Author Archives: TonyAttwood

by Larry Fyffe In Greek mythology, the aforementioned Galatea is a sea nymph adored by the Cyclops whose one eye is burned out by Odysseus. After the giant reforms, and stops eating people, the nymph softens her attitude towards him, … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine Before I start writing, I just want to say, that after researching Bob’s current shows as deep as I can, and his entire live career and some of his studio albums, this would be my wishlist of … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst In 1983, prior to an ever-charged state visit to Israel, Chancellor Helmut Kohl borrows the expression Die Gnade der späten Geburt (“the mercy, or blessing, of late birth”), trying to make the point that his generation is … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe British beat poet Edith Sitweĺl, influenced by the French Symbolists (ie, Arthur Rimbaud), and associated with the first-half-of-the-20th-century Bloomsbury Group, takes on the persona of mythological Persephone, the Goddess of Grain and Queen of the Underworld. Sitwell’s … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood A central part of this blog has been the notion of creating a place where every single Bob Dylan composition or co-composition is listed and reviewed.   When we started the project, those of us involved at the … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Justification Last December I finally found the courage to sit down and write an article on “Desolation Row”. Against my better judgment – I do know that you can’t do justice to such a monument in the … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Too happy in her unhappiness is the singer of the lyrics below: There is nothing that a flower can say That your lips can prove with a kiss Send me no flowers today Got a lot of … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith *I have been so used to writing 594 Dylan songs that I put that in the title of this piece originally.  The point is with the extra song found for this article we are now at 595 … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “Many complain that the words of the wise are always merely parables and of no use in daily life, which is the only life we have.” Thus Kafka’s short, parable-like story Von den Gleichnissen (“On Parables”, 1922) … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Although “New Morning” is seen as being, in terms of Bob Dylan, the work that started the new decade, there was, in fact, quite an overlap in terms of time between the writing/recording of some of the … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Early in his career, the singer/songwriter/musician Bob Dylan visits Greece where he converts to Paganism. Not wanting any of his fans shouting out and accusing him of cutting off Saturn’s balls, he keeps it a secret. … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of Untold Dylan, you will probably have realised that we have two regular reviewers working on the site: Jochen Markhorst and myself.   We don’t compare notes, we’ve never met (what with … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Sometime between 1733 and 1746 Bach writes his Piano concerto No. 5 in F minor (BWV 1056). Not for the piano, which has only recently been invented, but for harpsichord. However, the piece is usually – fortunately … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) ‘And I try to harmonize with song the lonesome sparrow sings’ (Gates of Eden) ‘I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe By now it should be obvious to the readers of ‘Untold Dylan’ that our intrepid researchers have uncovered evidence that reveals the singer/songwriter/musician Bob Dylan is a Gnostic shape-shifting time-traveller; indeed, it is he who actually … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Of late I have been working my way through the songs Dylan wrote in the 1950s and 1960s.  (There’s an index to the articles at the end of this piece). I make it 262 songs written and … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Louis Jordan (1908-1975) is, of course, the Grandmaster of Novelty Songs, the songs relying on a comic effect.  Their hit potential is indestructible and of all times. Songs like “They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” (Jerry … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe In ‘Far From The Madding Crowd’, Thomas Hardy, with black humour abounding, romanticizes the values of Victorian country life by referencing the ancient mythology of the aristocratic Trojan War.  The heroine of Hardy’s story is sexually attracted … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine I have recently written a couple of articles (Bob Dylan: Potential 2020 Setlists. Part 1, the Japan Tour and Bob’s Japanese tour: Potential set lists part 2) about Bob’s potential setlists for the Japanese Tour from April 1 … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This article is part of a series that attempts to describe the subject matter of each Dylan song in a few words, in order to trace how his songwriting evolved over time, looking both at his interests … Continue reading →