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Podcast: The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie
Episode: Jeffrey Edward Green: Why Bob Dylan's Prophecies Continue To Fascinate
Description: Few figures have literally and figuratively electrified American culture the way Bob Dylan has. He released his first album in 1962, won a Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016, and continues to perform about 100 concerts a year at the ripe age of 83. His life is chronicled in the new movie A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet.
But what's the meaning—or meanings—of Bob Dylan, who sang at Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington, became a born-again Christian in the 1970s, and wrote a book called The Philosophy of Modern Song?
Reason's Nick Gillespie talks...