Bob Dylan - A Headful of Ideas
Chris Gregory
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BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 31) @Pop Songs of the 1980s' (Part Two)
Chris looks at songs from Dylans wieredest period!
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 30) 'Pop Songs' of the 1980s (Part One)
Chris looks at perhaps the weirdest era of Bob Dylan's career- when he attempted to become a writer of pop songs in the 1980s, with 'mixed' results
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season 4 29) Two Songs from 'Blood on theTracks'
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
BOB DYLAN : A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four Episode 29 Visions of Johanna: The Ghost of Electricity
Chris' deep dive into Bob Dylan's transcendent 1966 song VISION OF JOHANNA
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN'S STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS : SINGINGBTHROUGH THE BLOODY MIST...
Chris Gregory examines Bruce Springsteen's new anti-ICE protest song STREETS OF MINNEAPOLIS
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 27) Tombstone Blues: The Sun's Not Yello
Chris examines Bob Dylan's magical and surreal satire TOMSTONE BLUES from 1965's HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED
BOB DYLAN A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 23) Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid: That Long Black Cloud
Chris examines Bob Dylan's music for Sam Peckinpah's 'revisionist Western' PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (1973), as well as his 'unique' acting style!
BOB DYLAN A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 26) Songs of Social Protest Part 4
Chris does a detailed examination of Bob Dylan's OXFORD TOWN, ONLY A PAWN IN THEIR GAME and THE LONESOME DEATH OF HATTIE CARROLL
BOB DYLAN A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 25) Idiot Wind: Kiss Goodbye to Howling Beasts
Chris examines Bob Dylan's amazing and cathartic Idiot Wind, from 1975's Blood on the Tracks, with reference to the various versions of the song.
BOB DYLAN A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 24) Songs of Social Protest Part Three
CHRIS GREGORY looks at SEVEN CURSES, PERCY’S SONG and THE BALLAD OF HOLLIS BROWN, Three powerful early 60s protest songs
BOB DYAN:A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Special Episode ; Minstrel Boy: THemes and Schemes
An edited version of Chris Gregory’s recent live stream in which He outlines some of the themes of and background to the Newly released MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN. COMMENTS…
'NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET': Extract from 'MInstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan'
Chris Gregory's take on NASHVILLE SKYLINE' - extract from newly published MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Intro to Minstrel Boy
Chris Gregory gives an introduction to MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN, the second volume of the PICASSO OF SONG trilogy, which will be released on October 8th 2025.
S4E21 BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season 4 Episode 21: Songs of Social Protest, Part Two
Chris looks at 3 more early Dylan protest songs - WHO KILLED DAVY MOORE, JOHN BROWN and HERO BLUES, setting them in historical, political and social contexts
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 22) Songs of Social Protest, Part One
The first of three videos examining the development of Bob Dylan's world-changing Protest Songs on the early 1960s.
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season 4: 21) I Shall Be Released: Extract frpom 'Minstrel Boy' The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan'
Chris examines one of Bob Dylan's best known songs I Shall BE Released, originally fropm The Basement Tapes. This is an extract from Chris' new book MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN,…
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 20) Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Chris examines Dylan's memorable soundtrack from the movie PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID from 1973, inculding KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 18) I AND I: NO MAN SEES MY FACE AND LIVES
Chris examines the spiritual iof I and I, Bob Dylan's 1983 song from INFIDELS.
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 19) No Time To Think
A deep dive into the mysteries of Bob Dylan's NO TIME TO THINK from 1978’s STREET LEGAL, including a discussion of the influence of Shakespeare's MACBETH and the TAROT CARDS on the song COMMENTS…
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 16) THree Songs from 'Oh Mercy'
Chris looks in depth at MOST OF THE TIME, WHAT GOOD AM I and WHAT WAS IT YOU WANTED, three heartwrenching songs from OH MERCY
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Bob Dylan - A Headful of Ideas has published 93 episodes since March 2021, covering topics in Arts, Music.
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