The redoubtable Jon Wiener, the UC Irvine historian who fought through the Supreme Court to force the FBI to release the John Lennon files, will have on his KPFK Radio show today at 4 pm the amazing Sean Wilentz, leading Dylan expert, to discuss and listen to a new Dylan CD - impossible as that may seem!
Here's how Wiener describes the program -
"Today/Wed 4-5pm on KPFK 90.7FM (& streaming live at kpfk.prg): Bob Dylan: Another Self Portrait 1969-1971: 35 previously unreleased tracks. After Blond on Blond and then Nashville Skyline, Dylan was done with fitting into other people’s categories. While the sixties were crashing, he retreated to Nashville and Woodstock to play with musicians who loved the sweet and weird old songs as much as he did. We’ll listen to key cuts and speak with SEAN WILENTZ, the official historian-in-residence at the official BobDylan.com website and author of Bob Dylan in America.
Valerie Plame, CIA Whistle-blower
Also: VALERIE PLAME is the former CIA officer who was outed in 2003 by the Bush White House after her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, challenged Bush’s rationale for invading Iraq. Now she has a new book out, her first work of fiction – it’s titled Blowback. We’ll speak with her about fact and fiction about the CIA."
