Author Archives: Tony Attwood

  Links to the articles that appeared in this series are published at the foot of this article By Mike Johnson It may be a little too easy to say that Bringing It All Back Home is a transitional album. … Continue reading →

Selection (but not the recordings) by Tony Attwood In this series, I am trying to find one recording of a concert in each year, which represents in some way what Bob was doing and sounding like in that particular year.  … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this series, rather than review what Bob said about each song in his “Philosophy” book, written after he got the Nobel Prize for literature, I am offering recordings of the song/s in question, and my own … Continue reading →

Links to all the previous articles in the “No Nobel prize for music” series are given at the end of this article. By Tony Attwood In recent articles, I have been arguing that as Bob continued to write songs at … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst More than five years ago, on March 8, 2020, Tony posted here on Untold “Desolation Row – The Origins of the Title”, being Chapter 1 of my attempt to write an article about “Desolation Row”, which got … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe (T)he little old man is planning revenge just as the same old time train shakes his picture of whistler’s mother painting off the wall (Bob Dylan: Tarantula) American James Whistler, who settled down in Britain, was a … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood In this series, I am trying to find one recording of a concert in each year, which represents in some way what Bob was doing and sounding like in that particular year.  But I am also looking … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood By Tony Attwood I’m going to make a confession.   I can’t remember all of the articles we’ve published on this site.   Worse, I can’t even remember all of the articles I personally have written for this site. … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this series, rather than review what Bob said about each song in his “Philosophy” book I am offering recordings of the song/s in question, and my own thoughts on the song and its origins.  And I … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This series explores the argument that the structure and approach to the music in Dylan’s compositions is of equal interest and equally worthy of study, as his lyrics (to which most commentators devote their entire attention).  Recognising … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst More than five years ago, on March 8, 2020, Tony posted here on Untold “Desolation Row – The Origins of the Title”, being Chapter 1 of my attempt to write an article about “Desolation Row”, which got … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Fragmentation, a hallmark of Post-Modernism: (P)haedra pounding her knuckles into apiece of water – scratching her snake bites (Bob Dylan: Tarantula) A tale from Greek mythology is given a humorous twist: Well Phaedra with her looking … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood In this series, I am trying to find one recording of a concert in each year, which represents in some way what Bob was doing and sounding like in that particular year. A list of all the … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood The Absolute Highlight series came out of Mike’s massive “Never Ending Tour” series of 144 articles, complete with recordings – undoubtedly the most comprehensive analysis ever of Bob’s touring from 1987 until the Covid crisis, when … Continue reading →

This series looks at the songs Bob Dylan chose to cover in volume “The Philsophy of Modern Song”   Links to the previous articles in this series are given at the end.  You can find details of our current series and … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The point I have been trying to make of late in this series is that after the breakup of his relationship, Bob got tangled up in writing about the breakup of relationships in general.   And that gave … Continue reading →

  Previously: My Rough And Rowdy Ways 1:But if you want to yodel, that’s ok too by Jochen Markhorst  II          The spirit of Jimmie Rodgers The founder of Egyptian Records, Bob Dylan, personally wrote the liner notes for the label’s … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood In this series I am trying to find a recording of a concert in each year, which represents in some way what Bob was doing and sounding like in that particular year. A list of all the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Perhaps extremely unwisely, I recently began a set of articles about some of the series that have been published on Untold Dylan since we first emerged some 17 years ago – series that I thought were interesting … Continue reading →

This series looks at the songs Bob Dylan chose to cover in volume “The Philsophy of Modern Song”   Links to the previous articles in this series are given at the end. By Tony Attwood Tutti Frutti by Little Richard (who … Continue reading →