Ray Padgett
@raypadgett.bsky.social
Flagging Down the Double E's Dylan newsletter, Cover Me covers blog, 3 books (Pledging My Time, Cover Me, Leonard Cohen 33 1/3).
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Ray Padgett
@raypadgett.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Three books so far! Latest, from last year, is Pledging My Time: Conversations with Bob Dylan Band Members.
Previous two are about cover songs. Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Covers of All Time and a 33 1/3 on Leonard Cohen and the history of tribute albums called I'm Your Fan.
Previous two are about cover songs. Cover Me: The Stories Behind the Greatest Covers of All Time and a 33 1/3 on Leonard Cohen and the history of tribute albums called I'm Your Fan.
Warren Zevon coulda written a funny and depressing song about being on the cover of an Italian magazine
December 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Warren Zevon coulda written a funny and depressing song about being on the cover of an Italian magazine
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The year's best Bob tapes! Thanks to all the tapers, (re)masterers, and cover artists.
The 10 Must-Hear Bob Dylan Tapes of 2025
The best of the best (including soundboards!) from another year of Rough and Rowdy and Outlaw
www.flaggingdown.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The year's best Bob tapes! Thanks to all the tapers, (re)masterers, and cover artists.
The year's best Bob tapes! Thanks to all the tapers, (re)masterers, and cover artists.
The 10 Must-Hear Bob Dylan Tapes of 2025
The best of the best (including soundboards!) from another year of Rough and Rowdy and Outlaw
www.flaggingdown.com
December 29, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The year's best Bob tapes! Thanks to all the tapers, (re)masterers, and cover artists.
Reposted by Ray Padgett
With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.
December 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
With Bardot's passing, the only named individuals in Billy Joel's We Didn't Start The Fire that are still alive are Bob Dylan, Chubby Checker, and Bernie Goetz. The last one standing will claim The Prize.
What happened here?
December 28, 2025 at 7:27 AM
What happened here?
Love a record store with gentle staff
December 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Love a record store with gentle staff
Merry Christmas in the Heart
Inside Bob Dylan's 'Christmas in the Heart' Sessions
Backing singer Randy Crenshaw talks recording one of Dylan's most surprising projects
www.flaggingdown.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Merry Christmas in the Heart
December 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The first soundboard tapes of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour have arrived!
The Glasgow Soundboards
The first soundboard tapes of the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour!
www.flaggingdown.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM
The first soundboard tapes of the entire Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour have arrived!
My fave albums of 2025, #1-10:
Tamino—Every Dawn's a Mountain
Turnstile—Never Enough
Lady Gaga—Mayhem
Sam Fender—People Watching
Lily Allen—West End Girl
Uwade—Florilegium
Free Range—Lost & Found
Feine Sahne Fischfilet—Wir kommen in Frieden
The Beaches—No Hard Feelings
Lorde—Virgin
Tamino—Every Dawn's a Mountain
Turnstile—Never Enough
Lady Gaga—Mayhem
Sam Fender—People Watching
Lily Allen—West End Girl
Uwade—Florilegium
Free Range—Lost & Found
Feine Sahne Fischfilet—Wir kommen in Frieden
The Beaches—No Hard Feelings
Lorde—Virgin
December 23, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My fave albums of 2025, #1-10:
Tamino—Every Dawn's a Mountain
Turnstile—Never Enough
Lady Gaga—Mayhem
Sam Fender—People Watching
Lily Allen—West End Girl
Uwade—Florilegium
Free Range—Lost & Found
Feine Sahne Fischfilet—Wir kommen in Frieden
The Beaches—No Hard Feelings
Lorde—Virgin
Tamino—Every Dawn's a Mountain
Turnstile—Never Enough
Lady Gaga—Mayhem
Sam Fender—People Watching
Lily Allen—West End Girl
Uwade—Florilegium
Free Range—Lost & Found
Feine Sahne Fischfilet—Wir kommen in Frieden
The Beaches—No Hard Feelings
Lorde—Virgin
New Interview Index in the newsletter. Been meaning to do this forever. Way too many tbh.
www.flaggingdown.com/p/interviews...
www.flaggingdown.com/p/interviews...
December 23, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New Interview Index in the newsletter. Been meaning to do this forever. Way too many tbh.
www.flaggingdown.com/p/interviews...
www.flaggingdown.com/p/interviews...
Now imagine doing it with NOT famous people.
"What, you don't know Vince Melamed?? He played synths on Empire Burlesque and 'Brownsville Girl'!" (They've already fallen asleep)
"What, you don't know Vince Melamed?? He played synths on Empire Burlesque and 'Brownsville Girl'!" (They've already fallen asleep)
Ah, my annual Christmas ritual of telling my teenage nieces all the famous people I interviewed this year and being met with baffled, unimpressed blank stares.
December 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Now imagine doing it with NOT famous people.
"What, you don't know Vince Melamed?? He played synths on Empire Burlesque and 'Brownsville Girl'!" (They've already fallen asleep)
"What, you don't know Vince Melamed?? He played synths on Empire Burlesque and 'Brownsville Girl'!" (They've already fallen asleep)
Very late to this but love this Sufjan Advent Calendar project. A different writer writing about a different Sufjan Christmas song every day. A lot to catch up on.
The Calendar — A Very Sufjan Christmas
www.sufjanchristmas.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Very late to this but love this Sufjan Advent Calendar project. A different writer writing about a different Sufjan Christmas song every day. A lot to catch up on.
