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By Tony Attwood Prelude:  I tried at first to write a set of reviews of Dylan’s “Philosophy” book but I found I really couldn’t do it – so I then started to ask if anyone else would like to try, … Continue reading →

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 13   by Jochen Markhorst XIII       “One of the sweetest motherfuckers you could ever meet” You can bring it to St. Peter – you can bring it to Jerome You can move it … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Positively 4th Street” – the last song reviewed in this series – was composed within a sequence of songs of which the prime essence within the lyrics was that nothing made sense.  The series started with “Bob … Continue reading →

The aim of this series is to provide one Dylan concert to listen to with reasonable acoustics for each year since Bob started performing regularly. And of course I have picked the easy ones first, but now we come to … Continue reading →

  There’s an adrenaline shot that will pop players once “The Tambourine Man” enters a modern gaming craze. On the singing surface, sultry ballads, and poetic lyrical work of Dylan do not by any means place him in the front … Continue reading →

  Have you ever wondered why some Dylan recordings seem to sound so wonderful so that you hear them over and over again, while others fizzle out in the background noise? It’s not always to do with the undoubted writing … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Prelude:  I tried at first to write a set of reviews of Dylan’s book but I found I really couldn’t do it – so I have been asking regularly if anyone else would like to try.  But … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst XII        The dismalest tavern of them all I’ll see you baby on Judgement Day After midnight if you still want to meet I’ll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street Two doors down not … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood If ever Bob Dylan was giving us a message in consecutive songs it surely was in 1965 when he composed, one after the other, “Can you please crawl out your window” followed by “Positively Fourth Street” … Continue reading →

For details of some of our other series on this site please see the home page    The concerts for this series are selected by Tony Attwood, from those that are available on line in the UK.  If you have … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I made an attempt to write about Dylan’s “Philosophy” book but had to stop very early because I couldn’t find a way to comment on it that said anything meaningful or entertaining.  (But if you feel you … Continue reading →

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 →