LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE Bob Dylan first wrote and recorded Lay Down Your Weary Tune in late 1963. The song was originally scheduled to appear on The Times They Are A-Changin’ album but was replaced by Restless Farewell. A live recording at Carnegie Hall was also intended for release...
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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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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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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’s ‘POP SONGS’ OF THE 1980s (Part Two)
A further look at Bob's attempt to keep up with the 'big hair' era of the 1980s when he attempted to write 'pop songs'
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’s QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY: ALL THIS REPETITION
Chris examines Bob Dylan's enigmatic 1965 song QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s ‘Pop Songs’ of the1980s (Part One)from ‘Minstrel Boy’
Chris examines Bob Dylan's weirdest period in the 1980s when he attempted to become a writer of 'pop songs', with mixed results!
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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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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S VISIONS OF JOHANNA: THE GHOST OF ELECTRICITY
Chris dives very very deep into BOB DYLAN's amazing symbolist rock song from 1966's BLonde on Blonde, Visions of Johanna