What do yoga, the Y2K freakout, Finland, and Bob Dylan have in common? Cheryl J. Fish, that’s what. Cheryl brings them all together in her debut novel from Livingston Press, ‘Off the Yoga Mat’, set in that crazy year 1999, when everybody feared a looming mass technological meltdown and started filling their garages with buy-in-bulk toilet paper and miscellaneous canned goods (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?). Cheryl is here to talk about her novel.

Later, my go-to Bob Dylan guru pal, Lucas Hare, co-host of the fabulous podcast Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan, drops by to talk about what Bob Dylan’s career looked like in the late 1990s/very early 2000s—the period during which Cheryl’s novel is set. FYI: Dylan was a whole lot more active than you probably remember or might imagine, so stick around to hear Lucas and me geek out over that phase of Dylan’s multi-faceted career.

 

MUSIC IN THE EPISODE IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE:

  • Copyright free Bob Dylan x The Beatles Type Beat “No One to Blame”/Classic Rock Beat
  • “You’re a Big Girl Now” by Bob Dylan
  • “Idiot Wind” by Bob Dylan
  • “Jealousy” by Iggy Pop
  • “I Don’t Look Good Naked Anymore” by The Snake Oil Willie Band
  • Comedians on Yoga/Tim Hawkins
  • “1999” by Prince
  • “Things Have Changed” by Bob Dylan
  • “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum” by Bob Dylan
  • “Can’t Wait” by Bob Dylan” (snippets of three versions)
  • “Love Sick” by Bob Dylan

  

LINKS:

Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Goodpods: https://goodpods.com/podcasts/rock-is-lit-212451

Leave a rating and comment for Rock is Lit on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rock-is-lit/id1642987350

 

Cheryl J. Fish’s website: https://www.cheryljfish.com/

Cheryl J. Fish on Twitter and Instagram: @CherylJoyFish

Cheryl’s essay “How I Published My Debut Novel Off the Yoga Mat”: https://authorspublish.com/case-study-how-i-published-my-debut-novel-off-the-yoga-mat/

 

Is It Rolling, Bob? Talking Dylan Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/is-it-rolling-bob-talking-dylan/id1437321669

Link to Rock is Lit EP9, with Lucas Hare (about Dylan 1966): https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/rockislitpodcast/danaspiottaandlucashare

 

Christy Alexander Hallberg’s website: https://www.christyalexanderhallberg.com/

Christy Alexander Hallberg on Twitter, Instagram, YouTube: @ChristyHallberg

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