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By Tony Attwood Continuing my personal selection of the greatest moment from the Never Ending Tour, I come to “It’s Alright Ma” from 2001. Once again we are with a song that those with a musical ear will know from … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and (a rather over-excited) Tony Attwood Foreword for new readers: Aaron in the USA selects the song and the tracks, and Tony in the UK adds his comments while listening to the recordings Aaron has selected. Aaron: … Continue reading →

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading →

Country Pie (1969) part 1: People try and read so much into songs Country Pie (1969) part 2: Slap that drummer with a pie that smells Country Pie (1969) part 3:  I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie Country Pie (1969) part … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Love songs, lost love songs and hate songs… when it comes to pop and rock, love and lost love songs win hands down.  I suspect there are a million songs in each genre to every song of … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Untold Dylan started in 2008 – so we have been at it for approaching 15 years.  Indeed in a short while we’ll publish our 3000th article.  I’ve no idea how many of these articles I have written, … Continue reading →

  1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger … Continue reading →

Country Pie (1969) part 1: People try and read so much into songs Country Pie (1969) part 2: Slap that drummer with a pie that smells Country Pie (1969) part 3:  I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie Country Pie (1969) part … Continue reading →

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan’s music is known for many things, one of which is the interesting chord changes that he incorporates into some of his songs.   But Political World turned that upside down by giving us a song that … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood High Water 2007  I would imagine that performing a song about a flood, indoors, on stage, requires quite a bit of re-thinking.  But doing it with a song that has already been rethought so much that as … Continue reading →

This series looks at recordings Bob Dylan has made of songs he did not write.  A list of previous episodes in the series can be found at the end.  As ever in the series, Aaron selects the songs and makes … Continue reading →

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading →

This article continues from NET 2010 Part 2.1 Mostly Padova: Fires on the Moon By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) Net 2010 Part 2.1 concluded with a version of Cold Irons Bound.  Good as that is, it might not, however, be the … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) Every year of the NET we can find outstanding concerts, and some are memorable beyond their particular year. We remember Prague of 1995, Berlin 1996, Glasgow 2004 and Brixton 2005 as important milestones along the way. … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood OK, so I am getting old, but looking at the title “Please Mrs Henry” it took me a few moments to recall how the song went.   I did get there, but it shows that as a Dylan … Continue reading →

Tarantula The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and Arachnida Is Dead The Bride and the Return of Tarantula The Tarantula Files parts 4 and 5 By Larry Fyffe Part 6: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To Know (C)ompared to … Continue reading →

Country Pie (1969) part 1: People try and read so much into songs Country Pie (1969) part 2: Slap that drummer with a pie that smells Country Pie (1969) part 3:  I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie Country Pie (1969) part … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Aaron (with whom, as you may know, I have been writing the “Other People’s Songs” series) recently emailed me pointing out an article in Far Out Magazine from way back in August 2022, based on an interview … Continue reading →

Previously in this series 1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and Arachnida Is Dead 3: The Bride and the Return of Tarantula By Larry Fyffe Part 4: Everybody loves a critic The writer of the ‘novelette’ … Continue reading →