Chris examines a number of early Dylan protest songs
Category: Bob Dylan
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 4: 3) The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest: Nothing is Revealed
Chris Gregory riffs on Bob Dyl;an's BALLAD OF FRANKIE LEE AND JUDAS PRIEST, a marvellous comic burlesque from 1968#s JOHN WESLEY HARDING
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BOB DYLAN’S NO TIME TO THINK: THE EMPRESS ATTRACTS YOU…
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's dark and rumimnative NO TIME TO THINK from 1978's STREET LEGAL
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 2) Gates of Eden: A Crashing But Meaningless Blow
A look at Bob Dylan's highly symbolic 1965 song GATES OF EDEN
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BOB DYLAN’S I AND I: NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES…
Chris looks at Dylan's mystical I and I from 1983's Infidels
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 1) Jokerman: Dance to the Nightingale’s Tune…
Chris looks at 1983's wondrous JOKERMAN from INFIDELS
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BOB DYLAN’S CAN YOU PLEASE CRAWL OUT YOUR WINDOW: HE NEEDS YOU TO TEST HIS INVENTIONS
A look at Bob Dylan's extraordinary single release from 1965 Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
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THREE BITTERSWEET SONGS FROM BOB DYLAN’S OH MERCY: SMILE IN THE FACE OF MANKIND
Bob Dylan’s 1989 album On Mercy represented a crucial turning point in his career. The ‘post-gospel’ records he had put out in the 1980s had received poor reviews. Most critics and fans agreed that Shot of Love (1981), Infidels (1983) and Empire Burlesque (1985), despite including some brilliant songs, were patchy affairs. By...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 23) Two Bitter Love Songs from ‘Blood on the Tracks’
Two Bitter Love Songs from Blood on the Tracks EXTRACTS (Full text here) In the only live version on the Rolling Thunder Tour, recorded at Lakeland Florida on April 18th 1976, the lyrics are completely rewritten, now in an AABB rhyming scheme. The woman is now in ‘North Saigon’. Despite the fact that the American...