Goliath The Second- Chris looks at two Bob Dylan shows from 1963
Tag: 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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WHO’S GONNA THROW THAT MINSTREL BOY A COIN? Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight 1969
Minstrel Boy- Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight 1969
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KEY WEST: An extract from ‘Determined to Stand: The Reinvention of Bob Dylan’
Chris Gregory writes on BOB DYLAN's late masterpiece KEY WEST
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TEARS OF RAGE: THE HEART IS FILLED WITH GOLD
Chris looks at Tears of Rage from the Basement Tapes
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CARIBBEAN WIND: UPON A PAINTED OCEAN
Caribbean Wind, which was written in late 1980, remains something of an enigma in Bob Dylan’s career. Although it is a song which Dylan regarded as ‘unfinished’, it has often been acclaimed as one of his most luminous creations. When it first reached a wide public on the 1985 compilation Biograph, many listeners were...
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MASTERS OF WAR AND WITH GOD ON OUR SIDE: DYLAN AS PUBLIC POET
Masters of War and With God On Our Side Masters of War and With God on Our Side can be considered to be the most didactic and moralistic examples of Bob Dylan’s early ‘protest’ material. Jesus and Judas are mentioned in both songs. Dylan’s uses these two figures to represent polar moral opposites – good...
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FAREWELL ANGELINA: THE SKY IS ON FIRE
Farewell Angelina 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...
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Live intro and reading from Determined to Stand
This was recorded at the DOCKYARD CLUB, PORTSMOUTH on 28th November 2021. This is a slightly wonky recording of my talk at a fabulous ‘Dylan and the Dead’ weekend, organised by John Roberts. In between the bands I entertained the gathered multitudes with an intro to my book DETERMINED TO STAND: THE REINVENTION OF BOB...
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HURRICANE AND JOEY: TWO CINEMATIC NARRATIVES FROM ‘DESIRE’
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HURRICANE AND JOEY: TWO CINEMATIC NARRATIVES FROM...
Two songs f about real people from Desire