other Love Songs,1967 Columbia Records Johnny Cash: “Big River,” single released 1958, Sun Records Johnny Cash: “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright,” from Orange Blossom Special, 1965 Columbia Records Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings, (Written by Hank Snow): “I’m Movin’ On,” from Out Among the Stars, 2014 Legacy Records Johnny Cash and the Cash Family: “Will The Circle Be Unbroken?” from 20 Songs of Faith, 2014 K-Tel Records Johnny Cash: “I’ve Been Everywhere,” from American II: Unchained, 1996 American/Warner Bros. Records Gordon Jenkins: “Crescent City Blues,” from Seven Dreams, 1953 Decca Records Eddie Cochran: “Summertime Blues,” Bob Dylan: “With God on Our Side” from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963 Columbia Records Johnny Cash: “Cry, Cry, Cry,” from Johnny Cash and his Hot and Blue Guitar, 1957 Sun Records Johnny Cash: “Folsom Prison Blues,” from Johnny Cash and his Hot and Blue Guitar, 1957 Sun Records Johnny Cash: “Get Rhythm” single released (B-Side) 1956, Sun Records Johnny Cash: “I Walk The Line,” from Johnny Cash and his Hot and Blue Guitar, 1957 Sun Records Johnny Cash: “Ring of Fire” from Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash, 1963 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “House of the Rising Sun,” from Bob Dylan, 1962 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “Song to Woody,” from Bob Dylan, 1962 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “Talkin’ New York Blues,” from Bob Dylan, 1962 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall,” from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “Blowin’ in the Wind,” from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “Oxford Town,” from The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, 1963 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “Only a Pawn in Their Game,” from The Times They Are A-Changin’, 1964 Columbia Records Bob Dylan: “Like a Rolling Stone,” from Highway 61 Revisited, 1965 Columbia Records The Byrds: “Mr. Tambourine Man” (Written by Bob Dylan), from Mr. Tambourine Man, 1965 Columbia Records Jimi Hendrix: “All Along the Watchtower” (Written by Bob Dylan), from Electric Ladyland, 1968 Reprise Records Manfred Mann: “The Mighty Quinn” (Written by Bob Dylan), from The Mighty Quinn, 1968 Fontana Records Guns N’ Roses: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” (Written by Bob Dylan), from Use Your Illusion II, 1992 Geffen Records Beck: “Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat” (Written by Bob Dylan), from War Child Presents: Heroes, 2009 Astralwerks Records Rage Against the Machine: “Maggie’s Farm” (Written by Bob Dylan), from Renegades, 2000 Epic Records Books Bob Dylan: “Subterranean Homesick Blues,” from Bringing it All Back Home, 1965 Columbia Records Books Dawidoff, Nicholas (1997): In the Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music Dylan, Bob (2004): Chronicles, Volume 1 Guralnick, Peter (2015): Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock N Roll Guthrie, Woody (1943): Bound for Glory Hentoff, Nat (2010): Fifty years of Playboy Interviews: Bob Dylan (Note: interviews first published in 1968 and 1976) Hilburn, Robert (2014): Johnny Cash: The Life Prial, Dunstan (2006): The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music Rotolo, Suze (2004): A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties Shelton, Bob: (1986, revised 2010): No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan Movies The Wild One, directed by Laszlo Benedek, 1953 Columbia Pictures Walk The Line, directed by James Mangold, 2005 Twentieth Century Fox No Direction Home, directed by Martin Scorsese, 2005 Paramount Pictures The Other Side of the Mirror: Bob Dylan at the Newport Folk Festival, directed by Murray Lerner, 2007 BBC Films Online Sources, by Topic in Order of Appearance Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville: http://countrymusichalloffame.org Reviews of the Dylan & Cash and the Nashville Cats Exhibit: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-johnny-cash-nashville-cats-country-music-hall-of-fame-20141014 http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2015/03/27/dylan-cash-nashville-cats-country-music-hall-of-fame/70494260/ Huntington's Disease Society of America: http://hdsa.org