This program celebrated Bob Dylan's 85th birthday. After three songs about Dylan, we turned to sets of songs centered on some themes emerging in Dylan songs.

Opening set
Loudon Wainwright III, Talkin’ New Bob Dylan (HISTORY, Charisma)
Syd Barrett, Bob Dylan Blues (YOU GOT IT NOW!, Sodium Haze Records)
Ralph McTell, Zimmerman Blues (NOT TILL TOMORROW, Reprise)

Set # 2 – Places
Neil Young, Girl From the North Country (A LETTER HOME, Third Man Records)
Bob Dylan, Talkin’ New York (at Gerdes Folk City, April,1962 (LIVE, 1962-66, Columbia)
Jim James & Calexico, Goin’ to Acapulco (I’M NOT THERE ST, Sony)

Set # 3 – Outlaws and Gamblers
Oh Susannah, Billy 4 (SHORT STORIES, Stella Records)
Thea Gilmore, John Wesley Harding (JOHN WESLEY HARDING, Fulfill)
Townes Van Zandt, Rambling Gambling Willy (ROADSONGS, Sugar Hill)
Tom Russell w/Eliza Gilkyson, Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts (INDIANS, COWBOYS, HORSES & DOGS, Hightone)

Set # 4 - Prisons and the Justice system
Fairport Convention, Percy’s Song (UNHALFBRICKING, A&M)
Joan Baez, The Walls of Redwing (ANY DAY NOW, Vanguard)
Margo Price, Hurricane (BETTER THAN JAIL, Wyatt Records)
Steel Pulse, George Jackson (AFRICAN HOLOCAUST, RAS)
Bob Dylan, The Ballad of Donald White (BEST OF BROADSIDE, Smithsonian Folkways) 1962

Set # 5 – Topical songs in the early 1960’s
Coulson, Dean, McGuinness, Flint, Emmett Till (LO AND BEHOLD, Sire)
Pat Wictor, Oxford Town (BOB DYLAN BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 2008& 2009, Paradiddle)
Morrissey, Only A Pawn in Their Game (CALIFORNIA SUN, BMG)
Pete Seeger, Who Killed Davey Moore? (BROADSIDE BALLADS 2, Smithsonian Folkways)
Bob Dylan, Talkin’ John Birch Society Blues (BOOTLEG SERIES V.9, WITMARK DEMOS, Columbia)
Laura Marling, A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall (PEAKY BLINDERS ST, UMC)
Steep Canyon Rangers, Let Me Die in My Footsteps (OUT IN THE OPEN, Ramseur)
Abbie Gardner, Masters of War (single, abbiegardner.com)

Set # 6 – Carnivals and circuses
Jimmy LaFave, Dusty Old Fairgrounds (TRAIL, Music Road)
Robyn Hitchcock, Desolation Row (ROBYN SINGS, PAF!)

Set # 7 – Evangelical Christianity
John Doe, Pressing On (I’M NOT THERE ST, SONY)
Etta James, Gotta Serve Somebody (MATRIARCH OF THE BLUES, Private Music)
Tim O’Brien, Man Gave Names to All the Animals (RED ON BLONDE, Sugar Hill)

Set # 8 – Musical influences and tributes
Johnny Cash & Rambling Jack Elliott, Song to Woody (EARL SCRUGGS REVUE ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL V.I, Columbia)
Chrissie Hynde, Blind Willie McTell (STANDING IN THE DOORWAY, BMG)
Joan Osborne, High Water (SONGS OF BOB DYLAN, Womanly Hips. Thirty Tigers)
Bob Dylan, Roll on John (TEMPEST, Columbia)