Author Archives: Tony Attwood

By Tony Attwood I have written before about how highly I rate “Well, well, well” and since then have discovered a few more covers which again I rate highly.  But I should add the caveat that there is at least … Continue reading →

“The Lyrics and the Music” is a series by Tony Attwood 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.  … Continue reading →

  I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Never Ending Tour Extended: Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions across the years. This series uses recordings selected by Mike Johnson … Continue reading →

I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Rough and Rowdy Way Tour: 2021. The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour: part 2 Most likely you go your way and I’ll go … Continue reading →

High Water (for Charley Patton) (2001) part 18 by Jochen Markhorst “So-called hardcore fans of mine, whoever they might be — those folks out there who are obsessed with finding every scrap of paper I’ve ever written on, every single … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I can only find one cover version of Dylan’s “Whatcha gonna do?” which either emphasises a view that I have put forward before that there is a feeling among musicians generally that if you are going to … Continue reading →

    by Bob Jope False Prophet Part 1: ‘Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?’ Shadows are falling but it’s a day without end, dragging towards eternity, ships ‘going out’, their journeys unnamed, unremarked upon. Days wearily … Continue reading →

“The Lyrics and the Music” is a series by Tony Attwood 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.  … Continue reading →

I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Never Ending Tour Extended: Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions across the years. This series uses recordings selected by Mike Johnson … Continue reading →

  I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Rough and Rowdy Way Tour: 2021. The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour: Most likely you go your way and I’ll go … Continue reading →

  I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. XVII     I’m drinking Bob Dylan Whiskey tonight by Jochen Markhorst I’m gettin’ up in the morning—I believe I’ll dust my broom Keeping … Continue reading →

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 →