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By Larry Fyffe Friedrich Nietzsche expounds that we have killed God, He being found wanting as the author of all creation. Rowland Barthes posits that modernists like Ezra Pound and TS Eliot, and subsequent poets, have killed off the writer … Continue reading →

NET 2008, part 1, Industry Standards and Dallas Delights The Never Ending Tour: the full index from the very start.   By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) We finished Part 1 of 2008 with four songs from Modern Times (2006) from the … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I have a problem with “Most of the Time” in that there is a recurring rhythmic theme within it which is (in my head of no one else’s) very close to that used in “Take a walk … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst   XI         A bridge crossing the Avon, Warwickshire I’ll cut you up with a crooked knife and I’ll miss you when you’re gone I stood between heaven and earth and I crossed the Rubicon  Butch (Bruce Willis) … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Any Euro-centric analyst of Bob Dylan’s artistic output has to be counterbalanced by the singer/songwriter’s deep awareness of Americana – the influence of Puritanism on the American psyche, for example. Zealous Puritans latch onto the “Gnostic-like” cosmological … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: “Blue Moon” was written by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in 1934. That is considered by musicologists to be the first instance of the familiar “50s progression” in a popular song. Here is … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood At first I wasn’t at all sure about this 100 miles an hour version of the song, but it really has grown on me.  It contains the accent on the last word of each line as Bob … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe A modern playwrite has a a character bring up the Four Gospels, specifically Luke 23: 43, on the subject of salvation through repentance: “But all were there. And only one speaks of a thief being saved” (Samuel Beckett: … Continue reading →

Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Crossing The Rubicon part 2: That day I’ll always remember Crossing The Rubicon part 3: So many things that we never will undo Crossing The Rubicon part 4: Red River … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: Little Sadie tells the story of a man, who is apprehended after shooting his wife/girlfriend. He is then sentenced by a judge. Tony: It is strange that such a horrific set of events … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Apparently, notwithstanding the fog of history, and what is fact and what is fiction, Jonah is reluctant to preach to nonHebrews even if a number of them do change their wicked ways; that is, they stop worshipping … Continue reading →

NET 2007 Part 1: The light is never dying. Never Ending Tour, 2007, part 2: Your servant both night and day. Part 3: One foot on the platform The Never Ending Tour complete series index   ‘Over and out, under … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Crossing The Rubicon part 2: That day I’ll always remember Crossing The Rubicon part 3: So many things that we never will undo Crossing The Rubicon part … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Leon Redbone, a Helgalian Romantic, trifles with the lyrics and music of yesterday to mesh them in with modern times – country, blues, ragtime, woggie-boggie, tin-pan-alley-pop, whatever, but for Redbone the history of good music stops with … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Until today I had never heard of Luke Vassella, but in doing my usual unco-ordinated, not to say disconnected meandering around the internet and my record collection looking for any versions of the chosen song of the … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Crossing The Rubicon part 2: That day I’ll always remember Crossing The Rubicon part 3: So many things that we never will undo Crossing The Rubicon part … Continue reading →

I contain multitudes – Parts 1 and 2 I contain multitudes Parts 3 and 4 I contain multitudes, Parts 5 and 6 I contain multitudes, Parts 7 and 8 I contain multitudes part 9 and 10   by Larry Fyffe … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bonnie Raitt does a live version of this song which takes us through the emotions, and does what all the really good cover versions do – hide the fact that is a 12 bar blues in terms … Continue reading →

I Contain Multitudes – Parts 1 and 2 I Contain Multitudes Parts 3 and 4 I contain multitudes, Parts 5 and 6 I contain multitudes, Parts 7 and 8 I Contain Multitudes (Part 9) by Larry Fyffe There are interpretations … Continue reading →

Information supplied by Dr Leo Ensel, commentary by Tony Attwood “After the Empire” is a collection of 15 studio recordings made by Bob Dylan as he tried out new material in his usual style, with the band having to work … Continue reading →