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Bob Dylan And The Eye Of Horus (Part I) by Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan messes around with mythologies – it could be interpreted that in the song lyrics below, that the narrator thereof takes on the persona of a modernized … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Earlier episodes of All Directions are listed here The previous episode was “After the loss the rebuild” A while back I fantasized on the notion that Bob Dylan would one day knock on my door and in … Continue reading →

Beautiful Obscurity and the Covers Index 220 selected cover versions of Dylan songs Beautiful Obscurity: The man in me Hollis Brown, and why does it all have to be like this? The album of extraordinary rarities now has its own … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe As mentioned before – according to ancient Egyptian mythology, Horus is the son of Isis, the Goddess of the Moon and her twin brother Osiris; Set (or Seth), another brother of Isis, causes Osiris to descend to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In the article Never Ending Tour, 1999, part 2 – Is everything as hollow as it seems? Mike posed a really interesting question: “The oddest aspect of these 1999 performances of ‘Can’t Wait’, which Dylan regularly performed, is … Continue reading →

An index to all the articles in the series appears here. The last article in this series appeared, and then had a technical fault. It has been republished here. By Mike Johnson (kiwipoet) ‘Windows were shaking all night in my … Continue reading →

Symbolism Of The Cypress Tree Part I By Larry Fyffe In the song lyrics below,  the narrator thereof depicts himself as Paris, a Trojan of Troy, who’s under attack by Achilles (and other Greeks) – sourced from ancient Greek/Roman mythology: … Continue reading →

Publisher’s note: we seem to have had a technical fault on the site which I am currently trying to sort out.  For the moment the 1999 part 1 edition of the Never Ending Tour series appears to be unavailable so … Continue reading →

On The Road Again (1965) part I: I don’t know why everyone is so rude On The Road Again (1965) part 2: The shitting Pope On The Road Again (1965) part 3 by Jochen Markhorst    A handsome Malacca sword-cane … Continue reading →

The Ballad of Frankly and Joni by Larry Fyffe Charles Darwin dumps a bucket of water, his “Theory of Evolution”, onto the fire of the Romantic Transcendentalist writers’ attempts to save God. What’s worse, Darwin’s Theory is transformed into an … Continue reading →

Compiled by Tony Attwood from suggestions by readers of Untold Dylan, and cover versions used within articles.  Plus this time something extra.  I decided to look at all the Dylan songs with titles starting with A and try and find … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst On The Road Again (1965) part I: I don’t know why everyone is so rude The shitting Pope Well, I asked for something to eat I’m hungry as a hog So I get brown rice, seaweed … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe While the moon sometimes appears in the daytime sky, oddly enough the sun never appears in the sky at night. According to the Old Testament, hidden baby Moses is found, and looked after by an Egyptian princess. … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Beautiful Obscurity is a series in which Aaron in the USA selects a Dylan song and a series of cover versions, and which Tony (in the UK) then listens to and writes his instant … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Well, I woke up in the morning There’s frogs inside my socks Your mama, she’s a-hidin’ Inside the icebox Your daddy walks in wearin’ A Napoleon Bonaparte mask Then you ask why I don’t live here Honey, … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Treading in the footsteps of Friedrich Nietzsche and William Yeats, singing that eventually dead men we all shall be, songwriter/musician Bob Dylan nevertheless presents a recurrent vision of micro-, and macro-change in a number of his songs … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Earlier episodes of All Directions are listed here The last episode in this series, which looks at Bob’s songwriting as a continuum rather than at individual songs in isolation, or albums as a collection, ended with the … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Beautiful Obscurity is a series in which Aaron in the USA selects a Dylan song and a series of cover versions, and which Tony (in the UK) then listens to and writes his instant … Continue reading →

Love Minus Zero/No Limit part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire Love Minus Zero/No Limit part III: I love you, but you’re strange Love Minus Zero/No Limit part IV: … Continue reading →

by ram-tam-bam (Article written on June 23-24, when there was very little specific information regarding this event. More specific and trustworthy updates might come along the way (not from me though, read the article to understand what I mean). This … Continue reading →