Category: Podcasts

Chris Gregory riffs on Bob Dyl;an's BALLAD OF FRANKIE LEE AND JUDAS PRIEST, a marvellous comic burlesque from 1968#s JOHN WESLEY HARDING

A look at Bob Dylan's highly symbolic 1965 song GATES OF EDEN

Chris looks at 1983's wondrous JOKERMAN from INFIDELS

Two Bitter Love Songs from Blood on the Tracks EXTRACTS (Full text here) In the only live version on the Rolling Thunder Tour, recorded at Lakeland Florida on April 18th 1976, the lyrics are completely rewritten, now in an AABB rhyming scheme. The woman is now in ‘North Saigon’. Despite the fact that the American...

Please click ‘Watch on you tube’ LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE, thanks !!! EXTRACTS Read the full text HERE   Street Legal was a rather ‘schizophrenic’ album. Four of its nine songs- Changing of the Guards, No Time To Think, Senor and Where Are You Tonight revive the kind of arcane symbolism that Dylan had been so...

  LILY, ROSEMARY AND THE JACK OF HEARTS EXTRACTS     FULL TEXT HERE This is one of Dylan’s most appealing and enigmatic songs, full of witty rhyming, various poetic devices and characteristically colloquial turns of phrase. Like The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest (its most obvious antecedent) it is a comic narrative which can...

PLEASE CLICK ON ‘WATCH ON YOU TUBE’ PLEASE LIKER AND SUBSCRIBE! COMMENTS WELCOME ON YOU TUBE OR FURTHER DOWN THIS PAGE EXTRACTS  (full version here) Motorpsycho Nitemare is a comic ‘shaggy dog’ story that appears on what is generally regarded as Dylan’s first ‘post protest’ album, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964). Motorpsycho Nitemare represents...

PLEASE VIEW ON YOU TUBE. LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE! EXTRACTS  FULL TEXT HERE NEW MORNING…. A PASTORAL DREAM With his tongue very firmly in his cheek, and using a vocal delivery similar to the ‘softened’ Nashville Skyline tone, Dylan depicts a ‘winter wonderland’ while confessing his love to a girl called ‘Winterlude’, who he refers to...