My Special Report for listener-supported community radio WORT on 4 big Madison stories of the 1970s: Spring Semester 1970 - the city burns; Paul Soglin, Revolutionary Mayor; the Sisterhood of the Seventies; the commercial sex industry. www.wortfm.org/madison-in-t...

The Madison BookBeat conversation on WORT-FM with Doug Bradley about his new book, "The Tracks of My Years: A Music-Based Memoir," in which he explores the meaning of his life through the music of his generation, from Doo-Wop Philly to hard rock Vietnam and beyond. www.wortfm.org/doug-bradley...

From community radio WORT-FM: The Madison BookBeat conversation with Cary Segall about his new book "A Talk in the Woods: Voices Along the Appalachian Trail" (Back Burner Books), recounting the stories of the people he met hiking from Georgia to Maine. www.wortfm.org/cary-segall-...

Plugging Monday's Madison BookBeat with Cary Seagall about his engaging new book "A Talk in the Woods: Voices from the Appalachian Trail," about the people he met while hiking 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine. Monday 1-2 at 89.9 FM and anytime at wortfm.org and on the WORT app.

142 years ago today, five men died in a frightful and tragic accident while Wisconsin was building an extension to its state capitol. {From "Madison: The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Vol. 1, 1856-1931 (uwiscpress.wisc.edu)

Madison, October 1969: political protest and repression of future protesters; racial progress and a very public personal tragedy. My report for listener-sponsored community radio WORT 89.9 FM. www.wortfm.org/madison-octo...

The Madison BookBeat conversation with Margaret Mooney and Meg Gaines about "Radical Family: Trailblazing Lesbian Moms Tell Their Stories" (Wisconsin Historical Society Press 2025), on listener-sponsored community radio WORT-FM. www.wortfm.org/margaret-moo...

The WORT conversation with Wauwatosa Mayor Dennis McBride about his book "A City on the Edge: Pandemic, Protest and Polarization," a gripping account of his life and actions during the twin traumas of 2020 - COVID and intense BLM protests that rocked the city. www.wortfm.org/mayor-dennis...

@bobserve.com Alpine Valley Outlaws. Full concert audio: archive.org/details/outl...

To exploit Lily Tomlin's 86th birthday yesterday, posting our 2015 conversation: archive.org/details/b-bw... Transcript: acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:... Illustration by Charlie Powell, courtesy Isthmus.

Promo reel for Monday's Madison BookBeat episode with Fred Risser and Doug Moe - Author about their new book, Forward For The People: The Autobiography of America's Longest Serving Legislator. Listen live 1-2 at 89.9 FM or anytime at wortfm.org or on the WORT FM app.

Industry, government, the UW and tourism/recreation - the Madison economy, captured from a kayak on Lake Mendota.

Historian Sean Wilentz, author of "Bob Dylan in America," discusses the artistic impact Dylan and Allen Ginsberg had on each other. From "Books & Beats with Stu Levitan," WXXM-FM 92.1 The Mic, Sept. 2010. Transcript below. archive.org/details/wile...

Forstmann Woolen Company, inside front cover Life magazine, 1945-1947.

Plugging next week’s Madison BookBeat show with Doug Moe, author of “Saving Hearts and Killing Rats - Karl Paul Link and the Discovery of Warfarin.”⁦ June 30 1-2pm 89.9, and any time ⁦at wortfm.org and on the WORT app. Listener-sponsored community radio since 1975.

Catalpa has entered the chat. My backyard, Madison WI.

Back when federalizing the National Guard made sense. October, 1957.

My 2023 conversation with the esteemed music journalist and historian Joel Selvin about his book "Sly & The Family Stone: An Oral History." Madison BookBeat, on listener-supported community radio WORT 89.9 FM. www.wortfm.org/joel-selvin-...

My account of Madison's first generation of gay rights and gay leaders, for listener-sponsored community radio WORT-FM 89.9. www.wortfm.org/madison-in-t...

#Dylan birthday celebration at the Spring Green (WI) General Store BobFest, 5/25/25. Dramatic renditions of first and last cuts from Street Legal and Gates of Eden. A little rushed (only had 10 minutes), but a solid B+, maybe A-, delivery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCNJ...

