Ray Padgett, whose Dylan-related interviews in the Flaggin' Down The Double-Es news letter have been linked and quoted here, is self-publishing a book that incl. all of those and a bunch of others, also in-depth, that have never seen the light of day:
The book-exclusive interviews so far are:Ray Benson - Asleep at the Wheel frontman, opened for Dylan in 2000 and sat in several times
Dickey Betts - Allman Brother, sang his own “Ramblin’ Man” with Bob onstage
Jeff Bridges - Masked & Anonymous co-star, on-set guitar-picking parter
Harvey Brooks - Bass player for Highway 61 Revisited and New Morning and Dylan’s first post-Newport electric shows in NYC & LA
Gary Burke - Percussionist for 1976 Rolling Thunder tour
Marshall Crenshaw - Auditioned to play bass in the first Never Ending Tour band. Didn’t get the gig.
Karl Denson - Lenny Kravitz sax player who jammed with Bob onstage at the Beacon, 1990
Leslie Dowdall - In Tua Nua singer, sang with Bob and Bono at Slane Castle, 1984
Ramblin' Jack Elliott - Folk-era friend and 1975 Rolling Thunder featured performer
Kinky Friedman - Featured performer for 1976 Rolling Thunder tour (taking Ramblin’ Jack’s slot) and wild 1991 Chabad telethon duo
Barry Goldberg - Newport 1965 keyboard player, only person to both produce Bob Dylan and be produced by him
Freddy Koella - Cult favorite Never Ending Tour guitarist (2003-4) whose short tenure left a big mark
Spooner Oldham - Gospel-era keyboard player, 1979-80
Michael "Soy Bomb" Portnoy - Grammy stage-crasher
Duke Robillard - Time Out of Mind guitarist and, briefly, Never Ending Tour band member
Fred Tackett - Guitarist for Dylan’s entire gospel run, 1979-81
Richard Thompson - Accompanied Bob at Guitar Legends 1991, had his “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” covered by Bob 20+ years later
Happy Traum - Greenwich Village compatriot, back in the fold a decade later for Greatest Hits II tunes
Those exclusives are, of course, on top of all the other interviews I’ve already done with Dylan bandmates and guests, which will also be collected in the book. Too many to bullet out there, so I’ll just recap the names quickly:
Rich Alderson, Colin Allen, Ronee Blakley, Cidny Bullens, Larry Campbell, Billy Cross, Keith Diercks, Richard Fernandez, John Fields, Fuzzy Frazer, Paul James, Jim Keltner, Louie Kemp, Dickie Landry, Claudia Levy, Stan Lynch, David Mansfield, Regina McCrary, Chris O’Dell, Christopher Parker, Alan Pasqua, Scarlet Rivera, Luther Rix, David Robb, Larry “Ratso” Sloman, Noel Paul Stookey, Fred Tackett, Benmont Tench, Bobby Valentino, Winston Watson, Jon Wurster
Whew!
There’s more information about the book at the Indiegogo page. I hope you’ll consider supporting the project by preordering it there, and maybe consider one of the other perks too.
One of the perks: you can ask band members a question.
― dow, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link