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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: No Direction Home
“When the ship comes in.” Bob Dylan as a prophet of vengeance and a better life to come.
By Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018, with the addition of one of Dylan’s rare outings for the song, and two totally different renditions linked at the end. Amidst all the moral relativism of Dylan, all the references to … Continue reading
Bob 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 times on stage – often as an opening song; an interesting outcome for a song that was a last minute … Continue reading
Don’t think twice by Bob Dylan. Looking back to 1962 and a beautiful live version
This article was updated in May 2018. This song is based on the folk song “Who’s gonna buy you ribbons” which has both music and some lyrics that closely resemble Bob’s song. This version recorded in 1960 was made by … Continue reading
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Dylan’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 it is hard to put any interpretation on “She Belongs to Me” other than that it is about a child … Continue reading