LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE Bob Dylan first wrote and recorded Lay Down Your Weary Tune in late 1963. The song was originally scheduled to appear on The Times They Are A-Changin’ album but was replaced by Restless Farewell. A live recording at Carnegie Hall was also intended for release...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S MY BACK PAGES: SO MUCH OLDER NOW…
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's famously transitional song My Back Pages, signalling the end of his 'protest' phase
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’s ‘POP SONGS’ OF THE 1980s (Part Two)
A further look at Bob's attempt to keep up with the 'big hair' era of the 1980s when he attempted to write 'pop songs'
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’s QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY: ALL THIS REPETITION
Chris examines Bob Dylan's enigmatic 1965 song QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s ‘Pop Songs’ of the1980s (Part One)from ‘Minstrel Boy’
Chris examines Bob Dylan's weirdest period in the 1980s when he attempted to become a writer of 'pop songs', with mixed results!
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VIDEO PODCAST: Two Songs from ‘Blood on the Tracks’
An examination of YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME LONESOME WHEN YOU GO and BUCKETS OF RAIN, two songs from Bob Dylan's masterpiece BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S VISIONS OF JOHANNA: THE GHOST OF ELECTRICITY
Chris dives very very deep into BOB DYLAN's amazing symbolist rock song from 1966's BLonde on Blonde, Visions of Johanna
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S TOMBSTONE BLUES: THE SUN’S NOT YELLOW….
Chris examines Bob Dylan's magical and surreal satire TOMBSTONE BLUES from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
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VIDEO PODCAST: Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid: That Long Black Cloud…
Chris discurses on Bob Dylan's first entry into 'Hollyeood' with his role in Sam Peckinpah's PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID, supplying its beautiful soundtrack and some 'interesting' acting! The movie is the source of the Dylan classic KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR, though some versions of the movie leave it ourt!!"! Grrr!!!
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s Songs of Social Protest (Part 4)
Chris dives deeply into three crucial Bob Dylan eary protest songs: Oxford Town, Only a Pawn in Their Game and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, which confront issues of racism in the US during the Civil Rights era