Lyrics

Every feel the need to track down a Dylan lyric to it’s blues roots? Check out the concordance below. Prewar Blues and Bob Dylan – A Concordance

Most serious Dylan fans know that his lyrics are heavily influenced by the Bible. Bert Cartwright published one of the first books on the subject (long out-of-print). Check out the link below to read-up on Damian Balassone’s efforts to do the same.

I have visited this site in many years, but I thought some readers might be interested. It’s a value site, I hope it doesn’t go away. The fact that it’s on the old GeoCities platform is not a good sign. Film Dialogue in the Lyrics of Bob Dylan

I was reviewing Andrew Muir’s Homer the Slut Volume 4 today, which contains a long series of excerpts from various Dylan books about the song, Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right.  The authors express some surprisingly varied ideas of what the song is about. Is it a love song? Is it something more akin to …

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Welcome to the inaugural post for the new Dylan Commentaries blog. The blog – just like the web site – will focus on topics related to the first eight albums of Dylan’s career, except for when it doesn’t. Today’s lunch hour was reserved for reading Homer the Slut Volume II, the fanzine published by Andrew …

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