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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 →

  by Jochen Markhorst Ballad Of A Thin Man (Part 1): Along came Jones II          Freaks and geeks and simples Madame de Rambouillet quite spontaneously organises a rather intellectual gathering somewhere at the beginning of the seventeenth century in the … Continue reading →

Part 1: Bob Dylan: Fearful Symmetry Bob Dylan And Fearful Symmetry (Part II) By Larry Fyffe Because Heaven is defined in relation to Hell, and Hell in terms of Heaven, to the linguists who  live down on Deconstruction Row, the … Continue reading →

This continues from All directions 17: “You got something new to tell us Bob?” In a Rolling Stone interview in 1984 Dylan confirmed the notion that he had had a period of wanting to back off from the music scene … Continue reading →

By Paul Robert Thomas Click on the ‘Play’ button above to hear the song as you read the lyrics below. If the player doesn’t start straight away, wait and then press the ‘Play’ button again, alternatively, listen to the track … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith It’s been a while since the last episode of Play Lady Play! For this one I thought we should turn to the Chimes Of Freedom album from 2012. There are some fascinating versions of Dylan songs on … Continue reading →

Part 1: Bob Dylan: Fearful Symmetry Russian Formalists consider that literature takes its form from the writings of Karl Marx; Northrop Frye, on the other hand, considers that western literature takes its form form the Holy Bible.  Literary content reflects … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Alice has barely descended into the rabbit-hole and has just had her first disruptive experiences, and she already sighs: “I am so very tired of being all alone here!” That is not the only emotion she shares … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine      (Videos selected by Tony) Bob was first supposed to have a Japanese Tour in April, from April 1 to April 24. It was cancelled.   Then, there was an American Summer Tour announced from June 4 … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood We’ve covered quite a few songs that Dylan has only performed once on stage, and I am getting to the end of my list.  Not the end of the list of songs that Bob only performed once, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is episode 17 of All Directions at Once.   An index of the articles so far in this series appears here. In the previous articles I have been looking at the meanings of the songs on … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Loosely stated: In his book, “The Great Code”, Canadian Northrop Frye examines the writings of the  Bible from a literary point of view; its language he  considers in and of itself, and discovers that an unrecognized … Continue reading →