Chris divers very deep into Bob Dylan's fabulous and explosive IDIOT WIND from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, with much emphasis on variant versions of the song
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I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER/SHE’S YOUR LOVER NOW: A Dead Man’s Last Pistol Shot
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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VIDEO PODCAST: Songs of Social Protest Part Three
Chris looks at SEVEN CURSES,
PERCY’S SONG and
THE BALLAD OF HOLLIS BROWN,
Three powerful early 60s protest songs
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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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An Introduction to MINSTREL BOY: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan
Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan is the second volume in the series BOB DYLAN: PICASSO OF SONG. It consists of a close examination of Dylan's work from 1967 to 1990
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s Songs of Social Protest (Part Two)
Chris examines WHO KILLED DAVY MOORE?, JOHN BROWN and HERO BLUES, three unreleased protest songs. Who else could leave these unreleased????
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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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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s Songs of Social Protest Part One
BOB DYLAN’S SONGS OF SOCIAL PROTEST Part One EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE Bob Dylan arrived in the bohemian oasis of Greenwich Village at the age of nineteen in 1961, determined to make his name as a folk performer. He had already absorbed the influence of a whole range of American ‘roots’ music – including the...
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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...