"Make You Feel My Love": The Song Dylan Fans Love to Hate

A Definitely Dylan Deep Dive into Bob Dylan's Most Covered Song

No other Bob Dylan song has provoked such a diverse range of responses as "Make You Feel My Love". Initially dismissed by reviewers as a failure, it has since grown into a wildly successful pop hit. It's the song that's loved by the masses, but hated by Dylan purists. Perhaps what's at the heart of this fundamental disagreement is a different question altogether: is this a banal love song, or does it have a deeper, perhaps even darker meaning? 

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Thanks to Craig Danuloff from the Dylan.FM podcast for initially inviting me to speak about this topic, this episode partly draws on the talk I gave at his online event last year.

Graley Herren’s book Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" is available here.

An Even Closer Look at "Fragments" with The Popular Show

Laura and James A. Smith from The Popular Show have a late night conversation about the Bootleg Series and Time Out of Mind

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A Closer Look at: "Fragments – Time Out of Mind Sessions"

Laura and Robert talk about Bob Dylan's new Bootleg Series, what it tells us about Time Out of Mind, and whether or not accordions can be sexy

You can purchase the new Bootleg Series in various formats here.

Listen to the interview with Mark Howard on the Dylan.fm podcast here.

Graley Herren’s book Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" is available here.

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Infinity Goes Up On Trial – A Tale Of Two Bob Dylan Museums

Stories, myths, and narratives – as the Bob Dylan Center opened this May, another Bob Dylan exhibition was coming to a close. What stories are these two Dylan museums telling & what do they reveal about how Bob Dylan wants to be seen?

In part two of this series on the crafting of Bob Dylan's legacy, we take a look at the stories told by two very different museums dedicated to Bob Dylan's work: the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, OK, and the Retrospectrum exhibition of Dylan's visual art. Laura interviews the curators of the BDC, Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, and talks about how Dylan the Painter has become part of the Dylan Myth.

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Watch my Florida paper on Time in Dylan’s music, paintings, and Shadow Kingdom here.

Here’s the article “In His Own Words: Why Bob Dylan Paints”.

Find out more about the Bob Dylan Center here.

The Retrospectrum catalogue (£85) is available here.

Read Rebecca Slaman’s review of Retrospectrum here.

Will Timothée Chalamet Save Dylan Fandom? - A Conversation With Rebecca Slaman

This is the first of two conversations about the crafting of Bob Dylan’s legacy.

My guest is freelance writer Rebecca Slaman, with whom I talk about Dylan films, the future of Dylan fandom, and his underrated sense of humour!.

Follow Rebecca on Twitter: @ithrewtheglass.

The version of “Desolation Row” is from 12 April, 2009 in Amsterdam, Netherlands. You can watch it in full along with others from that year here.

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