Chris looks at Bob Dylan's famously transitional song My Back Pages, signalling the end of his 'protest' phase
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THE WATERS OF OBLIVION: from MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN
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: Two Songs from ‘Blood on the Tracks’
An examination of YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME LONESOME WHEN YOU GO and BUCKETS OF RAIN, two songs from Bob Dylan's masterpiece BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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BOB DYLAN’S GOSPEL YEARS (Part Two) from ‘Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan’
Chris continues his examination of BOB DYLAN'S GOSPEL YEARS, exploring songs from SAVED and SHOT OF LOVE
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REVIEW OF ‘MINSTREL BOY’ AND INTERVIEW IN RNR MAGAZINE, JANUARY 2026
THis review of MINSTREL BOY was published in the recent edtion of R and R magazine. Do enjoy!
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BRUCESPRINGSTEEN’s STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS: SINGING THROUGH THE BLOODY MIST…
STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS is a new and very explicit protest song by Bruce Springsteen referring to recent killings of civilians by ICE agents.
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BOB DYLAN’S GOSPEL YEARS (Part One) from ‘Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan’
The first part of Chris' detailed examination of Bob Dylan's 'gospel' or 'born again' years, adapted from 'Minstrel Boy'
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SERIES OF DREAMS – TIME OUT OF JOINT (extract from ‘Minstrel Boy’)
Chris examines the mystical SERIES OF DREAMS, which was unaccountably left off the OH MERCY album
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QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY: WHEN YOU’RE SICK OF ALL THIS REPETITION…
CHris looks at Bob Dylan's enigmatic and teasing 1965 song QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED