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- Dylan Song of the Year 1966: One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
- Key West part 10: What a long strange trip it’s been
- Theme Time Radio Hour: why are all the car songs 12 bar blues?
- “Philosophy of Modern Song”: Blue Suede Shoes. This is MY style!
- No Nobel Prize for Music: I guess its just “Up to me”
- Bob Dylan’s song of the year 1965: one of the greatest masterpieces of all time
- Theme Time Radio Hour part 10: Flowers (and a thorn)
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Author Archives: TonyAttwood
Love Minus Zero/No Limit part VII: Your silent mystery
Love Minus Zero/No Limit part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire Love Minus Zero/No Limit part III: I love you, but you’re strange Love Minus Zero/No Limit part IV: … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan And Fitz-Greene Halleck (Part II)
Bob Dylan And Fitz-Greene Halleck By Larry Fyffe Like Bayard Taylor, Fitz-Greene Halleck be a member of the American “Knickerbock” writers’ group; Fitz leaves his mark in the Jungian culture of American literary history to this day though he’s not … Continue reading
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Bob’s last live appearance in full and his first of the lockdown
By Tony Attwood Since I was the one who invented the name “Untold Dylan” I am particularly aware that the word “untold” implies that we don’t cover stuff that other websites do. And by and large we stick to that … Continue reading
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All directions 55: Reflective, invigorated, moving on. Towards the end of the 80s
By Tony Attwood This series of articles under the title “All Directions at Once” seeks to see Dylan’s writing not as a series of individual songs but as a response to the ebbs and flows of his emotions and feelings, … Continue reading
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Love minus zero/No limit part VI: Fair is foul
Love Minus Zero/No Limit part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire Love Minus Zero/No Limit part III: I love you, but you’re strange Love Minus Zero/No Limit part IV: … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan’s Grammies: Album of the year 1998 – Time out of mind
by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Previously in this series: Bob’s Grammy Nominations and Wins 1 Bob’s Grammy Nominations and Wins 2: Best male rock vocal 1980! Grammies Part 3: Best rock vocal performance (male) 1997 Best contemporary folk album … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan And Fitz-Greene Halleck
by Larry Fyffe Along with Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper, Fitz-Greene Halleck be a member of the Knickerbocker writers’ group. Halleck’s poetry demonstrates that the author is an admirer of the English poet Lord Byron: For thou art Woman … Continue reading
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The Never Ending Tour 1998, part 3, What’s a Protest Song?
NET 1998 Part 1: One who sings with his tongue on fire. NET 1998 Part 2: Friends and other strangers The complete Never Ending Tour index By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) In 1995, at Frank Sinatra’s 80th birthday bash, Dylan presented … Continue reading
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Love Minus Zero/No Limit, part V: When a sighing begins in the violins
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part III: I love you, but you’re strange Love Minus Zero/No … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan And The Nobel Prize (Part II)
Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize Part 1. by Larry Fyffe In a particular song, Bob Dylan names the title of a fragmented poem by Jack Kerouac, using Jack’s alliterative, assonant, off-rhymed writing style that expresses an anti-material vision, … Continue reading
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Blood on the Tracks. The art work.
A complete index to this series looking at the art work of Bob Dylan’s albums can be found here. by Patrick Roefflaer Released: January 17, 1975 Photographer: Paul Till Illustration: David Oppenheim Liner Notes: Pete Hamill Art-director: Ron Coro Version … Continue reading
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Bob’s awards: Best Contemporary Folk Album
by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Best Contemporary Folk Album: Winner: Bob Dylan – Time Out Of Mind Time Out of Mind won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year in 1998. It was also ranked number 410 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan: Jangled Up In Blue
By Larry Fyffe Metonymic associations be the hallmark of Postmodern poetic and song lyrics, but there are lots of onomatopoeic words floating around on the top of the deep blue Jungian Sea for the taking. There’s the harsh “jangle which … Continue reading
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All directions at once 54: how to describe a feeling of loss (as the walls came down)
By Tony Attwood Earlier episodes are listed here Two episodes ago the article was called “Dylan post Angelina: step by step it’s falling apart in all directions at once,” which took us up to the composition of “Foot of Pride.” … Continue reading
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Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part IV: The Order of the Whirling Dervishes
by Jochen Markhorst Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part III: I love you, but you’re strange … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize Part 1.
By Larry Fyffe Naysayers and the the connoisseurs of ‘high art’ alike claim Bob Dylan is not deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature because, for one thing, the singer/songwriter/musician is not that familiar with those artists considered worthy thereof. … Continue reading
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Another Dylan song: Phone Operator Love
Les Paul’s have sent in another Dylan co-composition – as part of a project we’ve been running for a number of years now relating to lyrics written by Dylan for which no music has been created by Bob Dylan himself. … Continue reading
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Bob Dylan And Bayard Taylor (Part IV)
Bob Dylan and Bayard Taylor Part 1 Bob Dylan and Bayard Taylor Part II Bob Dylan And Bayard Taylor (Part III) by Larry Fyffe Very unlikely that writers Bayard Taylor and William Blake are aware of the poems of Edward … Continue reading
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NET, 1998, part 2 Friends and other strangers
Previously in this series NET 1998 Part 1: One who sings with his tongue on fire. There is an index to the entire series on the Never Ending Tour here. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) In Part 1 of 1998 (see … Continue reading
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Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part III: I love you, but you’re strange
Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire by Jochen Markhorst III I love you, but you’re strange My love she speaks like … Continue reading
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