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NET 2010 part 3 Jumping on the monkey’s back

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) Every now and then Dylan likes to throw in a rarity – a song he has never before, or only rarely, performed. When he performed ‘What Good Am I?’ at Lintz on the 12th of June … Continue reading

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Tarantula: The Tale Of Dale And Debbie and The Golden Gate

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s favourite songs 2: Shadows

By Tony Attwood I started off this new series, suggested by Aaron, with “Death of an Unpopular Poet” and since reaction back to myself was fairly positive, here is the second piece.  However I would add that for the most … Continue reading

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Tarantula: “Shake that Spear” and “Hopalong Bob”

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading

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Country Pie (1969) part 9 (final): When Charlie was around, something good would usually come out

Country Pie (1969) part 1: People try and read so much into songs Country Pie (1969) part 2: Slap that drummer with a pie that smells Country Pie (1969) part 3:  I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie Country Pie (1969) part … Continue reading

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Never Ending Tour: the absolute highlights.10: It’s all right ma (2001)

By Tony Attwood Continuing my personal selection of the greatest moment from the Never Ending Tour, I come to “It’s Alright Ma” from 2001. Once again we are with a song that those with a musical ear will know from … Continue reading

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Other People’s Songs: “It hurts me too”. Your correspondent off the rails

By Aaron Galbraith and (a rather over-excited) Tony Attwood Foreword for new readers: Aaron in the USA selects the song and the tracks, and Tony in the UK adds his comments while listening to the recordings Aaron has selected. Aaron: … Continue reading

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Tarantula 14: A tattletale Heart; and 15: Tarzantula

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading

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Country Pie VIII: Nine words that changed my life

Country Pie (1969) part 1: People try and read so much into songs Country Pie (1969) part 2: Slap that drummer with a pie that smells Country Pie (1969) part 3:  I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie Country Pie (1969) part … Continue reading

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A Dylan cover a Day: the staggering beauty of one version of Positively 4th Street

By Tony Attwood Love songs, lost love songs and hate songs… when it comes to pop and rock, love and lost love songs win hands down.  I suspect there are a million songs in each genre to every song of … Continue reading

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Never Ending Tour: the absolute classics. When He Returns

by Tony Attwood Untold Dylan started in 2008 – so we have been at it for approaching 15 years.  Indeed in a short while we’ll publish our 3000th article.  I’ve no idea how many of these articles I have written, … Continue reading

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Tarantula 12:  More Mixed Up Confusion and 13: Oval Faubus

  1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger … Continue reading

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Country Pie (1969) part 7: I thought it was just a regular peach tree

Country Pie (1969) part 1: People try and read so much into songs Country Pie (1969) part 2: Slap that drummer with a pie that smells Country Pie (1969) part 3:  I’m your wicked Uncle Ernie Country Pie (1969) part … Continue reading

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A Madder Piece From Ginsberg Street and The Long Dark Stranger

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading

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A Dylan cover a Day: Political World

By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan’s music is known for many things, one of which is the interesting chord changes that he incorporates into some of his songs.   But Political World turned that upside down by giving us a song that … Continue reading

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Never Ending Tour: the absolute highlights 9: High Water. Chaos redefined

By Tony Attwood High Water 2007  I would imagine that performing a song about a flood, indoors, on stage, requires quite a bit of re-thinking.  But doing it with a song that has already been rethought so much that as … Continue reading

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Other People’s Songs: Mr Bojangles

This series looks at recordings Bob Dylan has made of songs he did not write.  A list of previous episodes in the series can be found at the end.  As ever in the series, Aaron selects the songs and makes … Continue reading

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Tarantula Island

1: Tarantula 2: The Tarantula Crawls Across The Circus Floor and 3: Arachnida Is Dead 4: The Bride and 5: The Return of Tarantula 6: Everybody loves a critic and  7: Hopalong Bob 8: Mad, Bad, And A Stranger To … Continue reading

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NET 2010 Part 2.2 Mostly Padova: Fires on the Moon (continued)

This article continues from NET 2010 Part 2.1 Mostly Padova: Fires on the Moon By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) Net 2010 Part 2.1 concluded with a version of Cold Irons Bound.  Good as that is, it might not, however, be the … Continue reading

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NET 2010 Part 2.1 Mostly Padova: Fires on the Moon

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) Every year of the NET we can find outstanding concerts, and some are memorable beyond their particular year. We remember Prague of 1995, Berlin 1996, Glasgow 2004 and Brixton 2005 as important milestones along the way. … Continue reading

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