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Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There a book which I was[…]
Read moreThe meaning behind the music and words of Bob Dylan
Tweedledum 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[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood In one sense all you need to know is that Highway 61 is the Blues Highway. But[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues” is a strophic classic blues which takes the 12 bar structure and[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood It is not my job to summarize the commentaries from elsewhere about how this song has been[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood When I began writing reviews of Dylan’s songs I had no thought that I would reach a[…]
Read moreby Tony Attwood There are two ways to interpret a song like this: by trying to find a meaning in[…]
Read more“If Not for You” was released in 1970. The Dylan version comes from “New Morning”. Shortly after that George Harrison[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated 3 August 2018 with the addition of videos and further commentary. In particular the[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood How many Dylan songs can you name which have a chorus consisting of the title sung over[…]
Read moreThis review has been updated several times, the last on 13 April 2020, and some of the comments were written[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” was recorded in the autumn of 1967 by Bob Dylan and released[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood By no means Bob Dylan’s only nursery rhyme, but probably the only one to get to number[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Three new videos added July 2018. From as early as 1963 Dylan was highly engaged in writing[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood One of the many reasons why “One too many mornings” stands out is that its original release[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood It is strange where research can take you. Let me start from a simple observation: I think[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Updated 2 May 2017 and 12 Feb 2018 My addition on 12 Feb 2018 is simple: I[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood Updated 20 September 2017 with link to the song at the end. If I could be given[…]
Read moreBy Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018 with the addition of videos. I did think about trying to adjust[…]
Read moreThis review updated 19 July 2018, with the addition of three videos of the song, plus the missing verse and[…]
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