![]() But I have plenty of bootlegs of your show hidden away!"Īfter doing graduate work in geology in the ’80s at UMD, he earned his elementary school teaching license and works at Piedmont Elementary, where he never passes up a chance to use some aspect of Dylan’s music. The proprietor proudly replied, "No, what you see is what I’ve got. ![]() Incredulous at the selection, he asked the owner if there were more disks that were not already on display. While visiting New York City, he wandered into a record store that carried bootlegged Dylan music. There is much reverence for Bushey far beyond Duluth. Most of the time, Bushey delivers Dylan’s music to us whether he feels up to it or not. A friend took over for a while in 2004–5, and KUMD has a bank of old shows to use. In the last decade, since being diagnosed with follicular lymphoma, he has been through continuous treatments leading up to stem cell replacement therapy in Rochester last fall, yet he has missed remarkably few shows. I realized that, while I could master the technology easily enough, I had to be careful with the use of Dylan’s voice." Innocently enough, he ran the faux interview, but when he left the studio, "there were 15 or 20 people outside with albums in their hands, waiting to ask Dylan for his autograph. Once, early in his career at KUMD, he jury–rigged an interview with Dylan by splicing clips from recorded interviews with his own questions. The playlist included "Not Dark Yet," "Girl from the North Country," "One Too Many Mornings," and the rarely–played road ballad, "I Was Young When I Left Home." His most popular show was "Dylan and the Beatles," where he played songs that illustrated the cross–pollination between the two.įor the February 20 show, he pulled tunes around two themes (time passes and love fades) identified by IBM’s super–computer, Watson, as central to Dylan’s music. "I’m more like an abstract artist I just do what feels right at the time."īushey is known, in the Twin Ports and across the country, as a master in the art of assembling an hour–long show made up of, derived from, and influenced by Dylan’s music. The choice of theme depends entirely on what inspires Bushey, and sometimes inspiration takes its sweet time arriving. Selections are usually organized around a theme: The Basement Tapes, album covers, guest listener picks, Rolling Thunder Tour. This is his twenty–fifth year as the show’s host, though the official celebration is not until October. You’re thinking this will be about Bob Dylan, right?ĭylan is all that and more, but I am referring to the man who brings Dylan into our living rooms, iPods, kitchens, cars, and consciousness twice a week, John Bushey.Ī lifelong Duluth resident, Bushey is most familiar as the weekly emcee of Highway 61 Revisited, which airs Saturdays and Mondays at 5 p.m. on KUMD. Be part of it.Įnnyman is a Life Under Construction. If you have questions, please email life goes on all around you. ![]() Please share this information with your friends and colleagues. May 28th Bob Dylan Benefit Concert for the Armory Arts & Music Center at 7 PM.May 27th Dylan Bush Tour: Duluth to Hibbing and Back from 9 AM to 5 PM.May 26th Blood on the Tracks Express Rolling Music Revue (available soon).May 24th Duluth Does Dylan CD Release Party at 7:30 PM.Ticketed Duluth Dylan Fest events are available on The Duluth Dylan Fest committee is thrilled to share that a special Bob Dylan exhibit featuring handwritten lyrics, inscribed photographs, early concert flyers and more from the William Pagel Archives will be on exhibit May 4-30 at Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum. ![]() Farewell Brunch at the Zeitgeist Café featuring songwriter Jim Hall.Amory Arts & Music Center Benefit Concert: The Basement Tapes/Great White Wonder Concert.Postage Stamp Cancellation Event at the Armory Annex on London Road, 11 a.m.Duluth to Hibbing and Back Dylan Fest Bus Tour.Duluth Dylan Fest Singer Songwriter Contest.The ever-popular Blood on the Tracks Express rolling music revue featuring local musicians and Dylan Fest favorite the Boomchucks aka The Freewheelers.Poets from the North County featuring Duluth Poet Laureates Barton Sutter and Jim Johnson, among others.
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