Author Archives: TonyAttwood

By Aaron Galbraith Let’s start with David Crosby here. Crosby and Dylan have been friendly since the mid-60s since Bob dropped into an early Byrd’s session. But Crosby says he heard him before he ever even made a record: “I … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst The scanty instrumentation and the old-fashioned, simple song structures of The Basement Tapes Dylan brings along to Nashville, where in October 1967, after a year and a half absence, he finally returns to a real studio to … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe In ancient Roman/Greek mythology the cypress tree becomes a symbol of permanent mourning. Apollo, the sun-god, the twin of the moon goddess Artemis (Diana), gives a beloved boy a gift of a stag. The lad accidentally … Continue reading →

by Patrick Roefflaer Released:                       April 9, 1969 Photographer front:         Elliott Landy Liner Notes:                    Johnny Cash Photographer back:         Al Clayton Art-director                     ? Al Clayton In 1956, Al Clayton was a third-year medical student in the Navy. When he was … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If you have been following this series you’ll have got the idea by now – I’m taking each year and trying to find the key themes that were on Dylan’s mind that year. You can find the … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Ancient mythology tells us: Apollo’s father, Zeus (the Thunder God in Greek mythology), favours the Trojans in their war against the Greeks states, but to placate his wife Hera, Zeus looks the other way as she helps … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst On January 19, 2017, the first episode of the beautiful Urban Myths TV series was broadcast on Sky Arts Channel: “Knockin ‘On Dave’s Door”, a moving, witty and layered staging of a “true-ish”, of a  somewhat accurate … Continue reading →

Searching for the ‘’song’s capital’’ by mr tambourine Before I begin, I would like to take a chance to thank Tony Attwood for this amazing opportunity for me to become the first Dylan YouTube channel that is also one of … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The Lilith of Hebrew lore serves Bob Dylan as an archetype. In this case, an independent female spirit who serves as a muse to inspire an artist to create art anew. But she can be dangerous for … Continue reading →

Research by Aaron Galbraith, commentary by Tony Attwood This is another Bob Dylan that we have not covered so far: “Running” from 1969.    It is said that this was only released on the very rare 50th Anniversary Copyright Extension set … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst A professionally made, quite moving road movie, My Own Love Song from 2010, with excellent acting by mainstream stars such as Renee Zellweger and Forest Whitaker, but still unsuccessful. Most reviewers are very reluctant in awarding stars, … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe The  Romantic Transcendentalists saved God, cast out as He was from the Universe by the Rationalist thinkers of the Enlightenment. According to many of the Romantics, God’s presence still pervades the material world; his love for all … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood We have 22 songs written by Dylan in 1966 with the last half dozen created, seemingly spontaneously, in a hotel room for which not all the meanings are completely clear (not that they are in some of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This song was recorded on 12 April 1963 and is one that until now we have missed.  It appears on what is known as the “Fourth McKenzie Tape”.  No credits are given so we are presuming the … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Our researchers at the Untold Dylan Archives Library have dusted off a copy of songwriter Bob Dylan’s first sketchy plot for an allegorIcal song that’s labelled: “Lily, Rosmary, And The Jack Of Hearts”. It’s obviously influenced … Continue reading →

By mr tambourine man and Tony Attwood “Can’t Wait” on Time out of Mind is a blues song, primarily rotating around two chords with a couple of extras put in at the end.  It tells how waiting is within the … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst The USS Tecumseh, a monitor ship of the Northern Navy, strikes a mine and sinks within minutes. Behind it is the formidable, heavily armed three-masted sloop-of-war USS Brooklyn. Captain James Alden is warned for “a row of … Continue reading →

  See also Bob Dylan and the Oak Tree by Larry Fyffe In the following poem, behind an allegorical oak tree, Eve-like Christabel encounters a female snake-demon in the night. Disguised in a white robe as the beautiful bejewelled Geraldine, … Continue reading →

  by Tony Attwood What exactly are Dylan’s songs about?  Is there one theme (as for example propagated by those writers who have argued that they are all about religion), multiple themes (love, moving on, social justice etc), songs in … Continue reading →

By Jane Gilday by Jane Gilday To Be Alone With You She Belongs to Me Cry A While Just Like A Woman It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding) Highway 61 Revisited Queen Jane Approximately Cold Irons Bound Girl Of The … Continue reading →