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  Bob Dylan is an influential artist, musician, and songwriter who won the 2016 Nobel Prize for literature. He showed great support for new ideas, risks explorations, independence, and the need to follow the inner voice as an entrepreneur. Many … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst The Andy Warhol Diaries are not really diaries. The work is published posthumously (1987) and is a collection of transcribed (telephone) conversations. Warhol does not feel like keeping a diary but does feel a cultural-historical responsibility. Friend … 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 →

This article is part of a series that tells the story of the artwork on each of Bob Dylan’s albums.   A list of all the previous articles in the series is given at the end of this piece, and is … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Sir George Ivan “Van” Morrison OBE (generally known as Van Morrison) became known, at least to British fans of the R&B scene for songs such as Gloria and Baby Please Don’t Go. And the … Continue reading →

This article continues from Bob’s 2020 Summer US Tour: Setlists for the first 13 shows by mr tambourine Show #14: June 26, 2020, Irving, Texas Set 1 Mississippi Workingman’s Blues #2 TV Talking Song Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee It … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Irony chain-bound, Auguste de Villiers de L’Isle-Adam be a French Symbolist writer, a latter-day Romantic, who finds artistic beauty in the Imagination; opposed he is to the materialistic-driven bourgeois ideology of his times. Based on the ancient … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine This is part one of a two part examination of the songs Bob might be performing on his forthcoming tour of the USA.   Part two will appear tomorrow.   Bob’s 2020 Summer US Tour  Setlists Show #1: … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If the first new song in a few years took me by surprise, then so has the second; and I had no idea another was going to follow up so quickly.  But Bob is always full of … 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 →

Over the years we have put on this site one or two recordings created by readers who have been performing Dylan songs. Often these have been songs that Dylan himself hasn’t performed, or indeed their own arrangement of a Dylan … Continue reading →

Editor’s Error of the Day: After the last episode of this series (appropriately named part VII) I announced that the series was complete.  This was in fact not true.  The truth was I had lost three episodes.  These have now … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In 2009, Bob Dylan told The Huffington Post that John Prine was one of his favourite writers, stating, “Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs. I remember … Continue reading →

Publisher’s note: Due to a set of alien antelopes entering the computer network of Untold Dylan (otherwise known as Tony’s laptop) we (ie Tony) published section 3 of this series before section 2.  Here are the articles in the right … Continue reading →

On April 5, we published here on Untold a first chapter of our attempt to elevate “Where Are You Tonight?” to the canon. That article (“Chanson d’automne”) mainly focussed on the unusual form, the ten Spanish Sestets, in which the … Continue reading →

by Filip Łobodziński “Artists are being objectified, taken over and thus, ridiculed by their audience who don’t understand their work anymore or does so only in a twisted, limited manner. The only way to escape this slavery and regain one’s … Continue reading →

This is the final article from the Bob Dylan and More Mythology series.  Other articles in the series are… Bob Dylan And More Mythology (Part I) Bob Dylan And More Mythology (Part II) Bob Dylan And More Mythology (Part III) … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood and Aaron Galbraith “The Dylan Nobody Knows” is a new series we are launching – and as ever it is an experiment. If we find it impossible to write, or if nobody bothers to read it, we’ll … 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 Jochen Markhorst Melanie, Sandie Shaw, Cassandra Wilson, Deana Carter … ladies who do not mind at all singing a woman in “Lay Lady Lay”, a woman who they would like to lay on a large copper bed. But at … Continue reading →