Chris examines the origins and poetic focus of LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE, Bob Dylan's great unreleased song from 1963/4
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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...
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BOB DYLAN’S JOHN WESLEY HARDING: PARABLES AND LULLABIES
Chris looks at a number of songs from JOHN WESLEY HARDING - John Wesley Harding, As I Went Out One Morning, The Drifter's Escape, I Am A Lonesome Hobo, The Wicked Messenger, The Drifter's Escape, Down Along the Cove and I'll Be Your Baby Tonight.
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BOB DYLAN’S IDIOT WIND: KISS GOODBYE TO HOWLIN’ BEASTS…
Chris does a deep deep dive into the different versions of Bob Dylan's amazing IDIOT WIND from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER: THE WIND BEGAN TO HOWL…
Chris examines Bob Dylan's monumental ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, with special reference to JIMI HENDRIX's extraordinary version
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KNOCKED OUT AND LOADED: BOB DYLAN’S POP SONGS OF THE 1980s
Chris surveys Bob Dylan's difficult engagement with the 'big hair' 1980s on albums like EMPIRE BURLESQUE and KNOCKED OUT LOADED
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BOB DYLAN’S SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE: THAT EMPTINESS INSIDE…
Chris analyses BOB DYLAN's great melancholy song SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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FORGETFUL HEART: Extract from ‘Determined to Stand: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan’
Chris examines the brilliant FORGETFUL HEART from 2009's TOGETHER THROUGH LIFE and examines its links tonPoe, Shakespeare and Charles Aznavour
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BOB DYLAN’S VISIONS OF JOHANNA: THE GHOST OF ELECTRICITY
Chris does a very deep dive into the amazing symbolic world of VISIONS of JOHANNA, in which we meet The Ghosts of Electricity, Mona Lisa, Madonna and some Jelly Faced Women
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BOB DYLAN’S SONGS OF SOCIAL PROTEST Part Two: NOW’S THE TIME FOR YOUR TEARS…
Part Two of Chris Gregory's examination of Bob Dylan's songs of social protest looks at two songs about the killing and oppression of black people, OXFORD.