Hi folks! Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’. Please LIKE and SUBSCRIBE when you get there! BOB AND SARA EXTRACTS Sara is clearly an autobiographical song. It is a highly moving and desperate plea, which focuses on the happy earlier days of their relationship when their children were very small. There is no...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 13) Desolation Row: Between the Windows of the Sea
Hi folks…. welcome to DESOLATION ROW…. Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’ (bottom left) PLEASE like and subscribe. Any comments at the bottom of this page or on you tube would be highly appreciated…. EXTRACTS (Full text here) Desolation…. The key to the success of the recording on Highway 61 Revisited was the addition...
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season 3 10) Black Rider: Extract from ‘Determined to Stand’
EXTRACTS Black Rider Black Rider, from Rough and Rowdy Ways, consists of a direct address to an ominous figure which Dylan performs against the sparse but highly atmospheric backing of a single, flamenco-flavoured acoustic guitar. The track is reminiscent of some of the more intimate cuts on his ‘Sinatra’ albums such as Melancholy Mood or...
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PODCAST: BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Three 9) Isis: You Mystical Child
Please click on ‘Watch on You Tube’ Please like and subscribe!!!! COMMENTS BOX AT BOTTOM OF THE PAGE…. EXTRACTS FROM ISIS: YOU MYSTICAL CHILD FULL TEXT HERE Perhaps the most dramatic moment of all in this extreme expression of poetic angst occurs near the end of the performance as Dylan acts out a conversation between...
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Bob Dylan’s GATES OF EDEN: A CRASHING BUT MEANINGLESS BLOW
…Mutual forgiveness of each vice, Such are the gates of paradise… William Blake, The Gates of Paradise Once, if I remember rightly, my life was a feast where all hearts opened, and all wines flowed. One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled...
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VIDEO PODCAST: Bob Dylan: Subterranean Homesick Blues
Chris examines Bob Dylan's SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES
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PODCAST: Bob Dylan: A Headful of Ideas Season Three 4) Nashville Skyline: One Hell of a Poet (Part Two)
Chris Gregory looks at Bob Dylan's wonderful NASHVILLESKYLINE - 'One Hell of a Poet' Part 2
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Bob Dylan’s NEW MORNING: A Pastoral Dream (Part Two)
Chris Gregory examines songs from his bucolic NEW MORNING album from 1970
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Bob Dylan’s BROWNSVILLE GIRL: If There’s An Original Thought Out There…
Chris Gregory takes a detailed look at Bob Dylan and Sam Shepard's BROWNSVILLE GIRL from 1986
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Bob Dylan’s SARA: FORGIVE ME MY UNWORTHINESS
Bob Dylan has written many love songs in his career, many of which, like Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right or One of Us Must Know, adopt a resigned or philosophical approach to a failed relationship. Some, like Girl from the North Country or Boots of Spanish Leather, take a more romantic, if...