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Bob Dylan Approximately

Bob Dylan Approximately

By: Daniel Crespin and Kerry Shale
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A podcast about all things Bob Dylan...approximately.


Actors Kerry Shale and Daniel Crespin - a Canadian Boomer and an English Millennial - dive deeply into a mutual love of Bob Dylan's work.


Content Warning ⚠️ : Flippant humour, mysterious lyrics, and unexpected tangents.


For bonus episodes, please visit our Patreon page https://www.patreon.com/c/BobDylanApproximately

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Daniel Crespin and Kerry Shale
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  • EP#14 - Most of the Time, There's No Time to Think
    Mar 2 2026

    Is “No Time To Think” a poem, a random word dream or a proper song? Which cover version unlocked it for Kerry? Why does it remind Dan of a Toto tune? Do we call it “a beautiful poetic explosion” or “vomit”? Is it the weirdest ode to a mid-life divorce crisis ever written, a cleverly disguised hatchet job on Albert Grossman or all of the above?


    Why does Dan repeatedly reference Ernest Hemingway in the introduction to Most of the Time? What musical element in the song’s video hurt Kerry’s brain? What’s the secret of the bass line? Is the song’s bridge “a sign of desperation”? Where does Bowie’s “Let’s Dance” fit in? Did the Picasso exhibition at the Tate Modern remind you of Dylan?


    Song 1: No Time to Think https://open.spotify.com/track/2WEE10JUB0IuuTKluMyYXG?si=f32338ececfe44e1

    Song 2: Most of the Time https://open.spotify.com/track/7wLzlhL0tb3GhPhnIz7IpQ?si=53b4975831b24307


    Recorded at Lipsync Post, Soho, London.

    Producer: Robin Guise.

    Engineer: Roisin King.

    Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    53 mins
  • Bonus EP#13 (TEASER) - Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (or "Where's his scrotum?") (BDA Film Club IV)
    Feb 23 2026

    This is a teaser for Bonus EP#13 - Inside 'Inside Llewyn Davis' (or "Where's his scrotum?"). The full episode is available to our Bobsessives over on Patreon right now, for just £5 a month.


    Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership!


    Recorded at Cathouse Studio, Islington, London

    Producer: Robin Guise

    Theme music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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    16 mins
  • EP#13 - Standing in the Doorway, Cryin' 'bout Summer Days
    Feb 16 2026

    Where do you come from? Where do you go? If it’s information you want, why ask Bob Dylan? Which F Scott Fitzgerald novel turned Dan on to unreliable narrators? Which track from Simon & Garfunkel’s 'Bookends' does Kerry find terribly strange? Is Bob the cool uncle who takes you for a ride on his chopper, singing “summer days, summer nights are gone…”


    When Dylan moans that he’s suffering like a fool - is he referring to the Daniel Lanois soundscape for Standing In The Doorway? Was 1997 the fulcrum of Bob Dylan’s career? What’s the connection between Time Out of Mind and Nick Hornby? How dark is the dark land of the sun? What is it about London that has made both our co-hosts nauseous?


    Song 1: Summer Days https://open.spotify.com/track/79u7wxpk5WvcLqiOPj94c2?si=5dcb1286f75e4798

    Song 2: Standing in the Doorway https://open.spotify.com/track/2xalFZmyjleCTdhKPxqzdh?si=189ce044bea744fb



    Are you a Bobsessive? If so, please consider joining us over on Patreon patreon.com/BobDylanApproximately for bonus episodes, early access to all episodes and much more. To further support the podcast, please rate and review via whichever platform you are listening to the podcast, and hit that follow button. Thanks for your listenership!

    Follow us on Instagram @bobdylanapproximately

    Follow us on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@BobDylanApproximately

    If you like this podcast, you may also enjoy Daniel's other podcast where he and Kerry met. It's called Starving Artists, and you can find it wherever you get your podcasts, and follow it on Instagram @starvingartists_pod

    Or you might want to check out some of the 80 episodes of Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, the podcast Kerry previously co-hosted, with guests including Billy Bragg, Stewart Lee and Nish Kumar. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcasts/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669


    Recorded at Lipsync Post, Soho, London.

    Producer: Robin Guise.

    Engineer: Roisin King.

    Theme Music: The Haze by Daniel Crespin.

    Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    Show More Show Less
    52 mins
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