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this show was way undersold (either not promoted enough or too much $$). some dumbasses near us were talking & we kept trying to get them to shh & then a woman in front of me did the same but they listened bc it was BONNIE RAITT. also nusrat fateh ali khan w/ed vedder & jeff ament.
If we can't get new Tom Waits live shows, I'll take a new Tom Waits live video! Full pro-shot with a killer setlist:
Walk Away
Gun Street Girl
The Fall of Troy
Goin' Out West
Big Black Mariah
Yesterday Is Here
Innocent When You Dream (w/ Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle…)
Walk Away
Gun Street Girl
The Fall of Troy
Goin' Out West
Big Black Mariah
Yesterday Is Here
Innocent When You Dream (w/ Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle…)
Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking Concert 1998 (NEWLY RELEASED!)
YouTube video by Oddities&Rarities
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
this show was way undersold (either not promoted enough or too much $$). some dumbasses near us were talking & we kept trying to get them to shh & then a woman in front of me did the same but they listened bc it was BONNIE RAITT. also nusrat fateh ali khan w/ed vedder & jeff ament.
If we can't get new Tom Waits live shows, I'll take a new Tom Waits live video! Full pro-shot with a killer setlist:
Walk Away
Gun Street Girl
The Fall of Troy
Goin' Out West
Big Black Mariah
Yesterday Is Here
Innocent When You Dream (w/ Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle…)
Walk Away
Gun Street Girl
The Fall of Troy
Goin' Out West
Big Black Mariah
Yesterday Is Here
Innocent When You Dream (w/ Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle…)
Tom Waits - Dead Man Walking Concert 1998 (NEWLY RELEASED!)
YouTube video by Oddities&Rarities
www.youtube.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:50 PM
If we can't get new Tom Waits live shows, I'll take a new Tom Waits live video! Full pro-shot with a killer setlist:
Walk Away
Gun Street Girl
The Fall of Troy
Goin' Out West
Big Black Mariah
Yesterday Is Here
Innocent When You Dream (w/ Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle…)
Walk Away
Gun Street Girl
The Fall of Troy
Goin' Out West
Big Black Mariah
Yesterday Is Here
Innocent When You Dream (w/ Eddie Vedder, Ani DiFranco, Bonnie Raitt, Steve Earle…)
Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile
(Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
(Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
December 22, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Bob Dylan writes about Willie Nelson in a new New Yorker profile
(Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
(Bob also says before this, "It’s hard to talk about Willie without saying something stupid or irrelevant, he is so much of everything")
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
How years as a underground taper led Jeff Friedman to an official role helping the Bob Dylan digitize their archives
Digitizing the Bob Dylan Archives and Taping Toad's Place
An interview with veteran taper and archivist Jeff Friedman
www.flaggingdown.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
How years as a underground taper led Jeff Friedman to an official role helping the Bob Dylan digitize their archives
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Comedy legend @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social checked in to give us an exclusive report on Bob Dylan’s Christmas lights - her first one in five years!
Get the full scoop in this episode at youtube.com/live/8XCF3ZXc0e4
Get the full scoop in this episode at youtube.com/live/8XCF3ZXc0e4
December 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Comedy legend @merrillmarkoe.bsky.social checked in to give us an exclusive report on Bob Dylan’s Christmas lights - her first one in five years!
Get the full scoop in this episode at youtube.com/live/8XCF3ZXc0e4
Get the full scoop in this episode at youtube.com/live/8XCF3ZXc0e4
One of the surprise perks of doing this is occasionally people send me their old Bob stuff they want to get rid of. More than happy to give it a new home. Thanks Victoria!
December 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
One of the surprise perks of doing this is occasionally people send me their old Bob stuff they want to get rid of. More than happy to give it a new home. Thanks Victoria!
It’s too bad this came out after live albums lost cultural purchase bc it should be near the top of every Best Live Albums Ever list
December 20, 2025 at 3:42 PM
It’s too bad this came out after live albums lost cultural purchase bc it should be near the top of every Best Live Albums Ever list
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Here we go…Counting down the 50 Best Covers of the Year!
The 50 Best Cover Songs of 2025
Counting down the year's 50 best covers, wild reinventions of Chappell Roan, Tom Petty, Foreigner, John Prine, Beastie Boys, Ramones, and many more.
www.covermesongs.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Here we go…Counting down the 50 Best Covers of the Year!
Oh good, people are just having ChatGPT write their Zillow descriptions now
December 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Oh good, people are just having ChatGPT write their Zillow descriptions now
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Bought OTD in 1972: this was a total game changer - a very effective piece of popcult activism and a great listen. It opened up a whole swathe of 60s US pop that Brits had hardly heard and the sleeve notes offered the word Punk as a way out of early 70s stasis: ‘the relentless middle-finger drive’
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Bought OTD in 1972: this was a total game changer - a very effective piece of popcult activism and a great listen. It opened up a whole swathe of 60s US pop that Brits had hardly heard and the sleeve notes offered the word Punk as a way out of early 70s stasis: ‘the relentless middle-finger drive’
While we impatiently wait for this year's Bob Dylan copyright dump to appear, we console ourselves remembering that in only seven short years we could get the first ever Weird Al copyright dump!
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
While we impatiently wait for this year's Bob Dylan copyright dump to appear, we console ourselves remembering that in only seven short years we could get the first ever Weird Al copyright dump!