Chris Gregory looks at the satirical blues rock song HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED from the album of the same name.
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 8) Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie (Part Two)
Chris Gregory looks deeper into the influence of Woody Guthrie on Bob Dylan, focusing on various songs and the amazing extended poem LAST THOUGHTS ON WOODY GUTHRIE
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie (Part One)
Part One of Chris Gregory's analysis of the profound influence that the great folk singer WOODY GUTHRIE had on Bob Dylan's career
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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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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 6) Love Songs from ‘Desire’ (Part Two)
Chris looks at comic and romantic love songs from 1976's DESIRE: RITA MAY, MOZAMBIQUE, ROMANCE IN DURANGO and OH SISTER
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 5) Time is an Ocean: Love Songs from ‘Desire’ (Part One) (Part One)
The first part of an examination of Bob Dylan's love songs from 'DESIRE'. Chris examines ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE and GOLDEN LOOM