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May 25, 2025 44 mins

Grab your pencils and walk into the nearest room... this week we explore Adam's favorite Bob Dylan song—Ballad of a Thin Man (don't worry—no one is naked here).

Ballad of a Thin Man is another song that has been interpreted a multitude of ways—it's about a journalist, the folk scene, Joan Baez, racism, LGBTQ+ rights, and/or Dylan himself. Something is happening here, but you don't know what it is. Perhaps that is the point, Mister Jones...

 

The Podcast: @TheDylanologistsPod

Adam: @dylan.ology

Jens: @dylan.ologist

Email us: TheDylanologistsPodcast@gmail.com

 

Thank you, Thomas Francis (@thomasfrancisfolk), for the podcast soundtrack.

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