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An Encounter with Bob and his band in Belfast. May 6th, 1966.

By Geoffrey Morrow On this day so long ago, I was a skinny seventeen-year-old schoolboy with a sketchbook under my arm and a singular determination. Instead of taking the train from my small seaside town of Whitehead in County Antrim to go … Continue reading →

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Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965) part III

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965) part I: Thin Air Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues II: The Thoughts Of Mary Jane By Jochen Markhorst III         Annie & Melinda In the studio Dylan does, by his standards anyway, put on quite … Continue reading →

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Can Bob Be Saved (Part V): Door Is Not Just A Four Letter Word

Can Bob Be Saved? (Part I) Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II) Can Bob Be Saved (Part III) Can Bob Be Saved (Part IV) By Larry Fyffe Singer/singwriter Bob Dylan makes use of the word ‘door’ as a rhyme in at … Continue reading →

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Key West and Budapest: what exactly does Bob Dylan mean?

by Peter Krauth and Tony Attwood Peter Krauth translated Key West into Hungarian, (quite a task to undertake) but found a few troubling phrases in Dylan’s original that caused him a few difficulties.  Tony wrote a review in which he … Continue reading →

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Dylan Obscuranti: Track 6. To fall in love with you.

By Tony Attwood Dylan Obscuranti is an imaginary album consisting of lesser known Dylan songs performed either by himself or (mostly) other people. You can hear the opening tracks on our You Tube channel or via the articles… Track 1: … Continue reading →

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Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues II: The Thoughts Of Mary Jane

Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965) part I: Thin Air by Jochen Markhorst II          The Thoughts Of Mary Jane When you’re lost in the rain in Juarez And it’s Eastertime too And your gravity fails And negativity don’t pull you … Continue reading →

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Can Bob Be Saved (Part IV)

Can Bob Be Saved? (Part I) Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II) Can Bob Be Saved (Part III) By Larry Fyffe Both Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Allen Zimmerman know well the verses of the  Holy Bible; therein the word … Continue reading →

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One song to the tune of another: One More Night.

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Previously in this series: One song to the tune of another 1: You’re a big girl now One song to the tune of another 2: Forever Young One song to tune of another 3: … Continue reading →

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All Directions at Once: When it comes to Bob, does truth matter?

This is episode 31 of All Directions.  The most recent episodes are 29: The greatest Dylan album ever? 30: Oh Sister, Abandoned love, farewell preliminaries, hello dead body There is a full index to the series which traces Bob’s work in … Continue reading →

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Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues (1965) part I: Thin Air

by Jochen Markhorst I           Thin air You’d have written that too. There’s nothing secret about it. You just do it subliminally and unconsciously, because that’s all enough, and that’s all you know. That was all that was dear to me. … Continue reading →

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Musings on Bob Dylan and the Middle East

By Daniel Williams The year 2020 will not be fondly remembered by the world, that much is quite clear. However, one ray of light for many music fans in 2020 was the release of Bob Dylan’s 39th studio album, Rough … Continue reading →

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Can Bob Be Saved (Part III)

The story so far… Can Bob Be Saved? Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II) by Larry Fyffe Exclusive to ‘Untold” – Gothic poet Edgar Allan Poe is noted for his influence on the French Symbolists. And, at least by me, … Continue reading →

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The Never Ending Tour 1994 part 5: Dancing to the nightingale’s tune

  This is part of the ongoing series on the Never Ending Tour.  A full index to the articles can be found here. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) We finish this survey of Dylan’s monumental 1994 year with a brief look at … Continue reading →

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Dylan Obscuranti: Track 5 – Love is just a four letter word

Dylan Obscuranti – the tracks so far. This is an imaginary album consisting of lesser known Dylan songs performed either by himself or (mostly) other people. You can hear the opening tracks on our You Tube channel or via the … Continue reading →

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To Ramona (1964) part II: Whatever will be

Part 1: Ramona are you betta, are you well? Part II:   Whatever will be by Jochen Markhorst But biographical lines can be drawn to more ladies. Mavis Staples, for instance, would be another educated guess. As a young lad … Continue reading →

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Can Bob Be Saved? (Part II)

Part 1: Can Bob Be Saved? by Larry Fyffe Here’s an illustration of a Post-Modern ‘cut- up’ song that I created; as the ‘composer’ thereof, I get to make the final cut; Bob Dylan And Robert Hunter get co-credits; and … Continue reading →

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One song to tune of another 3: Shooting Star (and a Rocket Man)

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series we take a look at songs with the same title as works by Bob Dylan.  So far we have covered… One song to the tune of another 1: You’re a big … Continue reading →

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All Directions, Oh Sister, Abandoned love, farewell preliminaries, hello dead body

by Tony Attwood A list of all the episodes of “All directions at once” can be found here. In the last episode of All Directions at Once I pondered  Bob’s dilemmas in taking on the task of writing an album … Continue reading →

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Ramona are you betta, are you well?

To Ramona (1964) part I by Jochen Markhorst I           Ramona are you betta, are you well? It is actually a rather innocent, charming scene in Dont Look Back, the ’67 Pennebaker documentary recording Dylan’s 1965 tour of the UK. It’s … Continue reading →

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Never Ending Tour, 1994, Part 4: I’d give you the sky high above

This is part of the ongoing series on the Never Ending Tour.  A full index to the articles can be found here. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) In the previous three blogs for 1994, I considered Dylan’s loving and adventurous treatment … Continue reading →

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