Chris Gregory riffs on Bob Dylan's role in thevmovie PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID. He examines his soundtrack for the film, which includes KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Chris examines Bob Dylan's SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 6) Nonsense Songs From The Basement Tapes Part One
Please click on ‘Watch on YouTube’ in bottom left hand corner, like and SUBSCRIBE… thanks… NONSENSE SONGS FROM ‘THE BASEMENT TAPES’: SOME EXTRACTS… Tiny Montgomery… Nonsense? The first song to be recorded in the basement of Big Pink which displays these characteristics is the bizarre Tiny Montgomery.The song does not have a chorus as...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 5) Black Diamond Bay: Another Hard Luck Story
Hi folks Hope you enjoy this! This is the ‘audio version’ of my blog on Bob Dylan’s rather fabulous and certainly under rated 1976 song BLACK DIAMOND BAY…. The whole text can be found at https://chrisgregory.org/articles/black-diamond-bay-another-hard-luck-story/ Excerpts… One of Dylan’s most distinctive qualities- as shown in songs like Desolation Row, Stuck Inside...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 4) Nashville Skyline: One Hell of a Poet (Part Two)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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