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- Bob Dylan’s greatest compositions year by year: 1969 – I’ll have you any time
- Key West part 15: Amelia
- Theme Time Radio Hour: Dogs and neighbours
- Do the earliest of Dylan’s recordings actually entertain, or indeed tell us anything?
- The Philosophy of Modern Song: Key to the Highway – the origin of the blues
- Dylan’s song of the year: 1968. Bob stops, but even so….
- Key West part 14: To make this Key West dock my home
- Theme Time Radio Hour: Eyes – and one of the greatest songs Bob selected
- Beyond the era of the genius composer – the utterly unexpected journey of one Dylan song
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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