Bob Dylan’s turning the big eight-ohhh my God! Born on May 24, 1941 “with a name that means nothing and an age that means less”, he’s being honored in Minnesota (given his boyhood home of Hibbing) with a year long celebration. But it won’t be just the state whose motto from the French translates to “The star of the North”, but a good part of world will also be taking part. While prickly and, at times, difficult to translate, his words have formed images from the metrics of gospel, protest, and a cynic’s wrath to sonnet-like love songs and dirges that would bend even the ears of T. S. Eliot or Auden. He is the bard of a generation whose metal art and endeavors in the art of whiskey underscore eight decades that spell a true renaissance man. We’ll touch on two hours of Dylan’s music this week on Deeper Roots.

No.	Artist	Title	Album	Buy
1	Bob Dylan	Song To Woody	No Direction Home: The Soundtrack (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 7) [Disc 1]
2	Bob Dylan	Mississippi	The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs [Disc 1]
3	Ian & Sylvia	Tomorrow Is A Long Time	Four Strong Winds
4	Earl Scruggs & Bob Dylan	Nashville Skyline Rag	Dylan Country
5	Bob Dylan	New Morning [With Horn Section Overdubs]	Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series, Vol. 10 [Disc 2]
6	Bob Dylan	Talkin' New York	Bob Dylan
7	Joan Baez	It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	From The Coffeehouse
8	Peter, Paul & Mary	Blowin' In The Wind	The Very Best Of Peter, Paul And Mary
9	The Byrds	Mr. Tambourine Man	20 Number Ones
10	Johnny Cash	It Ain't Me Babe	Dylan Country
11	Bob Dylan	If Dogs Run Free	New Morning
12	Bob Dylan	Po' Boy	Love and Theft
13	Bob Dylan	Rainy Day Women #12 & 35	MTV Unplugged
14	Bob Dylan	You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go	Blood on the Tracks
15	Bob Dylan	Shelter from the Storm [Take 2]	More Blood, More Tracks: The Bootleg Series Vol. 14
16	Bob Dylan	Everything Is Broken	Oh Mercy
17	Bob Dylan	Things Have Changed	Lovesick
18	The Band	When I Paint My Masterpiece	A Musical History [Disc 4]
19	Bob Dylan	Man in the Long Black Coat	Chronicles, Vol. 1
20	Bob Dylan	Duquesne Whistle	Tempest
21	Bob Dylan	Goodbye Jimmy Reed	Rough And Rowdy Ways [Disc 1]
22	Bob Dylan	My Blue Eyed Jane	The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute
23	Bob Dylan Feat. Roger McGuinn, Tom Petty, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, George Harrison	My Back Pages	Bob Dylan: The 30th Anniversary Concert Celebration [Disc 2]
24	Bob Dylan	Man Gave Names To All The Animals	Slow Train Coming