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by Jochen Markhorst XI         Just extending the line Play every number that I can play I’ll see you baby on Judgement Day In 2020, Robert Johnson’s stepsister Annye Anderson publishes her memoirs, Brother Robert: Growing Up with Robert Johnson, written … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood What did Bob Dylan write after completing the utter and total masterpiece that is “Desolation Row?”  The answer is “From a Buick 6,” a song which expresses the opposite vision of life from “Desolation Row” in the … Continue reading →

  Other series currently running on this site The Philosophy of Modern Song: My Generation and Desolation Row My Own Version Of You 10: And then see if you can make it make sense Desolation Row: perhaps the most amazing … Continue reading →

Preface: this article includes a rather unusual recording of “Desolation Row”.  Even if you don’t feel like wandering through another of my meanders, you might care to skip the text and go to that recording.   If you’ve never come across … Continue reading →

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 10 by Jochen Markhorst X          And then see if you can make it make sense I’m gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell Like Liberace – like St. John the Apostle … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Two themes dominated Bob Dylan’s song writing in 1965, a disdain for the world he saw around him, and a desire to be moving on physically and emotionally.   Combined with this, I find in the songs of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The idea of the concert series is very simple – a set of links to videos or recordings of a single concert year by year, gathered together so that when complete we can all find at least … Continue reading →

  My Own Version Of You (2025) part 9 by Jochen Markhorst IX         You take things and you make them your own I get into trouble and I hit the wall No place to turn – no place at all … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan’s book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song”, was written, as I understand it, after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.  I started out thinking I might write a commentary upon the book, but soon … Continue reading →

  This is the conclusion of the article a review of the amazing world of Dylan.pl – which we published a few days ago. By Filip Łobodziński Now we’re in 2025 and we’re a different band. During the lockdown, we parted … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood Details of the previous articles in this series are given at the end of the article.  Details of all the series were are currently running, and some recently concluded are given on the home page of this site.  … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The idea of the concert series is very simple – a set of links to videos or recordings of a single concert year by year, gathered together so then when complete we can all find at least … Continue reading →

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 8 by Jochen Markhorst VIII       A truly fascinating song I say to the willow tree – don’t weep for me I’m saying the hell with all things that used to be “An exceptional … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan’s book, The Philosophy of Modern Song, was written, as I understand it, after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.  It is not a book I feel I can comment upon, largely because I … Continue reading →

So, only six more songs to go by Jochen Markhorst The history of my love affair with Highway 61 Revisited is probably not that different from most of us: upon discovering the LP in my father’s record collection, I kept … Continue reading →

Introduction by Tony Attwood I think we first mentioned the band Dylan.pl back in 2018 when we picked up on their cover of Jokerman and have noted with much applause a fair amount of their work since.  Indeed I’ve been … Continue reading →

Do you have a view on Dylan, his lyrics or his music which you’d like to put across to our readers?   If so, please do drop me a line.  We are always open to new ideas and new points of … Continue reading →

Details of the previous articles in this series are given at the end of the article.  Details of all the series were are currently running, and some recently concluded are given on the home page of this site.    We … Continue reading →

By Jack Beam It’s quite a while since we did a review of Bob Dylan’s compositions over time on the subject of gambling, but I am always willing to oblige when the subject comes up, (as indeed it did in … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood In his final part in the series of articles on the Dylan song “False Prophet” (published on this site), Jochen wrote: “Having resisted the label “prophet” for more than half a century, Dylan now then confesses: … Continue reading →