Chris surveys Bob Dylan's difficult engagement with the 'big hair' 1980s on albums like EMPIRE BURLESQUE and KNOCKED OUT LOADED
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 6) Love Songs from ‘Desire’ (Part Two)
Chris looks at comic and romantic love songs from 1976's DESIRE: RITA MAY, MOZAMBIQUE, ROMANCE IN DURANGO and OH SISTER
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Four 5) Time is an Ocean: Love Songs from ‘Desire’ (Part One) (Part One)
The first part of an examination of Bob Dylan's love songs from 'DESIRE'. Chris examines ONE MORE CUP OF COFFEE and GOLDEN LOOM
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BOB DYLAN’S LOVE SONGS OF THE MID-1960S: IT USED TO GO LIKE THIS… (Part One)
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips’ red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head…. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 130 O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly...
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BOB DYLAN AND WOODY GUTHRIE: IN THE GRAND CANYON AT SUNDOWN
Chris Gregory looks at the influence of WOODY GUTHRIE on BOB DYLAN, discusses Dylan's Guthrie covers, his SONG FOR WOODY and his poem LAST THOUGHTS ON WOODY GUTHRIE
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 3) NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET (Part One)
Chris begins his deep dive into Bob Dylan's 1969 album NASHVILLE SKYLINE
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 2) Forever Young: A Ladder to the Stars
Chris Gregory examines Bob Dylan's gloriously sentimental FOREVER YOUNG from 1974's PLANET WAVES
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 1) Tangled Up in Blue: From Different Points of View
Chris Gregory examines Bob Dylan's TANGLED UP IN BLUE - a song written from many angles - from 19875's BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
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Bob Dylan’s IT’S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE: TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE GATHERED…
Chris Gregory looks at IT'S ALL OVER NOW, BABY BLUE from Bob Dylan's BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME (1965)
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Bob Dylan’s NEW MORNING : A Pastoral Dream (Part 1)
Chris examines Bob Dylan's 1970 album NEW MORNING as 'a pastoral dream'