DJ Dylan blowin’ in the wind

MUSIC legend Bob Dylan started a new job as a radio DJ yesterday and proved to be surprisingly chatty.

The singer growled his way through his hour-long show on American satellite service XM, playing a mix of tracks from his personal collections centred on the theme of weather.

Opening Theme Time Radio Hour, the 64-year-old said: “Curious about what the weather looks like? Just look out the window, take a walk outside.”

His first track was Blow Wind Blow by Muddy Waters, introduced by Dylan as “one of the ancients by now, whom all moderns prize”.

The tracklist for the rest of the show included Jimi Hendrix’s The Wind Cries Mary and Stevie Wonder’s A Place in the Sun.

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Judy Garland also featured.

“Everybody thought Jimi was a wild man, but this shows his more gentle side,” Dylan said as he introduced Hendrix’s song.

Before the Wonder track, he recited some of the lyrics in Italian.

“Into each life some rain must fall,” Dylan mumbled at another point. “Trouble may be waiting along the way.”

Cueing up Martin’s I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine, he remarked: “We forget how much Elvis wanted to be Dean.”

And he even offered some nuggets of weather trivia, noting that while Chicago is called the Windy City, Dodge City in Kansas is actually America’s windiest place.

He signed off with the words: “Until next week, you are all my sunshine.

“If you think the sun is too hot, just remember, you don’t have to shovel it.”

The show on the subscription service XM’s Deep Tracks channel will have a different theme each week, with mothers, drinking and cars lined up for future editions.

Dylan plans to feature a rap song, LL Cool J’s Mama Said Knock You Out, in next week’s show, which is planned to tie in with Mother’s Day in America.