Don’t think twice by Bob Dylan. Looking back to 1962 and a beautiful live version
This article was updated in May 2018. This song is based on the folk song “Who’s gonna buy you ribbons”[…]
Read moreThe meaning behind the music and words of Bob Dylan
This article was updated in May 2018. This song is based on the folk song “Who’s gonna buy you ribbons”[…]
Read moreThis web site aims to build up a commentary on the music and lyrics of Bob Dylan. My belief is[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood This article updated 22 June 2018, with the addition of two superb live versions at the end[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This is one of the songs that I reviewed twice. Once in the version below which I[…]
Read moreRevised 14 May 2018. by Tony Attwood You want a masterpiece from the old boy – here it is. Unexpected,[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood with help from Pat Sludden. This review was one of the first ones I wrote in 2008 not[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Revised 13 October 2017 This was Dylan’s first successful attempt to integrate the emotions of the Beat[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review revised May 2017 The second of the two love songs from the first side of[…]
Read moreAt times I think there are no words but these to tell what’s true. If you have never heard this[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood There can be few opening chord sequences as distinctive as Dylan’s minor-4th, 5th, Tonic sequence which opens[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “We better talk this over is hardly a great song, but it does have a way with[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood There’s a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write. There is a[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Numerous reference books suggest that Jokerman is one of Dylan’s masterpieces. A great poetic adventure that encapsulates[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood, updated 5 August 2018 with additional video links. https://youtu.be/Wy7UNuw81Ig Of course you never know with Dylan, but[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood And what are we to make of Dignity? Raved over by many Dylan fans, it didn’t turn[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood According to Wikipedia “Mozambique” was just a game, based on how many words rhymed with Mozambique. If[…]
Read moreThe Theme Time radio programmes resulted in at least one album: a double sided affair which includes “Don’t Take Everybody[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Isis. A song so revered that the longest running Dylan magazine is named after the song. But[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood The original review was written in 2008, and then updated in 2013. Coming back to it in[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Dylan’s commentary on being dislocated from the world, while being within it – here but not here[…]
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