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Bob Dylan And Helen Jackson By Larry Fyffe Like her friend Emily Dickinson, Helen Jackson be an associate of the American Romantic Transcendentalist movement whose writers sense in Nature the Oneness of all things, including mankind. With the aid of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is a tiny fragment of which the person who put it up on YouTube has taken the title literally to give us the fragment over and over, around and around and around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nutAvSExOk4 But it is … Continue reading →

. By Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan has consistently grappled with the issue of social injustice and how to deal with it – there must be someway out of here. For the means he chooses, some social critics stick the … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Many of the songs I’ve been looking at, of late, exist just as ideas – short sequences which turn into jam sessions, but are clearly not yet worked out.   And some of these are very good indeed. … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Given that Postmodern Subjectivism has replaced the constructed concept of linear time wrought by the economic order of Capitalism and its ideological superstructure referred to as the ‘Enlightenment’, lawyers for the renowned singer/songwriter Bob Dylan (Hood, Einstein, Monk, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If you are a regular reader of this site you will know I have been meandering around the outtakes from Shot of Love, which can be found on the internet, and reviewing each one in turn.  Which … Continue reading →

  Relentlessly, from the moment the Nobel committee announced that they were awarding a Nobel Prize in Literature to Bob Dylan, critics have said that he doesn’t deserve the award.  The primary argument is that he’s a song writer not … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan dips into the poetic well of bisexual aristocrat-turned-rebel Lord Byron. Like Byron, Dylan uses hyperbolic conceits to depict the magnetic sexual attractiveness of muses who bring light into a world of woe. Dylan … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood This song is included here because it is, as far as I know, a Dylan composition, and we are trying to cover all the Dylan compositions.  A recording of it exists (see below) and so I’m … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This Dylan song from April 1981 is another that is listed by Heylin but without any discussion or detail.  I suppose because the lyrics are incomplete it leaves him without much to say, since he so rarely ventures … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan’s creative genius comes to the fore in his narrative song lyrics. Often unnoticed by analysts is how Dylan chops up and mixes together a number of bits and pieces from different writers in a … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Here’s an interesting song – a piece that Heylin acknowledges as being recorded in 1981, and one that he obviously had heard since he has clearly had access to those tapes, but upon which he doesn’t appear … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe The poetry of Stephen Crane presents in allegorical form the theme that the purpose of human existence is meaningless and futile. Build as mankind will mighty edifices, up high in the sky, to his ideals and … Continue reading →

  By James Whittaker Bob Dylan is not just a name; Bob Dylan is not just a person.  Bob Dylan is an idea that has changed and transformed many lives all around the world. Unlike the popular musicians of the time, … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe The alliterative poetry of John Crowe Ransom, admired by Archibald MacLeish, has a somewhat Gnostic bent to it, styled in mock epic, parody, and irony: The skies were jaded while the faded sun Slack of his … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood OK there are multiple problems with that heading.  The songs are not missing because we have recordings of them, and the index isn’t going to be complete because I am sure I have missed things. But I … Continue reading →

If you missed it, you might also be interested in Bob Dylan and Archibald MacLeish Part I by Larry Fyffe Faced with the rise of Fascism and Monopoly Capitalism, American poet Archibald MacLeish laments losing sight of the Promised Land … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood and Larry Fyffe “Borrowed Time” from April 1981 is a remarkable document, not just a really good, but unfinished, song.  Because what we have here is a complete recording of Dylan moving from a rough idea through … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan And Cole Porter by Larry Fyffe That some analysts thereof distance the songwriting of Bob Dylan from that of Cole Porter is questionable thing for them to do. Cole Porter, writer of music and lyrics for theatre musicals, … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Unfortunately, since this article was written the copies that had been placed on the internet have now been removed so I am unable to provide online examples at the moment. OK, I know I keep going on … Continue reading →