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Dirt Road Blues part 1: They going down 61 Highway Dirt Road Blues part 2: The troublingest woman I ever seen Dirt Road Blues part 3: But your brains are staying south by Jochen Markhorst IV         Gross as beetles Gon’ … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I’ve been working my way through Dylan songs in alphabetical order, but have come into territory where either we have songs with no covers, or nothing that I think is worthy of a mention, or we’ve already … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe The narrator in the following song lyrics just can’t comprehend why his fiery lust for a gal is not returned in kind: When you are near It’s just as plain as it can be I’m wild about … Continue reading →

A full index to the Never Ending Tour series is here.    The articles for the first three parts of 2002 are Part 1: Never Ending Tour, 2002,, Seattle Showdown Part 2  Tickling the Ivories Part 3: Manchester and other outstanding performances Part … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood It is Christmas Day in the UK – the biggest holiday of the year.  And so I thought I would do something different.  I wasn’t sure what but then Jochen and I were having one of our … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood If you have been following this little series you may have noticed that I have meandered somewhat, moving out of the strict alphabetical order occasionally, to go back to songs I missed, and then mistakenly written a … Continue reading →

Dirt Road Blues (1997) part 1: They going down 61 Highway Dirt Road Blues part 2: The troublingest woman I ever seen by Jochen Markhorst III         But your brains are staying south Gon’ walk down that dirt road, ’til someone … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Now this is a problematic song and a half.  “Dignity” (the song) does something that I can’t for the moment, associate with any other popular song.   It’s core is the pragmatisation of the concept – turning the … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood “Soundstage : The World of John Hammond” was broadcast on December 6, 1975 and lasted almost 3 hours! Tributes were made to Hammond from all the many and varied artists whose careers he had … Continue reading →

If it were just the shouting it would be nothing, but the vocal harmonies, the slight intermissioins and the guitar solo make it. Of course we all know the lyrics so well, so an instrumental version is welcome – if … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe John Milton and John Bunyan be Puritans, and believe faith in God, not good works, is the key to salvation. In the poetic lyrics below, blindness is a burden that the writer  just has to learn to … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Moving on through the Dylan songs in alphabetical order I was not especially surprised to find the paucity of covers of Day of the Locusts, which is a very personal song, but I was interested and slightly … Continue reading →

Dirt Road Blues (1997) part 1: They going down 61 Highway by Jochen Markhorst II          The troublingest woman I ever seen Gon’ walk down that dirt road, ’til someone lets me ride Gon’ walk down that dirt road, ’til someone … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood I have loved Dark Eyes from the first moment I heard it and am always sad about the fact Bob’s hardly ever played it on tour.  It is a delicate beautiful song of sadness and world weariness.  … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: I first came across Playing for Change a couple of years ago when I stumbled upon this version of The Bands’ The Weight on YouTube This is from their website https://playingforchange.com/ Playing For Change is … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Not a Dylan song I particularly care about, and when this ramble through Dylan songs (which rather obviously is being undertaken in alphabetical order) got to Country Pie I suspected this was going to be another song … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe Said by some art historians that Leonardo da Vinci replaces the bad-boy Apostle John with Mary Magdalene in the painting “The Last Supper”. Christ’s bond with her is much stronger than the relationships He has with His … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The trouble with this song is that although it isn’t a 12 bar blues it feels as if it ought to be created as one, and that thought has obviously sunk into the minds of many of … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood Aaron: For this episode, I thought we could take a look at some performances Bob made at a series of televised galas down the years. First from the Gershwin Gala in 1987 is Bob’s … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Down along the cove” is not one of my favourite Dylan compositions, simply because there isn’t much there.  The lyrics seem to me to be profoundly ordinary, the song doesn’t fit with the rest of the album, … Continue reading →