Went to see the Gypsy: Bob Dylan meets Elvis
By Tony Attwood I bought New Morning upon its release, and thought of this song, “What an interesting piece; I[…]
Read moreThe meaning behind the music and words of Bob Dylan
By Tony Attwood I bought New Morning upon its release, and thought of this song, “What an interesting piece; I[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “Ring Them Bells” is considered by many as the best song on Oh Mercy – which given[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood There are two issues that, for me, dominate any attempt to understand and evaluate this song. The[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Go on the internet and it is hard to find any sort of commentary about Where Teardrops[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood He is affection and future, the strength and love which we, erect in rage and boredom, see[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I didn’t start out to write about the various times that Dylan’s interactions with the legal process[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Dylan has never lost his affection for the classic 12 bar blues – the first line repeated[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Ask anyone who has performed a song on stage which has multiple repeated lines: it is much[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood (updated slightly on 10 April 2015) “Come on out the dark is beginning” (Can you please crawl[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Knocked out Loaded was doomed from the start by its bad reviews, and if you think that,[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood. (There is an index of all the songs reviewed on the home page of this site) There[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Ballad for a Friend was apparently originally called Reminiscence Blues; quite why Ballad for a friend is[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Dylan’s interest in and involvement with the Beat Generation is well documented, and his experimentation with different[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood When I first discovered Dylan – when Freewheelin came out – it was this song that I[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood Corrina Corrina starts the journey that takes in a whole variety of songs including She Belongs to[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Dylan is strong on the decline of communities and traditional economics – as can be readily seen[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Consider… We sit here stranded, though we’re all doing our best to deny it Yet ev’ry distance[…]
Read moreBy Dan Haggerty I was always sure that others must have drawn the same conclusion- “Shooting Star” is about Jimi Hendrix.[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I have agreed in the correspondence columns of this site to pull back from endlessly mentioning Heylin,[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I think I must have been about 15 when I first heard the “Times” album. The next[…]
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