Chris Gregory discusses songs written about BOB DYLAN
Category: Bob Dylan
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS SEASON TWO 3): Positively Fourth Street: Dylan meets his Nemesis
Chris examines BOB DYLAN'S brilliantly scathing 1965 single POSITIVELY FOURTH STREET
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Two: 2) Steppin’ Out into Space
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's 'lockdown show' SHADOW KINGDOM: 'Steppin' out into space'....
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas SEASON TWO 1) Goliath the Second: Two Shows From 1963
Chris discusses two key BOB DYLAN shows from 1963: New York Town Hall and Carnegie Hall
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MR. TAMBOURINE MAN: CAST YOUR DANCING SPELL…
Chris examines BOB DYLAN's transcendent MR. TAMBOURINE MAN from 1965
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WHO’S GONNA THROW THAT MINSTREL BOY A COIN? Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight 1969
This article examines BOB DYLAN's appearance at the Isle of Wight in 1969
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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...