Mr Tambourine Man: early thoughts and the wonderful 1964 festival version
By Tony Attwood This is the first review of Tambourine Man on this site. For reasons that I now cannot[…]
Read moreThe meaning behind the music and words of Bob Dylan
By Tony Attwood This is the first review of Tambourine Man on this site. For reasons that I now cannot[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review re-written July 2018 with links to the original “On the road again” and the Nas[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood You cannot be a Dylan fan without knowing this song inside out, and all the way round[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood We have all heard Like a Rolling Stone so many times on recordings, and of course at[…]
Read moreWhat was it you wanted Reviewed and analysed by Tony Attwood A slow introduction, and from line one we go;[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018 with the addition of live videos and further thoughts on the song[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated 28 May 2018 with addition of examples of Dylan’s song and of the folk[…]
Read moreReview by Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018, with some commentary on the missing verses, and three videos: the[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review has been revised multiple times since it was first published. This update 6 July 2019.[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood It is not the song “John Brown” that works so perfectly within its own context – the[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood Note: This article was Updated July 2018 with 3 recordings added including the version with the “extra”[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood There is something I really don’t like about Neighbourhood Bully, despite Dylan’s assertions that it is not[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Writing the second version of this review it struck me what a curious mixture of songs Bob[…]
Read moreReview by Tony Attwood. Updated May 2018 with addition of this extraordinary live version of the song, and the opening[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018, with the addition of one of Dylan’s rare outings for the song,[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This is one of Dylan’s unsung masterpieces – an extraordinary piece of music to the accompaniment of[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated 26 June 2018, with addition of this live version – I really would recommend[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood In returning to this song I didn’t really feel I wanted to change any of the original[…]
Read moreIt is strange to think that all those years ago, my feeling about the very first Dylan album (“Bob Dylan”)[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood (revised March 2013 and again June 2018) Between 1965 and 2009 Bob Dylan performed Maggie’s Farm 1051[…]
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