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Too 'Tangled up in Blues': A Look Inside Bob Dylan's 1974 Notebooks
By Jason Miller From The Dylan Review Over twenty pages of Dylan’s handwritten lyrics to “Tangled Up in Blue” (1974) are now available for study at the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. These lyrics are located in two small 5 in. x 3 in. spiral notebooks from 1974. All forty-five pages of each notebook are filled, and one contains personal notes commingled with revised song lyrics to what would become the iconic 1975 album Blood on the Tracks. The album chronicles Dylan wo
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"All Along the Watchtower": Bob Dylan's Sequel to Robert Browning's "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"
By Jason Miller From Grove, Working Papers on English Studies Dylan’s 1967 song “All Along the Watchtower” can be understood as a sequel to Browning’s 1855 poem. This sequel addresses the dilemmas of what happens to an artist once they arrive as a musician. By bringing Browning’s neglected poem into the conversation, this essay extends the exemplary work of connecting Dylan and Browning finely documented by Michael Gray. “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” supplies all the
Jul 11, 20251 min read
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