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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#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.

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    52 mins
  • Bonus EP#12 (TEASER) - Desert Island Dylan (Part I)
    Feb 9 2026

    This is a teaser for Bonus EP#12 - Desert Island Dylan (Part I). 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



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    11 mins
  • EP#12 - My Own Version of High Water
    Feb 2 2026

    How many characters appear in the seven verses of Dylan’s High Water (For Charley Patton)?Can Englishmen pronounce “panties” without raising a larf? Do we finally nail the meaning of “I’m no pig without a wig”? Is sardonic “2001” Bob cooler than snarky “1965” Bob? Who is sexier: 2001 Bob or 1965 Bob? Is “Love and Theft” bleaker than Time Out of Mind?


    Is Dylan the Master of Terror? In My Own Version of You, what exactly is a robot commando? Is there no success like failure? Why does yer man call electricity ‘lectricity? What are the numbers between 1 and 2? What did Paul McCartney bring to Jerome? And who is Jerome?What’s the difference between Vincent Price and Stewie Griffin?


    Song 1: High Water (For Charley Patton) https://open.spotify.com/track/1r6IfDCKm3YqPo5UyFvSMv?si=d728e33bac794f35

    Song 2: My Own Version of You https://open.spotify.com/track/3BQnez3qUm6hdKwxXly7Rw?si=f6af6b99454044f9


    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


    Record 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
    48 mins
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