Category: Music

BOB DYLAN’S SOON AFTER MIDNIGHT THESEUS. Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon; but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! She lingers my desires, Like to a step-dame or a dowager, Long withering out a young man’s revenue. HIPPOLYTA. Four days will quickly steep...

 BOB DYLAN: DUQUESNE WHISTLE You’re the only thing alive that keeps me going You’re like a time-bomb in my heart…”   In Tempest Bob Dylan takes us on a ‘dream journey’ through storms and bitterness and rage. The dream visions increase in intensity, as he draws us into a parallel vision of ‘modern times’ in...

BOB DYLAN’S BORN IN TIME … I walk alone through the shakin’ street…            In recent years, in his interviews and in his Theme Time Radio Hour  show, Bob Dylan has professed considerable admiration for ‘crooners’ like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra. This may have come as something of a surprise to...

BOB DYLAN: TELL OL’ BILL           Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea,...

BOB DYLAN’S RED RIVER SHORE The frozen smile upon my face fits me like a glove… And she bore him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land Exodus 2:22 There in the tomb stand the dead upright, But winds come up from...

  BOB DYLAN’S SOMEDAY BABY AND AIN’T TALKIN’ Sometimes like women or unwedded maids Shadowing more beauty in their airy brows Than have the white breasts of The Queen Of Love… Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus Little by little, bit by bit Every day I’m becoming more of a hypocrite…  The main story which Tell Tale...

BOB DYLAN: DIGNITY  …Soul of a nation is under the knife… Dignity, like Series Of Dreams and God Knows, was originally written and recorded for Oh Mercy. It was eventually released in remixed form as a single some five years later and also appeared on the MTV Unplugged album in 1996. Tell Tale Signs features...

BOB DYLAN: MISSISSIPPI (PART TWO)   In the first verse Dylan begins with a simple statement of his intention to pursue his faith in his muse, combined with clear intimations of mortality which seem to motivate him. From the beginning the use of the pronoun ‘we’ involves the listener intimately in this process. …Every step...

   BOB DYLAN: MISSISSIPPI (PART ONE) Despite his difficult relationship with the recording process and his focus on live performance, Bob Dylan has always conceived his albums as expressive units – groups of songs arranged in a particular order for specific effects. This is obvious in the case of albums as diverse as Blood On...