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Bob Dylan And John Keats (Part III) by Larry Fyffe Earlier Parts of this series are available at Bob Dylan And John Keats Bob Dylan And John Keats (Part II) Ye who holds that Bob Dylan knows not his Keats, … Continue reading →

———-   By Tony Attwood Disc five of the Complete Basement Tapes album has some gems on it but also a range of oddments.  Not as odd as some of the earlier discs in the six disc set certainly, because … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Very unusually there is a little extract of this song on the internet – at least at the time of writing there was.  Quite what it is doing on the BBC Music site I don’t really know, … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan And John Keats Part One can be found through this link.  Part Three follows shortly. Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan likes to fiddle while Keats mourns.  Dylan turns  themes presented by other artists upside down. As in the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood There is a moment at the start of disc five of the Complete Basement Tapes that really makes me feel that Dylan has got over all the larking around and just playing other people’s songs for the … Continue reading →

As you may have noticed, if you are a regular visitor to these pages, Untold Dylan is working its way through the last few songs on the Complete Basement Tapes that we’ve never covered before, to round off our attempt … Continue reading →

———— by Larry Fyffe See also: Blake, Keats, And Spots Of Ink Many of the poems of John Keats centre on the search by human beings for an ideal eternal home in a world of transient time – a theme … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Disc 4 of the Basement Tapes Complete ends with two songs in which one of the gang plays the trombone, possibly for no reason other than the fact that there was a trombone available.  Both recordings are … Continue reading →

———- by Larry Fyffe ———- On behalf of their client (to wit, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan), the law firm of Einstein, Hood, Monk And Associates bring before the Court Of The Untold Inquisition the charge of blasphemy against one Tony Attwood, … Continue reading →

  Latest addition: Crash on the Levee by Tedeschi Trucks   Compiled by readers of Untold Dylan For a few months in the first half of 2018 readers of this website, and of the Untold Dylan facebook page were invited … Continue reading →

———- By Larry Fyffe On the contention that God’s name ought not be uttered, I propose that singer/songerwriter Bob Dylan ‘avoids the issue, at least most of the time, by spelling God’s name backwards'(Part I). ‘Morton Jonsson’ goes further; he … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Disc two of the Basement Complete set ends with Dylan continuing to play the honkytonk piano which really does sound desperately in need of a friendly piano tuner, in an utterly standard 12 bar blues format accompanied … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood There is hardly any commentary that I can find on this song; indeed no one has even attempted to put the lyrics on line.  And yet it is much more of a serious attempt at a new … Continue reading →

—————————————————————————————————————– by Larry Fyffe Nearly every song by Bob Dylan is about God and Jesus, but let’s face it – God’s beyond full comprehension by mere humans, and because of this those of the Jewish faith do not utter or spell … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood There is actually a copy of this song on the internet (at least at the moment of writing) – which is unusual for the Basement Complete – although it is only a fragment of the song, it … Continue reading →

———— By Larry Fyffe Though they be mostly farm hands, and not Bob Dylan scholars, our Untold team of intrepid archaeologists have been able to piece together one of the fragmented, hard-to-decipher ‘Dylan scrolls’ that were discovered in a damp … Continue reading →

Compiled by Tony Attwood Updated 28 May 2018 to correct wrong links We took the list of Dylan covers up to number 80 in the last collection (there’s a link to all the previous parts of this series below), and … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Dylanologists who are followers of conventional Christian beliefs twist the lyrics of certain songs by Bob Dylan to make them ‘fit in’; however, when listened to without the encumbrance of standard religious doctrines, the lyrics tend to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The story surrounding this song is a little complicated but seems verified by the announcement made at the start of the track in the video below. The song started as a track called “Shirley Temple Don’t Live … Continue reading →

——————– Part One of this series appears here. Part Two of this series appears here By Larry Fyffe As previously mentioned, surrealistic poet Arthur Rimbaud refers to nursery rhymes of yore, more often than not twisting their themes.  In days … Continue reading →