Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan is the second volume in the series BOB DYLAN: PICASSO OF SONG. It consists of a close examination of Dylan's work from 1967 to 1990
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s Songs of Social Protest (Part Two)
Chris examines WHO KILLED DAVY MOORE?, JOHN BROWN and HERO BLUES, three unreleased protest songs. Who else could leave these unreleased????
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MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT: THE PULSE AND VIBRATION…
Chris looks into the mysterious and downright scary 1989 song MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s Songs of Social Protest Part One
BOB DYLAN’S SONGS OF SOCIAL PROTEST Part One EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE Bob Dylan arrived in the bohemian oasis of Greenwich Village at the age of nineteen in 1961, determined to make his name as a folk performer. He had already absorbed the influence of a whole range of American ‘roots’ music – including the...
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DYLAN IN THE 80S: KNOCKED OUT AND LOADED…
KNOCKED OUT AND LOADED… …Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on… Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One Bob Dylan is an artist who has ‘reinvented’ himself and his music many times. By the late ‘70s he had presented himself as a Woody Guthrie clone, a solo folk-protest and...
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A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL: THE ROAR OF A WAVE…
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.
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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