Author Archives: TonyAttwood

by Larry Fyffe In the song lyrics quoted just below, expressed is a dark cynicism concerning any possibility of progressive change happening for the good of all mankind: I’ll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow to … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series we are looking at songs about Bob Dylan.   Recently we have covered… Songs about Dylan part 1: The Joan Baez songs Songs about Dylan part 2: The country songs Songs about … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “The madly complicated modern world was something I took little interest in,” Dylan writes in Chronicles, looking back on his early years in New York. “What was swinging, topical and up to date for me was stuff … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan’s “Bye And Bye” can be construed to be a song about  obsessive love for another person. But on another level, it’s an allegory, a double-edged ‘confessional’ song, about his love for the music of the … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith These two giants of popular music have had quite a few interconnected moments through their long and illustrious careers. If I were to cover them all, this would end up a very lengthy article indeed. Instead I … Continue reading →

 by Jochen Markhorst In the end he apparently did get them after all, those boots from Spanish leather. Marianne Faithfull is pretty blown away by the Dylan of the mid-sixties and makes no secret of her crush in a sparkling … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe There’s many a strange way that the Untold office receives previously unknown information about the artistic creativity of singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. The following song lyrics were attached to an arrow that was shot through an open … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith I thought that after the funny’s from part 3 of this series, and given that the final song in that article was critical of Dylan’s styule, we could look at some that are more critical of Dylan. … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst She is 67 by then, has not been on stage for decades and even longer not in a studio, when hipster Jarvis Cocker (from Pulp) pushes her back into the spotlights. In 2007, for his Lost Ladies … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Vladimir Nabokov’s Gnostic-like sorrowful representation of Hebe, the cup-bearing Greek Goddess of Youth, is infused into some of the musical creations of  Bob Dylan. Nabokov’s Post Modern novel “Lolita” parodies various genres of literature – the mythological, … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood I have been forwarded a copy of “HELP ME UNDERSTAND Michel Montecrossa’s ‘Michel & Bob Dylan Fest 2019′” which was recorded live at the Spirit of Woodstock Festival in Mirapuri, Italy.  The album comes from a series … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Comic songs are ten a dozen, but good comic songs are incredibly rare.  The point is of course that music is intended to be heard over and over; those of us who have been … Continue reading →

By Patrick Roefflaer Released                        January 13, 1964 Photograher                    Barry Feinstein Liner Notes                     Bob Dylan Art-director                     John Berg On the cover of the 1970 album Delaney & Bonnie on Tour with Eric Clapton, there is a photo of a Rolls … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe As pointed out previously, the two riders in the song below are none other than attendant thief Bob Dylan, and jokester nurse Allen Ginsberg: Two riders were approaching The wind began to howl (Bob Dylan: All … Continue reading →

Changing Of The Guards (1978) Dylan is now only a big name from the past, the bitterly disappointed Greil Marcus argues, in his famous What-is-this-shit review of Self Portrait in the Rolling Stone of July 23, 1970. Unless … “unless … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith Let’s start with an excerpt from Springsteen’s memoir “Born To Run” “Bob Dylan is the father of my country. Highway 61 Revisited and Bringing It All Back Home were not only great records, but they were the … Continue reading →

Dylan and Petrach Part 1 Dylan and Petrach Part 2   By Larry Fyffe “Which side are you on?”, writes Bob Dylan in a song that foretells of a schism that develops, and threatens to tear apart forever scholars who … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan writes beautiful books and will one day win the Nobel Prize for his magical-realistic, sociocritical oeuvre, but he cannot write songs. “It’s the hardest thing there is. You have so few words at … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood There are something around 300 songs that Dylan has written and/or recorded which, according to the official web site, he has never played on stage.   They range from the mysterious “Unknown instrumental” to some Christmas classics as … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan And Delmore Schwartz (Part I) appears here By Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan comes in contact with the nonabstract, co-ordinating conjunctive style of  Ezra Pound’s poetry indirectly through the poetics of Delmore Schultz – ‘the thing’ is the … Continue reading →