Monthly Archives: March 2024

The Never Ending Tour Extended: High Water

I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Never Ending Tour Extended: This series uses recordings selected by Mike Johnson in his inestimable masterpiece The Never Ending Tour, and looks at how those performances … Continue reading

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The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour Part 8: My own version of you

  I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Rough and Rowdy Way Tour: 2021. The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour: part 2 Most likely you go your way and I’ll … Continue reading

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High Water (for Charley Patton) (2001) part 20: Odds and Ends

  Water’s gonna overflow “Maybe you noticed that most of my songs are traditionally rooted. I don’t do that on purpose. Charley Patton’s 30’s blues has made a deep impression on me and High Water (for Charley Patton) is, in … Continue reading

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A Dylan Cover a Day: Went to see the Gypsy.

By Tony Attwood I started writing this series (A Dylan Cover A Day) two and a half years ago, and for quite a while it was something I put up each day, but then the pandemic ended, other events happened, … Continue reading

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The lyrics and the music: Highway 61 Revisited

  “The Lyrics and the Music” is a series by Tony Attwood which tries to find out what happens when one reviews a Dylan song not primarily as a set of lyrics, but as a piece of music which includes … Continue reading

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The Never Ending Tour Extended: “Forever Young” 1987 to 2011

I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Never Ending Tour Extended: This series uses recordings selected by Mike Johnson in his inestimable masterpiece The Never Ending Tour, and looks at how those performances … Continue reading

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The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour part 7: “I’ll be your baby tonight”

  I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour The Rough and Rowdy Way Tour: 2021. The Rough and Rowdy Ways Tour: part 2 Most likely … Continue reading

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High Water 19: Water’s gonna overflow

  by Jochen Markhorst XIX       Water’s gonna overflow It does show a circled “3” at the top, but the draft version photographed by the Rolling Stone journalist when he visited the Bob Dylan Centre archives in 2017 does seem to … Continue reading

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A Dylan Cover A Day: Well, wouldn’t you know, Well well well

By Tony Attwood I have written before about how highly I rate “Well, well, well” and since then have discovered a few more covers which again I rate highly.  But I should add the caveat that there is at least … Continue reading

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The lyrics and the music: Hard Rain’s A-gonna Fall. A musical and lyrical revolution.

“The Lyrics and the Music” is a series by Tony Attwood which tries to find out what happens when one reviews a Dylan song not primarily as a set of lyrics, but as a piece of music which includes lyrics.  … Continue reading

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The Never Ending Tour Extended: Spirit on the Water

  I don’t know what it means either: an index to the current series appearing on this website. The Never Ending Tour Extended: Comparing recordings of Dylan performing his own compositions across the years. This series uses recordings selected by Mike Johnson … Continue reading

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