Author Archives: TonyAttwood

By Aaron Galbraith George Harrison has been far from the quiet Beatle in terms of his collaborations with Bob Dylan over the years.  Starting off with his first real solo album, “All Things Must Pass,” we find included a Harrison/Dylan … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Now this article has got a twist in the tail.  Or rather a twist in the start.  Or maybe a twist in the tale.  Anyway, it’s got one of those. Because this is a book review of … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Art culture can be metaphorically depicted as one that spreads out its roots; roots that criss-cross one another in contrast to being envisioned as a tree that steadily sprouts upward: Cinderella, she seems so easy ‘It takes … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith As I’m heading home to Scotland for a visit next week I thought this was the perfect time to commemorate my visit with a quick article looking at some songs written about Dylan by a couple of … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan from 2003 is a beautiful tribute album on which black gospel artists play eleven, mostly outstanding, versions of Dylan’s religious songs, from songs from the Devout Duo Slow … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe John Keats be a neo-RemanticTranscendentalist poet in that he’s melancholic rather than optimistic when it comes to an intuitive sensing of a vitalistic force pervading the natural environment. Rather, images he draws from Nature, as well as … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith This is part of the series of articles on Songs about Bob Dylan.   The index to the series can be found here.   Let’s look at a couple of tracks that John Lennon wrote or produced about … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Barely a generation after his death, the work of the unique multi-talent William Blake (1757-1827) is in danger of disappearing on the waters of oblivion. The zeitgeist of the nineteenth century is not really open to Blake’s … Continue reading →

This article continues from “Everything is broken although God has a plan” by Larry Fyffe The alchemic symbol of the ‘phoenix’, the mythical fire bird that represented the rising and setting sun, goes back to time out of mind, back … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In 2015 USA today published an article titled, “Ranking all of Bob Dylan’s songs, from No. 1 to No. 359” Now if you are a regular reader of Untold Dylan you might well note a problem here: … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “Elvis,” Dylan replies to the question by whom he likes to hear his songs covered, “Elvis Presley recorded a song of mine. That’s the one recording I treasure the most of all… it was  called Tomorrow Is … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, the wrong article was published here (by Tony, of course) and so has been removed. The correct article under this title is now here Apologies to Larry, and to all readers.

By Tony Attwood At 47.55 on the collection of songs known as “Between Saved and Shot” (see the recording below) there is a song we’ve not mentioned here.  “Moving on the Water”. It is primarily an instrumental with a simple … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith Bob Dylan and punk might not seem like the most natural of bedfellows but it would seem that there is a lot of mutual respect between Dylan and many punk musicians and bands. The band on Down … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The three Abrahamic religions more or less agree that that God has a plan, not yet fulfilled, that will eventually unify all mankind into a Oneness filled with the spiritual light of His Love; God’ s not … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “Here’s one by a bluegrass songwriter named Bob Dylan,” says Ronnie McCoury in September 2007, introducing “Walk Out In The Rain” at a bluegrass festival in Austin, Texas. It is not the first time he makes the … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This song is mentioned in The Copyright Files by Tim Dunn where it is suggested that it comes from early 1981, and registered for copyright in 1985.  Otherwise there seems to be little or nothing said about … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The names of the two main characters in “Victory” tempts one to give the story a Christian interpretation – Heyst rhymes with Christ; Lena is a shortened form of Magdelena. But the ending of Joseph Conrad’s sorrowful … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst A minor faction of Dylanologists argues that “Let Me Die In My Footsteps” is actually the first Dylan song. It is the first composition for which he comes up with the melody all by himself, not borrowing … Continue reading →

Research by Aaron Galbraith; comments by Tony Attwood Syd Barrett was one of the most amazing talents of the 1960s, but circumstances stripped him of the longevity he should have had as a composer, and so we are left with … Continue reading →