Author Archives: TonyAttwood

By Jochen Markhorst Up on Housing Project Hill It’s either fortune or fame You must pick up one or the other Though neither of them are to be what they claim If you’re lookin’ to get silly You better go … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Previously in this series Can Bob Be Saved? (Part I) Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II) Can Bob Be Saved (Part III) Can Bob Be Saved (Part IV) Can Bob Be Saved (Part V): Door Is Not Just … Continue reading →

This article continues from An Encounter with Bob and his band in Belfast. May 6th, 1966. By Geoffrey Morrow View from the crowd, ABC Ritz Cinema Belfast, May 6th 1966 (Note wrought iron railings and Compton Melotone organ under tarp … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Here are song lyrics by Bob Dylan that use ‘door’ as rhyme word. From behind the curtain, the boss crossed the floor He moved his feet, and he bolted the door Shadows hid the lines in his … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is episode 32 of the series “All Directions at Once” which considers Bob’s compositions not as a series of isolated songs, but as a constant evolution of Dylan’s talent, with each song related to the world … Continue reading →

By Geoffrey Morrow On this day so long ago, I was a skinny seventeen-year-old schoolboy with a sketchbook under my arm and a singular determination. Instead of taking the train from my small seaside town of Whitehead in County Antrim to go … Continue reading →

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965) part I: Thin Air Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues II: The Thoughts Of Mary Jane By Jochen Markhorst III         Annie & Melinda In the studio Dylan does, by his standards anyway, put on quite … Continue reading →

Can Bob Be Saved? (Part I) Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II) Can Bob Be Saved (Part III) Can Bob Be Saved (Part IV) By Larry Fyffe Singer/singwriter Bob Dylan makes use of the word ‘door’ as a rhyme in at … Continue reading →

by Peter Krauth and Tony Attwood Peter Krauth translated Key West into Hungarian, (quite a task to undertake) but found a few troubling phrases in Dylan’s original that caused him a few difficulties.  Tony wrote a review in which he … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Dylan Obscuranti is an imaginary album consisting of lesser known Dylan songs performed either by himself or (mostly) other people. You can hear the opening tracks on our You Tube channel or via the articles… Track 1: … Continue reading →

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965) part I: Thin Air by Jochen Markhorst II          The Thoughts Of Mary Jane When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez And it’s Eastertime too And your gravity fails And negativity don’t pull you … Continue reading →

Can Bob Be Saved? (Part I) Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II) Can Bob Be Saved (Part III) By Larry Fyffe Both Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Allen Zimmerman know well the verses of the  Holy Bible; therein the word … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Previously in this series: One song to the tune of another 1: You’re a big girl now One song to the tune of another 2: Forever Young One song to tune of another 3: … Continue reading →

This is episode 31 of All Directions.  The most recent episodes are 29: The greatest Dylan album ever? 30: Oh Sister, Abandoned love, farewell preliminaries, hello dead body There is a full index to the series which traces Bob’s work in … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst I           Thin air You’d have written that too. There’s nothing secret about it. You just do it subliminally and unconsciously, because that’s all enough, and that’s all you know. That was all that was dear to me. … Continue reading →

By Daniel Williams The year 2020 will not be fondly remembered by the world, that much is quite clear. However, one ray of light for many music fans in 2020 was the release of Bob Dylan’s 39th studio album, Rough … Continue reading →

The story so far… Can Bob Be Saved? Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II) by Larry Fyffe Exclusive to ‘Untold” – Gothic poet Edgar Allan Poe is noted for his influence on the French Symbolists. And, at least by me, … Continue reading →

  This is part of the ongoing series on the Never Ending Tour.  A full index to the articles can be found here. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) We finish this survey of Dylan’s monumental 1994 year with a brief look at … Continue reading →

Dylan Obscuranti – the tracks so far. This is an imaginary album consisting of lesser known Dylan songs performed either by himself or (mostly) other people. You can hear the opening tracks on our You Tube channel or via the … Continue reading →

Part 1: Ramona are you betta, are you well? Part II:   Whatever will be by Jochen Markhorst But biographical lines can be drawn to more ladies. Mavis Staples, for instance, would be another educated guess. As a young lad … Continue reading →