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By Tony Attwood We’ve already had a response to the idea of turning Bob Dylan’s lyrics for Dope Fiend Robber into a completed song.  The earlier entry is here. Now Paul Robert Thomas takes up the challenge. Here is what … Continue reading →

Dylan And Post-Post Modernism (Part II) By Larry Fyffe Though vaguely defined and overlapping other categories that seek to classify art, we’ll consider Post-Post Modernism to be literature and song lyrics that revive the hopes for a better society envisioned … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I get a fair number of emails these days suggesting I might listen to various Bob Dylan songs sung by other performers. Indeed in the dim and distant past we put together a collection of readers’ favourite … Continue reading →

By Filip Łobodziński To parody Bob Dylan? Any problem? I’d say it’s easily done, you just pick any song and pretend you sing it with typical Dylan phrasing and accent. Easy? Yeah, but… What exactly is a “typical Dylan phrasing … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “With God On Our Side” is the first Dylan song Manfred Mann takes a shot at and can be found on the 1965 EP The One In The Middle. The EP is a huge hit; achieves first … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Often, nursery rhymes are morality tales told by adults to children in order to teach them the difference between bad and good behaviour: Ding dong bell Kitty’s in the well Who put her there? Little Johnny Thin … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Just recently we’ve been engaged in a project listening back to some of the outtakes from the 1986 and 1987 sessions that produced the majority of Bob Dylan’s “Down In The Groove” album, as … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Dylan’s work has been translated into several languages over the years, here is just a couple we wanted to share with you. One is in Dutch and one in French and as we don’t … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood So busy was I trying to work out my solution to these strange lyrics that I stupidly missed the fact that Rob Berretta had also supplied a copy.  Clearly I’m getting too old for this publishing lark.  … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood We asked for contributions relating to completing the song “Don’t let anyone write your story.”   The original request is at  Another set of Bob Dylan lyrics without music for us to complete The lyrics were credited … Continue reading →

By mr tambourine Finally. A new album announced. June 19 is the day to wait for.   10 tracks, including “Murder Most Foul”, “I Contain Multitudes” and the newly released “False Prophet”. Looks good to me. My take so far on … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst In 1997 Dylan surprises friend and foe with the album Time Out Of Mind. It’s the second time he entrusts the production to Daniel Lanois (after Oh Mercy, 1989), and that works out well this time too. … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Apollo is disliked by Hera, the wife of Zeus, as he’s not her son though Zeus is his father; the feeling be mutual because Hera’s unkind to Apollo’s mother. Hera supports the Greeks in the Trojan War … Continue reading →

by Jens-Philipp Gründler With the release of the third song from the forthcoming Dylan album, it’s time to look back to the first released to get some more perspective on what we are being offered.  On the occasion of the … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) You might say that I saved the best till last, once you hear the first couple of performances, but it was not deliberate! The pattern of these posts is starting to come clear to me. I … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood So here we are publishing a series of articles about the album Bob Dylan could have made, and having just published the latest episode, we find he actually is releasing a new album – just as has … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Just recently we’ve been engaged in a project listening back to some of the outtakes from the 1986 and 1987 sessions that produced the majority of Bob Dylan’s “Down In The Groove” album, as … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Oh, you are so going to love this! If you have been to any of the “Showcase” articles before you will know that we offer the chance to readers to put on this site one or two … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Adonis is born of mortals and dies, but with the help of the gods, he comes back from the Underworld in the form of anemone flowers which spring up in summertime; Dionysus, whose mother is mortal, but … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Way way back, before the dawn the time, far beyond the outer limits of civilisation, while human beings were just a twinkle in the eye of the almighty (or 2018 as it is more … Continue reading →