Chris examines Bob Dylan's weirdest period in the 1980s when he attempted to become a writer of 'pop songs', with mixed results!
Tag: Bob Dylan
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LIKE A ROLLING STONE: GO TO HIM NOW, HE CALLS YOU…
Chris looks at LIKE A ROLLING STONE, Bob Dylan's 1965 masterpiece
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VIDEO PODCAST: Two Songs from ‘Blood on the Tracks’
An examination of YOU'RE GONNA MAKE ME LONESOME WHEN YOU GO and BUCKETS OF RAIN, two songs from Bob Dylan's masterpiece BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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BOB DYLAN’S GOSPEL YEARS (Part Two) from ‘Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan’
Chris continues his examination of BOB DYLAN'S GOSPEL YEARS, exploring songs from SAVED and SHOT OF LOVE
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S VISIONS OF JOHANNA: THE GHOST OF ELECTRICITY
Chris dives very very deep into BOB DYLAN's amazing symbolist rock song from 1966's BLonde on Blonde, Visions of Johanna
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VIDEO PODCAST: BOB DYLAN’S TOMBSTONE BLUES: THE SUN’S NOT YELLOW….
Chris examines Bob Dylan's magical and surreal satire TOMBSTONE BLUES from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
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QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY: WHEN YOU’RE SICK OF ALL THIS REPETITION…
CHris looks at Bob Dylan's enigmatic and teasing 1965 song QUEEN JANE APPROXIMATELY from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan’s Songs of Social Protest (Part 4)
Chris dives deeply into three crucial Bob Dylan eary protest songs: Oxford Town, Only a Pawn in Their Game and The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, which confront issues of racism in the US during the Civil Rights era
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VIDEO PODCAST: Idiot Wind: Kiss Goodbye to Howling Beasts
Chris divers very deep into Bob Dylan's fabulous and explosive IDIOT WIND from BLOOD ON THE TRACKS, with much emphasis on variant versions of the song
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I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER/SHE’S YOUR LOVER NOW: A Dead Man’s Last Pistol Shot
Chris does a deep dive into I WANNA BE YOUR LOVER and SHES YOUR LOVER NOW, two great unreleased songs from 1965/66