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Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part V)

Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part V) Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1 Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part II) Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part III) Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part IV) … Continue reading

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Cold Irons Bound (1997) part 2: To live is to be alone

Cold Irons Bound (1997) part 1: Dear Dr Ralph by Jochen Markhorst II          To live is to be alone I’m waist deep, waist deep in the mist It’s almost like, almost like I don’t exist I’m twenty miles out of … Continue reading

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Never Ending Tour, 2000, part 6 – Beyond Dylan

This series reviews the Never Ending Tour from its origins in 1987 through to its cancellation with the outbreak of the pandemic.   A full index of the articles is available here, and the most recent are Never Ending Tour 2000, … Continue reading

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All directions at once 65: the time of evolving other people’s ideas

By Tony Attwood This series traces Bob Dylan’s composing in the order in which the songs were written.  There is an index to all the episodes here. In the last episode of “All Directions” (part 64) we got to Floater … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part IV)

Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1 Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part II) Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part III) by Larry Fyffe A dangerous business perhaps, but Bob Dylan leaves lots of clues in his … Continue reading

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Cold Irons Bound (1997) part 1: Dear Dr Ralph

by Jochen Markhorst I           Dear Dr. Ralph “It was a really great band. And I’m sorry not to be in it today. I miss Bob and I miss that band.” Drummer David Kemper does open the doors to his heart, … Continue reading

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Dylan Adjacent: Helena Springs

Dylan Adjacent: Charlie Sexton Dylan Adjacent: Bob and Larry Campbell Dylan Adjacent: Echo in the Canyon By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood The people we are looking at in this series are artists who have a direct connection to Dylan and … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part III)

Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1 Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part II) by Larry Fyffe From the reporting of his time-travelling adventures, our readers can readily see that singer/songerwriter Bob Dylan secretly encodes the story of … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream part 8 (final): The historians’ delight

by Jochen Markhorst Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Part 1: There’s very little that you can’t imagine not happening Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream part 2 – Blow Boys Blow Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream  part 3: Your waitress: Captain America Bob Dylan’s … Continue reading

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Beautiful Obscurity: Lay Lady Lay, and doing the impossible

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In this series we look at some fine, but also less well known, covers of Dylan compositions with Aaron making the selections and Tony playing the game of writing a review while the song … Continue reading

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Never Ending Tour, 2000, part 5, Back to Bedrock Two

So far Dylan in 2000 has been covered via Never Ending Tour 2000, Part 1 – Master Vocalist: Finding voice NET, 2000, Part 2. Master Vocalist – Please heed these words that I speak NET 2000 Part 3: Master Vocalist … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan And The DylavincI Code (Part II)

Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1 By Larry Fyffe Some analysts of the songs by Bob Dylan have pointed out that the key to breaking the secret “code” hidden in a number of his lyrics is to realize … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream part 7: I’ve never been able to read the damned thing

by Jochen Markhorst Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Part 1: There’s very little that you can’t imagine not happening Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 2 – Blow Boys Blow Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 3: … Continue reading

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All Directions at once 64: Something borrowed something blue

By Tony Attwood A full index of the articles in this series can be found here. Our series looking at Dylan’s songs in the order they were written, to try and ascertain his thoughts and the reasons why he wrote … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan And The Dylavinci Code Part 1

by Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan drops a big clue concerning the  real story behind the biblical Jesus in a recent song that he writes: I searched the world over For the Holy Grail I sing songs of love I … Continue reading

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NET, 2000, part 4: Back to Bedrock One

So far Dylan in 2000 has been covered via Never Ending Tour 2000, Part 1 – Master Vocalist: Finding voice NET, 2000, Part 2. Master Vocalist – Please heed these words that I speak NET 2000 Part 3: Master Vocalist … Continue reading

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How to Start Listening to Bob Dylan

Music is such a wonderful thing. It can lift spirits, improve your mood and help to create wonderful memories. Both listening and playing are such amazing things, which is why it is not surprising to see just how many people … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 6: Caput vel cauda

by Jochen Markhorst Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream Part 1: There’s very little that you can’t imagine not happening Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 2 – Blow Boys Blow Bob Dylan’s 115th Dream (1965) part 3: Your waitress: Captain America … Continue reading

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Dylan re-writes Dylan: Hard Rain and Ring them Bells

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood In the first little venture into the idea of exploring how Bob Dylan can re-write his own songs (to which we gave the adventurous name  Dylan re-writes Dylan) we looked particularly at how the … Continue reading

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Bob Dylan: Cooking Up More Mythologies (Part XVII)

An index to the full “Cooking Up More Mythologies” series appears at the end of this article. by Larry Fyffe Already pointed out, the influence from writers of figurative-laden tracts, that later became described as ‘Gnostic”, shows up in the … Continue reading

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