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Cold Irons Bound (1997) part 1: Dear Dr Ralph

by Jochen Markhorst I           Dear Dr. Ralph “It was a really great band. And I’m sorry not to be in it today. I miss Bob and I miss that band.” Drummer David Kemper does open the doors to his heart, … Continue reading

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Dylan Adjacent: Helena Springs

Dylan Adjacent: Charlie Sexton Dylan Adjacent: Bob and Larry Campbell Dylan Adjacent: Echo in the Canyon By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood The people we are looking at in this series are artists who have a direct connection to Dylan and … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part III)

Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1 Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part II) by Larry Fyffe From the reporting of his time-travelling adventures, our readers can readily see that singer/songerwriter Bob Dylan secretly encodes the story of … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream part 8 (final): The historians’ delight

by Jochen Markhorst Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Part 1: There’s very little that you can’t imagine not happening Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream part 2 – Blow Boys Blow Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream  part 3: Your waitress: Captain America Bob Dylan’s … Continue reading

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Beautiful Obscurity: Lay Lady Lay, and doing the impossible

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series we look at some fine, but also less well known, covers of Dylan compositions with Aaron making the selections and Tony playing the game of writing a review while the song … Continue reading

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Never Ending Tour, 2000, part 5, Back to Bedrock Two

So far Dylan in 2000 has been covered via Never Ending Tour 2000, Part 1 – Master Vocalist: Finding voice NET, 2000, Part 2. Master Vocalist – Please heed these words that I speak NET 2000 Part 3: Master Vocalist … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part II)

Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1 By Larry Fyffe Some analysts of the songs by Bob Dylan have pointed out that the key to breaking the secret “code” hidden in a number of his lyrics is to realize … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream part 7: I’ve never been able to read the damned thing

by Jochen Markhorst Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Part 1: There’s very little that you can’t imagine not happening Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 2 – Blow Boys Blow Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 3: … Continue reading

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All Directions at once 64: Something borrowed something blue

By Tony Attwood A full index of the articles in this series can be found here. Our series looking at Dylan’s songs in the order they were written, to try and ascertain his thoughts and the reasons why he wrote … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1

by Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan drops a big clue concerning the  real story behind the biblical Jesus in a recent song that he writes: I searched the world over For the Holy Grail I sing songs of love I … Continue reading

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NET, 2000, part 4: Back to Bedrock One

So far Dylan in 2000 has been covered via Never Ending Tour 2000, Part 1 – Master Vocalist: Finding voice NET, 2000, Part 2. Master Vocalist – Please heed these words that I speak NET 2000 Part 3: Master Vocalist … Continue reading

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How to Start Listening to Bob Dylan

Music is such a wonderful thing. It can lift spirits, improve your mood and help to create wonderful memories. Both listening and playing are such amazing things, which is why it is not surprising to see just how many people … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 6: Caput vel cauda

by Jochen Markhorst Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Part 1: There’s very little that you can’t imagine not happening Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 2 – Blow Boys Blow Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 3: Your waitress: Captain America … Continue reading

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Dylan re-writes Dylan: Hard Rain and Ring them Bells

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In the first little venture into the idea of exploring how Bob Dylan can re-write his own songs (to which we gave the adventurous name  Dylan re-writes Dylan) we looked particularly at how the … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan: Cooking Up More Mythologies (Part XVII)

An index to the full “Cooking Up More Mythologies” series appears at the end of this article. by Larry Fyffe Already pointed out, the influence from writers of figurative-laden tracts, that later became described as ‘Gnostic”, shows up in the … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream part 5: Almost like a Buster Keaton or something

Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 5 by Jochen Markhorst VIII       Almost like a Buster Keaton or something I ran right outside, I hopped inside a cab I went out the other door, this Englishman said, “Fab” As he saw … Continue reading

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Dylan re-writes Dylan: Groom’s Still Waiting At The Altar

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In the first little venture into a possible series on Dylan re-writes Dylan we looked particularly at how the music was changed between one version of “We better talk this over” and another. Taking … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan: Cooking Up More Mythologies (Part XVI)

An index to the full “Cooking Up More Mythologies” series appears at the end of this article. by Larry Fyffe In Greek/Roman mythology, Hera, the wife of the Thunder God, punishes Venus by cursing her, and with Dionysus the Goddess … Continue reading

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The art work of Bob Dylan’s albums: 31 – Good as I Been to You

This is part of our series reviewing the art work on Dylan’s albums.  There is a full index to the series here. by Patrick Roefflaer Released: October 27, 1992 Photographer: Jimmy Wachtel Art-director: Dawn Patrol, LA For his first entirely … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 4

Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Part 1: There’s very little that you can’t imagine not happening Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 2 – Blow Boys Blow Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 3: Your waitress: Captain America by Jochen Markhorst … Continue reading

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