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...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 14) Crossing the Rubicon (extract from ‘Determined to Stand’
Hi folks! Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE when you get there! THE TEXT Crossing the Rubicon is constructed in a very regular pattern, with nine verses of four lines each. Dylan’s vocal is especially nuanced, depicting the conflicting extremes of decisiveness and indecision between which the narrator is continually...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 13) Desolation Row: Between the Windows of the Sea
Hi folks…. welcome to DESOLATION ROW…. Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’ (bottom left) PLEASE like and subscribe. Any comments at the bottom of this page or on you tube would be highly appreciated…. EXTRACTS (Full text here) The key to the success of the recording on Highway 61 Revisited was the addition...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan; A Headful of Ideas Season Three 12) Dirge: Searching For A Gem
Hi folks here’s my take on DIRGE, the angst ridden track from PLANET WAVES…. PLEASE CLICK ‘WATCH ON YOU TUBE’ TO LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE!!! COMMENTS BOX BELOW…. EXTRACTS In many ways Dirge is presented like one of Dylan’s old protest songs. The six verses use a basic AABB rhyme scheme and a repeated regular rhythm....
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 11) A Price on My Soul: Three Songs From John Wesley Harding
Chris Gregory examines three songs from JOHN WESLEY HARDING
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 10) Black Rider: Extract from ‘Determined to Stand’
EXTRACTS Black Rider, from Rough and Rowdy Ways, consists of a direct address to an ominous figure which Dylan performs against the sparse but highly atmospheric backing of a single, flamenco-flavoured acoustic guitar. The track is reminiscent of some of the more intimate cuts on his ‘Sinatra’ albums such as Melancholy Mood or Some Enchanted...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 9) Isis: You Mystical Child
Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’ Please like and subscribe!!!! COMMENTS BOX AT BOTTOM OF THE PAGE…. EXTRACTS Perhaps the most dramatic moment of all in this extreme expression of poetic angst occurs near the end of the performance as Dylan acts out a conversation between his narrator and the object of his love...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan A Headful Of Ideas Season Three 8) Abandoned Love: The Turning of the Key
Chris examines BOB DYLAN's great unreleased 1975 song ABANDONED LOVE
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BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 7) Nonsense Songs From The Basement Tapes (Part 2)
This is the follow up podcast discussing Bob Dylan’s bizarre excursions into weirdness that have come to be known as The Basement Tapes…. Please click on ‘Watch on YouTube’ in bottom left hand corner, like and SUBSCRIBE… thanks… SOME EXTRACTS….. Million Dollar Bash is undoubtedly a romp, particularly suited to live performance, although Dylan...
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Chris examines Bob Dylan's SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES