Monthly Archives: November 2018

  By Larry Fyffe The visions of singer/singwriter Bob Dylan are best described as Gnostic. Tangled as he is in an enclosed physical space of darkness, Dylan seeks to escape by means of his works of art to the light … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is, according to the record kept by my computer, article number 1000 on Untold Dylan.   The very first article  a review of Mississippi – one of the all time great Dylan compositions in my opinion. Article … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst We owe the thin, wild, mercury sound to a flash of  inspiration from producer Bob Johnston. After exhausting, unsatisfactory and mostly unsuccesful recording sessions at the Columbia studios in New York, Johnston proposes to move to the … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe Singer/songwriter Bob Dylan confirmed yesterday that next year’s Never-Ending Tour will include concerts on a number of the planets that make up our solar sysem. Bob comments in an interview about his planned interplanetary mission: Don’t … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This song from the New Basement Tapes has the music written by Marcus Mumford, who of course also performs it. In an interview in Mojo he said, “There’s a conversation within the song, so I enjoyed singing as … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst Man Of Constant Sorrow, the autobiography of Ralph Stanley (co-written with Eddie Dean, 2007), is a somewhat two-faced affair. The legendary bluegrass pioneer is a humble, down-to-earth and simple man, but emphasizes that so often that it … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan And Mark Twain (Part III) by Larry Fyffe Under the influence of Mark Twain, singer/songwriter Bob Dylan pokes a bit of fun at those who take biblical and mythological tales as actual happenings rather than as figurative explanations … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Aaron Galbraith tipped me off about this song, and has with enormous dedication given us the opportunity to read the lyrics This is one of the New Basement Tapes songs with of course lyrics by Bob Dylan … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst It is an anecdote that Leonard Cohen likes to tell, apparently, for it can be read in many interviews. It refers to his late magnum opus, the wonderful song “Hallelujah”, the song that surprisingly but gradually climbed … Continue reading →

by Larry Fyffe Who among us can resist munching on a pun? A sure food it is to shore up lyrics, according to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan. There’s more double-entendre word play in Dylan’s song lyrics than there are grains of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “Lost on the River” is both the subtitle of The New Basement Tapes series, it is also one of the songs that exists in two forms – each utterly different from the other.  Number 12 is Elvis … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst A lot of great things can be said about “Blowin’ In The Wind” and in the Top 10 of the achievements of Dylan’s first classic is the fact that the song finally drove Graham Nash out of … Continue reading →

Part one of this series can be found at Take What You Have Gathered From Coincidence: Bob Dylan (Part 1) (And more Duncan and Jimmy) By Larry Fyffe The Bible tells of herders, nomadic they wander in large pastures with flocks … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “You’re willing to pay him a thousand dollars a night just for singing? Why, you can get a phonograph record of ‘Minnie the Moocher’ for 75 cents. And for a buck and a quarter, you can get … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “As I stumble on lost cigars of Bertolt Brecht,” Dylan writes in the last of his 11 Outlined Epitaphs (1963), in which he lists, in addition to reflections on change, a whole series of influential artists. Forty … Continue reading →

  by Larry Fyffe In some of his song lyrics, Bob Dylan tosses in a koan, or paradoxical riddle for listeners to solve: Duncan And Jimmy walk side by side Nobody walks between them Duncan And Jimmy walk side by … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Florida Key takes the lyrics of Bob Dylan and adds the music of Tayylor Goldsmith to give us a ballad.  A beautiful ballad.  A ballad very much worth listening to.  But still a ballad that gives me … Continue reading →

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall (1963) by Jochen Markhorst The English artist David Gray makes three rather unnoticed albums before becoming a millionseller in 1999 with his fourth album White Ladder. The single “Babylon” is a top hit, the song … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan And Mark Twain (Part I) is published here. By Larry Fyffe Though he composes a number of gospel songs that have an aura of seriousness, Bob Dylan is not beyond burlesquing sacred writings that are taken literally, rather … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood By any analysis, Bob Dylan’s lyrics “Duncan and Jimmy” is best described as a fragment, an idea, a little something he dashed off while having a coffee and waiting for the next big song to pop along … Continue reading →