A look at Dylan's brilliant social protest NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas SEASON ONE 2) Extracts from ‘Determined to Stand’: Love Sick and Spirit on the Water
Some extracts from DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REIVENTION OF BOB DYLAN
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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
Chris Gregory examines BOB DYLAN's MAGGIE'S FARM
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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
Extracts from my book DETERMINED TO STAND: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan. BLIND WILLIE McTELL / STANDING IN THE DOORWAY 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
BOB DYLAN: TO RAMONA – THE FINISHING END To Ramona stands alone in Bob Dylan’s catalogue. Although it is clearly addressed to a girl, it is neither a devotional love song like Tomorrow Is a Long Time nor a rueful farewell to a relationship like One Too Many Mornings or Don’t Think Twice,...
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BOB DYLAN: Narrow Way
BOB DYLAN: NARROW WAY …Straight is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life,and few there be that find it – King James Bible, Matthew 7;14 For this the Golden Sun the Earth divides And, wheel’d thro’ twelve bright signs, his chariot guides. Five zones the heav’n surrounds: the centre glows With...
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BOB DYLAN: Soon After Midnight
BOB DYLAN’S SOON AFTER MIDNIGHT THESEUS. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon; but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man’s revenue. HIPPOLYTA. Four days will quickly steep...
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BOB DYLAN: Duquesne Whistle
BOB DYLAN: DUQUESNE WHISTLE You’re the only thing alive that keeps me going You’re like a time-bomb in my heart…” In Tempest Bob Dylan takes us on a ‘dream journey’ through storms and bitterness and rage. The dream visions increase in intensity, as he draws us into a parallel vision of ‘modern times’ in...