Chris looks in detail at Bob Dylan's A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL from 1963's THE FREEWHEELIN' BOB DYLAN, a song written around the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis - an extraordinary feat of symbolist and surreal poetic songwriting.
Category: Bob Dylan
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VIDEO PODCAST: All Along the Watchtower
In this video podcast Chris examines Bob Dylan's extraordinary apocalyptic and visionary ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER from 1968, with special reference to the version by JIMI HENDRIX
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RAMBLIN’ AND GAMBLIN; : BOB DYLAN AND THE FOLK PROCESS
In RAMBLIN' and GAMBLIN' Chris examines some of Dylan's early unreleased songs, inclusing Ramblin' Gamblin' Willie, Farewell, Hard Times in New York Town, Kingsport Town, Ramblin' Down Thru The World and I Was Young When I Left Home. Chris discusses how Dylan's songwriting ebolved from his adaptations of folk ballads.
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Extracts from MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN
An extract from Chris' new book MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN , part 2 of PICASSO OF SONG - the 'trilogy in reverse'. THis volume looks at Dylan's work between THE BASEMENT TAPES in 1967 and UNDER THE RED SKY in 1990, documenting the many changes he went through in thesxe turbulent 'years of struggle'
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FOOT OF PRIDE: AINT NO GOIN’ BACK
Chris examines Bob Dylan's highly mysterious FOOT OF PRIDE and its precursor TOO LATE, songs omitted from 1983's INFIDELS
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PODCAST: A Heaful of Ideas Season 4 : 15 BOB DYLAN’S I AND I: NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES
BOB DYLAN's I AND I : NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES
Chris looks at the religious and muscal influences on Bob Dylan's 1983vsong I and I, from the album Infidels
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STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE: GOING THROUGH ALL THESE THINGS TWICE…
Chris examines Bob Dylan's hilrious, freewhereling and surreal STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE (WITH THE MEMPHIS BLUES AGAIN) from 1966's BLONDE ON BLONDE
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HOUND DOG HOWLIN’ : FIVE SONGS FROM BOB DYLAN’S ‘OH MERCY’
Chris examines five songs from 1989's OH MERCY; Political World, Everything is Broken, Disease of Conceit, Where Teardrops Fall, Shooting Star
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PODCAST: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four Episode 19: NO TIME TO THINK: THE EMPRESS ATTRACTS YOU
Chris dives deep into the mysteries of NO TIME TO THINK from 1978's STREET LEGAL, explaining how the song is connected to Shakespeare's MACBETH and the TAROT CARDS
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BOB DYLAN’S SHELTER FROM THE STORM: BEAUTY WALKS A RAZOR’S EDGE…
SHELTER FROM THE STORM: BEAUTY WALKS A RAZOR’S EDGE… …She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes; Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies… Lord Byron, She Walks...