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By Tony Attwood As we have seen Bob Dylan had one of his occasional pauses in 1976 (his first since the prolonged drought of 1971/2) but in 1977 and 1978 he had returned with a new vigour and vitality.  Then … Continue reading →

The Bobby Horror Picture Show By Larry Fyffe Though sometimes romantic, changing times can be scary. Dylan reproduces the latter feeling through pictures Gothic, word-movies of gloom and doom where lightning flash highlights crooked trees, delapidated buildings, rusty gates, decaying … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This is one of the songs on volume 3 (which is to say the second album) by the Travelling Wilbury’s (as far as I can work out, probably the first to be recorded) that clearly has a fair … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Throughout the poetry of William Blake, good and bad spirits flitter; the pre-Romantic poet envisions that, in the past, there was a time when the material human body was not out of balance; not overly-governed by Reason to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Doing some basic research in preparation to write this review, I stumbled on a Wikipedia link which says, “There is consensus that the majority of songs do not meet Wikipedia’s notability guidelines. Songs should only have an … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Ain’t it just like the knight to play tricks on you when you’re trying to be so quiet. In some of his song lyrics, Bob Dylan is none other than the reincarnation of Don Quixote riding atop … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan Has His Blake, And Keats It Too By Larry Fyffe At a bar, Bob Dylan is sitting with Greg Lake (laughin’): “Let’s do a song together.” Lake: “I’ll do it, if the Guinness is free. “No, not a … Continue reading →

The Tale Of The Wicked Messenger And The Faithful Servant By Larry Fyffe The Nobel Prize in Literature’s not handed over to Bob Dyan because he gives unequivocal answers. In the song ‘John Wesley Harding’, Dylan disguises himself as a Methodist … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bob co-wrote “Heartland” starting with the melody and maybe the first line (see below) in 1990, and recorded it with Willie Nelson in 1993, but didn’t use it in concerts until 2004 when it played it seven … Continue reading →

Owed To Bobby Allen: A Joan Baez Revelation By Larry Fyffe Yet another well-kept secret about Dylan uncovered! “Now you’re telling me You’re not nostalgic Then give me another word for it You who are so good with words And … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood After the extraordinary outpouring of compositions by Dylan in 1977 in terms of the Street Legal songs, Dylan went in a different direction.  The songs that he added in 1978 to the Street Legal collection (New Pony and Baby … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Whether the Canadian-created crusader Superman, the Canadian-acted spaceman Captain Kirk, or the Spanish Cervantes horse-riding Don Quixote, Bob Dylan disguises himself as various members of The League Of Justice, and attempts to fix everybody’s problems ‘cept mine. … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood It really is quite hard to work out what I think about this song.  Certainly I must admit it is not a song I’d ever choose to put on the record player, or the CD player; it … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe From within the lyrics of Bob Dylan’s songs shine the golden arrows and silver spears of Willian Blake’s poetry. Dylan’s main message is consistent throughout most of the songwriter’s works. Many of his song lyrics present the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Unbelievable is one of those songs which, if you don’t know it, and you read the words, you might just think, there isn’t much here. Try this, if you can forget what the song sounds like It’s … Continue reading →

“Time Out Of Mind”: Bob Dylan Paints His Masterpiece By Larry Fyffe Some music critics claim that the title ‘Time Out Of Mind’ is given to Bob Dylan by a play-writing ghost he encountered in a Mobile, Alabama, alleyway: “Time … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood God Knows is one of the songs Dylan played around with time and time again.  In the process it was re-written over and over although the central notion of the phrase “God Knows” is retained throughout, as … Continue reading →

Please note this is not an article about real events The Libel Case  Of “Bob Dylan vs Bobbie Gentry” Settles Out Of Court By Larry Fyffe In this day and age of ‘Fake News’, now that the court documents have been … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Throughout 1989 Dylan regularly explored the world of contradictions and uncertainty, the notion that the world is not as we think.   Songs such as Everything is Broken, Series of Dreams,  Most of the Time and Man in a Long Black … Continue reading →

The Ballad Of Frankly And Joni By Larry Fyffe Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell shows the influence of Bob Dylan’s writing style, and of the themes therein enclosed. She reworks the latter from a female perspective. “Once I had mountains in … Continue reading →