Things Twice – the Book
All my articles below, and some which are not listed here, are now available as a book (c. 2 Mb). The music examples can be downloaded in midi and pdf format.
ARTICLES
Eyolf Østrem
- “What I learned from Lonnie”
An exploration of some remarks in Chronicles - Dylan's Guitars
A survey of Dylan's guitars throughout his carreer - The Momentum of Standstill – Time Out Of Mind and the blues
This article has been growing and growing, but is now, unlike most of the stuff here, not anymore "under construction" - "A day above ground is a good day". A review of Bob Dylan's Love and theft
Originally written for the journal Transfiguration - On analysing Dylan songs – is it possible, and is it worth it?
Considerations of a rather general character. This was one of my first attempts at combining my interests in Dylan and in music analysis - The propelling harmony of Dear Landlord
Another first attempt, this time at a more concrete application of the ideas in the former article - Just Like a Woman Revisited
I kind of like this one. I may have gone a bit over the top towards the end, with references to Beethoven, rape, Robert Frost. I've been told that most Americans are quite fed up with Frost owing to over-exposure at school, but since I'm not an American, I'm free of that. - Tangled Up In Tangled Up In Blue
Liner notes to a cassette compilation of best-of versions of this best-of song - Going Through These Things Twice – the Ritual of a Bob Dylan Concert
An early version of an article which in its finished version (published in Genre and Ritual: The Cultural Heritage of Medieval Rituals (Copenhagen 2005) is more about ritual theory than about Dylan - About Guitars and Kissing – not a concert review of some fall shows 2003
Based on exclusive material from brain-wave transcriptions from the minds of Larry Campbell and Freddy Koella during the Scandinavian fall shows in 2003 -
Introductory remarks to some of Dylan's albums
I have some other, not Dylan-oriented writing, here
Mike Daley
- Vocal performance
and speech intonation: Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone
This one has been gone for a while, but now I found it again.