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By Tony Attwood These lyrics pose profound questions about the nature of love, and help us redefine it as something very different to what it is generally held to be, via this string of simple, penetrating statements set to music … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood ‘Behold, the days come, sayeth the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah’ (Jeremiah 31:31). “And they will not need to teach their neighbours, nor … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood It appears Dylan had quite a large number of attempts in the studios to get this song right, but finally gave up on it, never played it live, and allowed it only to resurface when the first … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood There are no lyrics on the official site but they do list a song called “Blessed be the name” although Dylan clearly sings “Blessed is the name” in the one and only recording I can find of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Saving Grace is one of those songs that Dylan has retained and re-worked in all sorts of styles, but always with the essential meaning of salvation and the duplicitous nature of the Devil.  Thus we have “Well, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood How much Dylan is there is the Wilburys? The answer seems to be there is as much as he wants and as much as we want to hear and it clearly varied from song to song. Harrison, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood 1985 had included some highlights – songs that for other writers would have been the height of their career, but for Bob they seemed to be just part of the struggle eternally to go somewhere new. If … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Updated 27 April 2018 with minor changes, a couple of additional links and 3 videos. From Nov 79 to Nov 81 “Saved” was played by Dylan on stage 83 times, and then no more.  In the subsequent … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Please note the some recordings of the live version of the song offered below are now running with a message saying “not available in your country”.  I am leaving them on in case it is just my … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Updated June 2018 with link to the recording of the song at the end of the article and the brief introduction below “To fall in love with you” is the third most accessed file on this site.  … Continue reading →

Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight By Jerry Hallier ‘Don’t Fall Apart On Me Tonight’, the final track on the 1983 album Infidels, is a  song that has not attracted much comment from critics and fans since its release.   … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Empire Burlesque was written in three different years as the chronology shows: 1983 Tight connection to my heart 1984 Something’s Burning Baby 1985  Seeing the real you at last I’ll remember you Trust Yourself Emotionally Yours When … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Dylan is on occasion brilliant at telling us all what is wrong with the world, without him saying exactly what, how, where, when, why….  The songs don’t spell it out, but allow us to see the picture even … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is, rather obviously, the song from Dylan to the woman who showed him the way into the Light when he was converted.  At one level it seems very straightforward, and yet with this song I have … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Apocalypse soon if you don’t watch out”. That was how Rolling Stone described this blues song – a song which has had two presentations, each with completely different lyrics and such a different backing that although both … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood No Man Righteous was included in Heylin’s list of “The gems that Bob Dylan discarded” which in the UK was published in the Daily Telegraph newspaper. It was recorded for Slow Train Coming, but the recordings have … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I know that the original versions of most of the books I write are nothing like the final outcome.   It takes the writing of the book to get a feel for the whole project – and … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood As we travel through Bob’s compositions of 1979 we are now into full blown Bible related songs, this one (on the surface at least) taken directly from 1 Corinthians 15:52…  Listen, I tell you a mystery: We … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood The first anyone ever knew of what some now call Dylan’s first Christian song was on the last night of a 115 date world tour – something which in itself to mere mortals seems incomprehensible – on 16 … Continue reading →