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by  Larry Fyffe Characteristic of the Post-Modern literary style, here’s Bob Dylan, singer / songwriter / musician, in the basement, mixing up the modern musical medicine show with the traditional murder ballad. Below a murder ballad of yore: She took … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood “All directions at once” is a series which looks at Bob Dylan’s writing as it evolves over time, rather than focusing entirely on individual songs or albums.   The index of all articles is here. We have reached … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood This is episode 37 of “All Directions at Once”, a series which considers Bob Dylan’s songwriting in the order in which he wrote the songs, attempting to see Dylan’s creativity as a wave form, endlessly ebbing and … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is part 27 of All Directions at Once.  An index to the series  is available here. (The previous episode is at Oh Bob you’re such a big boy now; just watch out for that storm) In … Continue reading →

by John Henry Dylan’s roots in the traditions of folk music have ensured that murder ballads feature regularly in his repertoire. Ballads are songs that tell a story and murder ballads are songs where the story is about a murder. … Continue reading →

This continues from All directions 17: “You got something new to tell us Bob?” In a Rolling Stone interview in 1984 Dylan confirmed the notion that he had had a period of wanting to back off from the music scene … Continue reading →

By Tony Attwood This is episode 16 of All Directions at Once.   An index of the articles so far in this series appears here. Jochen has already provided us with the clue to “All along the watchtower” in an … Continue reading →

1: A song is like a painting, you can’t see it all if you’re standing too close 2: All directions at once: how Dylan’s lyrics empower those who wish to be empowered 3: All Directions at once: The prelude to the explosion (1959-1961) … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Bob Dylan finished 1965 by getting married, writing “Visions of Johanna” and then going on tour.  That tour has since been described as leaving him utterly exhausted, and various accounts have him behaving irrationally at times during … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Links to the previous articles in this series appear at the foot of this piece and on the “All Directions” Index In this series I am trying to put forward the notion that while there is a … Continue reading →

A list of earlier episodes of this series appears at the end of the article. By Tony Attwood Bob Dylan ended 1962 by writing three highly exploratory songs.  Hero Blues puts forward the proposition that one should be wary when … Continue reading →

by Tony Attwood Of late I have been working my way through the songs Dylan wrote in the 1950s and 1960s.  (There’s an index to the articles at the end of this piece). I make it 262 songs written and … Continue reading →

By Jochen Markhorst The scanty instrumentation and the old-fashioned, simple song structures of The Basement Tapes Dylan brings along to Nashville, where in October 1967, after a year and a half absence, he finally returns to a real studio to … Continue reading →

by Jochen Markhorst “There was always something about that song, that was so simple, and an audacity to this sort of simplicity to that song. But it was so… so powerful at the same time. For me, at least. I … Continue reading →

It is not a topic we’ve looked at before but in 1995, Bob Dylan saw his iconic status transcend the stage to the world of video games when an interactive CD-ROM was unveiled by Graphix Zone and Sony Music Entertainment. … Continue reading →

By Mike Johnson (Kiwipoet) ‘Rosemary combed her hair and took a cabbage into town’ No. She didn’t. She took a carriage into town, but it’s easy enough to mishear Dylan. He has a way of bending words, and while he … Continue reading →

  by Jochen Markhorst The world is a play scene Each plays his role and gets his share In the Dutch speaking world well-known poetry verses from Joost van den Vondel from 1637, but even at that time they were … Continue reading →

By Larry Fyffe According to preRomantic poet William Blake, taking his cue from ancient Greek ‘psychology’ (based on the elements of earth, wind, fire, and water), contempory Western society is out of tune with the Universe because the air, its … Continue reading →

by  Jochen Markhorst In May 2018, television company Fox announces that after three seasons the plug is to be pulled from the popular series Lucifer. The announcement provokes the predictable  protests, sadness, indignation and the inevitable #savelucifer action, but Fox does have a … Continue reading →