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- From A Buick 6 part 8: Carmen got a little six Buick
- 1971: When Bob said, “I’ll show you I’m more than 3 chords”: When I paint my masterpiece
- The Philosophy of Modern Song: You don’t know me
- Bob Dylan: the Concert Series. 18 November 2005
- From A Buick 6 part 7: The steam shovel and the dump truck
- No Nobel Prize for Music, but an honorary degree nevertheless. But why was Bob not pleased?
- When Bob clearly said, “Songs don’t have to mean anything:” The Whiffenpoof Song.
- Bob Dylan the concert series: 13 November 2008
- From A Buick 6 part 6: Boy, this is love
Monthly Archives: January 2009
Dylan’s “John Brown”: not just the song it is the staggering performance
by Tony Attwood It is not the song “John Brown” that works so perfectly within its own context – the story of the mother proudly telling everyone her son is fighting in the war and then coming back shot to … Continue reading
Posted in MTV Unplugged (Live), The Songs
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Dylan’s “Series of Dreams” complete with the missing verse & a brilliant alternate version.
by Tony Attwood Note: This article was Updated July 2018 with 3 recordings added including the version with the “extra” verse. But since then all the versions with the extra verse have been removed from the internet as far as … Continue reading
Posted in Bootleg Series volume 3
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Neighborhood Bully: how not to write a song in praise of something
By Tony Attwood There is something I really don’t like about Neighbourhood Bully, despite Dylan’s assertions that it is not about Zionism. Maybe it is not. Maybe it is just about the state of Israel. I would always appreciate that … Continue reading
Posted in Infidels
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Foot of Pride: Bob Dylan’s rambling masterpiece which tears us limb from limb
By Tony Attwood Writing the second version of this review it struck me what a curious mixture of songs Bob wrote in 1983. Here is the sequence of composing, as far as it can be put together, around the time … Continue reading
Posted in Bootleg Series volume 3, The Songs
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Standing in the doorway: a work of solemn genius from Bob Dylan
Review by Tony Attwood. Updated May 2018 with addition of this extraordinary live version of the song, and the opening verse at the end. “Time out of mind” starts just about as low as you can imagine – “Love Sick” … Continue reading
Posted in The Songs, Time out of mind
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