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- Key West part 10: What a long strange trip it’s been
- Theme Time Radio Hour: why are all the car songs 12 bar blues?
- “Philosophy of Modern Song”: Blue Suede Shoes. This is MY style!
- No Nobel Prize for Music: I guess its just “Up to me”
- Bob Dylan’s song of the year 1965: one of the greatest masterpieces of all time
- Theme Time Radio Hour part 10: Flowers (and a thorn)
- Key West part 9: It all floats
- The Philosophy of Modern Song: the most wonderful, eternal and simple, “Midnight Rider”
Category Archives: Street Legal
“Is your love in vain?” The meaning of the music and the lyrics
By Tony Attwood I have to say I really don’t get why Street Legal got such a bad press (although in fact I think it got less negativity in the UK than it did in the USA) ,and indeed why … Continue reading
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Dylan’s “We better talk this over”: the last ever performance changes the feeling
By Tony Attwood “We better talk this over is hardly a great song, but it does have a way with words that is unusual even for Dylan.” That comment above was made when I first wrote this review. Over the … Continue reading
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Dylan’s “Where are you tonight?” – the meaning of the music and the lyrics
by Tony Attwood There’s a long-distance train rolling through the rain, tears on the letter I write. There is a set of Dylan songs where each line is a song – you can take the line and it has an … Continue reading
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Changing of the Guards: The meanings behind Bob Dylan’s song
By Tony Attwood The original review was written in 2008, and then updated in 2013. Coming back to it in 2018, I found myself very unhappy with what I had written, and thus decided to start again. Changing of the … Continue reading
Posted in Essential Bob Dylan, Street Legal, The Songs
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