Chris looks at Dylan's WEDDING SONG
Category: Bob Dylan
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PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas SEASON ONE 3) To Ramona: The Finishing End
Dylan's great 1964 song TO RAMONA
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NOTHIN’ HERE NOW TO HOLD THEM: THE TRAGEDY OF NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
A look at Dylan's brilliant social protest NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
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BEAUTY IS TRUTH: BOB DYLAN’S POEM TO JOANIE
The pursuit of and definition of beauty has been one of the major concerns of poets throughout the ages. In perhaps his best known poem, Sonnet 18, Shakespeare asks if it is wise to compare the object of his love to a summer’s day, which despite all its glories will inevitably fade away. But...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas SEASON ONE 1) Maggie’s Farm
This is the first episode of Season One of BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS CLICK HERE FOR THE PODCAST https://youtu.be/KLpIgdxm7r4
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PALE DEATH RETREATING: Symbolism, Metaphor and Metamorphosis in Dylan’s Changing of the Guards
Chris looks at Dylan's great CHANGING OF THE GUARDS
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Extracts from DETERMINED TO STAND: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan
Hi folks!!! Here are a couple of extracts from my forthcoming book DETERMINED TO STAND: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan. The first extract recalls a live performance of Blind Willie McTell from a Martin Scorsese tribute show. In Determined to Stand my analyses of late period Dylan songs are interspersed with accounts of key live...
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BOB DYLAN: To Ramona – The Finishing End
Hi folks…. Been a while since I posted regularly as I’ve been working hard on finishing my book DETERMINED TO STAND: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan. There will be some extracts from the book in the next blog My Bob Dylan podcast A HEADFUL OF IDEAS will also be going live soon. Watch this space!!!...