Caribbean Wind: Dylan’s ever changing song that never made the never ending tour.*
By Tony Attwood *Yes, I know he played it once live on 12 November 1980, but “never” makes a better[…]
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By Tony Attwood *Yes, I know he played it once live on 12 November 1980, but “never” makes a better[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Updated 27 Sep 2020 with the Levy recording added at the end. The last review I wrote[…]
Read moreAngelina by Bob Dylan Please note that this review was written before I heard the Ashley Hutchings version of the[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Much of the commentary over the years has focussed on ..mocked my God, humiliated my friends –[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Has Dylan ever constructed another song which ends with a fade repetition of one line? Writing this[…]
Read moreUpdated 13 Nov 2017 with links to other versions of the song – I really hope you try them if[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “Meet Me in the Morning” is Dylan producing the most perfect traditional blues song. It appears as[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Simple Twist of Fate” is the second song on Blood on the Tracks released in 1975. Its[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Where to begin? Where to begin? This song is so utterly amazing, so un-Dylan, yet so Dylan[…]
Read moreUnusually for Dylan, Dirt Road Blues demands to be seen not as a stand alone song but in the context[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood This review updated 23 Feb 2018, correcting a mistaken historical reference and adding a link to the[…]
Read moreReview by Tony Attwood, updated August 2018. In this review I’ve given a couple of live versions of the song[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Updated 12 Sep 17 It has taken me a long old time to get here, but a[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This was the second review I wrote of “It takes a lot to laugh”. Indeed over time[…]
Read moreDay of the Locusts We know a fair amount the day of the Locusts from David Crosby’s commentary about how[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This article updated 6 Spetember 2019. Although there is little musical connection between “Honest with Me” from[…]
Read moreDylan’s “High Water (For Charley Patton)” is based on three chords but in effect two of the three chords are[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018, with help from Larry Fyffe, and it now includes links to two[…]
Read moreTweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There a book which I was[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Just how surreal do you want to be? Just how far can the three major chords that[…]
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