Hi folks…. welcome to DESOLATION ROW…. Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’ (bottom left) PLEASE like and subscribe. Any comments at the bottom of this page or on you tube would be highly appreciated…. EXTRACTS (Full text here) Desolation…. The key to the success of the recording on Highway 61 Revisited was the addition...
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DESOLATION ROW: BETWEEN THE WINDOWS OF THE SEA
A detailed 'deep dive' into Bob Dylan's 1965 masterpiece DESOLATION ROW
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BOB DYLAN: THE WATERS OF OBLIVION: from MINSTREL BOY
THE WATERS OF OBLIVION; TWO MYSTERIOUS SONGS FROM BOB DYLAN’S BASEMENT TAPES (FROM ‘MINSTREL BOY’) A version of this text appears in Chris Gregory’s MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN (available here) a study of Dylasn’s work between 1967 and 1990 – the second part of the ‘Picasso of Song’ trilogy. “Are we...
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE: GO TO HIM NOW, HE CALLS YOU…
Chris looks at LIKE A ROLLING STONE, Bob Dylan's 1965 masterpiece
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S TOMBSTONE BLUES: THE SUN’S NOT YELLOW….
Chris examines Bob Dylan's magical and surreal satire TOMBSTONE BLUES from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
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I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER/SHE’S YOUR LOVER NOW: A Dead Man’s Last Pistol Shot
Chris does a deep dive into I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER and SHES YOUR LOVER NOW, two great unreleased songs from 1965/66
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FOOT OF PRIDE: AINT NO GOIN’ BACK
Chris examines Bob Dylan's highly mysterious FOOT OF PRIDE and its precursor TOO LATE, songs omitted from 1983's INFIDELS
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STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE: GOING THROUGH ALL THESE THINGS TWICE…
Chris examines Bob Dylan's hilrious, freewhereling and surreal STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE (WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN) from 1966's BLONDE ON BLONDE
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WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH ME?: FOUR BOB DYLAN SONGS FROM 1971
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH ME?: FOUR BOB DYLAN SONGS from 1971. Chris looks at WALLFLOWE, WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW, WHEN I PAINT MY MASTERPIECE and the haunting if obscure GEORGE JACKSON
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BOB DYLAN’S BALLAD OF A THIN MAN: Something is Happening Here…
BOB DYLAN: BALLAD OF A THIN MAN: SOMETHING IS HAPPENING HERE… … You don’t necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they’re poets. I don’t call myself a poet, because I don’t like the word. I’m a trapeze artist… Bob Dylan, interview with Nora Ephron and...