Tangled Up in Bob

Tangled Up in Bob

Jason Enright tells the story of how Jupiter became Bob Dylan's favorite record store:

"Now Ryan is known as one of the biggest Bob aficionados around. When Dylan played at the Erwin Center in September of 1999, we placed an ad in the Chronicle -- a collage of unpublished photos of Bob through the years -- welcoming him to Austin. We go to the show, and the only thing he says the whole show is how much he likes Jupiter Records.

"The next week we got a tremendous response from people who had been at the show. Phone calls, people coming into the store asking how we knew him -- it was amazing. We followed that with a Dylan tribute night at the store that drew 400 people.

"We recorded it, and the next time he came to town, we gave him a copy. He told us how much he appreciated what we were doing. To my knowledge, we're the only record store Bob has plugged onstage."

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