A version of this blog appears in the book MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN Minstrel Boy, Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan BOB DYLAN’S POLITICAL AND POST-RELIGIOUS SONGS OF THE 1980S …Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep, Still threat’ning to devour me, opens wide,...
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VIDEO PODCAST: Girl From the North Country/ Boots of Spanish Leather (from ‘Dig Yourself’)
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY/ BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER: SHE WAS ONCE A TRUE LOVE OF MINE A version of this appears in Chris Gregory’s forthcoming DIG YOURSELF: THE RISE OF BOB DYLAN 1961-66, the third part of the PICASSO OF SONG trilogy GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY AND BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER Disseminated in...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S RESTLESS FAREWELL: IT’S CLOSING TIME…
In 1964's RESTLESS FAREWELL, Bob Dylan begins to signal the elements that will bring about his oncoming change of style
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Bob Dylan’s MURDER MOST FOUL Part Three from ‘Determined to Stand’
The third and final part of Chris' deep exegis of Bob Dylan's masterful MURDER MOST FOUL...
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BOB DYLAN’S MURDER MOST FOUL Part Two
Chris looks in detail at Dylan's MURDER MOST FOUL (Part 2)
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MURDER MOST FOUL: BOB DYLAN’S MAGNUM OPUS (Part One) (extract from ‘Determined to Stand’)
Chris does an extremely deep dive into Bob Dylan's amazing song from 2000, MURDER MOST FOUL, an epic song about the murder of JOHN F. KENNEDY
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I SHALL BE RELEASED: Extract from ‘Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan’
BOB DYLAN: I SHALL BE RELEASED January 20th 1986. The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the venue for an ‘All Star Celebration Honoring Martin Luther King Jr’. Among the speakers and performers are Charlton Heston, Harry Belafonte, Neil Diamond and Joan Baez. Leading the show is Stevie Wonder, whose introduction to another star performer begins...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S MY BACK PAGES: SO MUCH OLDER NOW…
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's famously transitional song My Back Pages, signalling the end of his 'protest' phase
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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