Monthly Archives: May 2013

Review by Tony Attwood, updated August 2018. In this review I’ve given a couple of live versions of the song plus the official original video, although sadly in many of the live versions available Bob’s singing is hard to hear.  … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Updated 12 Sep 17 It has taken me a long old time to get here, but a very special thanks to our correspondent who pointed out that Jelly Roll Morton and His Red Hot Peppers had recorded “Each … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This was the second review I wrote of “It takes a lot to laugh”.   Indeed over time the song has had quite a few reviews and mentions here: there is an index at the end. Returning to … Continue reading →

Day of the Locusts We know a fair amount the day of the Locusts from David Crosby’s commentary about how he, Sara and Bob Dylan attended the honorary doctorate award at Princeton University – an occasion Bob Dylan did not … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This article updated 6 Spetember 2019. Although there is little musical connection between “Honest with Me” from “Love and “Theft”, and Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues, there is a connection via the lyrics. Consider the opening of … Continue reading →

Dylan’s “High Water (For Charley Patton)”  is based on three chords but in effect two of the three chords are just used in passing at the end of each verse to the line “High water everywhere”.  As a result virtually … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This review updated July 2018, with help from Larry Fyffe, and it now includes links to two live versions by Dylan, plus a version by Howard Markman and Glenn Workman with The Stone Hill All Stars. I … Continue reading →

Tweedledum and Tweedledee are characters in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There a book which I was read by my father as I grew up as a child.   I suspect many other children of the era had … Continue reading →