(ANSA) - NEW YORK, SEPTEMBER 28 - After a decade and 100 episodes Bob Dylan returns to DJ on the radio: a two-hour episode (double the usual time) with a whiskey theme broadcast on the satellite station Sirius XM and now available instreaming on the Nobel Prize's website is also a maxi spot for "Heaven's Door", his personal label named after one of his most famous songs.
The 79-year-old author of "Masters of Wars" has been inlockdown since March because of the Coronavirus which canceled the stages of his Never Ending Tour: for Dylan the quarantine proved to be more productive with the release of the new album, "Rough and Rowdy Ways. ", the first of unpublished in eight years.
Now the "Theme Time Radio Hour": the series aired on SiruxMX from 2006 to 2009 had had a theme chosen by the singer-songwriter from Duluth among those that were most close to his heart - among the many, baseball, cars, time, the presidents - and explored through songs, poems, digressions and backlash with guests like Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, MerleHaggard, Jack White, and John Cusack.
Taking advantage of the coincidence with Bourbon History Month which falls right in September, the spirits-themed songs chosen are by Van Morrison, George Jones, Thin Lizzy, TomWaits, the Stanley Brothers and Julie London, old glories of the blues like Byllye Williams and Wynonie Harris, and of course Frank Sinatra to whom the singer dedicated a cover album, "Shadows in the Night", in 2015. Dylan also resurrects the 1920s version of Charlie Poole of "If the River WasWhiskey" (Hesitation Blues ") interspersed with jokes about whiskey and hangover. (ANSA).