Jim Dolan’s band to open for the Eagles at MSG

Meet the freewheelin’ Jim Dolan.

Even though New Yorkers know him as the cable mogul to blame for the Knicks, deep down the team owner is a budding Bob Dylan.

The 59-year-old billionaire is set to live out his musical dream this Saturday as his band, JD & The Straight Shot, opens for the Eagles at a little venue he owns — Madison Square Garden.

As part of the act, the world’s most famous arena proprietor — who also owns the Rangers hockey team — will use his musical talents to poke fun at politicians like Bill de Blasio and Chris Christie and take on hot-button social issues that disgust him.

“The artist in me needs to be free,” he told The Post about the lyrics of his bluesy folk songs, which sound more like the cries of a Beat poet than the measured statements of a CEO with a $1.5 billion fortune.

“I’m entitled to my opinion,” he said. “I am not the chairman, CEO, etc., standing up there on that stage. I am the singer-songwriter.”

Dolan seems to have made himself the Springsteen for the 1 percent — a Boss who complains about taxes and lambastes politicians who have crossed him personally, such as ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

His ballad “Fall from Grace” is based on the disgraced love gov, with lyrics such as: “See the shame on your face/Look at what you’ve become/And smiling at your fall from grace.”

The lyrical diss was inspired by a nasty fight the two had over relocating the Garden in 2008.

“He [Spitzer] threatened me at the meeting,” Dolan said. “We were figuring we were going to have a big fight, and on Monday he started not being the governor anymore.”

In another ditty, “Governor’s Song,” Dolan takes a pot shot at Mayor de Blasio for not caring about the “1 percent.”

“If you dare to call the mayor, taxes got your goat, well he don’t care,” he warbles. “Cause you’re a millionaire, and he didn’t get your vote.”

He even takes on social issues as if he were a jet-set Woody Guthrie. In his song “Under The Hood,” Dolan decries the 2013 killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman in Florida.

Dolan has no apologies for his provocative lyrics — he just wants critics to give his music a fair shake.

“I worry about the other ways that people know me. I worry that they aren’t going to listen to the music,” he said.

“Are they going to look at the music and go, ‘I don’t like how the Knicks are doing this year’?”

Seems the boss has feelings, too.

“You are definitely putting it out there and making yourself vulnerable and susceptible to criticism, and since it’s so personal, you run the risk of being hurt,” he said.

Dolan has already been playing occasional gigs for the past year opening for the Eagles, whose guitarist, Joe Walsh, is his producer. He also has a team of other music-world heavyweights on his side, such as his manager, Irving Azoff, and publicist, Leslie Sloane.

The band isn’t just a hobby or a midlife crisis for the Long Island native.

“This is all me,” he said. “Those are my words. That’s my voice. And this is my product.”