Bob Dylan - A Headful of Ideas
Episodes
94 episodes
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Five 7) Restless Farewell: It's Closing Time
In 1964's RESTLESS FAREWELL, Bob Dylan begins to signal the elements that will bring about his oncoming change of style
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Five 6) She's Your Lover Now/ I Want to Be Your Lover
Chris goes deep deep into two of Bob Dylan's unreleased songs from the BLONDE ON BLONDE sessions - I WANT TO BE YOUR LOVER and SHE'S YOUR LOVER NOW
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Five 4) Something is Happening: Ballad of a Thin Man
Chris dives very deeply into Bob Dylan's BALLAD OF A THIN MAN
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season 5 3) A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
Chris does a very deep dive into Bob Dylan's 1963 masterpiece A HARD RAIN'S A-GONNA FALL, a version of which will feature in DIG YOURSELF: THE RISE OF BOB DYLAN 1961-66, the upcoming third volume of the PICASSO OF SONG trilogy.
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season 5 2) POP SONGS OF THE 1980s Part Three
Chris dives into some of the weirdest episodes ofBob Dylan’s career
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Five 1) Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's early visionary song LAY DOWN YOUR WEARY TUNEA version of this will appear in Chris Gregory's DIG YOURSELF: THE RISE OF BOB DYLAN 1961-66, the third volume of the PICASSO OF SONG trilogyANY COMMENTS GR...
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 24) MyBack Pages
Chris looks at Bob Dylan's famously transitional song MY BACK Pages, signalling the end of his 'protest' phase
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 32) 'Pop Songs' of the 1980s (Part Three)
Chris discurses on more songs from Dylan's oddest period!
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season 4 31) Pop Songs of the 1980s (Part Two) from 'Minstrel Boy'
More ruminations on Dylan's strangest period when he attempted to compete with Michael, Madonna and Prince!
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 30) 'Pop Songs' of the 1980s (Part One)
Chris examines perhaps the strangest part of of Dylan's career - when he attempted to become a pop song writer in the 1980s, with 'mixed' results!
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 29) Two Songs from 'Blood on the Tracks'
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 4 Episode 29 Visions of Johanna: The Ghost of Electricity
Chris ' detailed focus on Bob Dylan's amazing poetic creation VISIONS OF JOHANNA
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 28) Tomsbstone Blues: The Sun's Not Yellow...
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 27) 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 3
CHRIS GREGORY looks at SEVEN CURSES,PERCY’S SONG andTHE BALLAD OF HOLLIS BROWN,Three powerful early 60s protest songs
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Special Edition MInstrel Boy: THEMES AND SCHEMES
An edited version of Chris Gregory’s recent live stream in whichHe outlines some of the themes of and background to the Newly released MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSESOF BOB DYLAN.COMMENTS WELCOME!!!!
'NASHVILLE SKYLINE: ONE HELL OF A POET' Extract from 'MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN'
Chris Gregory's take on NASHVILLE SKYLINEfrom his newly availableMINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Special Episode. Introduction to MInstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan
Chris Gregory gives an introduction to MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN, which is the second volume of the PICASSO OF SONG trilogy.It will be released on October 8th 2025
BOB DYLAN:: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 23) Songs of Social Protest Part 2
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 developement 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 from 'Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan
Chris examines one of Bob Dylan's best known songs I Shall Be Released, originally from The Basement Tapes. This is an extract from Chris' new book MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLAN, which will be released at the beginning of October...
BOB DYLAN A Headful of Ideas Season 4 20) All Along the Watchtower
Chris does a deep dive into Bob Dylan's mesmeric, revelatory song ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, with special reference to Jimi Hendrix's version Chris' new book MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLANreleased October 7th 202...
BOB DYLAN: A HEADFUL OF IDEAS Season Four 18) I and I: No Man Sees My Face and Lives
Chris looks in detail at Bob Dylan’s deeply spiritual I and I from 1983’s INFIDELS Chris' new book MINSTREL BOY: THE METAMORPHOSES OF BOB DYLANreleased October 7th 2025. Pre order available from: https:...