Author Archives: TonyAttwood

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Towards the end of the famous Minnesota Tapes, which also includes the recently reviewed “Bonnie Why’d You Cut My Hair” you will find the four oddly titled tracks, “ VD Blues”, “ VD Waltz”, … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Things have changed once the over-zealous creed on strictness in sexual matters (brought to the Promised Land of America by the Puritans) became fodder for serious criticism by open-minded artists as well as by artists who favour … Continue reading →

by Patrick Roefflaer This article is one of a unique series of insights into the creation of the art work within each of Bob Dylan’s albums.  There is a list of all the articles in the series here. Traveling Wilburys … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst The American writer Joe Hill has been successful for a while, not only as an author of popular comics (the Locke & Key series, for example), but also as a writer of horror, thriller and fantasy since … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood and Aaron Galbraith We recently presented, for the first time, an article on “The Sampler Sessions” – musicians who have taken elements of Dylan songs and then represented them in new forms. We’re not sure too many … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe In his article entitled “Who Wrote Dylan”, Ross Altman asserts that Bob Dylan makes a deal with Prince Charles to write lyrics for his songs. And furthermore that Charles writes Dylan’s early songs. However, it’s rather surprising … Continue reading →

Editorial note: One of the wonderful things about Untold Dylan is that readers are so active in joining in with suggestions.  So when Russell Pottinger suggested another entry for our “Why Does Dylan Like” series, we jumped at the idea. … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Dave Stewart’s autobiography Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This (2016) is a double-minded affair, and in line with the image that even a less knowledgeable music connoisseur has of the man: colourful, unruly, creative and well, yes, … Continue reading →

Commentary by Tony Attwood, song found by Aaron Galbraith With our attempts to find ever more obscure Dylan compositions, and indeed get the number of Dylan compositions and co-compositions up to 600 (for no reason other than the fact that … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Before Odysseus makes his sea voyage, Jason makes his. Jason’s uncle usurps the Greek throne that belongs to Jason’s father. To protect him from the usurper, Jason is hidden away by his mother. Because the usurper doesn’t … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) ‘They say sing while you slave and I just get bored’ (Maggie’s Farm) When Bob Dylan appeared at Concord Pavilion on June 7 1988 for the first concert of a tour that was to last for … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “You can fool some of the people some of the time” seems a good place to start with unravelling the links between “Steel and Feathers”, “Don’t ever take yourself away”, and “Romance in Durango”. All are listed … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe In ancient mythology, Narcissus observes his own reflection in the water, and falls in love with it; he’s unable to see, to put it in the secular terms of modern psychology, beyond the physical plain of his … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Here’s the first in a potential series of articles looking at songs that use samples of Dylan tracks…first of all with a look at the use of Lay Lady Lay If you were to … Continue reading →

By mr tambourine As this is the first volume of this new series I just started, I will give you a small amount of detail as context to explain what this really is. This is not a series that will … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst On March 8, Tony posted here on Untold “Desolation Row – The Origins of the Title”. That was Chapter 1 of my attempt to write an article about “Desolation Row”, which got a bit out of control. … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Well, you don’t get a Dylan song that for one reason or another we’ve never listed on this site, for months and months, and then suddenly a couple turn up within a week or two of each … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Romantic Transcendentalist poets intuit the presence of the mysterious driving force behind the Cosmos pervading all Nature; the flower reaching upwards towards the sky with its roots in the ground serving as a symbol for that vitalistic … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst The American John Corigliano is quite a Grammy Award collector. The counter now stands at six, and in between the classical composer also scores an Oscar (for the music to The Red Violin, 1999) and the Pulitzer … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This is part of an ongoing series which attempts to assign a short simple theme or meaning to each Dylan composition, not (I hasten to add) to simplify Dylan’s work but to try and give me (and … Continue reading →