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by By Jochen Markhorst Emeritus professor Ira Martin Gessel (1951) is a respected mathematician, specialized in combinatorics and computer sciences and one of the founders of the pioneering and incomprehensible quasi-symmetrical functions. However, the first time Gessel makes the newspapers … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The dark Gnostic outlook of humankind trapped in a physical world finds expression in many of the song lyrics by Bob Dylan, but all is not doom and gloom because of the outlook expressed there of the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Aaron Galbraith has been doing an amazing amount of work uncovering Dylan songs that we have not covered already on this site.  So that will teach me to claim we’ve reviewed every Dylan song of which there … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst On 17 March 2014, L’Wren Scott baffles her loved ones. The fashion designer of Hollywood stars and the Very Rich, but best known as the life partner of Mick Jagger, commits suicide. The funeral ceremony will take … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan uses traditional lyrics sung by ‘dead angels’ as a foundation upon which to build his own songs; he leaves no doubt that he’s encouraged in that endeavour by the folk songs of ‘farmers’, and … Continue reading →

Dylan re-writes Dylan: the start, perhaps, of a new series By Tony Attwood Of course having an idea for a new series of articles, and then actually making it happen are two different things.  But I have contemplated doing a … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe The Dylanesque ‘rhyme twist’ is simply the use by Bob Dylan of the same rhymed words, or variations thereon, in his own song lyrics that are present in the song or poem to which he refers. … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst A Hole In The Head (1959) is a rather melodramatic movie by legend Frank Capra in which co-producer Sinatra plays the leading role, Tony Manetta. Tony is a widower, owner of a small hotel in Miami, an … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan likes nothing better than to mess with proper rhyming as illustrated in the following alliterative verses that involve the Dylanesque ‘rhyme twist’. He sometimes messes with the end-rhyme he carries over from the song that … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This article follows on from The methodology of genius: how Bob Dylan write songs In my last article (above) I suggested that Dylan moved through different themes in his writing, and although certain themes came around time and … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst Who is that lady is on the back cover of Shadows In The Night? Eventually that question is satisfactorily resolved by Dutch Dylanologist Tom Willems, in his February 2015 blog  It is Meg White, the ex-wife and … Continue reading →

Previously in this series: The Dylanesque Rhyme Twist Hardin And Hardy: The Dylanesque Rhyme Twist (Part II) by Larry Fyffe In the the song lyrics of ‘Tell Me Momma’, Bob Dylan pays tribute to Bascom Lunsford who records Appalachian folksongs … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Many writers are very secretive about how they write, but a few have given us clues across time.  Dylan Thomas, for example, admitted that he could spend all day fretting over which of two words to use … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst It is still standing there, the auction block on which the slaves had to stand to be sold by auction, on the corner of Charles and William Street in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Controversial enough, to many Fredericksburgers, but … Continue reading →

  See also The Dylanesque Rhyme Twist part one By Larry Fyffe In the lyrics of his songs, Bob Dylan often leaves (consciously or subconsciously) a sign in rhyme that directs his listeners to the singer (or poet) he sources. … Continue reading →

This article continues from Like a Polish Wanderer: the work of translating Bob Dylan by Filip Łobodziński One of my mottos as a translator is “Literature in a given language may only profit from being translated into a foreign language.” One … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This article follows on from Bob Dylan: the eternal wanderer, outside and beyond In 1974 Bob Dylan wrote Tangled up in blue which I think most agree is one of his absolute classics, in which the very nature of time … Continue reading →

Drifter’s Escape (1967) by Jochen Markhorst When Jack Fate, Dylan’s alter ego, starts “Drifter’s Escape” with his band, in the dusky film Masked And Anonymous (2003), the fair Pagan Lace (Penelope Cruz), seated between the Pope and Gandhi sighs: “I love … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Unnoticed by other analysts of Bob Dylan’s songs is the employment of a signature device in his lyrics that I have dubbed the ‘Dylanesque rhyme twist’. That is, when the singer/songwriter pays tribute to a poet … Continue reading →

Foreword by Tony When I started Untold Dylan I had no idea that Dylan’s music was being translated into and recorded in other languages.  But of course now I think of it, that is a typical anglocentric view, seeing the … Continue reading →