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The Never Ending Tour 1998, part 3, What’s a Protest Song?

NET 1998 Part 1: One who sings with his tongue on fire. NET 1998 Part 2: Friends and other strangers The complete Never Ending Tour index By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) In 1995, at Frank Sinatra’s 80th birthday bash, Dylan presented … Continue reading →

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Love Minus Zero/No Limit, part V: When a sighing begins in the violins

Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part III: I love you, but you’re strange Love Minus Zero/No … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan And The Nobel Prize (Part II)

Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize Part 1.   by Larry Fyffe In a particular song, Bob Dylan names the title of a fragmented poem by Jack Kerouac, using Jack’s alliterative, assonant, off-rhymed writing style that expresses an anti-material vision, … Continue reading →

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Blood on the Tracks. The art work.

A complete index to this series looking at the art work of Bob Dylan’s albums can be found here. by Patrick Roefflaer Released: January 17, 1975 Photographer:  Paul Till Illustration: David Oppenheim Liner Notes:  Pete Hamill Art-director:  Ron Coro Version … Continue reading →

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Bob’s awards: Best Contemporary Folk Album

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Best Contemporary Folk Album: Winner: Bob Dylan – Time Out Of Mind Time Out of Mind won three Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year in 1998. It was also ranked number 410 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan: Jangled Up In Blue

By Larry Fyffe Metonymic associations be the hallmark of Postmodern poetic and song lyrics, but there are lots of onomatopoeic words floating around on the top of the deep blue Jungian Sea for the taking. There’s the harsh “jangle which … Continue reading →

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All directions at once 54: how to describe a feeling of loss (as the walls came down)

By Tony Attwood Earlier episodes are listed here Two episodes ago the article was called “Dylan post Angelina: step by step it’s falling apart in all directions at once,” which took us up to the composition of “Foot of Pride.” … Continue reading →

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Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part IV: The Order of the Whirling Dervishes

by Jochen Markhorst Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part III: I love you, but you’re strange … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan and the Nobel Prize Part 1.

By Larry Fyffe Naysayers and the the connoisseurs of ‘high art’ alike claim Bob Dylan is not deserving of the Nobel Prize in Literature because, for one thing, the singer/songwriter/musician is not that familiar with those artists considered worthy thereof. … Continue reading →

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Another Dylan song: Phone Operator Love

Les Paul’s have sent in another Dylan co-composition – as part of a project we’ve been running for a number of years now relating to lyrics written by Dylan for which no music has been created by Bob Dylan himself. … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan And Bayard Taylor (Part IV)

Bob Dylan and Bayard Taylor Part 1 Bob Dylan and Bayard Taylor Part II Bob Dylan And Bayard Taylor (Part III) by Larry Fyffe Very unlikely that writers Bayard Taylor and William Blake are aware of the poems of Edward … Continue reading →

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NET, 1998, part 2  Friends and other strangers

Previously in this series NET 1998 Part 1: One who sings with his tongue on fire. There is an index to the entire series on the Never Ending Tour here. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) In Part 1 of 1998 (see … Continue reading →

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Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part III: I love you, but you’re strange

Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire by Jochen Markhorst   III         I love you, but you’re strange My love she speaks like … Continue reading →

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Tioga Pass: Dylan’s lost song now with music

We first mentioned Tioga Pass in July 2020 with a plea for anyone who could complete this song. As we noted at the time Tioga Pass is a song that was seemingly recorded at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, on … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan And Bayard Taylor (Part III)

Bob Dylan and Bayard Taylor Part 1 Bob Dylan and Bayard Taylor Part II by Larry Fyffe Our rowboat journey across the wide and wavy Jungian Sea continues. Sentimental Bayard can be grouped in with the anti-Puritan Romantic Transcendentalist poets … Continue reading →

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Bob’s Grammies part 3: 1997. a) Best rock vocal performance (male)

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Part 1 of this series covering Bob’s 1969 nomination for Best Folk Performance appeared here: Bob’s Grammy Nominations and Wins And part 2: Bob’s Grammy Nominations and Wins 2: Best male rock vocal 1980! Aaron: … Continue reading →

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Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part II : A Song Of Ice And Fire

by Jochen Markhorst Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England II          A Song Of Ice And Fire At the end of July 2021 is finally the release of Welcome 2 America, the album that Prince recorded in … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan And Bayard Taylor  (Part II)

Bob Dylan and Bayard Taylor Part 1 By Larry Fyffe With poets William Blake and Bayard Taylor, singer/songwriter/ musician Bob Dylan sails upon the misty sea in a shoe filled with rhymes. William Blake envisions a new dawn of love … Continue reading →

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Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I: Rose of England

Love Minus Zero/No Limit (1965) part I by Jochen Markhorst [Publisher’s note: this article appeared on Untold Dylan recently, before Jochen’s series on Gates of Eden had finished.  That was entirely the editor’s fault, and he has been sent to … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan’s Malibu: one of the strangest (but rather beguiling) of books about Bob

Review  by Tony Attwood I’ve had “Bob Dylan’s Malibu” by Martin Newman on my desk and indeed my living room sofa for several  weeks now, pondering how to write this review.  Actually more than that.  Could even be a couple … Continue reading →

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