Hi folks Hope you enjoy this! This is the ‘audio version’ of my blog on Bob Dylan’s rather fabulous and certainly under rated 1976 song BLACK DIAMOND BAY…. The whole text can be found at https://chrisgregory.org/articles/black-diamond-bay-another-hard-luck-story/ EXCERPTS (FULL TEXT HERE….) Black Diamond Bay… One of Dylan’s most distinctive qualities- as shown in songs...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 4) Nashville Skyline: One Hell of a Poet (Part Two)
Chris Gregory looks at Bob Dylan's wonderful NASHVILLESKYLINE - 'One Hell of a Poet' Part 2
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 3) NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET (Part One)
Chris begins his deep dive into Bob Dylan's 1969 album NASHVILLE SKYLINE
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 2) Forever Young: A Ladder to the Stars
Chris Gregory examines Bob Dylan's gloriously sentimental FOREVER YOUNG from 1974's PLANET WAVES
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 1) Tangled Up in Blue: From Different Points of View
Chris Gregory examines Bob Dylan's TANGLED UP IN BLUE - a song written from many angles - from 19875's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
Bob Dylan’s IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE: TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE GATHERED…
Chris Gregory looks at IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE from Bob Dylan's BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME (1965)
Bob Dylan’s LILY, ROSEMARY AND THE JACK OF HEARTS: THE ONLY MISSING PERSON ON THE SCENE
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's wonderful tongue in cheek 'Western', Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
Bob Dylan’s DIRGE: SEARCHING FOR A GEM
The shocking immediacy and passionate cynicism of 1974’s Dirge was correctly interpreted by many fans and commentators as a strong indication that the era of Bob Dylan the ‘family man’ was coming to an end. This was particularly striking as it was released on Planet Waves, most of which consisted of much lighter...
Bob Dylan’s NEW MORNING: A Pastoral Dream (Part Two)
Chris Gregory examines songs from his bucolic NEW MORNING album from 1970
Bob Dylan’s NEW MORNING : A Pastoral Dream (Part 1)
Chris examines Bob Dylan's 1970 album NEW MORNING as 'a pastoral dream'









