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  By Tony Attwood Dylan’s interest in gambling songs has been noted several times before ranging from “Huck’s Tune” through to “Lily, Rosemary & Jack of Hearts.”   And I wanted to come back to that subject because the YouTube video … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood A Dylan Cover A Day – the title made sense during lockdown when we were looking for ways to fill the time.  Now it is more like a Dylan cover every two weeks, but we’re still working through … Continue reading →

  “Foot of Pride” is quite a problematic piece to tackle in terms of this series of articles on the music AND the lyrics.   After all, the music that we have consists of a non-changing beat, guitar parts that only … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst XVI      Have at it, ladies Get lost Madam – get up off my knee Keep your mouth away from me I’ll keep the path open – the path in my mind I’ll see to it that … Continue reading →

Other people’s songs looks at performances by Bob Dylan both of traditional songs, and those written by others, with explorations of their origins.  The song and subsequent recordings are selected by Aaron Galbraith in the USA and then comments are … Continue reading →

  Previously: The Mythologies that Inspire Bob Dylan: The Rastas and The Stabber Of Polyphemus By Larry Fyffe The Stabber Of Polyphemus In vain do some analysts of his song lyrics downplay the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature … Continue reading →

To say that Bob Dylan is a legend minimizes the influence he has had on multiple genres of music, including rock, folk, and pop.   Throughout the years, dozens of music publications have continued to dissect Dylan word by word, pulling … Continue reading →

    NET 2015 Part 1 Singing to you, not at you NET 2015 Part 2 NET 2015 Part 3: It doesn’t get any better than this NET 2015: Part 4 The best year ever? Full index to the series. … Continue reading →

  By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood This series looks at performances of songs that were not written by Dylan but which clearly have a Dylan influence within them.  As ever, Aaron selects the theme and the works, and Tony … Continue reading →

    By Tony Attwood The series title made sense during lockdown when we were looking for ways to fill the time.  Now it is more like a Dylan cover every two weeks, but we’re still working through the songs.  … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this piece I am going to try and compare two different performances of Gates of Eden wherein the lyrics stay the same but the musical approach is quite different.  Both recordings are taken from the magnificent … 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: This work is often misattributed as “traditional”. The poem was originally published as “A Border Affair” in the June 1907 issue of “Pacific Monthly”. It was republished in 1915 by Chapman & Grimes … Continue reading →

    Meta: According to reports, Bob Dylan, one of the world’s most iconic singers, is also a baseball fan, even mentioning the sport in one of his songs.                   Long after … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Bob Dylan And The Rastas Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan takes on the persona of Odysseus more than once. Thus speaks the Greek hero to Polyphemus: Would to God that I could strip you of life and breath … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this little series I’ve been trying to explain why I sometimes write as much about the music of Dylan as the lyrics: something that most commentators don’t do very often (or at least that is how … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood This series looks at performances of songs that were not written by Dylan but which clearly have a Dylan influence within them.  As ever, Aaron selects the theme and the works, and Tony endeavours … 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 to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood In this series I select my favourite performance by Dylan of a particular song from across the years of the Never Ending Tour – using of course the recordings selected from the mega-series which Mike Johnson is … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Onward march the reindeer armies of metonymy. Considered by some is that Queen of Sheba with King Solomon’s baby in her belly transfers the Heaven-On-Earth of the future, at least in part, from Jerusalem to Ethiopia, a … Continue reading →