FROM A BUICK 6 - part 9 (final): The Mississippi Delta was shining like a National guitar On the song's aftershocks and resuscitation attempts. With a spotlight on Ken Hamm's successful campaign to bringing it all back home bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32302

From A Buick 6 part 8: Carmen got a little six Buick Charley Patton, John Fogerty and the car men. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32255

From A Buick 6 - part 7: The steam shovel and the dump truck Woody Guthrie & Joe Strummer bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32229

From A Buick 6 part 6: Boy, this is love Bo Diddley & Tennessee Ernie Ford. And a lot of guns. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32206

From A Buick 6 part 5: You Can’t Judge A Book By The Cover Stephen King and Bo Diddley bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32162

From A Buick 6 part 4: The Three Princes of Serendip Sherlock, Phil Collins and Nina Simone bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32135

From A Buick 6 part 3: I will die in thy lap Sleepy John Estes, Kerouac and Mississippi John Hurt bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32091

From A Buick 6 part 2: Torn Between Two Lovers Pete Yarrow and Sleepy John Estes. And a touch of Marlene. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32056

It's been a while, but the Amazon algorithm has awakened and scored yet another bull's-eye. It is, eerily, a book I'd immensely enjoy.

From A Buick 6 part 1: Cars are cars Paul Simon and Simon & Garfunkel. And a Buick. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/32021

Sitting On A Barbed-Wire Fence part 2 (final): Kansas City, here I come Holden Caulfield, Bo Diddley and Wilbert Harrison. And more. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31990

ROUGH AND ROWDY WAYS Side A “A great song mutates, makes quantum leaps, turns up again like the prodigal son,” (Dylan, WSJ, Dec. '22). "I Contain Multitudes", "False Prophet" and "My Own Version Of You": quantum leaping, genre-crossing songs. Let's dive in. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FWCSNCBB

One more chapter from the Desolation Row book. "Greenwich Village Blues", on the 5th stanza. Hereafter on to other horizons. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31862

Five years ago we promised to post some chapters from my Desolation Row book on Untold. A promise that somehow floated away over the Waters of Oblivion after one publication (about the Ophelia stanza, 18 March 2020). Today it washed ashore again. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31819

My Rough And Rowdy Ways part 2 (final): The spirit of Jimmie Rodgers The Singing Brakeman, Warren Smith, and Merle Haggard bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31780

My Rough And Rowdy Ways part 1: But if you want to yodel, that’s ok too Jerry Garcia and Phil Lesh. And Jimmie Rodgers, obviously. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31737

My Own Version Of You part 22 (final): From the chord fairy Blake Mills, Blake Mills and more Blake Mills bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31689

My own version of You 21: Here sit I, forming mortals after my image What's in a name? bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31637

My Own Version Of You (part 20): If you’re okay, say something Frankenstein, 'lectricity and Pulp Fiction bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31589

My Own Version Of You 19: The striding of the gods Tommy, G-d, and Measure For Measure bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31552

My Own Version Of You part 18: “It is strange what people discover in my work” Tom Jones, John Lee Hooker & Freudo-Marxism bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31508

My Own Version Of You 17: They seemed to have an ancient presence Homer, Nettie Moore & Alexander The Great bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31465

My Own Version Of You 16: Your writings and rotten plagiarisings ill-gotten Truth, Hesse & Mozart bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31452

My Own Version Of You part 15: “And Mick can write!” Stones go Dylan and Dylan goes Stones; Moonlight Mile & Mother's Little Helper bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31412

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 14: Carrying a noose on a silver tray Cat Stevens and William "Brother Bill" Burroughs bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31375

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 13: “One of the sweetest motherfuckers you could ever meet” Jerome Green & Bo Diddley, The Stones & The Beatles bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31346

My Own Version Of You part 12: The dismalest tavern of them all Tie A Yellow Ribbon, Pete Hamill, and the Black Horse Tavern bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31313

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 11: Just extending the line Robert Johnson, his sister, and Rollin' And Tumblin' bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31276

My Own Version Of You part 10: And then see if you can make it make sense “It’s mentally… mentally… it gives you a thrill.” (Dylan on rhyming) bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31241

My Own Version Of You part 9: You take things and you make them your own Dylan the crowd pleaser & Caesar bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31214

My Own Version Of You part 8: A truly fascinating song Willow (don't) weep for me bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31174

So, only six more songs to go: a love affair with Highway 61 Revisited bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31158

So, only six more songs to go: a love affair with Highway 61 Revisited bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31158

"It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry b/w Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues" The magic of those 2 melancholy moments on the GOAT. Available on Amazon since this morning. Translations for our German and Dutch friends soon to follow. www.amazon.com/dp/B0FF31HL6Z

My Own Version Of You, part 7: “Although I did not mean myself when I said ‘I’…” Karl May & the benefit of all mankind open.substack.com/pub/jochenma...

recorded 16 June 1965: HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIKE A ROLLING STONE! amazon.com/dp/B0DV5GQ7Y2

jochenmarkhorst.substack.com/p/my-own-ver... My Own Version Of You part 6: They saw, yet they did not see On our failure to appreciate Prometheus & Dylan's nod of acknowledgement

My Own Version Of You (2025) part 5: The whole world is a cactus Jacques Dutronc, Pompidou, Larry Charles bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31030

bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/31014 My Own Version Of You part 4: Tough and tender, granite and satin

My Own Version Of You part 3: Next time you come to the bridge, jump Alec Wilder shows Peggy Lee, Sinatra and Dylan the Way, the Truth and the Life bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30992

My Own Version Of You part 2: Take the head off of him and sew it onto this guy Tom Waits, Stephen King & The Stanley Brothers bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30958

My Own Version Of You (2020) part 1: Keys t’unlock my mind "A word, a tune, a story, a line - I listen for fragments, riffs, chords, even lyrics." bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30899

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry part 19: Mail Train Kept A-Rollin’ (conclusion) Dylan ain’t no false prophet bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30878

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 18: “I just serve the song” Charlie Sexton, Charlie Sexton and Charlie Sexton bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30835

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 17: Well, I ride on the A train, baby Evolution of the song 1978-2004 bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30799

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 16: “Repeat anyone else you like, only not yourself!” On the first live renditions. And Stravinsky. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30764

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry part 15: It blew my little 12-year-old mind Lucinda, north country girls and Yo La Tengo: on the ladies who have a go at "It Takes A Lot" bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30729

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 14: I ride on a million train baby Fairport Convention's Top 3 adaption and La Faithfull off the wall. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30703

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry part 13: Just a basic whack thud A Chris Smither interlude. Deserves a spotlight, I'd say. Breath-taking Dylan covers. bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30682

It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry 12: You don’t whistle in church Donnie Darko, Mel Lyman and Irwin Silber bob-dylan.org.uk/archives/30643