Blogroll
Meta
-
-
Recent Posts
- 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
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (1965) part 6 : Those old Baptist hymns
-
Archives
-
Indexes and reference pages
- A classification of Dylan’s songs
- Album artwork
- All directions at once
- Alphabetical index of Dylan’s songs
- Beautiful Obscurity
- Bob Dylan and friends
- Bob Dylan master harpist
- Bob Dylan year by year
- Bob Dylan’s Themes
- Copyright
- Covers of Dylan songs
- Dylan at the movies
- Dylan in Depth
- Dylan re-imagined
- Dylan songs of the 1950s and 60s
- Dylan songs of the 1970s
- Dylan songs of the 1980s
- Dylan songs of the 1990s
- Dylan songs of the 21st century
- Dylan’s creativity
- Dylan’s lighter side
- Dylan’s Opening Lines: an index
- Dylan’s songs: the themes
- Faith
- Fearful Symmetry
- Forgotten gems, lost songs
- Index of citations
- Indexes to older series
- Influences On Bob Dylan
- Just like Tom Thumb
- Love minus zero / no limit
- Mississippi
- Obscuranti
- Play lady play
- Poets and themes within Bob Dylan’s work
- Rarities
- Rough and Rowdy Ways
- Showcase
- Songs about Dylan
- The Never Ending Tour
- Untold Highlights
- Untold Series
- Untold writers
- Why does Dylan like…
- “I don’t know what it means, either. But it sounds good.”
-
Recent articles
- 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
Category Archives: Blood on the Tracks
You’re gonna make me lonesome when you go: the line most commentators miss.
By Tony Attwood This is another example of why the notion of looking at the songs in the order in which they were written, rather than how they appeared on an album, really pays dividends. Just look at the list … Continue reading
Posted in Blood on the Tracks
8 Comments
You’re a big girl now: the meaning behind Dylan’s song
By Tony Attwood Updated 22 October 2017, with addition (at the end) of a link to the original version. According to Dylan’s notebooks, this was the third of the Blood on the Tracks songs written. The order of writing … Continue reading
Posted in Biograph, Blood on the Tracks
15 Comments
Dylan’s “Tangled up in blue”. The meaning of the lyrics and music of the original version
This review (updated 10 August 2017) is of the original album version of “Tangled”. For the review of the completely revised “Real Live” version please see here 10 August 2017: link to live version video added at end of the … Continue reading
Posted in Blood on the Tracks
51 Comments
Bob Dylan’s “Idiot Wind”: the meaning of the music and the lyrics
By Tony Attwood There can be few opening chord sequences as distinctive as Dylan’s minor-4th, 5th, Tonic sequence which opens “Idiot Wind”. And there can be few opening lines to a song as distinctive as “Someone’s got it in for … Continue reading