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- No Nobel Prize for Music: Dylan goes Gothic and the world ends
- Bo bDylan, The Concert Series: 30 June 1988
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 16: “Repeat anyone else you like, only not yourself!”
- Why is this specific cover of this Dylan song so amazingly incredible?
- It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue – A History in Performance, Part 4: 1990 – 1995
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry part 15: It blew my little 12-year-old mind
- Bob Dylan, The Concert Series: Lisbon 1999
- No Nobel Prize for music: Dylan’s early experiments. “I’ll keep it with mine”
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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