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Bob Dylan And Harold Pinter part 1 Bob Dylan And Harold Pinter (Part II) By Larry Fyffe Off to the Land of Blake, and Wordsworth’s Lakes, the young Bob Dylan flies. There, an association with BBC-TV director Philip Saville acquaints … Continue reading →

Dignity Regained Dignity Part 1: A bloody mess Dignity Part II: You can never play too much Bob Wills Dignity Part III: One line brings up another Dignity part IV: I contain multitudes by Jochen Markhorst V          Nowhere to fade … Continue reading →

A full index to the previous articles in this series is available here. By Tony Attwood After composing “Desolation Row” Bob Dylan might have been forgiven for taking a little break; he had after all created a monument, something that … Continue reading →

By Michael Johnson On the 16th and 17th of November, 1993, Bob Dylan did a two day season at New York’s Supper Club, doing two concerts a day, morning and evening, ten songs per concert. The recordings made at these … Continue reading →

This article originally appeared on “Pop Matters”. By Christopher John Stephens Director Joyce Chopra’s 1985 film Smooth Talk could have been a perfect adaptation of the difficult 1966 Joyce Carol Oates short story “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Certainly … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith For this week let’s take a quick look at the videos put out by The Traveling Wilburys. I say “quick” as once you’ve seen one Wilbury’s video you’ve seen ‘em all. Still they are a lot of … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan And Harold Pinter part 1 by Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan becomes aware of English playwright Harold Pinter’s motifs concerning lower and middle class families even before he performs on TV in the “log cabin” for the Canadian Broadcasting … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Previously in this series Dignity Part 1: A bloody mess Dignity Part II: You can never play too much Bob Wills Dignity Part III: One line brings up another   Herodotus finds it worth mentioning in his … Continue reading →

Selection by Aaron Galbraith, words by Tony Attwood The Lakes of Pontchartrain This is a rarity – for we can start with an explanation of how Bob came to learn one of the songs that needs covering in the “Why … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Links to the previous articles in this series appear at the foot of this piece and on the “All Directions” Index In this series I am trying to put forward the notion that while there is a … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman’s bluff with the key chain And the all-night girls they speak of escapades out on the ‘D’ train We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight Ask … Continue reading →

Dignity Part 1: A bloody mess Dignity (1989) part II: You can never play too much Bob Wills by Jochen Markhorst It suits well, the poetic perfection of the opening verse. So much so that the poet uses it as … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe If you’re talking about Bob Dylan and rocknroll, you’re talking about both the lyrics and music of  Chuck Berry who hypes up rhythm and blues: Bertha Mason shook it, broke it Then she hung it on the wall … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If I wanted to point you to just one moment in Dylan’s songwriting life that justified the title “All directions at once,” and if I really was told, “just one moment, no more, just one,” I would … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood If you have been following the “All directions at once” series you may have noticed a mention of the traditional song “Hang me oh Hang Me” Philip Saville invited Bob to perform three songs … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Mike Smith has reminded Aaron and myself that Dylan wrote a series of instrumental pieces for  Olivier Dahan’s film “My own love song.” This gives us a problem on Untold Dylan, because I have for years proudly … Continue reading →

The series so far… Stuck inside of Halifax with the Tombstone Blues Again Bob Dylan: The Titanic Tombstone Blues (Part II) Bob Dylan And The Tombstone Blues (Part III) Bob Dylan And The Tombstone Blues (Part IV) Bob Dylan And … Continue reading →

Previously: Dignity Part 1: A bloody mess by Jochen Markhorst II          You can never play too much Bob Wills “The list could be endless,” says Dylan, referring to the many archetypes appearing in “Dignity”. Thus, the songwriter implicitly reveals that … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is part 8 of “All Directions at once.  Previous episodes are… 1: A song is like a painting, you can’t see it all if you’re standing too close 2: All directions at once: how Dylan’s lyrics empower those … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood For you baby: Dylan and Ginsberg and the influence of the Beat generation Vomit Express by Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsberg. What’s it all about? See you later Allen Ginsberg (1 and 2). Tracing … Continue reading →