Author Archives: TonyAttwood

By Tony Attwood This article explores an idea – I am not sure if I am going to be able to take this idea forward into a series of articles, and I want to see how this article feels first … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood   Whether you get any deep pleasure out of the “After the Empire” tracks – the tracks in which Dylan explored various songs that were then abandoned –  there is one thing about them which cannot be … Continue reading →

One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later) (1966) by Jochen Markhorst “I always liked songs with parentheses in the title,” says host Dylan in episode 47 of his radio show Theme Time Radio Hour, at the announcement of Sonny … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Interview Magazine has a page online called “New Again Bob Dylan” which re-runs an interview they did with Bob in February 1986. The piece opens with a section called “A dozen influential records” and we’ve been plundering … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe A good number of the writers of the Age of Enlightenment appeal to man’s ability to reason in an effort to reduce the social, political, and economic conflict that they observe in the world around them; the … Continue reading →

Stop Now (1978) by Jochen Markhorst Dylan is not the only songwriter who admires T.S. Eliot. Recognition and appreciation are widely displayed in the music world. Genesis, Bowie, Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, Tori Amos, Manic Street Preachers … just a … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This is another song from the After the Empire collection – and in this case it sounds as if some work has been done on the song before the recording starts – Dylan certainly has worked through … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Note: The Untold Dylan Offices received the following by mail in a plain brown envelope. Apparently, it’s a copy of a song re-written by Bob due to protests from vegetable rights groups –  Man Gave Names To … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “Let’s finish off with a track from the Basement Tapes,” Mary Travers says at the end of her radio interview with Dylan, “er, your choice.” “Uh, okay… Oh! Apple Suckling Tree,” says Dylan, suddenly very awake, with … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Everyone knows that Woody Guthrie had a big influence on Bob Dylan.  But why?  What was it in Guthrie that Dylan liked so much? The most obvious answer to me is that I suspect Bob Dylan, from … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith I’m sure everyone here will at least be somewhat aware of the excellent work of Bob’s son Jakob both as a solo artist and as the front man with The Wallflowers (I’m been a fan since the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood You’ll have heard about Bob stopping the show because of the flash lights going off at a recent concert.   The one where he said a few words which the media immediately called a “rant” before they … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan And Edward Taylor: the series Bob Dylan And Edward Taylor (Part One) Bob Dylan And Edward Taylor: If There’s An Original Thought Out There, I Could Use One Right Now (Part II) Bob Dylan, Edward … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bob recorded a number of songs at Cherokee Studios, Hollywood, CA, through the summer and autumn of 1985, many of which never made the cut onto a released album but were released on the bootleg “After the … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Nothing triggers the mémoire involontaire, the spontaneous memory, so strongly as scent does. Marcel Proust, who has coined the term, blames the breakthrough of childhood memories in À la recherche du temps perdue (1913) on the taste … Continue reading →

This article continues from Bob Dylan And The Synesthesia Of Nettie Moore Netting More Synesthesia In Dylan’s Song Lyrics (Part II) By Larry Fyffe The Romantic poets turn to mental perceptions in their examination of the human condition because the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I guess Bob Dylan likes telephones – wasn’t there a Theme Time Radio Hour on telephones one time? Anyway, here is a snippet about telephones – it really is no more than that; just a snippet of … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst The first German officer who is shot by Vassili Zaytsev in Enemy At The Gates (Jean Jacques Annaud, 2001) is standing under an improvised shower in the remains of a house in the ruins of Stalingrad, which … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) ‘The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain’ Towards the end of 2002 Dylan put down the guitar, got in behind the keyboards and changed his sound forever. Dylan and his guitar; they’d been inseparable … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe  PreRomantic, ‘inward transcendentalist’ poet William Blake, diverges from Emanual Swedenborg’s rational-cum-mystical neoPlatonic religious outlook, and contends that within each and every human mind  lies the Imagination (it creates dreams, art, mythologies, and visions); the poet takes the … Continue reading →