Chris examines Bob Dylan's magical and surreal satire TOMBSTONE BLUES from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
Tag: Bob Dylan
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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
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VIDEO PODCAST: Songs of Social Protest Part Three
Chris looks at SEVEN CURSES,
PERCY’S SONG and
THE BALLAD OF HOLLIS BROWN,
Three powerful early 60s protest songs
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THE MINSTREL BOY BOOK TOUR DATES AND SOME RECENT REVIEWS
A selection of recent reviews of MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN, part 2 of BOB DYLAN: PICASSO OF SONG
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NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET Extract from ‘Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan’
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's glorious NASHVILLE SKYLINE. In the words of Johnny Cash, Bob is 'One Hell of a Poet'
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An Introduction to MINSTREL BOY: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan
Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan is the second volume in the series BOB DYLAN: PICASSO OF SONG. It consists of a close examination of Dylan's work from 1967 to 1990
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VIDEO PODCAST: All Along the Watchtower
In this video podcast Chris examines Bob Dylan's extraordinary apocalyptic and visionary ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER from 1968, with special reference to the version by JIMI HENDRIX