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- Can a Dylan song be a life changing experience? The Drifter’s Escape expresses it all.
- Mother of Muses 1: The lyre and the laurel tree
- Dylan songs as a life changing experience: Every grain of sand
- Mani And Mona
- Untold Dylan: the book series
- Philosophy of Modern Song: Old and Only in the Way. And McKinley.
- Key West part 27 (final): A tapestry of rich and royal hue
- Dylan’s song of the year: 1980. Yonder Comes Sin
- Can a Bob Dylan song be a life changing experience? Visions of Johanna
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
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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
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