In The Garden (1980)
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In any ‘Dylan’s strangest song’ contest, In the Garden will always be a strong contender. Here, I try to explain why. The ambiguity of an aug-chord is the answer.
Self-Ordained Professors
“A self-ordained professor’s tongue, Too serious to fool” — that’s me. Here’s a collection of texts I’ve written over the years.
Analysing Dylan Songs
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This text was the outcome of an initial attempt to define a field of study for an analytically oriented approach to popular music. It was meant for a volume I was planning to write together with the eminent Canadian scholar and musician Mike Daley. The book never happened, but the chapter still remains, and it works quite well as an introduction to this volume as well.
"It Wasn't Bruce" (A Musical Whodunnit)
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Who plays guitar on ‘Don’t Think Twice’? On the cover, it says ‘Bruce Langhorn’. Clinton Heylin agrees, Langhorn fans cheer, but they’re all wrong. I wrote down the transcript of the imaginary court case where the issue is settled, once and for all.