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  By Larry Fyffe “‘Don’t Make Her Cry’ were the words Regina McCrary’s father, Reverend Sam McCrary, said to Bob Dylan when they met at a Nashville show in 1978 shortly after she joined his band,” Buddy Miller tells SPIN. … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst Following the publication of my most recent book, I Contain Multitudes, our publisher Tony Attwood suggested that I take a little break from my Never Ending Song Reviews and write an exposé on the how, what … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This series of articles (along with an earlier series “The meaning behind the lyrics and the music”) endeavours to explore the importance of the music in Dylan’s songs, rather than simply looking at the lyrics.   An index … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This must be just about the most curious “Cover a Day” episode thus far – and given that this is episode 134 of the series (there’s an index at the end to prove it) that is saying … Continue reading →

  Previously in this series Part 1: Desolation Row Part 2: There goes rhyming Dylan Part 3: Songs inspired by the music of Bob Dylan – Young, CSNY, and Coxon Part 4: Dylanesque: the anti-war songs Part 5: The Rolling … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood … a totally personal view of some of the best moments from across the decades. Looking through the masterpiece which is Mike Johnson’s on-going review of the Never Ending Tour (which as I write this has reached … Continue reading →

    NET 2015 Part 1 Singing to you, not at you The Never Ending Tour episode 126. 2015 Part 2. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) Dylan fans, you are in for a treat this time around. In the first post … Continue reading →

  Mississippi, Desolation Row, Crossing The Rubicon, Where Are You Tonight, Tombstone Blues… Some songs are so rich and multicoloured that they deserve their own book . I fear that almost every song on Rough And Rowdy Ways is going … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: I can’t find much online about the song. According to Wikipedia “Mary Ann” is a folk song originating from at least as far back as the ethnomusicology of Marius Barbeau, a Canadian folklorist, … Continue reading →

“An attempt to show that analyses of Dylan’s music that focus just on the lyrics can miss the point.” By Tony Attwood “Cover Down, Pray Through”, is something of an oddity in Bob Dylan’s list of compositions.  For a start, … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood With a song such as this which has well over 50 established cover versions, and goodness knows how many other obscure ones, my tendency is to start by listening to some recent recordings, for musicians who … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) At first glance it might seem that Dylan’s 2015 setlists were a repeat of the 2014 master Setlist, and indeed the first two or three songs in 2015 are a carry-over from the year before, but … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series Aaron selects albums and tracks that are in the style of, or otherwise related to, Bob Dylan.  Tony then adds his thoughts as he plays the music selected. ——– Aaron: Let’s … Continue reading →

      Mississippi, Desolation Row, Crossing The Rubicon, Where Are You Tonight, Tombstone Blues… Some songs are so rich and multicoloured that they deserve their own book . I fear that almost every song on Rough And Rowdy Ways … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood You will have heard that Sinéad O’Connor has passed away, and of course the media has been full of commentaries about her work. Normally Untold Dylan doesn’t do much in terms of marketing the passing of artists … Continue reading →

by Andrew Ferguson Why do I love “Oh Mercy” so much? So many reasons, but above all it was the production values Daniel Lanois brought to the recordings. For the first time in years, Dylan had a producer who understood … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood When I started this little series dedicated to considering Dylan’s songs from the point of view of the music and the lyrics together (rather than, as many people do, just focussing on the lyrics) it was to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Silvio” is one of those songs that sounds to me as if it ought to make a great cover version, and yet, somehow no one has managed to break away from the boundary that Dylan himself placed … Continue reading →

The Never Ending Tour 2014 part 1: The Setlist, the first half. NET 2014 part 2 The Setlist: The second half Never Ending Tour 2014 Part 3: The survivors The Never Ending Tour: the full index from 1987 onwards By … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood One of the great problems with the 12 bar blues – the classic format on which well over half of all blues-orientated songs are based – is that the foundations of both the style and the format … Continue reading →