BOB DYLAN AND THE BLUES 1961-66 …Big Bill Broonzy had a song called ‘Key to the Highway’. “I’ve got a key to the highway / I’m booked and I’m bound to go / Gonna leave here runnin’ because walking is most too slow.” I sang that a lot. If you sing that a lot, you...
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VIDEO PODCAST: STUCK INSIDE OF MOBILE: Going Through All These Things Twice
Rather than providing a linear narrative, Dylan freewheels through the nine verses in an apparently random order. Like Desolation Row and Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues the song creates a world with its own internal rationale, peopled by symbolic ‘cartoon characters’ who make brief entrances and exits. As in It’s Alright Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) (also addressed to an invisible ‘mother figure’) it presents a picture of modern life as stifling, oppressive and highly illogical. But the desperate tension of that song is now replaced by a gleeful comic detachment. Dream, fantasy and hallucination appear to dictate the picture Dylan builds up of a world in which conventional reason is upended or reversed.
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Star Trek CLASSIC TREK: An Introduction
Why do we still love CLASSIC TREK? CLASSIC TREK: AN INTRODUCTION Over more than six decades, StarTrek has expanded into one of the most successful TV and cinema franchises of the modern era. It has spawned no less than eleven spin-off series, as well as thirteen movies – not to mention innumerable novelizations, comic...
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VIDEO PODCAST: Girl From the North Country/ Boots of Spanish Leather (from ‘Dig Yourself’)
GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY/ BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER: SHE WAS ONCE A TRUE LOVE OF MINE A version of this appears in Chris Gregory’s forthcoming DIG YOURSELF: THE RISE OF BOB DYLAN 1961-66, the third part of the PICASSO OF SONG trilogy GIRL FROM THE NORTH COUNTRY AND BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER Disseminated in...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S RESTLESS FAREWELL: IT’S CLOSING TIME…
In 1964's RESTLESS FAREWELL, Bob Dylan begins to signal the elements that will bring about his oncoming change of style
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s She’s Your Lover Now: With Your Picture Books of the Pyramids…
Chris goes deep deep into SHE'S YOUR LOVER NOW and I WANT TO BE YOUR LOVER, two unreleased songs from the early BLONDE ON BLONDE sessions
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VIDEO PODCAST: BALLAD OF A THIN MAN: Something is Happening Here
VIDEO PODCAST: BALLAD OF A THIN MAN: Something is...
Chris dives very deeply into Bob Dylan's BALLAD OF A THIN MAN
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VIDEO PODCAST: A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL
A HARD RAIN’S A-GONNA FALL: BOB DYLAN’S APOCALYPTIC MASTERPIECE ‘A HEADFUL OF IDEAS’ is ranked 3rd in the top 20Bob Dylan podcasts at: https://www.millionpodcasts.com/bob-dylan-podcasts/ EXTRACTS FULL TEXT HERE …What immortal hand or eye Dare frame thy fearful symmetry… William Blake, The Tyger (1794) …I read the news today, oh boy… The Beatles,...
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S POP SONGS OF THE 1980s (Part Three)
Chris dives into some of the weirdest episodes of
Bob Dylan’s career - Pop Songs of the 1980s Part Three
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNE: THE OCEAN WILD…
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...