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Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 2: That day I’ll always remember Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 3: So many things that we never will undo Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: “Arthur McBride” is a folk song probably of Irish origin, also found in England, Scotland, and North America. A. L. Lloyd described it as “that most good-natured, mettlesome, and un-pacifistic of anti-militarist songs”. … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood If you have read any of my ramblings about cover versions of Bob Dylan’s music in the “Dylan Cover a Day” series, you might just recall regular comments about the recurring problem with Dylan. We all know … Continue reading →

I Contain Multitudes – Parts 1 and 2 I Contain Multitudes Parts 3 and 4 I contain multitudes, Parts 5 and 6 by Larry Fyffe Part 5 According to prophet Isaiah if proper love is not shown to God, He’s … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Meet me in the morning” is the only 12 bar blues on Blood on the Tracks, and is itself a cover of sorts, being akin to “Call Letter Blues” which of course Bob recorded, and which appeared … Continue reading →

Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 2: That day I’ll always remember Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 3: So many things that we never will undo Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part … Continue reading →

I Contain Multitudes – Parts 1 and 2 I Contain Multitudes Parts 3 and 4 by Larry Fyffe Part 5 King Ahaz makes a deal with the Assyrians, already occupiers of parts of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, in order … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith in USA, and Tony Attwood in UK Details of other articles in this series are given at the end. Aaron: Canadee-I-O is a traditional English folk ballad. It is believed to have been written before 1839. Tony: … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood I’m sure everyone knows that “Masters of War” originated with the English folk song Nottaman Town.    The earliest recording of that song that I can lay my hands on is by Jean Ritchie in 1954 but … Continue reading →

Crossing The Rubicon part 1: A hard-living, hard-drinking, hard-fighting guy Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 2: That day I’ll always remember Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part 3: So many things that we never will undo Crossing The Rubicon (2020) part … Continue reading →

I Contain Multitudes – Part 1 and 2 By Larry Fyffe God’s no wimp, as expressed metaphorically in the following biblical verse: For He put on righteousness as a breastplate And an helmet of salvation upon His head And He … Continue reading →

NET 2007 Part 1: The light is never dying. Never Ending Tour, 2007, part 2: Your servant both night and day. The Never Ending Tour complete series index By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) It is not surprising that in 2007 Dylan … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe And what I assume, you shall assume (Walt Whitman). Another ghost of a biblical prophet that floats around in the back of Bob Dylan’s Jungian mind is Isaiah. Isaiah’s a prophet, a prophet with a feminine side, … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood It has been a long time since anyone told us that we had missed a Bob Dylan composition on this site, but it seems we have done: “The Price of Love”.  Jochen spotted the omission, so here … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst IV         Red River Shore 2: The Guy Strikes Back The Rubicon is the Red River, going gently as she flows Redder then your ruby lips and the blood that flows from the rose We have, alas, only … Continue reading →

Dylan’s next tour will be legendary (part 1) What about Stockholm? Too many things to mention but here’s a few. What about the the 2009 live debut and only performance to date of Billy? Or the 2017 one-off performance of … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Members of the Sound School of Dylanology dwell on rejigged, allusion-filled,  viewpoints about the trials and tribulations of human existence; even on the paste-up method employed by Post Modernist writers; though underplayed is the obvious fact that … Continue reading →

Songs selected By Aaron Galbraith; commentary by Tony Attwood Aaron: Bob Dylan recorded “Step It Up and Go” for his 1992 album “Good as I Been to You”. His interpretation has been described as being similar to Blind Boy Fuller’s … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine Bob Dylan hasn’t stepped on European ground for more than three years, which will be his first time here since the world has changed drastically. His touring so far that was limited only to the States hasn’t … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Taken as a whole, the metonymic motifs in the songs of Bob Dylan are not nearly as fragmented as they first appear. Mythologists, poets, writers, and other artists, speak up for the languageless, for the ‘silent’, Cosmos … Continue reading →