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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: Times they are a changing
Only a pawn in their game (1963): the meaning of the music and the lyrics
By Tony Attwood “Only a Pawn in Their Game” refers to the murder of Medgar Evers, as the opening lines of the song reveal. He was the civil rights activist who was the Mississippi leader of the National Association for … Continue reading
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The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll (1963). A true telling of historical facts or…
by Tony Attwood Does it matter that sometimes Dylan uses other people’s melodies, phrases, partial lyrics? Does it matter that on occasion he re-uses his own music with new words? Does it matter if he takes an actual event … Continue reading
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The times they are a changin’. The meanings behind Bob Dylan’s song
By Tony Attwood This article updated 14 June 2017. By pure chance as I settled down to gather my thoughts on The Times in preparation to write this review, I also listened to Girl of the North Country. And I … Continue reading
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“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