This article examines BOB DYLAN's appearance at the Isle of Wight in 1969
Category: Bob Dylan
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KEY WEST: An extract from ‘Determined to Stand: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan’
Chris Gregory writes on BOB DYLAN's late masterpiece KEY WEST
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TEARS OF RAGE: THE HEART IS FILLED WITH GOLD
Tears of Rage represents a key turning point in Bob Dylan’s career. Written and recorded at some time between May and October 1967, when the focus of attention in the music world was on San Francisco and the ‘summer of love’, this sad, stately and incredibly moving song presents a new kind of...
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CARIBBEAN WIND: UPON A PAINTED OCEAN
Caribbean Wind, which was written in late 1980, remains something of an enigma in Bob Dylan’s career. Although it is a song which Dylan regarded as ‘unfinished’, it has often been acclaimed as one of his most luminous creations. When it first reached a wide public on the 1985 compilation Biograph, many listeners were...
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MASTERS OF WAR AND WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE: DYLAN AS PUBLIC POET
Masters of War and With God on Our Side can be considered to be the most didactic and moralistic examples of Bob Dylan’s early ‘protest’ material. Jesus and Judas are mentioned in both songs. Dylan’s uses these two figures to represent polar moral opposites – good and evil, faith and...
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FAREWELL ANGELINA: THE SKY IS ON FIRE
Farewell Angelina is one of Bob Dylan’s most remarkable ‘unreleased songs’. Dylan’s own rather uncertain take was recorded during the Bringing It All Back Home sessions in 1965 but not released until The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (1991). The song was then passed to Joan Baez, who recorded it as the title track...
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Live intro and reading from Determined to Stand
This was recorded at the DOCKYARD CLUB, PORTSMOUTH on 28th November 2021. This is a slightly wonky recording of my talk at a fabulous ‘Dylan and the Dead’ weekend, organised by John Roberts. In between the bands I entertained the gathered multitudes with an intro to my book DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB...
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SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES: DIG YOURSELF
A look at Bob's iconic masterpiece SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
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HURRICANE AND JOEY: TWO CINEMATIC NARRATIVES FROM ‘DESIRE’
HURRICANE AND JOEY: TWO CINEMATIC NARRATIVES FROM DESIRE When the album Desire was released in early 1976, many Dylan fans were delighted that, in two of the songs, Dylan appeared to have reverted to the role that made him famous – that of a ‘protest singer’. Both songs were based around the lives...
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PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas Season 1 Episode 13: Two Films about the Rolling Thunder Tour
Chris compares Martin Scorcese’s ROLLING THUNDER: A BOB DYLAN STORY with Dylan’s own RENALDO AND CLARA