Farewell Angelina is one of Bob Dylan’s most remarkable ‘unreleased songs’. Dylan’s own rather uncertain take was recorded during the Bringing It All Back Home sessions in 1965 but not released until The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (1991). The song was then passed to Joan Baez, who recorded it as the title track...
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Live intro and reading from Determined to Stand
This was recorded at the DOCKYARD CLUB, PORTSMOUTH on 28th November 2021. This is a slightly wonky recording of my talk at a fabulous ‘Dylan and the Dead’ weekend, organised by John Roberts. In between the bands I entertained the gathered multitudes with an intro to my book DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB...
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SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES: DIG YOURSELF
A look at Bob's iconic masterpiece SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
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HURRICANE AND JOEY: TWO CINEMATIC NARRATIVES FROM ‘DESIRE’
HURRICANE AND JOEY: TWO CINEMATIC NARRATIVES FROM DESIRE When the album Desire was released in early 1976, many Dylan fans were delighted that, in two of the songs, Dylan appeared to have reverted to the role that made him famous – that of a ‘protest singer’. Both songs were based around the lives...
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PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas Season 1 Episode 13: Two Films about the Rolling Thunder Tour
Chris compares Martin Scorcese’s ROLLING THUNDER: A BOB DYLAN STORY with Dylan’s own RENALDO AND CLARA
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PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas Season 1 Episode 12: Bob Dylan’s Wiggle Wiggle – A Bedtime Story
a fun take on WIGGLE WIGGLE, one of Bob's mosdt unfairly maligned songs
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‘MY POETRY WAS LOUSY YOU SAID’ : SONGS ABOUT DYLAN
Chris examines various songs that mention Bob Dylan
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PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas Season 1 Episode 11: Nothing Here Now To Hold Them
A look at Bob Dylan's great social protest song NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
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GOLIATH THE SECOND: TWO DYLAN CONCERTS FROM 1963
A look at two key BOB DYLAN concerts from 1963
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REVIEWS Of ‘DETERMINED TO STAND’: THE REINVENTION OF BOB DYLAN
A collection of reviews of Chris Gregory's DETERMINED TO STAND