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She Belongs To Me (1965) part III: Walking in darkness

Previously in this series She Belongs To Me (1965): I – No colours anymore She Belongs To Me (1965) part II: Images which have got to come out by Jochen Markhorst III         Walking in darkness   The third verse illustrates, almost … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan And The Tombstone Blues (Part IV)

by Larry Fyffe This article continues from 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) Buried be they in a Nova Scotian graveyard – … Continue reading →

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All directions at once, part 6: learning the folk, moving on

A list of earlier episodes of this series appears at the end of the article. By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan ended 1962 by writing three highly exploratory songs.  Hero Blues puts forward the proposition that one should be wary when … Continue reading →

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She Belongs To Me (1965) part II: Images which have got to come out

Previously in this series: She Belongs To Me (1965): I – No colours anymore by Jochen Markhorst II          Images which have got to come out Those liner notes on Bringing It All Back Home should be a goldmine for the key-seeking … Continue reading →

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Why does Dylan like Tim Hardin, Baltimore and Confidential?

by Tony Attwood There are over 40 previous articles in the “Why does Dylan like” series and they are indexed here. “Lady came from Baltimore” has been on my list of Dylan rarities to write about for some time, but … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan And The Tombstone Blues (Part III)

This article continues from Stuck inside of Halifax with the Tombstone Blues Again Bob Dylan: The Titanic Tombstone Blues (Part II) By Larry Fyffe The Untold Office received a call back from Bob Dylan in which he apologizes for not … Continue reading →

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All directions at once – 5: Making a name, getting known, arguing about copyright

So far in this series A song is like a painting, you can’t see it all if you’re standing too close All directions at once: how Dylan’s lyrics empower those who wish to be empowered All directions at once: The … Continue reading →

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She Belongs To Me (1965): I – No colours anymore

I:  No colours anymore Mick Jagger is a fan. In her memoirs (Faithfull; An Autobiography, 1994) Marianne Faithfull tells about her copy of The Basement Tapes: “I drove Mick crazy playing it over and over again,” but Jagger has been … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan: The Titanic Tombstone Blues (Part II)

By Larry Fyffe This article follows on from Stuck inside of Halifax with the Tombstone Blues Again In an exclusive interview at the Untold Offices atop the St. James Hotel in New York City, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan talks about another one … Continue reading →

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Dylan’s Rarities: Nadine, More and More, Money Honey, Milkcow and Maggie

By Tony Attwood This series giving videos and recordings of songs Bob has only ever performed once or twice or maybe even three times on stage, now has its own index here.   The most recent articles are… Bob’s live rarities, from … Continue reading →

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False Prophet: ‘Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?’

by Bob Jope ‘Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?’ With characteristically fastidious self-deprecation, TS Eliot’s Prufrock, in a poem alluded to – almost quoted from – by Dylan in ‘Desolation Row’, announces: I am no prophet … Continue reading →

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Dylan pulling The Band into Nazareth II: who wrote what?

by Jochen Markhorst This article continues from Dylan pulling The Band into Nazareth: 1 – Lessons from the master craftsman The song indeed is in Robbie’s name, and in his autobiography Testimony he devotes more than five hundred words to … Continue reading →

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All directions at once: Part 4. The explosion (1962).

So far in this series A song is like a painting, you can’t see it all if you’re standing too close All directions at once: how Dylan’s lyrics empower those who wish to be empowered All directions at once: The … Continue reading →

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Bob’s live rarities, from a bottle of bread to mountains of Mourne (and rock n roll)

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Bob performed Yea Heavy and a Bottle of Bread live twice. First in 2002 at Madison Square Garden, where it appeared as the second song in the set. Right at the end he says, … Continue reading →

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Viewing “Lonesome Day Blues” with “20/20 Vision”

by John Radosta When Dylan started singing the song that followed “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” at the City Coliseum in Austin, Texas, fans might have been forgiven for thinking that they were listening to an acoustic version of … Continue reading →

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Dylan pulling The Band into Nazareth: 1 – Lessons from the master craftsman

  by Jochen Markhorst   At the beginning of December ’67 it starts to itch, with The Band (which doesn’t have a name at that time – but in the village, in Woodstock, the boys are always called the band). … Continue reading →

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Bob the sideman: playing with friends in the 80s

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: Bob was pretty busy as a sideman in the 80s and beyond but we have already covered several of these in other articles in the past. Bob’s session work for Stevie Nicks, Lone … Continue reading →

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Bob Dylan And The Heart Of Darkness (Part III)

Previously in this series… The Heart of Darkness Part I  Bob Dylan And The Heart Of Darkness (Part II) by Larry Fyffe Mentioned previously be the following lyrics of a rather sardonic poem: About suffering they were never wrong The … Continue reading →

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Three Scottish Songs, and their influence on Bob Dylan

By John Henry “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” is one of, if not the most iconic of Scottish songs. Written by Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, in 1794, it is a moving statement of the singer’s love … Continue reading →

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All Directions at once: The prelude to the explosion

By Tony Attwood Previously in this series  A song is like a painting, you can’t see it all if you’re standing too close All directions at once: how Dylan’s lyrics empower those who wish to be empowered To the best … Continue reading →

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