Monthly Archives: November 2008

Positively 4th Street: the meaning and the music with an interesting variant

Updated September 2020 with studio outtake By Tony Attwood.  This review revised September 2014 and April 2018 with two videos added. Two lines of music – just eight bars long – repeated over and over and over.  And yet it is … Continue reading

Posted in Essential Bob Dylan, The Songs | 15 Comments

Visions of Johanna: the meaning of the music, the lyrics and the rewrites

By Tony Attwood. This article updated most recently 12 May 2021.   This is Dylan’s reply to Eliot.  Where TS Eliot wrote about watching the women come and go talking of Michaelangelo, and measuring out a life in coffee spoons, so … Continue reading

Posted in Blonde on Blonde, The Songs | 26 Comments