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by Jochen Markhorst Gotta Serve Somebody: The Gospel Songs of Bob Dylan from 2003 is a beautiful tribute album on which black gospel artists play eleven, mostly outstanding, versions of Dylan’s religious songs, from songs from the Devout Duo Slow … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe John Keats be a neo-RemanticTranscendentalist poet in that he’s melancholic rather than optimistic when it comes to an intuitive sensing of a vitalistic force pervading the natural environment. Rather, images he draws from Nature, as well as … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith This is part of the series of articles on Songs about Bob Dylan.   The index to the series can be found here.   Let’s look at a couple of tracks that John Lennon wrote or produced about … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Barely a generation after his death, the work of the unique multi-talent William Blake (1757-1827) is in danger of disappearing on the waters of oblivion. The zeitgeist of the nineteenth century is not really open to Blake’s … Continue reading →

This article continues from “Everything is broken although God has a plan” by Larry Fyffe The alchemic symbol of the ‘phoenix’, the mythical fire bird that represented the rising and setting sun, goes back to time out of mind, back … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In 2015 USA today published an article titled, “Ranking all of Bob Dylan’s songs, from No. 1 to No. 359” Now if you are a regular reader of Untold Dylan you might well note a problem here: … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “Elvis,” Dylan replies to the question by whom he likes to hear his songs covered, “Elvis Presley recorded a song of mine. That’s the one recording I treasure the most of all… it was  called Tomorrow Is … Continue reading →

Unfortunately, the wrong article was published here (by Tony, of course) and so has been removed. The correct article under this title is now here Apologies to Larry, and to all readers.

By Tony Attwood At 47.55 on the collection of songs known as “Between Saved and Shot” (see the recording below) there is a song we’ve not mentioned here.  “Moving on the Water”. It is primarily an instrumental with a simple … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith Bob Dylan and punk might not seem like the most natural of bedfellows but it would seem that there is a lot of mutual respect between Dylan and many punk musicians and bands. The band on Down … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The three Abrahamic religions more or less agree that that God has a plan, not yet fulfilled, that will eventually unify all mankind into a Oneness filled with the spiritual light of His Love; God’ s not … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “Here’s one by a bluegrass songwriter named Bob Dylan,” says Ronnie McCoury in September 2007, introducing “Walk Out In The Rain” at a bluegrass festival in Austin, Texas. It is not the first time he makes the … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This song is mentioned in The Copyright Files by Tim Dunn where it is suggested that it comes from early 1981, and registered for copyright in 1985.  Otherwise there seems to be little or nothing said about … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The names of the two main characters in “Victory” tempts one to give the story a Christian interpretation – Heyst rhymes with Christ; Lena is a shortened form of Magdelena. But the ending of Joseph Conrad’s sorrowful … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst A minor faction of Dylanologists argues that “Let Me Die In My Footsteps” is actually the first Dylan song. It is the first composition for which he comes up with the melody all by himself, not borrowing … Continue reading →

Research by Aaron Galbraith; comments by Tony Attwood Syd Barrett was one of the most amazing talents of the 1960s, but circumstances stripped him of the longevity he should have had as a composer, and so we are left with … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Rationalist thinkers during the Age of Enlightenment cast the Judeo-Christian God outside the workings of the physical Universe, and look instead to science in order to explain human behaviour – without resorting to moral terms like ‘good’ … Continue reading →

Patrick Roefflaer The Basement Tapes… Released                       January 17, 1975 Photographer                Reid Miles Liner Notes                    Greil Marcus Design Consultant         Bob Cato Throughout Summer and Fall of 1967, Bob Dylan and the musicians that later would call themselves The Band, recorded more … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Oh, I think of myself more as a song and dance man, y’know. At the same press conference in San Francisco (December 3, 1965) where he declares that Manfred Mann is the best interpreter of his songs, … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan comes in contact with the symbols of Gnostic Alchemy from the get-go. He reads ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe, and he takes part in  ‘Madhouse On Castle Street’, a modernist Western TV  … Continue reading →