Author Archives: TonyAttwood

  By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) ‘I am the enemy of the unlived meaningless life.’ (Dylan: False Prophet) Part One: The Man in the Moon The transition from 1989 to 1990 was a smooth one in that his line up didn’t … Continue reading →

If you’ve not seen them before you might like to look at Bob Dylan And The Cowboy Jesus Bob Dylan and Cowboy Jesus Part II (The Riddler) Bob Dylan And Cowboy Jesus Part III Bob Dylan And Cowboy Jesus (Part … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Last year, we were fascinated when a lyric sheet for “Listen, Robert Moses,” credited to Bob Dylan, popped up on the internet. And yes it seems “Listen Robert Moses” is another Bob Dylan song – … Continue reading →

 by Paul Robert Thomas Previously published in this series… Seven Days: An Examination of Faith Crisis And Apocalypse Seven Days: an examination of faith, crisis and apocalypse part 2 Few people have taken Dylan’s conversion account without a pinch of … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst The name of the composer Sir Arthur Sullivan will forever be linked to the librettist of his most successful operas: Gilbert, Sir William Schwenck Gilbert. In the twenty-first century both names live on in the stage name … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Part of the Untold Dylan idea, as you may have noticed, is to explore what happens when we set up a series of articles.  Series allow us to explore in depth and if readers then get interested … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood A while back we had the idea of asking readers who also wrote songs if they fancied taking any of Dylan’s unfinished works and completing them by adding the music.  We called the series “Bob Dylan … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe If you’ve not seen them before you might like to look at Bob Dylan And The Cowboy Jesus Bob Dylan and Cowboy Jesus Part II (The Riddler) Bob Dylan And Cowboy Jesus Part III In his ‘gnostic’-begotten … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I say you can be trusted with the power you been given But you’re making a liar out of me You can now hear the whole album on Youtube When we tagged the notion of designing an … Continue reading →

This article continues from Seven Days: An Examination of Faith Crisis And Apocalypse  by Paul Robert Thomas Suggesting that there is more ‘pathology’ in the obsessive need for commentators to ascribe Dylan’s ‘rebirth’ to anything but the action of God,” … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Director Sam Peckinpah is said to have had never heard of Bob Dylan and that he actually had Roger Miller (“King Of The Road”) in mind for the soundtrack of Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid. Lead … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this series of articles, I am looking at each year in order to get a clearer idea of what Dylan wrote about, and how his themes evolved and developed over time. The last article was such … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Influenced by William Blake, and Emanuel Swedenborg, Bob Dylan manufactures his own mythologies – one in which the singer/songwriter reveals his unique ability to time-travel to the ‘Old West’ of America with a dusty-cloaked fellow named Jesus, … Continue reading →

 by Paul Robert Thomas I hope here to show how this song draws heavily upon an interpretation of the New Testament Book Of the Revelation and the Old Testament apocalyptic literature. Working on an early draft of this article, however, … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood One selection of music of Bob Dylan that we have not yet looked at are the instrumental outtakes from various sessions, particularly from the 1980s. These are not completed works, and they don’t deserve … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood When an idea emerges between the guys who write this site, we honestly never know whether it is going to be something that will be of interest to our fellow Dylan fans or not.  The notions that … Continue reading →

Already published… Caribbean Wind part 1 – verses 1 and 2 Caribbean Wind: part 2. Verses 3 and 4 Caribbean Wind part 3 Verses 5 and 6 “We left it off the album (as it was) quite different to anything … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Roy Orbison is madly in love with the teenager Claudette Frady and writes the song “Claudette” for her. Sam Phillips from Sun Records likes it a lot and has it recorded by the Everly Brothers, who eventually … Continue reading →

Part 1 of this series: Bob Dylan And The Cowboy Jesus by Larry Fyffe Like poet William Blake, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan sets up a personal mythology. Featured in that mythology, which is based on legends of the Old American West, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood When we come up with a new idea none of us has any idea whether we will get lots of replies and lots of interest or none at all.   This is especially so with notions like the … Continue reading →