Author Archives: TonyAttwood

  Previously in this series Part 1: Desolation Row Part 2: There goes rhyming Dylan Part 3: Songs inspired by the music of Bob Dylan – Young, CSNY, and Coxon Part 4: Dylanesque: the anti-war songs Part 5: The Rolling … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood … a totally personal view of some of the best moments from across the decades. Looking through the masterpiece which is Mike Johnson’s on-going review of the Never Ending Tour (which as I write this has reached … Continue reading →

    NET 2015 Part 1 Singing to you, not at you The Never Ending Tour episode 126. 2015 Part 2. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) Dylan fans, you are in for a treat this time around. In the first post … 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: I can’t find much online about the song. According to Wikipedia “Mary Ann” is a folk song originating from at least as far back as the ethnomusicology of Marius Barbeau, a Canadian folklorist, … Continue reading →

“An attempt to show that analyses of Dylan’s music that focus just on the lyrics can miss the point.” By Tony Attwood “Cover Down, Pray Through”, is something of an oddity in Bob Dylan’s list of compositions.  For a start, … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood With a song such as this which has well over 50 established cover versions, and goodness knows how many other obscure ones, my tendency is to start by listening to some recent recordings, for musicians who … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) At first glance it might seem that Dylan’s 2015 setlists were a repeat of the 2014 master Setlist, and indeed the first two or three songs in 2015 are a carry-over from the year before, but … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series Aaron selects albums and tracks that are in the style of, or otherwise related to, Bob Dylan.  Tony then adds his thoughts as he plays the music selected. ——– Aaron: Let’s … 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 … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood You will have heard that Sinéad O’Connor has passed away, and of course the media has been full of commentaries about her work. Normally Untold Dylan doesn’t do much in terms of marketing the passing of artists … Continue reading →

by Andrew Ferguson Why do I love “Oh Mercy” so much? So many reasons, but above all it was the production values Daniel Lanois brought to the recordings. For the first time in years, Dylan had a producer who understood … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood When I started this little series dedicated to considering Dylan’s songs from the point of view of the music and the lyrics together (rather than, as many people do, just focussing on the lyrics) it was to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Silvio” is one of those songs that sounds to me as if it ought to make a great cover version, and yet, somehow no one has managed to break away from the boundary that Dylan himself placed … Continue reading →

The Never Ending Tour 2014 part 1: The Setlist, the first half. NET 2014 part 2 The Setlist: The second half Never Ending Tour 2014 Part 3: The survivors The Never Ending Tour: the full index from 1987 onwards By … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood One of the great problems with the 12 bar blues – the classic format on which well over half of all blues-orientated songs are based – is that the foundations of both the style and the format … Continue reading →

    by Jochen Markhorst X          Don’t you step on my pink pedal pushers Pink pedal pushers and red blue jeans All the pretty maids and all the old queens All the old queens from all my past lives I … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood As we all know, Bob was never satisfied with Caribbean Wind.   It got one public outing in November 1980 and that was it.  It turned up on Biograph, and a recording of the live version have circulated. … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood, based on the research by Mike Johnson in The Never Ending Tour series. “Tony quotes Mike quoting Heylin” – not something you’ll often find here, but it all starts in the notes below, taken from Never Ending … Continue reading →

  Part 1: Desolation Row Part 2: There goes rhyming Dylan Part 3: Songs inspired by the music of Bob Dylan – Young, CSNY, and Coxon Part 4: Dylanesque: the anti-war songs Dylanesque: “In the style of, or reminiscent of … Continue reading →