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...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 22) Twisted Love Songs from ‘Street Legal’
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...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas SeasonThree 21) Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
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...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 20) It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue: Take What You Have Gathered…
Please click ‘Watch on You Tube’ and Like and subscribe COMMENTS WELCOME EXTRACTS … READ FULL TEXT HERE It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue is one of Bob Dylan’s most well known songs. It has a beautiful melody, a winning chorus and lyrics that can express many different moods. Dylan has performed it...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 19) Brownsville Girl: If There’s an Original Thought Out There…
EXTRACTS (Full text HERE) Brownsville Girl is an extraordinarily experimental song which is a unique amalgam of lyrical, cinematic and theatrical elements. Its use of fractured internal and external narratives and time frames links it to earlier songs like Tangled Up in Blue and Visions of Johanna. But it uses language in a very different...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 18) Motorpsycho Nitemare: A Clean Cut Kid
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...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 17) New Morning: A Pastoral Dream (Part Two)
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...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas season Three 16)New Morning: A Pastoral Dream (Part One)
Chris Gregory examines the dreamy world of 1970's NEW MORNING
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VIDEO PODCAST 2: Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man
EXTRACTS Mr. Tambourine Man is certainly one of Bob Dylan’s most famous creations; so much so that it has become a kind of ‘signature song’. If any one of the characters in Dylan’s lyrics can be said to represent the singer himself, it is this mysterious and enigmatic figure who inspires the song’s narrator with...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 15) Sara: Forgive Me My Unworthiness
Hi folks! Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE when you get there! EXTRACTS Sara is clearly an autobiographical song. It is a highly moving and desperate plea, which focuses on the happy earlier days of their relationship when their children were very small. There is no mention of...