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Tombstone Blues (1965) part I: Daddy’s looking for the fragmentation bomb’s fuse Tombstone Blues part II: Duck back down by Jochen Markhorst   III         Let’s Go Get Stoned Let a deck of cards be my tombstone I got the dyin’ … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Part 1: Bob Dylan: Fearful Symmetry Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part II) Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part III) Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part IV) Bob Dylan And Fearful Sympathy (Part V) Bob Dylan And … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This is episode 21 of the series “All Directions at Once” which reviews Dylan’s work across time as a continuing stream of creativity, rather than a set of isolated individual songs.  An index to the series appears … Continue reading →

This article by Christopher John Stephens first appeared in Pop Matters. It’s unlikely that Bob Dylan will retire anytime soon and take up a career as a Professor of Literature, and that’s one of the more refreshing conclusions we can … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Tombstone Blues (1965) part I: Daddy’s looking for the fragmentation bomb’s fuse II          Duck back down We probably owe the oh-la-la-connotation of The Alley to Little Richard. And he, again, owes it to a spindly adolescent girl … Continue reading →

by John Henry Dylan’s roots in the traditions of folk music have ensured that murder ballads feature regularly in his repertoire. Ballads are songs that tell a story and murder ballads are songs where the story is about a murder. … Continue reading →

Part 1: Bob Dylan: Fearful Symmetry Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part II) Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part III) Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part IV) Bob Dylan And Fearful Sympathy (Part V) by Larry Fyffe A mythology is … Continue reading →

Chris McHallem, a regular reader of Untold Dylan recently recorded a piece for RTE 1, which is the main Radio station in Ireland. It is a speech station, which Chris suggests is the equivalent to BBC Radio 4 in the … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst I           Daddy’s looking for the fragmentation bomb’s fuse In the Collier’s Weekly of 1 September 1928, at the height of the Prohibition, star journalist John T. Flynn devotes an extensive article to the enormous success of the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Apologies if you found the formatting on this article problematic near the end.  I think it is fixed now.  Tony ——– This article continues from 1971: When I paint that masterpiece I’ll be ready to tour again … Continue reading →

This is episode 21 of the Never Ending Tour series by Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) A full index of all the articles in the Never Ending Tour series is given here. This and the previous post are dedicated to the songs … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Part 1: Bob Dylan: Fearful Symmetry Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part II) Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part III) Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part IV) As the story goes so far …. According to the … Continue reading →

This article by Christopher John Stephens was first published in PopMatters and is republished with the author’s permission. ———- The risk for any completist is that even the possibility that we have collected everything available from an artist is not … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith. Back in 2015 RCA & Legacy Records had a massive worldwide hit album, “If I Can Dream,” using the original vocals of Elvis Presley and newly recorded backing tracks from the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This led to … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine (videos selected by Tony) Bob was first supposed to have an American Summer Tour announced from June 4 to July 12. Like the Japanese tour before it, it was cancelled. But… What if the pandemic had actually … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Ballad Of A Thin Man (Part 1): Along came Jones Balled of a Thin Man (Part II) Freaks Geeks and Simples  III         A one-eyed midget down on his knees I fell to the floor I got down … Continue reading →

  Part 1: Bob Dylan: Fearful Symmetry Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part II) Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part III) By Larry Fyffe Saith Fredrich Nietzsche, God is dead and it’s you and I who killed Him. What the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is episode 19 of “All directions at once”.  The index to previous episodes can be found here. From 1968 to 1970 Bob Dylan wrote 22 songs.  For most songwriters that would be a pretty decent output … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood This article continues from “The unexpected re-workings”  article published earlier, and you may remember that we had some serious problems there with recordings being available in one region but not another. It is possible … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine (videos selected by Tony) Bob was first supposed to have an American Summer Tour announced from June 4 to July 12. Like the Japanese tour before it, it was cancelled. But… What if the pandemic had actually … Continue reading →