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- “I’m Not There” one of Bob Dylan’s most troublesome disappearing songs
- Murder Most Foul part 11: Let me thrill your soul
- Bob Dylan for aliens, or how I’d explain to someone why he is the greatest.
- Chance, Fate and Reinvention in Modern Songwriting
- A reintroduction to Bob Dylan’s themes
- The Best Covers of Dylan songs – 2026 update
- If only I could make an album of Dylan’s most wonderful forgotten songs….
- Bob’s best ever songs – in the view of Artificial Intelligence
- Murder Most Foul part 10: His is the voice in the wilderness of your head
Category Archives: Highway 61 Revisited
It takes a lot to laugh it takes a train to cry. Bob Dylan works out the Phantom Engineer
By Tony Attwood This is one of the songs that I reviewed twice. Once in the version below which I wrote very early in the history of the site, and once much later I’m not trying to suggest this original … Continue reading
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Desolation Row by Bob Dylan. It doesn’t get more frightening than this.
By Tony Attwood with help from Pat Sludden. This review was one of the first ones I wrote in 2008 not long after conceiving of the idea of this web site, and while I was still trying to work out how … Continue reading
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