6/17/2021: 1971: A Golden Anniversary

50 years ago Bob Dylan was turning 30. He recorded four new songs in the studio, and a total of eight original songs (four were from previous years), but did not release a studio album, only Greatest Hits Vol. II. He performed in both Madison Square Garden performances for the Concert for Bangladesh, and joined The Band on stage at the New York Academy of Music at the end of the year, but did not tour. He had his own studio he operated for a year near Greenwich Village, he recorded on a David Bromberg record and he recorded with Barry Goldberg when Goldberg used Dylan's studio to record. He arranged the recording of 15 of Allen Ginsberg's songs and played guitar, piano, and organ on them. He even appeared on public television with Ginsberg. And 1971 was the year Macmillan finally published TARANTULA. Yet, despite this activity, he was not ready to tour yet. It's the golden (50th) anniversary of this interesting year, so we are pausing half-way through our own calendar year of 2021 to look back. In "20 Pounds of Headlines," we round up news from the world of Bob Dylan as it was in 1971 and in "Who Did It Better?" we ask you who did "When I Paint My Masterpiece" better back in 1971: The Band or Bob Dylan?