Madison – the first week of July in the late 1960s. On the balmy fourth of July 1965, a crowd of about 60,000 pack Vilas Park for the 14th annual Lions Club fireworks display. Three days later, the UW chapter of the Young Americans for Freedom stages the first conservative political demonstration in Madison, picketing […]
Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom” – An exegesis ...
Bob Dylan’s Chimes of Freedom An Exegesis by Stu Levitan In late January and early February, 1964, when the number one song in America was “I Want To Hold Your Hand,” here’s what Bob Dylan was writing: Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder […]
Madison in the Sixties – Bob Dylan
Madison in the Sixties – Bob Dylan Bob Dylan, age nineteen, his direction still unknown, blows into town in early January, 1961 and falls in with the leftist/folkie/theater crowd. He’s got the number for Socialist Club president and banjoist grad student Ron Radosh, but his apartment at 444 Hawthorne Ct. is too small for Dylan […]
Larry “Ratso” Sloman, “On The Road With Bob Dylan,&#...
Madison authors, topics, book events and publishers Stu Levitan welcomes The Rev. L. J. Sloman of the Last Exit Before the Freeway Church of God, as seen on WMTV’s The Weekend Starts now with Ben Sidran, a/k/a UW graduate student Larry Sloman, a/k/a “Ratso,” to talk about a book, and album and a movie. The […]
Phil Wissbeck Celebrates Dylan’s PhilBirthday
Phil plays chosen Bob Dylan recordings to celebrate his upcoming birthday. He broadcasts from home with help from WORT staff. Dylan
Madison, First Week of July 1969
In a year already beset by campus strikes and off-campus riots, no wonder it rains on the Fourth of July. There’s even an early morning squall so strong it sends tree branches crashing down and flattening an 880 square foot tent at Warner Park. It’s put back up, and the weather clears by afternoon, as […]
