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by mr tambourine This is the final article in the series continuing from The mysteries of Bob: Performances and recordings since 1989. Part I The mysteries of Bob: Performances and recordings since 1989 Part II Fifteen songs were recorded for … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine This continues from The mysteries of Bob: Performances and recordings since 1989. Part 1 Heading towards Bob’s next studio album, World Gone Wrong, here’s some Wikipedia info that might be useful for you: Similar to how he … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood I’m cheating up to a point.   Jochen found the Ken Hamm version of this song – but the link we put up when he wrote his review has now disintegrated, so I’ve found another one.  Now you … Continue reading →

by mr tambourine I’m sometimes intrigued by how much Dylan fans actually don’t know or aren’t aware of about Bob, even though they have, and show, a desire to know a whole lot more than they already do. By no … Continue reading →

A full index to the Never Ending Tour series is here.    The articles for the earlier 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 4: … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood A list of the articles published previously in this meandering series is given at the end of the piece. I’ve never counted 4th Time Around as a major Dylan composition and given that Bob has only played … Continue reading →

By Aaron Galbraith and Tony Attwood   This made for TV movie was recorded in 1963 at Westinghouse TV Studio and starred The Brothers Four, Barbara Dane, The Staples Singers and Bob Dylan. The promotional poster is pretty cool too! Unfortunately … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Next on our list should be Floater, but there is only one interesting and/or exciting cover of this, and Jochen got there before me.  You’ll find the video in his article, and I do recommend it. The … Continue reading →

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 →