Hi again everyone! Here’s Part 2 of my take on NASHVILLE SKYLINE (podcast version). EXTRACT FROM BOB DYLAN: NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET PART TWO After the uncertainties displayed in the earlier songs, the final track on the album is a deliberate statement of intent. Whereas in earlier country-flavoured songs...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 3) NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET (Part One)
Hi there y’all! This is the first part of my take on Dylan’s NASHVILLE SKYLINE, much criticised in its day but now looked on as a crucial part of Dylan’s development. Please click on the words ‘watch on you tube’ above or follow this link Some more you tube links further down… This is an...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 2) Forever Young: A Ladder to the Stars
Hi folks! Today’s podcast examines Bob Dylan’s gloriously sentimental 1974 song FOREVER YOUNG. Comments welcome at the bottom of the page. Having written DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB DYLAN, a study of Dylan’s later work from ‘Time out of Mind‘ onwards, I am currently working on two sequels – firstly of the...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 1) Tangled Up in Blue: From Different Points of View
Hi folks, This is the first podcast of Season Three of BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS. As you can see if you’ve been following these, I am jumping rather randomly around Dylan’s career as the inspiration strikes! Having written DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB DYLAN, a study of Dylan’s later work...
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Bob Dylan’s IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE: TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE GATHERED…
Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing, And like enough thou knowst thy estimate. The Charter of thy worth gives thee releasing; My bonds in thee are all determinate. For how do I hold thee but by thy granting, And for that riches where is my deserving? The cause of this fair...
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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
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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...
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Bob Dylan’s NEW MORNING: A Pastoral Dream (Part Two)
Chris looks at songs from NEW MORNING, Dylan's bucolic 1970 album.
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Bob Dylan’s NEW MORNING : A Pastoral Dream (Part 1)
Chris Gregory examines Bob Dylan's 1970 album New Morning
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Bob Dylan’s BROWNSVILLE GIRL: If There’s An Original Thought Out There…
Chris Gregory takes a detailed look at Bob Dylan and Sam Shepard's BROWNSVILLE GIRL from 1986