Bob Dylan’s “Drifter’s Escape”: the meanings, and the reinterpretations.
By Tony Attwood Updated September 2018 with the addition of Thea Gilmore version at the end – if you are[…]
Read moreThe meaning behind the music and words of Bob Dylan
By Tony Attwood Updated September 2018 with the addition of Thea Gilmore version at the end – if you are[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Restless Farewell is a singularly brilliant song of confession and moving on, a song saying this is[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Suddenly coming back to Tomorrow is a long time after many years without listening to it, is[…]
Read moreIf ever there is a Dylan song in which, to understand it, you need to listen to the music not[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Dylan, the man known for his lyrics, presents us on Self-Portrait, with two instrumentals. Why? I think[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood As I listened to Hollis Brown for the first time in many a long year, following a[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Thin man ends the first side of Highway 61 LP, and when it was released in 1965[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Living the Blues is one of those odd Dylan slightly flawed gems that turns up so unexpectedly – in[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I mentioned in reviewing the “All the tired horses” track from Self Portrait that I had forgotten[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood The problems with popular music critics through the ages have been legion. A lack of any sort[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood For this review I’ve been listening to the version of the song on Infidels and a singularly[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I’ve been listening to two versions of the song – one from Infidels and one on a[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood One of the great problems for people who are not creative artists and who they try to[…]
Read moreI’ve not recorded any details of Dylan concerts before – but then I thought why not. Here’s the first supplied[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Updated 11 April 2020. The operator of a loom takes a multitude of threads and weaves them[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood https://youtu.be/BEARlCCYRXY Ask any musician what the difference is between the version of this song that appears on[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Does quoting lines from the movies (which is what this song does) mean you are removed from[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood One of the amazing things about doing this site is that despite now being on review 127,[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood I have to say I really don’t get why Street Legal got such a bad press (although[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review was amended in 2016, in particular incorporating the fact that Dylan recorded two very different[…]
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