It’s all right ma, it’s life and life only
This is the second review of It’s all right ma on the site. I didn’t go back and read[…]
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It’s all over now, baby blue. Bob Dylan’s song is as powerful now as it was when he wrote it
By Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018, with a few changed comments, a copy of the song that Dylan[…]
Read moreMr 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 moreBob 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[…]
Read moreSubterranean Homesick Blues: the meaning of the music and the lyrics
By Tony Attwood Revised 13 October 2017 This was Dylan’s first successful attempt to integrate the emotions of the Beat[…]
Read moreLove minus Zero / No Limit. Bob Dylan takes a Zen approach to the perfect relationship
By Tony Attwood This review revised May 2017 The second of the two love songs from the first side of[…]
Read moreGates of Eden: two revised renditions & the meanings behind Bob Dylan’s masterpiece
At times I think there are no words but these to tell what’s true. If you have never heard this[…]
Read moreDylan’s “She Belongs to Me”: never has a 12 bar blues sounded more beautiful
by Tony Attwood, updated 5 August 2018 with additional video links. https://youtu.be/Wy7UNuw81Ig Of course you never know with Dylan, but[…]
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