Author Archives: Tony Attwood

    I am sorry to say we have had a major problem with the internet and connectivity and I am unable to send or receive emails at the moment.   However I have just got back connectivity to the web … Continue reading →

  Dylan improvising for fun is not so far from Dylan writing a serious song While thinking of Bob; a frightening thought about Bill Haley By Tony Attwood As I dwell further and further on the order in which Bob … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood A short while ago I wrote an article “Return to the Basement Tapes” in which I reflected upon the possibility that around 20 songs had “central themes” which basically “concern disasters, life just being a mess … Continue reading →

Recent Posts Does Bob still care? Murder Most Foul part 13: The Fender Bender Poet By Tony Attwood In 1986, Bob Dylan told Maurice Parker, that “I can’t describe myself in one or two words, considering the fact I’ve written … Continue reading →

  Recent Posts Murder Most Foul part 13: The Fender Bender Poet Will Dylan be remembered as a composer in the future? By Tony Attwood About a week ago I wrote a piece on this site which argued that Bob’s … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood From my perspective, as a person born a few years after Dylan, but still old enough to appreciate his music from the moment he first made it public by releasing it on records, there has been no … Continue reading →

  After the depression of “I’m not there” then where is Bob? Dress it up better have it all; she’s not there! By Tony Attwood If you have managed to read some of my ramblings on this site over the … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood Returning to the songs Bob wrote in 1967, in the era of the Basement Tapes, in my last post I considered Dress it up, Better have it all – a song which I explained through the … Continue reading →

  Return to the Basement Tapes part one: fun and misery Murder Most Foul part 12: A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub By Tony Attwood If you have been paying attention (although really there is no reason why … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Next year is the sixtieth anniversary of the release of the Basement Tapes, and I thought it might be interesting to go back and have another look at what was a set of experiments in music. But … Continue reading →

  Covers we missed which I utterly, utterly adore: The Airborne Toxic Event Bob Dylan’s sense of humour By Tony Attwood In April 2023 the song “Watching the River Flow” by Dylan (originlly released in 1971) was released as a … Continue reading →

    Recent articles Covers we missed: the most wonderful “Boots of Spanish Leather” ever recorded. Is there a reason why certain Dylan songs are so rarely performed by Bob? By Tony Attwood There are a fair number of sites … Continue reading →

  The Airborne Toxic Event perform Boots of Spanish Leather: beyond all I have imagined By Tony Attwood I have two disadvantages in writing this blog – one is I live in the United Kingdom wherein many bands never get … Continue reading →

  Recently on this site Of all the early albums the one I value the most I’m not there: one of Bob’s most troublesome songs. By Tony Attwood In my experience it is hard to find anyone who likes Dylan’s … Continue reading →

If you would like to contribute an article to Untold Dylan please do send it as a word document to Tony@schools.co.uk  I’d be very glad to hear from you. Recent Posts “I’m Not There” one of Bob Dylan’s most troublesome … Continue reading →

  Recent articles Murder Most Foul part 11: Let me thrill your soul Bob Dylan for aliens, or how I’d explain to someone why he is the greatest. By Tony Attwood “I’m not there” is one of the most troublesome … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood We were having one of our little discussions about Dylan’s greatest moments in his career, when one of my pals said “we’ve done a series on this”.   And on her laptop she typed in the search box … Continue reading →

  Bob Dylan’s songs have a peculiar way of making uncertainty feel personal. A stranger turns up on a road, a relationship slips out of reach, a familiar place suddenly seems foreign, and the narrator is left trying to work … Continue reading →

One of the great problems with having a website called Untold Dylan is that when those of us involved in getting the site going came to look at the issue, we found vast numbers of themes that could be explored.  … Continue reading →

  Compiled by Tony, but primarily created by readers of Untold.  Thank you everyone. We produced our first list of great cover versions of Dylan songs some years ago (sorry I forget when) and new suggestions have been made from … Continue reading →