Category: Music

  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...

BOB DYLAN: ‘Cross The Green Mountain …All must yield To the Avenging God…         In the mud and the blood of the makeshift trench, the soldier boy from Belvedere, South Carolina, is about to breathe his last. The Yankee bullet which had pierced his groin had come from some anonymous source, from...

MUSIC BOOK REVIEW: Million Dollar Bash by Sid Griffin Year by year the legend of The Basement Tapes grows. Here’s a few personal memories. I remember reading about the legendary Great White Wonder when I was at school in the late ‘60s. A little later, as a spotty teenager, I acquired a copy of The...