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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 →

    by Jochen Markhorst X          Don’t you step on my pink pedal pushers Pink pedal pushers and red blue jeans All the pretty maids and all the old queens All the old queens from all my past lives I … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood As we all know, Bob was never satisfied with Caribbean Wind.   It got one public outing in November 1980 and that was it.  It turned up on Biograph, and a recording of the live version have circulated. … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood, based on the research by Mike Johnson in The Never Ending Tour series. “Tony quotes Mike quoting Heylin” – not something you’ll often find here, but it all starts in the notes below, taken from Never Ending … Continue reading →

  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 Dylanesque: “In the style of, or reminiscent of … Continue reading →

  The Never Ending Tour 2014 part 1: The Setlist, the first half. NET 2014 part 2 The Setlist: The second half The Never Ending Tour: the full index from 1987 onwards By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) You might recall how, … Continue reading →

  I contain Multitudes 1: Two Irish countries at odds I contain Multitudes 2: To the buried that repose around us I contain Multitudes 3: The thrill of rhyming something that’s never been rhymed before I contain Multitudes 4: Boogaloo … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood It appears that Dylan has never performed “Sign on the window” in any concert – at least according to the official site.  (My guess that could in part be because of the key change in the middle … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood As far as the official Dylan site shows, this song was played lived just once (1 October 1965) and appeared first as a single and then 20 years later on Biograph. It has always felt to … Continue reading →

   Article collaboration by Denise Konkal and “I’m first among equals” Youtube channel.  A set of nine recordings of Dylan’s covers of other people’s songs appears at the end of the article. PART 1  (November 2, 2021, to July 9, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This series reconsiders the 1000+ recordings that Mike Johnson has given us through his magnificent series: The Never Ending Tour, and gives me the chance to pick out a few absolute personal favourites. There is a full … Continue reading →

    The Never Ending Tour 2014 part 1: The Setlist, the first half. By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) By the end of the last post we’d reached halfway through Dylan’s 2014 Setlist; he pretty much delivered the same concert at … Continue reading →

  I contain Multitudes 1: Two Irish countries at odds I contain Multitudes 2: To the buried that repose around us I contain Multitudes 3: The thrill of rhyming something that’s never been rhymed before I contain Multitudes 4: Boogaloo … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series (of which there is a full index at the end) Aaron selects a song that Dylan has recorded but which he did not write, and looks at the Dylan version and … Continue reading →

Reintroduction by Tony Attwood Back around 2020, The Bob Dylan Showcase was introduced on this site as a place where readers of Untold Dylan could either add their own music to lyrics for which Bob Dylan  did not write any … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood A strange moment to be writing this: despite this being a mid-morning in July and thus the English summer, there is a huge storm raging and the rain is teaming down.  Rather appropriate in a way.  Thunder … Continue reading →