Category: Podcasts

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...

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...

Chris examines BOB DYLAN's great unreleased 1975 song ABANDONED LOVE

  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...

Chris examines Bob Dylan's SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES

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...

  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...

    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...

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...

  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...