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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THE MINSTREL BOY BOOK TOUR DATES AND SOME RECENT REVIEWS
A selection of recent reviews of MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN, part 2 of BOB DYLAN: PICASSO OF SONG
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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET Extract from ‘Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan’
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's glorious NASHVILLE SKYLINE. In the words of Johnny Cash, Bob is 'One Hell of a Poet'
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MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT: THE PULSE AND VIBRATION…
Chris looks into the mysterious and downright scary 1989 song MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT
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DYLAN IN THE 80S: KNOCKED OUT AND LOADED…
KNOCKED OUT AND LOADED… …Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on… Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One Bob Dylan is an artist who has ‘reinvented’ himself and his music many times. By the late ‘70s he had presented himself as a Woody Guthrie clone, a solo folk-protest and...
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A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL: THE ROAR OF A WAVE…
Chris looks in detail at Bob Dylan's A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL from 1963's THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, a song written around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis - an extraordinary feat of symbolist and surreal poetic songwriting.
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RAMBLIN’ AND GAMBLIN; : BOB DYLAN AND THE FOLK PROCESS
In RAMBLIN' and GAMBLIN' Chris examines some of Dylan's early unreleased songs, inclusing Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie, Farewell, Hard Times in New York Town, Kingsport Town, Ramblin' Down Thru The World and I Was Young When I Left Home. Chris discusses how Dylan's songwriting ebolved from his adaptations of folk ballads.
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Extracts from MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN
An extract from Chris' new book MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN , part 2 of PICASSO OF SONG - the 'trilogy in reverse'. THis volume looks at Dylan's work between THE BASEMENT TAPES in 1967 and UNDER THE RED SKY in 1990, documenting the many changes he went through in thesxe turbulent 'years of struggle'
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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