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  By Larry Fyffe As previously noted, singer/songwiter Bob Dylan mixes the religious, albeit amusing, outlook of the TS Eliot-based musical ‘Cats’ with Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s Marxist-oriented musical ‘The Three Penny Opera’. According to Eliot, though life on … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst It is confusing reading, Donovan’s autobiography The Hurdy Gurdy Man from 2005. From the first pages the self-mystifications, selfcongratulating boasting and the clearly pumped up tall hero tales are piling up, whereby the autobiographer increasingly fails to … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter/ musician Bob Dylan drinks from the artistic well of both the Marxist-oriented Threepenny Opera, starring MacHeath, and the conservative satire of Thomas Eliot’s poetry, featuring Macavity. Many an artist of these recent times, due to the … Continue reading →

Aaron Galbraith Before writing this article I assumed Willie Nelson would have had many interactions with Bob throughout the 60s and 70s and covered him many times on album and concert, but my (admittedly limited) research since would suggest that … Continue reading →

  Performances selected by Paul Hobson, commentary by Tony Attwood This series takes live performances of Bob Dylan, in which he has re-worked three of his songs to give them a new direction or new meaning, or simply a new … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe In his analysis of Bob Dylan songs ‘Long And Wasted Years’ , Kees de Graaf would have it that the singer/songwriter doesn’t really consider life wasted because, gee, by golly, peace and happiness will be found after … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst By now Stephen King has joined the pantheon of Great American Writers, and rightly so. Since the 1970s, after the breakthrough with the blood-curdling Carrie (1974), he has been working his way up to become the grandmaster … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood and Aaron Galbraith In this series, “Why does Dylan like,” many of the songs that we have looked at have been suggested by Aaron, with the commentary written up by Tony – as is the case here.  … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe The ‘Song Of Solomon’, of the Old Testament Bible, can be interpreted thusly. The narrator, God (Jesus, if you prefer) is speaking to His beloved, His faithful; He tells her that she can find Him in … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood, with lyrics for the song transcribed by Larry Fyffe, research by Aaron Gailbraith Right Hand Road Blues is a song from the “After the Empire” outtake album which was recorded in 1984 but not released (unofficially of … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst They may be a bit awkward and bewildering sometimes, but more often they are touching still, the advertising miniatures Dylan occasionally lends himself to in the twenty-first century. The Pepsi commercial is slick, sweet and not very … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Construed as a religious allegory, the narrator is Moses in the song ‘Red River Shore’ who’s stuck inside of Egypt with the Israel blues again. He’s a ‘stranger in a strange land” (Exodus 2:2). The allegory … Continue reading →

Commentary by Tony Attwood.  Research by Aaron Galbraith (We’ve had problems with the video of this one and only performance of this song vanishing from the internet so in case the above goes blank then try here instead). Bob Dylan … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst On fan forums, YouTube, Dylan sites and in Dylan books, the “Answerphone Song” has been bouncing around for several decades now, the recording of a short, funny song, supposedly sung by Dylan as a message on … Continue reading →

  by Patrick Roefflaer Bob Dylan Released:                     March 19, 1962 Photographer:               Don Hunstein Sleeve notes:                Robert Shelton Art-director:                  John Berg       Columbia Records   On October 26, 1961, Bob Dylan signs a record deal with … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe According to the Old Testament, Moses flees from Egypt, and marries an Ethiopian by the name of Zipporah, and then returns to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery there: And she bare him a son,  and … Continue reading →

  by Aaron Gailbraith Uncle Tupelo were an alt-country band formed in 1987 by Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy. It has been said that it was like having Neil Young and Bob Dylan in the same band. Tweedy brought Young’s … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Nuremberg, July 1 1978. Bob Dylan offers Eric Clapton a cassette with the first two songs he wrote with Helena Springs: “Walk Out In The Rain” and “If I Don’t Be There By Morning”. Two weeks later … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith Sit back and prepare yourself for this one – this is going to be a very video heavy overview of Neil and Bob’s career interactions. Which is how we like it here, right? In the authorized biography … Continue reading →

Performances selected by Paul Hobson, commentary by Tony Attwood In this series we have been taking a look at some of the more notable performances of songs by Dylan on the Never Ending Tour.  There is an index to our … Continue reading →