Extract from DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB DYLAN by Chris Gregory
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NOTHIN’ HERE NOW TO HOLD THEM: THE TRAGEDY OF NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
A look at Dylan's brilliant social protest NORTH COUNTRY BLUES
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PALE DEATH RETREATING: Symbolism, Metaphor and Metamorphosis in Dylan’s Changing of the Guards
Chris looks at Dylan's great CHANGING OF THE GUARDS
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Extracts from DETERMINED TO STAND: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan
Extracts from my book DETERMINED TO STAND: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan. BLIND WILLIE McTELL / STANDING IN THE DOORWAY The first extract recalls a live performance of Blind Willie McTell from a Martin Scorsese tribute show. In Determined to Stand my analyses of late period Dylan songs are interspersed with accounts of key live...
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BOB DYLAN: To Ramona – The Finishing End
BOB DYLAN: TO RAMONA – THE FINISHING END To Ramona stands alone in Bob Dylan’s catalogue. Although it is clearly addressed to a girl, it is neither a devotional love song like Tomorrow Is a Long Time nor a rueful farewell to a relationship like One Too Many Mornings or Don’t Think Twice,...
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BOB DYLAN: Ain’t Talkin’
BOB DYLAN’S AIN’T TALKIN’ There’s no-one here, the gardener has gone… The hooded pilgrim advances along a thin, dusty dirt track. There is no moon. All along the skyline the fires rage. His hidden face contorts in shaded darkness. He burns inside. In front of him he seems to see the whole world, billions of...
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BOB DYLAN: Nettie Moore
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's inscrutable 'murder ballad' METTIE MOORE from MODERN TIMES
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THE BEATLES: Who Could Ask For More Extract Four : Strawberry Fields Forever and Penny Lane (Part Two)
STRAWBERRY FIELDS FOREVER AND PENNY LANE Strawberry Fields Forever begins with what sounds like a distorted, distant flute (actually a mellotron) playing an evocative, yearning intro which sets up the melancholic tone of the song. There is a single bass note, and then we hear John’s voice, doctored to sound rather high, emotionally detached, ethereal....
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BOB DYLAN: Workingman’s Blues # 2
.Sleep is like a temporary death… . “You will perceive that in the breast The germs of many virtues rest, Which, ere they feel a lover’s breath, Lie in a temporary death” Henry Timrod, Two Portraits Workingman’s Blues No. 2 is already the most celebrated, though perhaps the most misunderstood, track on Modern Times....