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Black Rider (2020) part 1 by Jochen Markhorst I           He must keep himself clean in speech On 23 July 1950, when CBS airs the first of 91 episodes of The Gene Autry Show, Robert “Bobby” Zimmerman is nine years old … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood An unusual – perhaps unique – episode of this long running series which originated from a time when lock down ruled my part of England and I was spending day after day on my own, and really … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Maldoror The exciting adventures of the Tarantula Tales continue: (Y)ou look like james arness? – i am writing to you to say that you are my son’s idol (Bob Dylan: Tarantula) Auto/biographical in that singer/songwriter/musician Bob Dylan … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This series tries to look at Dylan’s songs from the point of view of the music and the lyrics in equal measure, rather than (as seems to me to be the normal approach in literature about Dylan) … Continue reading →

    Standing In The Doorway (1997) part 2 (final) by Jochen Markhorst II          All these songs are connected “I had to scramble around to find the right types of lyrics and basically moved lyrics around and put together the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In our list of Dylan’s favourite songs we come to the second John Prine song.  The first was Sam Stone – and as I quoted Dylan saying in that article, “Nobody but Prine could write like that.”  … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Seattle, (6th October 2001) In his review of this concert Mike Johnson, who continues to undertake the monumental task of tracking the Never Ending Tour through is decades-long existence says, “The crossroads of my doorstep is an … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Mauricie and Paul Zimmerman be two of Bob Dylan’s uncles, brothers of his father Abe. So an analyser of Dylan’s technically-musicless book “Tarantula” might suggest that there’s some auto/biographical material therein: & men going outside with Maurice … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The problem with Rainy Day is that the instrumental introduction is so distinctive, that as soon as someone starts to play it, we all know what is going on, and where it is going.  So a cover … Continue reading →

Standing In The Doorway (1997) part 1 by Jochen Markhorst I           He’ll Have To Go I’m walking through the summer nights Jukebox playing low It is a select club, the guitarists who played in both the band of Living Legend … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If there is one single song written by Bob Dylan that deserves an analysis of the lyrics and music together it is “Not Dark Yet,” because here Dylan uses a musical device to add to the mystery … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is the second Randy Newman song in the series of Bob’s favourite songs – the first was Sail Away (there’s a link to all the previous articles at the foot of this piece). All Music contains … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe How Old The Tarantula Pilgrims on the way to NY meet up with a traveller who claims to be a Palaeontologist: (W)e sat in a room where Harold, who called himself ‘Lord of dead animals’, was climbing … Continue reading →

    Nashville Skyline Rag Nashville Skyline Rag (1969) part 1: “Do what you want to do” Nashville Skyline Rag (1969) part 2: Some of the names just didn’t seem to fit by Jochen Markhorst   III         The long-haired hippies … Continue reading →

An index to all the previous articles in this series can be found here. By Mike Johnson 2011 is a stand-out year in the history of Dylan’s live performances. It is a fitting climax to a five-year movement that began … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood When I first heard the recording of Gates of Eden I felt it was a great, great song, and I fully appreciated the performance on the album.  But I thereafter always had this feeling that it was, … Continue reading →

by Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: Early Morning Rain is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot. The song appears on his 1966 debut album Lightfoot! Tony: It is amazing to hear the original version after all these years.  This … Continue reading →

Previously… How most analyses of Dylan’s songs mistake the essence of what the songs are by Tony Attwood Analyses of “Desolation Row” by and large focus on the lyrics.  And there are a lot of lyrics to analyse: 670 words … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst Nashville Skyline Rag (1969) part 1: “Do what you want to do” II          Some of the names just didn’t seem to fit On 9 April 2019, the trustees of the Al Clayton Photography estate post on … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Warren Zevon, a singer/singwriter greatly influenced by Bob Dylan. William Blakes’s “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” can be taken as a parody of Emanuel Swedenborg’s “Heaven And Hell”; in Blakean poetry, few are capable of escaping … Continue reading →