Author Archives: TonyAttwood

Tony Attwood This article continues from part 1 of this piece, Bob says to Tony, “make me an album” (part 1) in which the totally fanciful idea is put forward that Bob Dylan asks his manager to give me a … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst   Well, I’ve been to London and I’ve been to gay Paree I’ve followed the river and I got to the sea I’ve been down on the bottom of a world full of lies I ain’t looking … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Just recently we’ve been engaged in a project listening back to some of the outtakes from the 1986 and 1987 sessions that produced the majority of Bob Dylan’s “Down In The Groove” album, as … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The incitement: This article takes you through the first six songs that Bob Dylan wrote in 1980.  Unless you are yourself a chronologist, it will probably be the first time you’ll have listened to these songs in … Continue reading →

Not Dark Yet part 1: But Shadows Are Falling appears here. By Jochen Markhorst Well, my sense of humanity has gone down the drain Behind every beautiful thing there’s been some kind of pain She wrote me a letter and … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood We’ve already had a response to the idea of turning Bob Dylan’s lyrics for Dope Fiend Robber into a completed song.  The earlier entry is here. Now Paul Robert Thomas takes up the challenge. Here is what … Continue reading →

Dylan And Post-Post Modernism (Part II) By Larry Fyffe Though vaguely defined and overlapping other categories that seek to classify art, we’ll consider Post-Post Modernism to be literature and song lyrics that revive the hopes for a better society envisioned … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I get a fair number of emails these days suggesting I might listen to various Bob Dylan songs sung by other performers. Indeed in the dim and distant past we put together a collection of readers’ favourite … Continue reading →

By Filip Łobodziński To parody Bob Dylan? Any problem? I’d say it’s easily done, you just pick any song and pretend you sing it with typical Dylan phrasing and accent. Easy? Yeah, but… What exactly is a “typical Dylan phrasing … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “With God On Our Side” is the first Dylan song Manfred Mann takes a shot at and can be found on the 1965 EP The One In The Middle. The EP is a huge hit; achieves first … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Often, nursery rhymes are morality tales told by adults to children in order to teach them the difference between bad and good behaviour: Ding dong bell Kitty’s in the well Who put her there? Little Johnny Thin … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Just recently we’ve been engaged in a project listening back to some of the outtakes from the 1986 and 1987 sessions that produced the majority of Bob Dylan’s “Down In The Groove” album, as … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Dylan’s work has been translated into several languages over the years, here is just a couple we wanted to share with you. One is in Dutch and one in French and as we don’t … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood So busy was I trying to work out my solution to these strange lyrics that I stupidly missed the fact that Rob Berretta had also supplied a copy.  Clearly I’m getting too old for this publishing lark.  … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood We asked for contributions relating to completing the song “Don’t let anyone write your story.”   The original request is at  Another set of Bob Dylan lyrics without music for us to complete The lyrics were credited … Continue reading →

By mr tambourine Finally. A new album announced. June 19 is the day to wait for.   10 tracks, including “Murder Most Foul”, “I Contain Multitudes” and the newly released “False Prophet”. Looks good to me. My take so far on … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst In 1997 Dylan surprises friend and foe with the album Time Out Of Mind. It’s the second time he entrusts the production to Daniel Lanois (after Oh Mercy, 1989), and that works out well this time too. … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Apollo is disliked by Hera, the wife of Zeus, as he’s not her son though Zeus is his father; the feeling be mutual because Hera’s unkind to Apollo’s mother. Hera supports the Greeks in the Trojan War … Continue reading →

by Jens-Philipp Gründler With the release of the third song from the forthcoming Dylan album, it’s time to look back to the first released to get some more perspective on what we are being offered.  On the occasion of the … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) You might say that I saved the best till last, once you hear the first couple of performances, but it was not deliberate! The pattern of these posts is starting to come clear to me. I … Continue reading →