Monthly Archives: July 2025

Preface: this article includes a rather unusual recording of “Desolation Row”.  Even if you don’t feel like wandering through another of my meanders, you might care to skip the text and go to that recording.   If you’ve never come across … Continue reading →

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 10 by Jochen Markhorst X          And then see if you can make it make sense I’m gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell Like Liberace – like St. John the Apostle … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Two themes dominated Bob Dylan’s song writing in 1965, a disdain for the world he saw around him, and a desire to be moving on physically and emotionally.   Combined with this, I find in the songs of … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood The idea of the concert series is very simple – a set of links to videos or recordings of a single concert year by year, gathered together so that when complete we can all find at least … Continue reading →

  My Own Version Of You (2025) part 9 by Jochen Markhorst IX         You take things and you make them your own I get into trouble and I hit the wall No place to turn – no place at all … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan’s book, “The Philosophy of Modern Song”, was written, as I understand it, after he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.  I started out thinking I might write a commentary upon the book, but soon … Continue reading →

  This is the conclusion of the article a review of the amazing world of Dylan.pl – which we published a few days ago. By Filip Łobodziński Now we’re in 2025 and we’re a different band. During the lockdown, we parted … Continue reading →

  By Tony Attwood Details of the previous articles in this series are given at the end of the article.  Details of all the series were are currently running, and some recently concluded are given on the home page of this site.  … Continue reading →