Author Archives: TonyAttwood

by Larry Fyffe And what I assume, you shall assume (Walt Whitman). Another ghost of a biblical prophet that floats around in the back of Bob Dylan’s Jungian mind is Isaiah. Isaiah’s a prophet, a prophet with a feminine side, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood It has been a long time since anyone told us that we had missed a Bob Dylan composition on this site, but it seems we have done: “The Price of Love”.  Jochen spotted the omission, so here … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst IV         Red River Shore 2: The Guy Strikes Back The Rubicon is the Red River, going gently as she flows Redder then your ruby lips and the blood that flows from the rose We have, alas, only … Continue reading →

Dylan’s next tour will be legendary (part 1) What about Stockholm? Too many things to mention but here’s a few. What about the the 2009 live debut and only performance to date of Billy? Or the 2017 one-off performance of … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Members of the Sound School of Dylanology dwell on rejigged, allusion-filled,  viewpoints about the trials and tribulations of human existence; even on the paste-up method employed by Post Modernist writers; though underplayed is the obvious fact that … Continue reading →

Songs selected By Aaron Galbraith; commentary by Tony Attwood Aaron: Bob Dylan recorded “Step It Up and Go” for his 1992 album “Good as I Been to You”. His interpretation has been described as being similar to Blind Boy Fuller’s … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine Bob Dylan hasn’t stepped on European ground for more than three years, which will be his first time here since the world has changed drastically. His touring so far that was limited only to the States hasn’t … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Taken as a whole, the metonymic motifs in the songs of Bob Dylan are not nearly as fragmented as they first appear. Mythologists, poets, writers, and other artists, speak up for the languageless, for the ‘silent’, Cosmos … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood.  Lyrics transcribed by Larry Fyffe “Patty gone to Larado” has always annoyed me in the sense that there is no recording of it on the internet which is readily – or at least easily –  available.  I’m … Continue reading →

Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 2: That day I’ll always remember by Jochen Markhorst III         So many things that we never will undo I crossed the Rubicon on the 14th … Continue reading →

Compiled by Tony Attwood Untold Dylan Showcase is a feature we’ve run whenever we’ve had the chance, which quite simply consists of recordings made by our readers or about our readers’ music making.   Sometimes the music we get is supplied … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Biblical Beezlebub, linked to the worshippers of Baal, and later to Satan, seduces young women. The Lord of the Flies sneaks into lyrics performed by a Christian-oriented singer: They’d say when he grows up, watch out When … Continue reading →

A list of the previous episodes is here. Never Ending Tour 2007 part 1: The Light is Never Dying By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) It’s natural that the more recent songs, in performance, find Dylan at his most enthusiastic. While we … Continue reading →

  by Denise Konkal I am revisiting this amazing compilation of Bob Dylan’s LIVE *Lovesick* performances. To me, this song brilliantly examines the deepest experience of love-longing. It effectively explores the torture that love can cause a person, especially when … Continue reading →

Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy by Jochen Markhorst   II          That day I’ll always remember I crossed the Rubicon on the 14th day of the most dangerous month of the year It is a popular … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe According to the Jewish/Christian Bible, with Moses gone up on the mountain, most of those fleeing Egypt demand that his brother Aaron construct a Golden Calf, a representation of a Baalist fertility god, for them to follow … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I can still remember the first time I heard Dylan’s “Man in The Long Black Coat” – someone (I can’t recall who) had given me a cassette of the album (remember cassettes?) upon its release, and I … Continue reading →

Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 1 by Jochen Markhorst   I           A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Dylan provides sparingly, but with some regularity, insight into his working methods, into how he arrives at his songs. In the interview with Douglas … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood This series looks at and listens to Bob Dylan’s performances of songs written by people other than himself.  Aaron in the USA selects the tracks and Tony in the UK then tries to write … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Taken as a whole, the metonymic motifs in the songs of Bob Dylan are not nearly as fragmented as they first appear. Mythologists, poets, writers, and other artists, speak up for the languageless, for the ‘silent’, Cosmos … Continue reading →