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By Tony Attwood By any analysis, Bob Dylan’s lyrics “Duncan and Jimmy” is best described as a fragment, an idea, a little something he dashed off while having a coffee and waiting for the next big song to pop along … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst It is not really Joan Baez’ forte, writing songs, but at least once she rises above herself: “Diamonds & Rust” from 1975 really is a wonderful song. Definitely on a musical level, although the beauty may be … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan’s Conversion To Mormonism by Larry Fyffe Not at all noticed by Dylanologists is that Bob Dylan gives hints in his song lyrics that he has coverted to the Mormon religion – a well-kept secret that does not escape … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Another song from the New Basement Tapes – you can find the full listing of the songs and links to all the reviews (which at the moment are not complete) by going to Dylan songs of the … Continue reading →

You’re A Big Girl Now (1975) by Jochen Markhorst The Men In Black and a bunch of evil aliens are searching for ‘The Light’ of the planet Zartha, which eventually turns out to be a semi-divine creature in an attractive … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Frederich Nietzsche, a Dionysian neoRomantic in many ways, depicts contemporary society as possessing a ‘herd mentality’, a pessimistic place of conformity that puts any hopes of meritorious reward off until the aferlife -a ‘slave morality’ exists … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood May I say from the start I utterly love this song and since discovering it, have played it over and over, time and time again. The lyrics are, by Dylan’s standards, simple, but it is what the … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “There’s a code in the lyrics,” Dylan says in 1978 about Blood On The Tracks in the interview with Jonathan Cott. The odd duck out among those encrypted, coded texts that supposedly dominate the album is “You’re … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan, Fyodor Dostoevsky, And Alexander Pope: Give Me Somthing, Not Nothing by Larry Fyffe One interpretation of the song below is that Bob Dylan takes on the persona of a bespectacled student assigned to write a brief book report … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Down on the bottom is the opening song of the New Basement Tapes collection of songs created by various artists using lyrics from a Bob Dylan notebook which is thought to have dated from 1967. In this … Continue reading →

Shelter From The Storm (1975) by Jochen Markhorst To today’s readers, Charles Dickens (1812-1870) has a sometimes painful preoccupation with physical abnormalities. His novels are teeming with disfigured and flawed people, but at least there is often – but not … Continue reading →

by Filip Łobodziński One of the most captivating things within this blog is the holistic perspective adopted. And one of its most striking features, enabling one to look at Bob Dylan as a universe of its own with many different … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan naturally distances himself from Ezra Pound and his Imaginistic poems because of the American poet’s association with Fascism. Instead, he looks to Antonin Artaud, a French poet and dramatist who goes further than … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Particular thanks to Michael Goldberg’s Culture Blog “Days of the Crazy Wild” for insights into this song. This is another song from the Lost on the River collection of Dylan lyrics that were left in notebooks and … Continue reading →

Meet Me In The Morning (1975) by Jochen Markhorst They are bad to the bone, the Three Witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In the opening scene they forge their conspiracy, in the course of the drama they turn Macbeth’s head, make … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe According to preRomantic poet William Blake, taking his cue from ancient Greek ‘psychology’ (based on the elements of earth, wind, fire, and water), contempory Western society is out of tune with the Universe because the air, its … Continue reading →

Spanish Mary is a song that one might associate very much with Dylan’s writing around the time of When the ship comes in (1963) although we are told that the notebook that includes the song comes from 1967.  Assuming 1967 is right … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst In 2017 he releases his 21st studio album, simply titled Robyn Hitchcock. It rightly receives good to enthusiastic reviews, is filled with beautiful songs, psychedelic pop and even a country song (“I Pray When I’m Drunk”), and … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe There is, as already pointed out, a school of academists who maintain that a goodly portion of Bob Dylan’s song lyrics are actually written by Christopher Marlowe. This error stems from the fact that a number … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Nothing to it” is a song from “The New Basement Tapes ” the collection of lyrics jotted in a notebook in the 1960s, with music now added by a collection of the highly talented, and released as … Continue reading →