Thanks to Carol for the following e-mail:

Subject: Thanks for your website

I am enjoying your website. I tuned in only about 4-5 months ago after I found out about the Gospel songs of Bob Dylan from a show on the Ovation cable channel. This began a piqued interest in Dylan which brought me to your website. I don’t know where I have been for the last 20 years but I honestly did not know about all that has happened to Mr. Dylan, especially after 1979. Actually, I just retired from my job after 30 years and have had so much more time to do other things which I am enjoying. That reminds that I had become way too busy with my job. Anyway, I made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ in the mid-1980s and am so happy to listen to Dylan’s Christian-inspired albums. I guess that I was out of touch partly b/c I have tried to stay away from most secular music. And, I have had time to really listen to his music and realize that all along in his career he has written songs with Christian messages. Anyway, I have read Dylan’s Chronicles and Restless Pilgram by Marshall along with a lot of internet research and have really gotten to know Bob Dylan. Watching a lot of his music on YouTube, especially through RankFly helped. It has been great.

My husband and I planned our first vacation after my retirement (he is already retired) to go to Austin Texas to the Austin City Limits Festival on Sept. 15, 07. It was a hot and dirty outdoor venue but we stood for an hour and a half staring at him with binoculars and really enjoyed the way he is singing his songs. We purchased the local newspaper, the Austin American-Statesman in which the day before the concert there was a good 2-page article in the Life & Arts section with 2 great photos of him in 65 and today and how Dylan hadn’t been in Austin since Sept. 65. That very good article was written by Michael Corcoran. The day after the concert an article was written by Joe Gross and was not very charitable. This is what Mr. Gross said at the close of the article; “But too often, they sounded like what they looked like: a quaint dance band, displaced in time. It’s sad when you hear the amazingly mean “Like a Rolling Stone” and wonder whether Dylan knows how completely “Now you don’t look so proud” applies to himself. Hey, man, you wanna come back and do five nights at the Paramount, you have my money. You wanna come back to Stubb’s, I’ll give you a chance. But in a field at ACL? Never again.”

Thanks again for your website and that you are on the right side. I look forward to more from you.

Well, I can only hope I’m on the right side more often than I’m not, but I appreciate the sentiments very much.

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On another note, in case regular readers are awaiting the Ben Stein interview I mentioned earlier in the week: it’s taking a little longer than I expected to get it ready for posting (you just can’t get good help these days) but it will indeed be here soon. Hang on, somehow.

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