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By Tony Attwood One of the amazing things about doing this site is that despite now being on review 127, or something like that, I still have masterpieces to do.  OK a fractionally flawed masterpiece, but a masterpiece way beyond … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This review was amended in 2016, in particular incorporating the fact that Dylan recorded two very different versions of the song, the second of which came out on the Basement Tapes CD that came out in the UK … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If I were to make a CD of Dylan songs based on meaning and feeling, I’d put “Trying to get heaven” followed not by “Til I Fell in love with you” as on Time out of Mind, … Continue reading →

There is a quote that Heylin uses and which turns up in lots of other places saying, that the band, at the recording session, made a number of false starts, and Dylan then admonished them saying it was a very … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is the fourth track on side 3 of Blonde on Blonde, and although the song is very different in nature from what has gone before, we are still in the zone of turning the concept of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is a blues about the outsider,  played  out at a slow blues pace.  Once again  I think  Dylan would have performed this in G, but on my equipment the album is playing sharp   and it sounds … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Since writing this review in 2014 I have found a new recording of the song which really does take it in a different direction.  Here it is – the original review continues below… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpNRcw7yn8A “Most Likely You … Continue reading →

Coming back to Blonde and Blonde I picked up my original double album, the one I bought shortly after its release in England, while I was a music student.  Amazingly its in quite good nick – probably because no one … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood At one level “The Levee’s Gonna Break” is simple.  It is based on “When the Levee Breaks” by Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie.  It is a straight 12 bar blues in B flat without any variations … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The problem with “Modern Times” is that one can spend forever looking at the sources of Dylan’s lyrics and music, and then forget the Dylan’s version which is a really decent version of a classic blues, mixed … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Someday Baby” is a song with controversies within it.  The album “Modern Times” says that all the songs were written by Dylan, but this, along with a number of other songs on the album are very closely … Continue reading →

The music and meaning of Bob Dylan’s Early Roman Kings By Tony Attwood We’ve got three issues in the lyrics of “Early Roman Kings”.  There were Kings in the earliest days of Rome, and there was a gang in the … Continue reading →

What is the most appalling word you could say to a young Jewish musician? Actually, that’s a dumb question, because although I’ve heard most of them, being born and brought up in a part of North London where the insults … Continue reading →

There are many people who just don’t grasp what the blues is all about.  For these people it sounds repetitive, dull and simplistic. Of course there is nothing wrong with not getting something – we all have areas of culture … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Review updated 15 October 2017. Bob Dylan’s “Make You Feel My Love” appears on Time Out of Mind (1997) and was initially released by Billy Joel, before Dylan’s version appeared on the album.  Since then he has … Continue reading →

If you want to hear the end of the journey that started with “Serve Somebody” you need to listen to “Trouble”. If you want to understand what turmoil Dylan went through in his mind during the years of the three … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood (updated 24 May 2020) (and again 5 January 2022 – I do with they would leave the copies on the internet alone!) When Shot of Love came out in 1981 I was coming to the end of … Continue reading →

Somehow I managed to write two reviews of “I want you” in the early days of  this site.  This is one of them, and I’ve left this one alone.  On the other review I’ve added a number of recordings that … Continue reading →

Recorded October 1965  Review by Tony Attwood Published on disc 3, Biograph, there is also at least one bootleg version of the song available.  I’m using the Biograph version for this review. This song is one of the Dylan compositions … Continue reading →