Author Archives: TonyAttwood

    By Tony Attwood The series title made sense during lockdown when we were looking for ways to fill the time.  Now it is more like a Dylan cover every two weeks, but we’re still working through the songs.  … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this piece I am going to try and compare two different performances of Gates of Eden wherein the lyrics stay the same but the musical approach is quite different.  Both recordings are taken from the magnificent … Continue reading →

  Mississippi, Desolation Row, Crossing The Rubicon, Where Are You Tonight, Tombstone Blues… Some songs are so rich and multicoloured that they deserve their own book . I fear that almost every song on Rough And Rowdy Ways is going … Continue reading →

  By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: This work is often misattributed as “traditional”. The poem was originally published as “A Border Affair” in the June 1907 issue of “Pacific Monthly”. It was republished in 1915 by Chapman & Grimes … Continue reading →

    Meta: According to reports, Bob Dylan, one of the world’s most iconic singers, is also a baseball fan, even mentioning the sport in one of his songs.                   Long after … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan And The Rastas Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan takes on the persona of Odysseus more than once. Thus speaks the Greek hero to Polyphemus: Would to God that I could strip you of life and breath … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this little series I’ve been trying to explain why I sometimes write as much about the music of Dylan as the lyrics: something that most commentators don’t do very often (or at least that is how … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood This series looks at performances of songs that were not written by Dylan but which clearly have a Dylan influence within them.  As ever, Aaron selects the theme and the works, and Tony endeavours … Continue reading →

Mississippi, Desolation Row, Crossing The Rubicon, Where Are You Tonight, Tombstone Blues… Some songs are so rich and multicoloured that they deserve their own book . I fear that almost every song on Rough And Rowdy Ways is going to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this series I select my favourite performance by Dylan of a particular song from across the years of the Never Ending Tour – using of course the recordings selected from the mega-series which Mike Johnson is … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Onward march the reindeer armies of metonymy. Considered by some is that Queen of Sheba with King Solomon’s baby in her belly transfers the Heaven-On-Earth of the future, at least in part, from Jerusalem to Ethiopia, a … Continue reading →

  By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series (of which there is a full index at the end) Aaron selects a song that Dylan has recorded but which he did not write, and looks at the Dylan version … Continue reading →

    The Never Ending Tour: the complete index Untold Dylan: the Facebook group NET 2015 Part 1 Singing to you, not at you NET 2015 Part 2 NET 2015 Part 3: It doesn’t get any better than this By … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This series is supposed to be simple: a look at a few of the cover versions of Bob Dylan’s songs, picking out a few highlights along the way.   But what is one to do when Dylan’s “original” … Continue reading →

      by Jochen Markhorst XIII       A little bit of Lincoln can’t park the car Pink pedal pushers and red blue jeans All the pretty maids and all the old queens All the old queens from all my past … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: Let’s look at another one of the albums that spun out of the Rolling Thunder Revue. This time it is Hejira by Joni Mitchell.  According to Mitchell, the album was written during or after … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe “‘Don’t Make Her Cry’ were the words Regina McCrary’s father, Reverend Sam McCrary, said to Bob Dylan when they met at a Nashville show in 1978 shortly after she joined his band,” Buddy Miller tells SPIN. … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst Following the publication of my most recent book, I Contain Multitudes, our publisher Tony Attwood suggested that I take a little break from my Never Ending Song Reviews and write an exposé on the how, what … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This series of articles (along with an earlier series “The meaning behind the lyrics and the music”) endeavours to explore the importance of the music in Dylan’s songs, rather than simply looking at the lyrics.   An index … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This must be just about the most curious “Cover a Day” episode thus far – and given that this is episode 134 of the series (there’s an index at the end to prove it) that is saying … Continue reading →