Monthly Archives: November 2018

by Jochen Markhorst It is not really Joan Baez’ forte, writing songs, but at least once she rises above herself: “Diamonds & Rust” from 1975 really is a wonderful song. Definitely on a musical level, although the beauty may be … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan’s Conversion To Mormonism by Larry Fyffe Not at all noticed by Dylanologists is that Bob Dylan gives hints in his song lyrics that he has coverted to the Mormon religion – a well-kept secret that does not escape … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Another song from the New Basement Tapes – you can find the full listing of the songs and links to all the reviews (which at the moment are not complete) by going to Dylan songs of the … Continue reading →

You’re A Big Girl Now (1975) by Jochen Markhorst The Men In Black and a bunch of evil aliens are searching for ‘The Light’ of the planet Zartha, which eventually turns out to be a semi-divine creature in an attractive … Continue reading →

  By Larry Fyffe Frederich Nietzsche, a Dionysian neoRomantic in many ways, depicts contemporary society as possessing a ‘herd mentality’, a pessimistic place of conformity that puts any hopes of meritorious reward off until the aferlife -a ‘slave morality’ exists … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood May I say from the start I utterly love this song and since discovering it, have played it over and over, time and time again. The lyrics are, by Dylan’s standards, simple, but it is what the … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “There’s a code in the lyrics,” Dylan says in 1978 about Blood On The Tracks in the interview with Jonathan Cott. The odd duck out among those encrypted, coded texts that supposedly dominate the album is “You’re … Continue reading →

Bob Dylan, Fyodor Dostoevsky, And Alexander Pope: Give Me Somthing, Not Nothing by Larry Fyffe One interpretation of the song below is that Bob Dylan takes on the persona of a bespectacled student assigned to write a brief book report … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Down on the bottom is the opening song of the New Basement Tapes collection of songs created by various artists using lyrics from a Bob Dylan notebook which is thought to have dated from 1967. In this … Continue reading →