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...
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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