Shuffle Synchronicities Podcast🎙 #2

In this Podcast🎙:

Dave Cowen of Shuffle Synchronicities talks with founder of the most popular blog about cover songs; author of a 33 1/3 series book; contributing journalist to The New Yorker, Spin, and The AV Club; interviewee on NPR; and top paid music Substacker, Ray Padgett of Flagging Down the Double E’s, about:

• Ray’s history of live Bob Dylan Substack that’s become so popular he’s adapting it into a book

• What Ray makes of why he’s developed a niche of writing about Dylan, Tom Waits, and Leonard Cohen

• Why Ray thinks he’s always been disinterested in writing about song lyrics

And much more, including:

• Debating the future popularity of covers of Dylan songs versus the originals

• Laughing about why Dylan’s collaboration with The Grateful Dead was regarded as perhaps his worst-ever live album

• Comparing Dylan’s gospel era to Kanye West’s

And, of course, there are some super fun live-Shuffles!

Plus, Dave also recounts the story of:

• The ecstatic and epiphanic experience of attending a Dylan show in June of 2022 in LA

• The many synchronicities it inspired

• And how it led to the deletion that night of this Shuffle Synchronicities Substack 🤪

NOTE: The transcript of the Podcast will also be emailed out as posts in eight parts as a Podscript🎙📇¹

1. Trademark of the new Podscript™️ art form’s name pending 😉

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