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...
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Bob Dylan’s LILY, ROSEMARY AND THE JACK OF HEARTS: THE ONLY MISSING PERSON ON THE SCENE
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's wonderful tongue in cheek 'Western', Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts
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Bob Dylan’s MOTORPSYCHO NITEMARE: A CLEAN CUT KID
Chris Gregory discusses Bob Dylan's politico-comic song MOTORPSYCHO NITEMARE
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Bob Dylan’s BLACK DIAMOND BAY: ANOTHER HARD LUCK STORY
An examination of Dylan's underated epic from 'Desire' BLACK DIAMOND BAY
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Bob Dylan’s A PRICE ON MY SOUL: THREE SONGS FROM ‘JOHN WESLEY HARDING’
Chris examines three key songs from JOHN WESLEY HARDING
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NONSENSE SONGS FROM ‘THE BASEMENT TAPES’ Part One
The meaning of TINY MONTGOMERY and THE MIGHTY QUINN, 'nonsense songs' from The Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan.
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MR. TAMBOURINE MAN: CAST YOUR DANCING SPELL…
Chris examines BOB DYLAN's transcendent MR. TAMBOURINE MAN from 1965
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TEARS OF RAGE: THE HEART IS FILLED WITH GOLD
Tears of Rage represents a key turning point in Bob Dylan’s career. Written and recorded at some time between May and October 1967, when the focus of attention in the music world was on San Francisco and the ‘summer of love’, this sad, stately and incredibly moving song presents a new kind of...
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FAREWELL ANGELINA: THE SKY IS ON FIRE
Farewell Angelina is one of Bob Dylan’s most remarkable ‘unreleased songs’. Dylan’s own rather uncertain take was recorded during the Bringing It All Back Home sessions in 1965 but not released until The Bootleg Series Vol. 1 (1991). The song was then passed to Joan Baez, who recorded it as the title track...
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WITH YOUR SAINT-LIKE FACE AND YOUR GHOST LIKE SOUL: SAD-EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS
An in depth look at the meaning of Dylan;s great SAD EYED LADY OF THE LOWLANDS