Author Archives: Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood If you don’t recall “Walking Down the Line” as a Dylan song you are forgiven. But it was indeed a Dylan piece, recorded in 1963 and released much much later. OK so it is dead simple, just … Continue reading →

False Prophet Part 1 by Bob Jope ‘Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?’ With characteristically fastidious self-deprecation, TS Eliot’s Prufrock, in a poem alluded to – almost quoted from – by Dylan in ‘Desolation Row’, announces: I … Continue reading →

“The lyrics and the music” is a series which tries to find out what happens when one reviews a Dylan song not primarily as a set of lyrics, but as a piece of music which includes lyrics.   An updated list … Continue reading →

  The Never Ending Tour Extended: Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions across the years. This series uses recordings selected by Mike Johnson in his inestimable masterpiece The Never Ending Tour, and looks at how those performances change as time … Continue reading →

Previously in the series The Rough and Rowdy Way Tour: 2021. The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour: Most likely you go your way and I’ll go mine I contain multitudes False Prophet starts at 14 minutes 45 seconds.   The music … Continue reading →

    High Water (for Charley Patton) (2001) part 16 by Jochen Markhorst XVI      Greetings from Clarksdale I’m gettin’ up in the morning—I believe I’ll dust my broom Keeping away from the women I’m givin’ ’em lots of room Thunder … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood Jochen has of course written an article about Visions of Johanna in which he highlights one particular cover of the song, but unfortunately, the link to the song is no longer working (I will fix it … Continue reading →

“The lyrics and the music” is a series which tries to find out what happens when one reviews a Dylan song not primarily as a set of lyrics, but as a piece of music which includes lyrics.   A list of … Continue reading →

The Never Ending Tour Extended: Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions across the years. This series uses by recordings selected by Mike Johnson in his inestimable masterpiece The Never Ending Tour, and looks at how those performances change as … Continue reading →

On this recording from the 2021 tour, the song starts at 9 minutes 20 seconds and ends at 14 minutes 34 seconds.  If I have got the technology right it might actually open automatically at that point, but if not, … Continue reading →

High Water (for Charley Patton) part 1: London Bridge Is Falling Down High Water (for Charley Patton) part 2: A service with a real preacher High Water (for Charley Patton) part 3: You got a fast car High Water (for … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood There are of course a number of songs by Dylan that I particularly love, but for which I can find no cover versions – for reasons that I cannot fathom. And there are some wherein I can … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Two versions of “Abandoned Love” exist – some rave over the Other End version, while others seem very satisfied with the Biograph version.   Personally, I am more than happy with the Biograph version, but I’ve also included … Continue reading →

The Never Ending Tour Extended: Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions across the years.  This series uses by recordings selected by Mike Johnson in his inestimable series The Never Ending Tour, and looks at how those performances change … Continue reading →

    By Tony Attwood This new series uses the recordings from beyond the Never Ending Tour, as prepared by Mr Tambourine.   You can hear the full set of recordings on this video with an index and links to all … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The song “Unbelievable” from Under the Red Sky only got 29 performances by Dylan across a 12 year period, and is I suspect largely forgotten, not least since the last public performance was 20 years ago. But … Continue reading →

High Water (for Charley Patton) (2001) part 14 by Jochen Markhorst High Water (for Charley Patton) part 1: London Bridge Is Falling Down High Water (for Charley Patton) part 2: A service with a real preacher High Water (for Charley … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood Tangled up in Blue from Blood on the Tracks is the fourth most played song by Bob Dylan on tour, having been played over 1600 times on stage between 1975 and 2018.  And I suspect most … Continue reading →

  Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions, across the years. In this series we look back at recordings presented by Mike Johnson in the Never Ending Tour series of articles (there is an index to that series here).  … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Recently Mr Tambourine wrote to Untold Dylan presenting his latest project: an audio of the Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour.   He kindly gave me free rein to present it in any way I wanted. I’ve consulted fellow … Continue reading →