Dramatic renditions of #Dylan "Changing of the Guards," "Gates of Eden" and "Where Are You Tonight?" Spring Green (WI) General Store, BobFest 2025, May 25. youtu.be/DCNJHbpzBEc

Cavortin' in Davenport. Bob Dylan and His Band, Adler Theatre 4/8/25. Bob on guitar on It Ain't Me, Babe; Crossing the Rubicon; Desolation Row and Watching the River Flow. archive.org/details/dave...

Baby Blue>Give Myself To You. Davenport, IA, 4.8.25 archive.org/details/give...

@bobserve.com Weidner Center, Green Bay, April 6, 2025. Complete show. archive.org/details/dyla...

Every Grain of Sand, Green Bay 4.6.25. archive.org/details/ever...

@bobserve.com Who's coming to Eau Claire and Green Bay this weekend?

This is pretty funny. SNL 1980. www.dailymotion.com/video/xmanp5

A dramatic rendition of Bob Dylan's sacrilegious lullaby in D Minor. Hope you like it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Zw...

58 years ago this week, a two-day Madison SDS protest against the Napalm-making Dow Chemical Co. made local history and set the conditions for the decade's pivotal protest eight months later, the Battle of Dow. My report for community radio WORT-FM. www.wortfm.org/madison-in-t...

In Feb. 1969, a symposium on "The Black Revolution: To What Ends?" at the UW sparked Madison's most successful political protest of the era, the Black Studies Strike. My report for listener-sponsored community radio WORT-FM 89.9. www.wortfm.org/the-black-re...

New York Times giving some solid props to Barry Goldberg.

Bob Dylan Mankato show sold out, which is nice. See you there?

Tickets for Bob Dylan in Mankato on the secondary market a day before the presales. Not cool.

@bobserve.com What do we know about presale passwords? TIA.

"Stairway to Heaven" if done by the Beatles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wfo...

@bobserve.com Dig it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MbF...

@bobserve.com ICYMI - very interesting essay and decoding of "I'm Not There (1956)" lyrics. www.mildantics.com/2024/12/dyla...

Paul Soglin, Revolutionary Mayor; Spring Semester 1970: The City Burns; Sisterhood of the Seventies; the Commercial Sex Industry. My Special Report on Madison in the Seventies for listener-sponsored community radio WORT-FM 89.9 www.wortfm.org/madison-in-t...

That time I talked about drugs with President Carter backstage at a Willie Nelson concert in July 1978, after White House drug advisor Peter Bourne resigned under fire. POTUS took a very calm and enlightened position, contrary to his hard public position at the time. Then things got weird.

Sam Dolnick in the Times Sunday magazine on Jerry West as NBA logo and man suffering from lifelong depression. If you find a more elegant, powerful sentence, give me a call.

@bobserve.com My hour-long radio interview of Elijah Wald about "Dylan Goes Electric!" We taped July 26, 2015, and I began by asking about the previous evening's celebration of that night fifty years prior. We also discuss Pete, Alan Lomax, Bob the Bluesman, and more. archive.org/details/2-1-...

@bobserve.com Good news! I found the aircheck of my hour-long 2015 interview with Elijah Wald on his then-new book "Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties." Clipping out some extraneous material, will upload to the IA and post shortly.

@bobserve.com Bob and Woody as Yankees, Baez as Bowie and Madonna, Pete in the Thug Life. Harmless fun with AI. bobporco86.substack.com/p/now-lets-a...

@bobserve.com Unlike all the other critics, Ron Radosh actually knew Dylan and Pete back then -- he even got in trouble with UW administrators over a Pete Seeger concert he promoted back in the day. He knows whereof he writes, and I agree with his rave review. quillette.com/2024/12/26/p...

Bob singing this to Woody was the first great scene in the movie. You knew this is exactly what it must have been like, and wow, is it heavy. It doesn't detract from the power to know that Pete wasn't really there. Outstanding video of Bob on the 2001 Cheesehead Tour. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqP8...

@bobserve.com It's the "Chronicles" of biopics. "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie"? No, all the lies in the film add up to one big truth. Elijah Wald nailed it -- "historically inaccurate, poetically accurate." And he should know.

@bobserve.com It opened in Madison this afternoon. I'm overwhelmed. Great film, damn near perfect. Not quite, but damn near.

After the snowfall.

Dec. 10, 1967 -- the death of Otis Redding in Madison's Lake Monona. My report for listener-sponsored community radio WORT-FM. www.wortfm.org/madison-dec-...