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By Tony attwood Part of the enormous power of Chimes of Freedom is that even 50 years after first hearing it some of the lines can still hit me right in the heart and take me back to my school … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood John Wesley Harding was released at a time when the world of pop and rock was overwhelmed with alternatives to the old regime.  Blonde on Blonde  in 1966.  Sgt. Pepper in 1967, and Zappa’s Absolutely Free the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I Am A Lonesome Hobo” fits neatly alongside “Drifter’s Escape”, representing the other side of the coin of the outcast in American society. The drifter is a drifter by choice or perhaps because he has no choice, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Updated September 2018 with the addition of Thea Gilmore version at the end – if you are here, do listen.  And April 2019 to replace broken link, plus 4 March 2020 to include the Woody Guthrie reference … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Restless Farewell is a singularly brilliant song of confession and moving on, a song saying this is me, I’ve done my best, and that’s all I can do for that’s how I am.  It is about the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Suddenly coming back to Tomorrow is a long time after many years without listening to it, is quite honestly, a shock. A shock because sometimes (for me at least, and I am sure this is just a … Continue reading →

If ever there is a Dylan song in which, to understand it, you need to listen to the music not just the lyrics, this is it. If we go back to the version on Bootleg Series volumes 1 to 3 … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Dylan, the man known for his lyrics, presents us on Self-Portrait, with two instrumentals.  Why? I think to find out we have to look at the overall vision of the album, and most particularly the title.  Self … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood As I listened to Hollis Brown for the first time in many a long year, following a request from a reader of the site for me to do a review, I thought: can I say anything that … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Thin man ends the first side of Highway 61 LP, and when it was released in 1965 I really did wonder about it.   It certainly was a song of disdain – and that plodding descending bass … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Living the Blues is one of those odd Dylan slightly flawed gems that turns up so unexpectedly – in this case on Self Portrait, an album not known for its Dylan originals. And for once Clinton Heylin and I … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I mentioned in reviewing the “All the tired horses” track from Self Portrait that I had forgotten all about that song until a request was sent in to review it. My LP Self Portrait has long since … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The problems with popular music critics through the ages have been legion.  A lack of any sort of musical knowledge (Clinton Heylin is the prime culprit here), a lack of understanding of the creative process, a lack … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood For this review I’ve been listening to the version of the song on Infidels and a singularly different version on You Tube recorded at The Warfield 1992.   I have to say I am not sure what … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I’ve been listening to two versions of the song – one from Infidels and one on a You Tube video with the Grateful Dead The two are completely different.  The Dead version sounds like a jam session … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood One of the great problems for people who are not creative artists and who they try to interpret and critique artistic works (be they paintings, dance steps, poems or pieces of music) is that they don’t actually … Continue reading →

I’ve not recorded any details of Dylan concerts before – but then I thought why not.  Here’s the first supplied today, 24 October 2014 by Sam Chianello. Would you like to contribute a review – either of a gig you … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Updated 11 April 2020. The operator of a loom takes a multitude of threads and weaves them together in a strong but endlessly pliable piece of clothing. A storyteller presents an idea, and then another and another, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood https://youtu.be/BEARlCCYRXY Ask any musician what the difference is between the version of this song that appears on the original LP (Empire Burlesque) and the version on Volume 3 of the Bootleg series, and he or she will … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Does quoting lines from the movies (which is what this song does) mean you are removed from reality? That is the suggestion Heylin makes in reference to this song.  Obviously you’ll decide for yourself, but for me … Continue reading →