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Over 2000 articles and nearly 9000 comments on Bob Dylan including reviews of 621 songs that Bob Dylan has written
Publisher’s note: Although no one gets paid for writing, publishing or editing Untold Dylan, it does cost us money to keep the site afloat, safe from hackers, n’er-do-wells etc. We never ask for donations, and we try to survive on the income from our advertisers, so if you enjoy Untold Dylan, and you’ve got an ad blocker, could I beg you to turn it off while here. I’m not asking you to click on ads for the sake of it, but at least allow us to add one more to the number of people who see the full page. Thanks. Tony Attwood.
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A list of our recent posts appears in the right hand column under the advert block. But in case you can’t see that (for example if reading this site on a mobile phone) that list of the most recent articles, with links, also appears at the foot of this column.
In both (right column and foot of this page) you can find a search button to seek out a particular article) although please note that this does not work with apostrophes (for reasons that will not become clear at this point).
Below are the series which have recently had articles added. Other series are listed above under the picture.
Can Bob Be Saved?
All Directions at Once: new episodes…
- All Directions 29: The greatest Dylan album ever?
- All Directions 30: Oh Sister, Abandoned love, farewell preliminaries, hello dead body
- A full index of the articles in the series appears here
The Never Ending Tour
This series charts the NET from its origins to the present day, with multiple examples of Dylan’s performances through the period in question. The full index is here. 1994 is now complete…
- 1994, part 1 – Full voice absolute vintage Dylan
- 1994, part 2 – Greatest ever Hard Rain
- 1994, part 3 – Absolutely Vintage Dylan, Encore
- 1994, part 4: I’d give you the sky high above
- 1994, part 5: Dancing to the nightingale’s tune
Recent articles
- Ramona are you betta, are you well?
- Why is “Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” on Dylan’s Break-Up Album?
- ‘Why does he keep saying everything twice to me?’
Tombstone Blues:
This series is now complete and there is a full index of the articles here.
A new Dylan Album
- Dylan Obscuranti: the new album
- Dylan Obscuranti: Track 2. Remembering Dylan’s best forgotten moments
- Dylan Obscuranti: Track 3 – I’m not there – article 2000
- Dylan Obscuranti: Track 4 – Mama you been on my mind
- Dylan Obscurianti: Track 5 – Love is just a four letter word
One song to the tune of another – our new series
- One song to the tune of another: a new look at Dylan
- One song to the tune of another 2: Forever Young
- One song to tune of another 3: Shooting Star (and a Rocket Man)
Dylan’s rarities
- Dylan’s rarities: Songs that Bob has performed very few times
- Dylan’s rarities: the circle, an amazing Wild Mountain, plus So Long Good Luck
- Dylan’s Rarities: Hang me, Hey Joe and Heartbeat
- Dylan’s Rarities: Nadine, More and More, Money Honey, Milkcow and Maggie
- The full index of these articles is here.
The art work on Dylan’s albums
- New Morning: the art work
- The art work on Bob Dylan’s albums: Self Portrait
- The art work for Dylan’s “World Gone Wrong”
- Full index of the articles on the artwork on Dylan’s albums can be found here.
Videos…
- A series of dreams: the video – who and how.
- Blood, Not Dark, Wonder Boys, Gods and Generals
- Oh Mercy, Red Sky and a masterpiece
- The deal, Dreaming of you, Here lies nothing
- Bob Dylan: the official videos – an emotionally tight connection in the night
- Dylan’s official vids: Sweetheart, Clean Cut Kid, Jokerman, and Neil Young
- Dylan’s videos: The Wilbury years
- An emotionally tight connection in the night.
- Must be Santa, Drummer Boy, Duquesne, the noir
Specials:
- Is the Great Cashout also the Great Renunciation?
- New owners of Bob’s songs announce their position on political correctness
- Bob Dylan And Isaac Singer
- Scorsese and Dylan: A Match Made in Fantasy
- Untold Showcase. Inspired by Murder Most Foul: ‘Marilyn Monroe – Endless Night’
- A gift from Bob
- Another Dylan song found: “Riding on the train” which is NOT “Ride this train”
- “You can’t give Bob Dylan crisps” The audio story of Bob Dylan, before the show.
- Dylan’s unnoticed Murder Ballad
Ballad of a Thin Man
- Ballad Of A Thin Man (Part 1): Along came Jones
- Balled of a Thin Man (Part II) Freaks Geeks and Simples
- Ballad Of A Thin Man – Part III (Conclusion)
Most of the time
- Most Of The Time Part 1: Except sometimes
- Most Of The Time (1989) Part II – I don’t even think about him
Play Lady Play
- Play lady play: the unexpected re-workings
- Play lady play: unexpected re-workings part 2
- The full index
Why does Dylan like?
- A full index to this series is here
- Bob’s oddities: What I go through to find an astounding work of genius!
- Why does Bob Dylan so like this track taken from Hotel California?
- Why does Dylan like Tim Hardin, Baltimore and Confidential?
- Why does dylan like Pontchartrain, Legend in my time, and Homeward Bound?
Dignity Regained:
- Dignity Part 1: A bloody mess
- Dignity Part II: You can never play too much Bob Wills
- Dignity Part III: One line brings up another
- Dignity part IV: I contain multitudes
- Dignity: part V – Nowhere to fade
Dylan the sideman – recordings where Bob was not centre stage
- Bob the sideman: playing with friends in the 80s
- Dylan the sideman: Bromberg, Booker T, Priscilla Jones, David Blue
- Bob Dylan: side man. Farina, von Schmidt and Bob
- Dylan with Belafonte, Hester and Big Joe Williams
- Dylan and Barry Goldberg
- Jack Elliott, Geoff Muldaur, Neill Young (plus Carolyn Hester)
- Dylan the sideman: working with Doug Sahm and the band
- The final sideman: the last selection of Dylan helping out his friends
Bob Dylan Showcase: write the music to a Dylan song
We are currently looking for musical accompaniments to
If you can write the music to either of these songs, please record it and send it to tony@schools.co.uk If you don’t Tony will have to do it himself, and you don’t want that.
We also have
- Our YouTube channel now has numerous play lists related to articles on this site.
- Youtube: Untold Dylan: The Youtube channel and…
- Facebook: “Untold Dylan” on Facebook with over 7000 active members.
- Also because we don’t do political debates on our Facebook group there is a separate group for debating Bob Dylan’s politics – Icicles Hanging Down
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.”
Thank you Rolling Stone. I knew you’d find us one day – Tony
- Untold Dylan on Facebook
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The Indexes
All of our main series of articles are listed with links to the individual articles in the indexes which are shown just below the picture at the top of the page.
And the book…
Jochen’s remarkable new book “Desolation Row” is available in English and in Dutch, both as a paperback and on Kindle. Details are on the UK Amazon site, or of course on the Amazon site for your country. Just search for “Desolation Row” by Joch Markhorst.
Would you like to contribute an article to Untold Dylan?
I’m 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.
I regret to say we don’t have the money to pay for articles we publish but you will get a pretty large number of readers and quite likely find your work being discussed in universities and journals on occasion.
To join in just email Tony@schools.co.uk
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