Girl from the north country: the meaning of the lyrics and the music
By Tony Attwood The reports suggest that for some time Dylan was in the habit of announcing that “this was[…]
Read moreThe meaning behind the music and words of Bob Dylan
By Tony Attwood The reports suggest that for some time Dylan was in the habit of announcing that “this was[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I have to admit that there are some early Dylan songs which I bought upon release and[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Sometime in the summer or autumn of 1961 Bob Dylan played harmonica on the title tune of[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood If I had to cut everything down to one type of music and one concept that Dylan[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Red River Shore combines a series of themes that are as old as folk music, and uses[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood My neighbour Pat and I were debating Dylan (as we do) last night and discussing the issue[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood The fact is that “Tell Tale Signs” Can’t Wait is so different from the “Time Out of Mind”[…]
Read moreIn this review of Dylan’s music, song by song, I am finally going to tackle Dylan’s comments about the “mathematical[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood One of the problems with Marching to the City is that it is a song that was[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “Million Dollar Bash” was recorded in 1967 as part of the Basement Tapes. One could say it[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This song, which pairs with Watching the River Flow, in terms of its consideration of artistic process,[…]
Read more“Watching the River Flow” is a classic rhythm and blues song from 1971. A song of beautiful simplicity for which[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood It is a strange connundrum: Dylan puts at least one 12 bar blues song onto every album,[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood Father of Night represents one of Dylan’s most adventurous pieces musically, in that it is written in[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood The one thing I know about Three Angels is that they are mentioned in Revelation 14. And[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood The Man in Me appears to exist in three versions by Dylan. Two I have access to and[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I suspect it is quite easy to misunderstand One More Weekend as a throw away, and I’m[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood One of the great problems with writing about Dylan, as opposed to, say, TS Eliot or Brahms,[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood It is often suggested that the underlying meaning of New Morning is “Hello, here I am again”.[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood WINTERLUDE is a Finnish Dylan Forum. .. Michael Gray, an expert on Bob Dylan and contributor to[…]
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