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- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – A History in Performance, Part 2: 1975. The vagabond who’s rapping at your door
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry: 9. “It’s not such a terrible song to do”
- Bob Dylan – the concert series. Palo Alto, California 14 October 2019
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 5: Using music to take us to a world of hope
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 8: The words are all mighty
- Dylan Live: the complete concert (and some rehearsals). Fort Collins 23 May 1976
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 4: combining musical traditions in unique ways
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry part 7: It hurts me too
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 3: From Times to Percy’s song
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue; A History in Performance, Part 1: 1965. Crying like a fire in the sun
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- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – A History in Performance, Part 2: 1975. The vagabond who’s rapping at your door
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry: 9. “It’s not such a terrible song to do”
- Bob Dylan – the concert series. Palo Alto, California 14 October 2019
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 5: Using music to take us to a world of hope
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 8: The words are all mighty
- Dylan Live: the complete concert (and some rehearsals). Fort Collins 23 May 1976
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 4: combining musical traditions in unique ways
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry part 7: It hurts me too
- If only there had been a Nobel Prize for music 3: From Times to Percy’s song
Category Archives: At Boudakan
Going Going Gone: turning an ok song into one of the greatest moments in rock music
By Tony Attwood Updated 21 Nov 2020 with replacement of video link My relationship with this piece is one of the strangest of all Dylan songs – and it ain’t my fault. It’s that Mr Zimmerman who kept re-writing the … Continue reading
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Lay Lady Lay: Three Bob Dylan transformations of his song & a look at the meanings.
By Tony Attwood In returning to this song I didn’t really feel I wanted to change any of the original commentary, but I did want to add a couple of live recordings as they show the power of Dylan’s reinvention. … Continue reading
Bob Dylan’s Maggie’s Farm. 3 very different versions; but why play it so often?
By Tony Attwood (revised March 2013 and again June 2018) Between 1965 and 2009 Bob Dylan performed Maggie’s Farm 1051 times on stage – often as an opening song; an interesting outcome for a song that was a last minute … Continue reading