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- Bob Dylan And US History VIII: Fragmentation, a hallmark of Post-Modernism:
- Bob Dylan: the concert series: 16 November 2023. New York
- The series we shouldn’t forget – Absolute Highlights Series –
- Nelly Was a Lady: Bob Dylan and The Philosophy of Modern Song
- No Nobel Prize for Music: Obviously Five Believers deserves one all by itself
- My Rough And Rowdy Ways part 2 (final)
- The Concert Series: Mansfield MA 1993
- Untold: the series we should never forget. I contain multitudes: the total story
- The Philosophy of Modern Song: Awop-bop-a-loo-mop, alop bom bom
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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