Chris examines Bob Dylan's SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 6) Nonsense Songs From The Basement Tapes Part One
Please click on ‘Watch on YouTube’ in bottom left hand corner, like and SUBSCRIBE… thanks… NONSENSE SONGS FROM ‘THE BASEMENT TAPES’: SOME EXTRACTS… Tiny Montgomery… Nonsense? The first song to be recorded in the basement of Big Pink which displays these characteristics is the bizarre Tiny Montgomery.The song does not have a chorus as...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 5) Black Diamond Bay: Another Hard Luck Story
Hi folks Hope you enjoy this! This is the ‘audio version’ of my blog on Bob Dylan’s rather fabulous and certainly under rated 1976 song BLACK DIAMOND BAY…. The whole text can be found at https://chrisgregory.org/articles/black-diamond-bay-another-hard-luck-story/ Excerpts… One of Dylan’s most distinctive qualities- as shown in songs like Desolation Row, Stuck Inside...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 4) Nashville Skyline: One Hell of a Poet (Part Two)
Hi again everyone! Here’s Part 2 of my take on NASHVILLE SKYLINE (podcast version). EXTRACT FROM BOB DYLAN: NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET PART TWO After the uncertainties displayed in the earlier songs, the final track on the album is a deliberate statement of intent. Whereas in earlier country-flavoured songs...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 3) NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET (Part One)
Hi there y’all! This is the first part of my take on Dylan’s NASHVILLE SKYLINE, much criticised in its day but now looked on as a crucial part of Dylan’s development. Please click on the words ‘watch on you tube’ above or follow this link Some more you tube links further down… This is an...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 2) Forever Young: A Ladder to the Stars
Hi folks! Today’s podcast examines Bob Dylan’s gloriously sentimental 1974 song FOREVER YOUNG. Comments welcome at the bottom of the page. Having written DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB DYLAN, a study of Dylan’s later work from ‘Time out of Mind‘ onwards, I am currently working on two sequels – firstly of the...
PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 1) Tangled Up in Blue: From Different Points of View
Hi folks, This is the first podcast of Season Three of BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS. As you can see if you’ve been following these, I am jumping rather randomly around Dylan’s career as the inspiration strikes! Having written DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB DYLAN, a study of Dylan’s later work...
PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas Season Two 15) Mr. Tambourine Man: Cast Your Dancing Spell
Chris Gregory gives his thoughts on Bob Dylan's great opus MR. TAMBOURINE MAN
PODCAST: A Headful of Ideas Season Two 14) Extract from ‘Determined to Stand’: Red River Shore
RED RIVER SHORE is an outtake from the TIME OUT OF MIND SESSIONS. It first appeared on THE BOOTLEG SERIES Vol 8 'TELL TALE SIGNS'
PODCAST: Bob Dylan A Headful of Ideas Season Two 13) Minstrel Boy: Isle of Wight 1969
Chris discusses BOB DYLAN's monumental concert at the Isle of Wight in 1969