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Bob Dylan’s Christmas Album

On this episode of Start Making Sense, Sean Wilentz on a puzzling set of holiday songs.

Jon Wiener

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Bob Dylan performs onstage on June 11, 2009.(Kevin Winter / Getty Images for AFI)

Bob Dylan fans have been puzzled and troubled by his Christmas album ever since he released it in 2009. To help figure out what Dylan was doing, we turn to Sean Wilentz. He’s the official historian at BobDylan.com, and he also teaches history at Princeton.

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Bob Dylan's Xmas Album | Start Making Sense
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Bob Dylan fans have been puzzled and troubled by his Christmas album ever since he released it in 2009. To help figure out what Dylan was doing, we turn to Sean Wilentz. He’s the official historian at BobDylan.com, and he also teaches history at Princeton.

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Jon WienerTwitterJon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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