Untold Dylan: “I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours”

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The current and recent series…

You can see a list of the latest articles on the right side of this page, and also at the very foot of the page as well (just keep going down and down and down).

Other people’s songs: Performances by Dylan of traditional songs, and those written by others with explorations of their origins.  The Christmas Blues

The Never Ending Tour:  NET 2018 Part 3 Riding the Setlist Wave

A Dylan Cover a Day (episode 150!): This Wheel’s on Fire

High Water (for Charley Patton) (2001) Part 1: London Bridge Is Falling Down

The Never Ending Tour Extended: Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions across the years, seeing how Bob’s feelings about the songs have changed over the years.    Never Ending Tour Extended: It’s all over now baby blue

Goodbye Jimmy Reed (2020): Part 12 (final). Once upon a time

Blind Willie McTell revisited: Dying Crapshooters Blues

The lyrics and the music.   An attempt to show that analyses of Dylan’s music that focus just on the lyrics can miss the point.  High Water, a rise, a fall, a bounce, a flood

Bob Dylan’s Hymns: What is Really Sacred? Part 5: I’ve Made up my Mind to Give Myself to You; Ain’t Talkin  (A full index to the series appears within this article)

The Never Ending Tour – the absolute highlights – a totally personal view of some of the best moments from across the decades.   Every Grain of Sand

Dylanesque –  songs that are comparable to or inspired by the music of Dylan: Dylanesque: The Alpha Band.  (Beware; the commentator goes totally over the top)

Every Dylan composition:  It is extremely rare to find a new Dylan song – even if it is just a co-composition, but one more has now just come to light – which makes it 628 reviewed on this site:  Don’t Make Her Cry

Dylan’s Opening Lines:   A return to a theme we last looked at eight years or so ago.  The final update taking us to over 100 opening lines is now published.   Dylan’s 114 greatest opening lines: completing the list

Dylan’s Favourite songs: Bob has revealed the songs he likes the most, and we are taking a look at them, one at a time.  The series is complete and the final article (including an index to the series) is  Join Me in LA.

Album artwork:  unique series that investigates with illustrations the stories behind Dylan’s album covers.  Plus of course the in-depth investigations into individual Bob Dylan songs, some of which have since been republished as books, available from Amazon.  Most recent: Shadows in the Night

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What Rolling Stone had to say about Untold Dylan

“Tell Ol’ Bill” is a favorite among hardcore Dylan fans like Tony Attwood at Untold Dylan, who called it “one of Dylan’s two greatest works of all time” and wrote a fascinating piece tracing its origins through several bootleg versions. As documented there, the singer tried a few approaches, from one version that echoes the groove of “Thunder on the Mountain” to another that’s more reminiscent of “It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry.” “Gradually,” Attwood writes, “Dylan moves towards the masterpiece that we have come to know.”

Would you like to contribute an article to Untold Dylan?

We’re always interested in receiving new ideas and new articles which fit into our remit of providing new insights and thoughts on Dylan.   If you would like to join in, please either send me your idea, or alternatively a whole article as a word file attached to an email.

To join in just email Tony@schools.co.uk