XM Satellite Radio's award-winning show - Bob Dylan's "Theme Time Radio Hour" - will debut its new season on Wednesday, September 19th.
The new season will premiere with a show dedicated to the theme “Hello,” featuring songs revolving around the theme such as “Hello, Mello Baby” by The Mardi Gras Loungers, “Hello Trouble” by Buck Owens, “Hello in There” by John Prine, "Hello Walls" by Willie Nelson and of course the classic "Hello, Goodbye" by The Beatles.
Future episodes this season include themes like “Young & Old,” “California,” “Dreams,” “Fruit,” “Something,” “Nothing,” “Streets,” “Parties,” and “Mail.”
From the “Young and Old” show Song List, you can expect to hear classics such as "Young Fashioned Ways" by Muddy Waters, "Old Man" by Neil Young With The Stray Gators, and "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" by The Ramones. (I actually got a behind-the-scenes glimpse at a couple of the song lists for "Hello" and "Young and Old," and as expected, Dylan is masterful in his music selections.)
"Theme Time Radio Hour" regularly airs on Wednesdays at 10am ET on XM’s Deep Tracks (ch 40). But as a welcome addition, new episodes of the show will also be available all day every Wednesday on XMX (ch 2).
Rolling Stone calls the show “revelatory…Dylan’s song choices are impressively varied,” and the Boston Herald says of Dylan as DJ, “he’s informative, funny…his taste is impeccable.” As one of the many accomplishments of the show, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum added the “baseball” episode of “Theme Time Radio Hour” to its archives in June 2006.
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