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WASHINGTON, Sept. 6, 2007 — Bob Dylan’s award-winning XM music show, “Theme Time Radio Hour,” will kick of its much anticipated second season on Sept. 19, it was announced today.
The new season will feature the show’s signature eclectic mix of songs related to a specific theme, along with entertaining stories about the music and topics of interest. In addition, fans of “Theme Time Radio Hour” can expect to hear contributions from more special guests during the second season, including Luke Wilson, Amy Sedaris, Jack White, John Cusack, Richard Lewis and Ellen Barkin, whose sultry voice will continue to herald the start of each “Theme Time” episode again this season.
The first episode of season two will be devoted to the theme “Hello,” with a song list that spans “Hello, Mello Baby” by The Mardi Gras Loungers, “Hello Trouble” by Buck Owens and “Hello in There” by John Prine, among many others. Fans can expect to hear future episodes this season dedicated to themes such as “Young & Old,” “California,” “Dreams,” “Fruit,” “Something,” “Nothing,” “Streets,” “Parties,” “Mail,” and the 2nd Annual Countdown Show.
New episodes of “Theme Time Radio Hour,” which airs Wednesdays at 10 a.m. ET on XM’s “Deep Tracks” (XM 40), will also be available all day every Wednesday on “XMX” (XM 2), a recently launched channel that provides fans with XM’s most popular and critically-acclaimed original music shows all in one place. The XMX schedule is built around a ‘program of the day’ format designed to provide more opportunities to tune in anytime and listen to episode premieres or catch up on episodes from previous weeks or seasons.
In May 2006, Bob Dylan’s “Theme Time Radio Hour,” debuted to popular and critical-acclaim exclusively on XM. 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.” Among the shows myriad accomplishments of the past year, the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum added the “baseball” episode of “Theme Time Radio Hour” to its archives in June 2006.
Bob Dylan is one of the world’s most popular and acclaimed songwriters, musicians and performers, having sold more than 90 million albums and performed literally thousands of shows around the world in a career spanning five decades. His most recent album, Modern Times — lauded by critics around the world and selling more than 2.5 million copies to date — entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at No. 1, as well as debuting within the Top Five in 21 other countries.
His previous studio albums, Time Out Of Mind and Love & Theft have been among his most commercially successful and critically lauded, each having sold more than a million copies and earning Grammy nominations for Album Of The Year.
Time Out Of Mind won that award in 1998.
In 2001, he received a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for best song from a motion picture for “Things Have Changed” from the movie Wonder Boys. Dylan’s Chronicles – Volume I, his recent memoirs released in October, 2004, was a world-wide best seller, spending 19 weeks on The New York Times Bestseller List. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988 and the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1982.
Bob Dylan remains one of the world’s top touring artists, performing more than 100 concerts yearly around the globe.
Complete show details are available online at http://www.xmradio.com/bobdylan.