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by Jochen Markhorst XIX       Burping and belching and other bodily functions Get lost Madam – get up off my knee Keep your mouth away from me I’ll keep the path open – the path in my mind I’ll see to … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: The first recording of the song was in November 1926 by Blind Blake, and here it is Tony: Blind Blake is one of those blues artists of whose life little is recorded, and … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe The Falcon Book  Report On “Pogo”: (T)he chief of police holding a bazooka with his name engraved on it, coming in drunk and putting the barrel into the face of the lawyer’s pig, once a wife beater, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I found it hard to think of too many cover versions of this song that actually seemed to take us somewhere both new and interesting, but then on getting into the subject a little, I realised how … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst XVIII    Thou art at last—just what thou art Get lost Madam – get up off my knee Keep your mouth away from me I’ll keep the path open – the path in my mind I’ll see … Continue reading →

    By Tony Attwood, delving a little further and comparing some of the recordings from the Never Ending Tour, based on the comprehensive NET series by Mike Johnson (for which there is an index here). In the first piece in … Continue reading →

—— Details of our current series and a link to the latest article in each series can be found on the home page.   A list of all the articles in this “Other people’s songs” series is at the foot of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this series I attempt to show that analyses of Dylan’s songs that focus just on the lyrics can miss the point.  It is the combination of this music with these lyrics that makes the songs as … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The Sandman Ancient mythology’s Morpheus (Sandman) sends forth recipes containing human shapes for artistic cooks to shake up into dreams. For example, to the American civil rights leader Martin Luthor King: (I) had a dream – that … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Jochen provided us with the original Memphis Blues, from which everything else emerged… Indeed Jochen’s piece also contains the phrase, “The bloodthirsty railway staff ” – and ever since he provided the article in 2020 I’ve been … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst XVII     An inarticulate proposition Get lost Madam – get up off my knee Keep your mouth away from me I’ll keep the path open – the path in my mind I’ll see to it that there’s … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood, delving a little further and comparing some of the recordings from the Never Ending Tour, based on the comprehensive NET series by Mike Johnson (for which there is an index here). In what might be the … Continue reading →

  Other people’s songs looks at performances by Bob Dylan both of traditional songs, and those written by others, with explorations of their origins.  The song and subsequent recordings are selected by Aaron Galbraith in the USA and then comments are … Continue reading →

From his soulful melodies to his ventures into whiskey, Bob Dylan remains a multifaceted enigma in the realm of rock music and beyond. This article delves deep into the intertwined relationship between Dylan’s passion for music, gambling, whiskey, and baseball, … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Previously: The Rastas and The Stabber Of Polyphemus The Stabber Of Polyphemus and The Rococo Angel Glides Take Your Pick With the benefit of a hindsight twist, and already noted, the alligator/allegory works just as well … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood Dylan’s interest in gambling songs has been noted several times before ranging from “Huck’s Tune” through to “Lily, Rosemary & Jack of Hearts.”   And I wanted to come back to that subject because the YouTube video … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood A Dylan Cover A Day – the title made sense during lockdown when we were looking for ways to fill the time.  Now it is more like a Dylan cover every two weeks, but we’re still working through … Continue reading →

  “Foot of Pride” is quite a problematic piece to tackle in terms of this series of articles on the music AND the lyrics.   After all, the music that we have consists of a non-changing beat, guitar parts that only … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst XVI      Have at it, ladies Get lost Madam – get up off my knee Keep your mouth away from me I’ll keep the path open – the path in my mind I’ll see to it that … Continue reading →

Other people’s songs looks at performances by Bob Dylan both of traditional songs, and those written by others, with explorations of their origins.  The song and subsequent recordings are selected by Aaron Galbraith in the USA and then comments are … Continue reading →