Gates of Eden: two revised renditions & the meanings behind Bob Dylan’s masterpiece
At times I think there are no words but these to tell what’s true. If you have never heard this[…]
Read moreThe meaning behind the music and words of Bob Dylan
At times I think there are no words but these to tell what’s true. If you have never heard this[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood There can be few opening chord sequences as distinctive as Dylan’s minor-4th, 5th, Tonic sequence which opens[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “We better talk this over is hardly a great song, but it does have a way with[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood There’s a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write. There is a[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Numerous reference books suggest that Jokerman is one of Dylan’s masterpieces. A great poetic adventure that encapsulates[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood, updated 5 August 2018 with additional video links. https://youtu.be/Wy7UNuw81Ig Of course you never know with Dylan, but[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood And what are we to make of Dignity? Raved over by many Dylan fans, it didn’t turn[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood According to Wikipedia “Mozambique” was just a game, based on how many words rhymed with Mozambique. If[…]
Read moreThe Theme Time radio programmes resulted in at least one album: a double sided affair which includes “Don’t Take Everybody[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Isis. A song so revered that the longest running Dylan magazine is named after the song. But[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood The original review was written in 2008, and then updated in 2013. Coming back to it in[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Dylan’s commentary on being dislocated from the world, while being within it – here but not here[…]
Read moreThis review was updated in September 2016 By Tony Attwood There is a picture on the inner sleeve of Empire[…]
Read moreA revised version of this review has now been posted and updated – complete with a link to a Willie[…]
Read moreBlind Willie McTell This review updated 8 October 2016 including the addition of the link to the Dylan recording of[…]
Read moreUpdated July 2016 By Tony Attwood The songs on the Traveling Wilburys albums are credited to the band as a[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood. Revised April 2018, with links to recordings by Dylan and other artists. “I try to live[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood According to some the imagery in this song comes from the 21st chapter of the prophet Isaiah[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review revised on 10 February 2018 Listening again (in 2018) the Dylan performing It Ain’t Me[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Coming back to Blowing in the Wind after 45 years is a strange experience. There was a[…]
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