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  Predlue from Tony:  I have two reasons for posting this article and video today.   One is the extraordinary rendition of this song which I do hope you will have a chance to listen to throughout – it really gives … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood As far as we know Bob wrote around 36 songs in 1962, with a lot of the songs being experimental in the sense that Bob was just seeing where ideas were taking him.  But he also … Continue reading →

Recent articles: Bob Dylan’s songs: are they related to events that happen around him? Bob Dylan and the songs of entrapment by Tony Attwood I have been trying t put forward an answer to the headline question above, in recent … Continue reading →

  Recent articles… Bob Dylan and the songs of entrapment Murder Most Foul part 14: A cool breeze from a camel’s ass By Tony Attwood I find it interesting that some people who write about Bob Dylan’s work, try to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Some time, quite a few years ago, having put together a list of all the songs I could find that Bob Dylan had written, I then spent a bit of time first putting them in the order … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I have late been reflecting on some of Bob’s earliest songs – songs which of course I have listened to so many times before, but which still, when I play a recording, I am deeply moved. The … Continue reading →

  Recent posts… Murder Most Foul part 14: A cool breeze from a camel’s ass Bob Dylan: From a song a day, to no new songs, to “kick your shoes off” By Tony Attwood One of the factors that interests … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst XIV      A cool breeze from a camel’s ass Put your head out the window, let the good times roll There’s a party going on behind the grassy knoll Stack up the bricks and pour the cement Don’t … Continue reading →

    I am sorry to say we have had a major problem with the internet and connectivity and I am unable to send or receive emails at the moment.   However I have just got back connectivity to the web … Continue reading →

  Dylan improvising for fun is not so far from Dylan writing a serious song While thinking of Bob; a frightening thought about Bill Haley By Tony Attwood As I dwell further and further on the order in which Bob … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood A short while ago I wrote an article “Return to the Basement Tapes” in which I reflected upon the possibility that around 20 songs had “central themes” which basically “concern disasters, life just being a mess … Continue reading →

Recent Posts Does Bob still care? Murder Most Foul part 13: The Fender Bender Poet By Tony Attwood In 1986, Bob Dylan told Maurice Parker, that “I can’t describe myself in one or two words, considering the fact I’ve written … Continue reading →

  Recent Posts Murder Most Foul part 13: The Fender Bender Poet Will Dylan be remembered as a composer in the future? By Tony Attwood About a week ago I wrote a piece on this site which argued that Bob’s … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst XIII       The Fender Bender Poet Put your head out the window, let the good times roll There’s a party going on behind the grassy knoll Stack up the bricks and pour the cement Don’t say Dallas don’t … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood From my perspective, as a person born a few years after Dylan, but still old enough to appreciate his music from the moment he first made it public by releasing it on records, there has been no … Continue reading →

  After the depression of “I’m not there” then where is Bob? Dress it up better have it all; she’s not there! By Tony Attwood If you have managed to read some of my ramblings on this site over the … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood Returning to the songs Bob wrote in 1967, in the era of the Basement Tapes, in my last post I considered Dress it up, Better have it all – a song which I explained through the … Continue reading →

  Return to the Basement Tapes part one: fun and misery Murder Most Foul part 12: A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub By Tony Attwood If you have been paying attention (although really there is no reason why … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Next year is the sixtieth anniversary of the release of the Basement Tapes, and I thought it might be interesting to go back and have another look at what was a set of experiments in music. But … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Previously is this series: Murder Most Foul part 11: Let me thrill your soul XII        A rub dub, just relaxing in the tub Put your head out the window, let the good times roll There’s a party … Continue reading →