Author Archives: TonyAttwood

By Tony Attwood and Aaron Galbraith We launched “The Dylan Nobody Knows” series with the article on Wynton Marsalis and Jacek Kaczmarski – details of this and other articles in the series are at the foot of this piece. So … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This article continues the reviews of the meanings of Bob Dylan’s songs of the 1970s.  Previous articles in this series have been… The meanings behind Bob Dylan’s 15 compositions of 1970 The subject matter of Bob Dylan’s … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Over the years we have put on this site one or two recordings created by readers who have been performing Dylan songs. Often these have been songs that Dylan himself hasn’t performed, or indeed their own arrangement … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The Beat writer quoted below walks in the footsteps of Villiers who writes the black-humoured, neoRomantic tale about “Tomorrow’s Eve”: Nobody has to care anymore, we can even leave the whole scene to itself with Japanese fornicating … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (kiwipoet) Part One: Most of the time. ‘and I’m just like that bird singing just for you’ Coming from the tightly controlled performances of 1988, we find lots that’s new and different in 1989, despite the same … Continue reading →

  Bob Dylan is an influential artist, musician, and songwriter who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. He showed great support for new ideas, risks explorations, independence, and the need to follow the inner voice as an entrepreneur. Many … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst The Andy Warhol Diaries are not really diaries. The work is published posthumously (1987) and is a collection of transcribed (telephone) conversations. Warhol does not feel like keeping a diary but does feel a cultural-historical responsibility. Friend … 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 →

This article is part of a series that tells the story of the artwork on each of Bob Dylan’s albums.   A list of all the previous articles in the series is given at the end of this piece, and is … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Sir George Ivan “Van” Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) became known, at least to British fans of the R&B scene for songs such as Gloria and Baby Please Don’t Go. And the … Continue reading →

This article continues from Bob’s 2020 Summer US Tour: Setlists for the first 13 shows by mr tambourine Show #14: June 26, 2020, Irving, Texas Set 1 Mississippi Workingman’s Blues #2 TV Talking Song Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee It … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Irony chain-bound, Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam be a French Symbolist writer, a latter-day Romantic, who finds artistic beauty in the Imagination; opposed he is to the materialistic-driven bourgeois ideology of his times. Based on the ancient … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine This is part one of a two part examination of the songs Bob might be performing on his forthcoming tour of the USA.   Part two will appear tomorrow.   Bob’s 2020 Summer US Tour  Setlists Show #1: … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If the first new song in a few years took me by surprise, then so has the second; and I had no idea another was going to follow up so quickly.  But Bob is always full of … 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 →

Over the years we have put on this site one or two recordings created by readers who have been performing Dylan songs. Often these have been songs that Dylan himself hasn’t performed, or indeed their own arrangement of a Dylan … Continue reading →

Editor’s Error of the Day: After the last episode of this series (appropriately named part VII) I announced that the series was complete.  This was in fact not true.  The truth was I had lost three episodes.  These have now … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In 2009, Bob Dylan told The Huffington Post that John Prine was one of his favourite writers, stating, “Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs. I remember … Continue reading →

Publisher’s note: Due to a set of alien antelopes entering the computer network of Untold Dylan (otherwise known as Tony’s laptop) we (ie Tony) published section 3 of this series before section 2.  Here are the articles in the right … Continue reading →

On April 5, we published here on Untold a first chapter of our attempt to elevate “Where Are You Tonight?” to the canon. That article (“Chanson d’automne”) mainly focussed on the unusual form, the ten Spanish Sestets, in which the … Continue reading →