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The Not So Narrow Road That Leads To Dylan’s Door By Larry Fyffe Woe unto analysts of the lyrics composed by Bob Dylan who are sure they can make his songs featuring biblical imagery fit the moral and theological messages … Continue reading →

This turns up on Another Self Portrait.  I can’t find it on line, so you’ll have to get the album or else go to Spotify  – here’s a link in case you are not familiar with the service… Wiki tells … Continue reading →

La Mancha Is Blowing in The Wind: Bob Dylan And Don Quixote (Part II) By Larry Fyffe There are those analysts of Bob Dylan’s songs lyrics who want to strap him into a straight jacket, stuff him in a box … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I doubt that I can add much (or better put, “anything”) to the story told so often, but every other morning at the moment I write a review of a Dylan song not yet included on the … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Figurative language flies from the bow bent by singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. No end of trouble his flaming arrows bring to the literalist passengers clinging to the listing side of the Holy Titanic as it rides out … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood During the time when Bob Dylan was working with Johnny Cash and creating “Wanted Man” he also worked with Carl Perkins, one of the great, great rock n rollers, and the two co-wrote Champaign, Illinois.  (Both … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan tried out “Wanted Man” for “Nashville Skyline” but no complete version of the song was recorded at the sessions, (according to Heylin), and so the versions that we know about were those delivered by Johnny … Continue reading →

You can read part one of this review of Dylan and Rastafarianism here   Bob Dylan And Rastafarianism (Part II): “I And I”.  By Larry Fyffe The spiritual beliefs and reggae-syle music of Bob Marley have an influence on the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The story is that Bob Dylan gave George Harrison more expansive and inventive lyrics, while George Harrison gave Bob Dylan new chords to play with. The story, like so many in popular culture, doesn’t exactly stack up … Continue reading →

————— By Larry Fyffe   ‘Isis’, and ‘Oh Sister’ are songs co-written by Bob Dylan and Jaques Levy; the influence of Egyptian mythology is clearly detected by ear in both of these songs. Twins Osiris and Isis married they be; … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “I Don’t Want to Do It” was written by Dylan after “I threw it all away” in 1968 and was seemingly given to George Harrison who demoed it for “All things must pass” but then passed up … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Surrealistic singer/songwriter Bob Dylan delves into Gnostic mysticism in a number of his songs. In one, Dylan seeks out a divine female messenger (Angelina) who apparently comes from the mysterious, far-off Spirit God of Goodness that … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood There are, it seems, two “On a rainy afternoon” songs by Dylan.  One which is one of the Glasgow hotel songs recorded along with “What kind of friend is this” and “I can’t leave her behind” and … Continue reading →

  Part one of this article is here… A frankly delivered Gnostic message. Dylan’s Every grain of sand revisited.   By Larry Fyffe Kees de Graaf, an examiner of Bob Dylan’s song lyrics finds ‘Every Grain Of Sand’ to be … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood There are a whole load of false trails supposedly leading to on line versions of this song which are either closed down or go nowhere at all or lead to another song, and indeed wandering through them … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Though Kees de Graaf presents ‘Every Grain Of Sand’ by Bob Dylan as without doubt a song of dogma-bound Christian certitude, it’s lyrics are more influenced by the Swedenborgian Gnosticist and allegorical poetry of William Blake than, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood We have one recording of “If you want my love” from 1966, and pretty poor quality it is too – by which I mean the recording is poor, because this 12 bar song shows perfectly just what … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This review related to the bootlegged version, not the Rolling Thunder Review version.  There is no available version on the internet, so we offer our version, above, recorded in 2022. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh… I had so carefully put the … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe The organizers of orthodox Christianity come up with the idea of ‘original sin’ so that choosing to be ‘good’ isn’t the way to salvation; rather the intervention of a priestly class (a Church) is needed. Many … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Not for the first time I found myself a bit confused.  According to adverts this song appears on “Bob Dylan The Cutting Edge 1965 – 1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12: Collector’s Edition” but I can’t find a … Continue reading →