The first part of Chris' detailed examination of Bob Dylan's 'gospel' or 'born again' years, adapted from 'Minstrel Boy'
Category: Bob Dylan
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VIDEO PODCAST: Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid: That Long Black Cloud…
Chris discurses on Bob Dylan's first entry into 'Hollyeood' with his role in Sam Peckinpah's PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID, supplying its beautiful soundtrack and some 'interesting' acting! The movie is the source of the Dylan classic KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR, though some versions of the movie leave it ourt!!"! Grrr!!!
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SERIES OF DREAMS – TIME OUT OF JOINT (extract from ‘Minstrel Boy’)
Chris examines the mystical SERIES OF DREAMS, which was unaccountably left off the OH MERCY album
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QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY: WHEN YOU’RE SICK OF ALL THIS REPETITION…
CHris looks at Bob Dylan's enigmatic and teasing 1965 song QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s Songs of Social Protest (Part 4)
Chris dives deeply into three crucial Bob Dylan eary protest songs: Oxford Town, Only a Pawn in Their Game and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, which confront issues of racism in the US during the Civil Rights era
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VIDEO PODCAST: Idiot Wind: Kiss Goodbye to Howling Beasts
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'