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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 13) Desolation Row: Between the Windows of the Sea

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) 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’S TOMBSTONE BLUES: THE SUN’S NOT YELLOW

…I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night… Allen Ginsberg, Howl, 1956 …My solution to the problem would...

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TIME IS AN OCEAN: LOVE SONGS FROM BOB DYLAN’S DESIRE

————————- Hi there folks! Comments box at the bottom of the page. Comments welcome!!! ————————- …Fine, clear, dazzling morning, the sun an hour high, the air just tart enough. What a stamp in advance my whole day receives from the song of that meadow lark perch’d on a fence-stake twenty rods distant! Two or...

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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 11) A Price on My Soul: Three Songs From John Wesley Harding

Chris Gregory examines three songs from JOHN WESLEY HARDING

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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 5) Black Diamond Bay: Another Hard Luck Story

Hi folks Hope you enjoy this! This is the ‘audio version’ of my blog on Bob Dylan’s rather fabulous and certainly under rated 1976 song BLACK DIAMOND BAY…. The whole text can be found at https://chrisgregory.org/articles/black-diamond-bay-another-hard-luck-story/ Excerpts… One of Dylan’s most distinctive qualities- as shown in songs like Desolation Row, Stuck Inside...