A Dylan Cover A Day: The Wicked Messenger
By Tony Attwood Having spent a rather beumisng hour or so meandering around cover versions of Wicked Messenger, I[…]
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Goodbye Jimmy Reed (2020) part 10: Anything that sounds promising
“So much beauty, so little time,” my grandmother used to sigh, standing in front of her record cabinet. And mind[…]
Read moreThe Never Ending Tour Extended: Like a Rolling Stone 1988 to 2002
By Tony Attwood, with recordings presented by Mike Johnson in the Never Ending Tour Series. In this series we look at[…]
Read moreA Dylan Cover a Day: Times they are a-changin’
By Tony Attwood I suppose when I started this series of reviews of covers, two years ago tomorrow (15 November[…]
Read moreOther people’s songs: My Blue Eyed Jane
By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: A lesser-known Jimmie Rodgers song, My Blue-Eyed Jane is more of a[…]
Read moreGoodbye Jimmy Reed part 9: She’s going to play you for a fool
“So much beauty, so little time,” my grandmother used to sigh, standing in front of her record cabinet. And[…]
Read moreThe Never Ending Tour Extended: The Drifters’ Escape. 1996-2005.
By Tony Attwood, with recordings presented by Mike Johnson in the Never Ending Tour Series. In this series we look at[…]
Read moreThe Never Ending Tour: 2018 part 1 Shuffle to the beat
By Mike Johnson An index to the series can be found here. In 2018 Dylan continued to radically re-configure his[…]
Read moreOther people’s songs: Pretty Boy Floyd
By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: Pretty Boy Floyd tells the story of the famous outlaw Pretty Boy[…]
Read moreA Dylan Cover a Day: The Man in Me
By Tony Attwood “The Man in Me” seems to be one of those songs where there is Bob’s original version,[…]
Read moreGoodbye Jimmy Reed: VIII. What’s in my own head and what’s in my own heart
“So much beauty, so little time,” my grandmother used to sigh, standing in front of her record cabinet. And mind[…]
Read moreThe lyrics and the music: High Water, a rise, a fall, a bounce, a flood
By Tony Attwood The first question I guess most of us asked on hearing “High Water” for the first time[…]
Read moreThe Never Ending Tour Extended. Love sick from the very start to 2000
By Tony Attwood, with recordings presented by Mike Johnson in the Never Ending Tour Series. In this series we look at[…]
Read moreBob Dylan’s Hymns Part 5: I’ve Made up my Mind to Give Myself to You; Ain’t Talkin
Previously in this series Part 1: Lay down your weary tune Part 2: What is really sacred? Part 3: Every Grain, Released[…]
Read moreGoodbye Jimmy Reed part 7: You can see the light
“So much beauty, so little time,” my grandmother used to sigh, standing in front of her record cabinet. And[…]
Read moreDylan Cover a Day: Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll
By Tony Attwood The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll is not a Dylan song I would ever feel moved to[…]
Read moreThe Never Ending Tour Extended: Things have changed
By Tony Attwood, with recordings presented by Mike Johnson in the Never Ending Tour Series. In this series we look at[…]
Read moreBob Dylan’s Hymns: What is Really Sacred? Part 4: Ring them bells, Sad Eyed, Nobody ‘cept you
Previously in this series Part 1: Lay down your weary tune Part 2: What is really sacred? Part 3:[…]
Read moreGoodbye Jimmy Reed (2020) part 6: O ye of little faith
Goodbye Jimmy Reed (2020) part 1 Goodbye Jimmy Reed (2020) part 2: All songs lead back t’ the sea Goodbye[…]
Read moreNET 2017 Part 3 You went through my pockets while I was sleeping
By Mike Johnson An index to the entire series can be found here. In 2017 Dylan was still drawing heavily[…]
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