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Over 1850 articles and over 8500 comments on Bob Dylan including reviews of 619 of the 621 songs that Bob Dylan has written
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All Directions at once: how Dylan chooses what to write
- A song is like a painting, you can’t see it all if you’re standing too close
- All directions at once: how Dylan’s lyrics empower those who wish to be empowered
- All Directions at once: The prelude to the explosion (1959 to 1961)
- All directions at once: Part 4. The explosion (1962).
Starting today: new series on Dylan and the Band
Special features
- Three Scottish Songs, and their influence on Bob Dylan
- The piano pounding madman… and Mississippi
- Bob Dylan: Stuck In Halifax With The Tombstone Blues Again
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)
Don’t think twice
- Don’t think twice it’s alright: Part 1: Time
- Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right (1963) Part II: Love Fades
Newly indexed series: The Rarities
This series giving videos and recordings of songs Bob has only ever performed once or twice on stage, now has its own index here. Recent articles are…
- Bob’s live rarities, from a bottle of bread to mountains of Mourne (and rock n roll)
- Bob’s live rarities: As I went out, Billy, Get out of Denver.
- Bob’s once only songs: 12 gates; one morning; Viola Lee
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.
- Never Ending Tour 1993, part 3 – Mr Guitar Man goes acoustic
- NET: the full index of articles, reviewing the tour from 1987 onwards
Dylan and the Heart of Darkness
- The Heart of Darkness Part I
- Bob Dylan And The Heart Of Darkness (Part II)
- Bob Dylan And The Heart Of Darkness (Part III)
Highway 61 Revisited: the complete review
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965) part I: Look out kid
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965) part II: On a desert island
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965) part III: Words don’t interfere
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965) part IV: A smoke raised with the fume of sighs
- Highway 61 Revisited (1965) part V: The roving albino
Now showing: The last time Dylan played…. the complete “last time” video
- Bob’s last performances of over 80 classic songs in a single video
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
Bob’s promotional videos
- Dylan’s promotional videos: Must be Santa, Drummer Boy, Duquesne, the noir
- An emotionally tight connection in the night
- The deal, dreaming of you, here lies nothing
Bob Dylan Looks Back on Rhyme
Dylan’s once only file.
- Bob’s live rarities, from a bottle of bread to mountains of Mourne (and rock n roll)
- Bob’s live rarities: As I went out, Billy, Get out of Denver.
- Bob’s once only songs: 12 gates; one morning; Viola Lee
- Bob’s once only songs: Boom Boom Mancini & Farewell to the Gold
- Bob Dylan’s once only file: B-Thang, Blue Bonnet Girl and Blue Monday
- Dylan’s once only file: I defy you not to play this song twice. Or more.
- Dylan’s once only file: You’re too late and the Old Rock n Roller
- Dylan’s Once only file “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” “Blue Moon” “Weeping Willow”
- Dylan’s “Once Only” File: 10,000 men and 20/20 Vision
- Bob’s Once Only File: Elvis, Tom, Shadows and one by mistake
Dylan and Ginsberg
- A Dylan song we missed: “September on Jessore Road”
- For you baby: Dylan and Ginsberg and the influence of the Beat Generation
- Vomit Express by Dylan and Ginsberg. What’s it all about?
- See you later Allen Ginsberg. Tracing the origins of Bob Dylan’s joking around
- Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg
Murder Most Foul
- “Murder Most Foul” Bob’s requiem delayed by almost 60 years
- Rough and Rowdy Ways – the article index
Maggie’s Farm
- Maggie’s Farm (1965) part I – Two forever young giants
- Maggie’s Farm (1965) part II – Even the president of the United States
Bob Dylan’s Blues
- Bob Dylan’s Blues (1962): part I – A Greatest Hit???
- Bob Dylan’s Blues (1962): part II – Come back to the five and dime, Jimmy Reed
- Bob Dylan’s Blues (1962): part III – Rebel with a cause
Bob Dylan and WH Auden
- As I went out one morning I bumped into WH Auden
- The threepenny opera: Bob Dylan and WH Auden
- Bob Dylan And WH Auden (Part III)
The story behind the art work of Bob Dylan’s albums
- The art work of Bob Dylan’s Street-Legal, and secret of the cover’s location
- The full index to the whole series of articles is here.
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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