The Solitary Walker

One Day in Washington I noticed at the ceremony, your corrupt ways had finally made you blind.  Bob Dylan Idiot Wind The White Hou...

I got the pork chops, she got the pie She ain't no angel and neither am I Two of my favourite  Dylan lines ever — apart from a...

Before leaving Somerset, we spent a day in Bath, or Aquae Sulis , as the Romans called it. Before the Romans, the ancient Britons worshipp...

How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, ’n’ how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in ...

Well, I wandered alone through a desert of stone And I dreamt of my future wife My sword's in my hand and I'm next in command I...

I've been around iron all my life ever since I was a kid. I was born and raised in iron ore country where you could breathe it and smel...

This post is dedicated to blog friend Am ( Amanda ) from the American North West, one of my most loyal and long-standing blog readers. A...

Bob Dylan and his band live in Bologna, 2006. (Image from Wikimedia Commons.) One minute before the day of the release of Bob Dylan ...

Disillusioned words like bullets bark / As human gods aim for their mark / Make everything from toy guns that spark / To flesh-colored Chris...

I've seen Bob Dylan in concert around thirty times - which must make me rather more than the average fan. Fanatic may be a fairer descr...

Between Kinsale and Bantry lies the small town of Clonakilty. We stopped for lunch at De Barra's and took a brief nostalgia trip. This b...

Today the gypsies gather at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer in the French Camargue, culmination of their annual Romany pilgrimage. Bob Dylan att...

The lovely Kate Rusby, one of England's most beloved contemporary folk singers and songwriters, singing Canaan's Land . The sixti...

Everybody movin’ if they ain’t already there Everybody got to move somewhere BOB DYLAN Mississippi And the wayward wind is a restles...

Ring them bells so the world will know / That God is one BOB DYLAN Ring Them Bells Part Two, Sonnet XXIX Quiet friend who has come so far...

Sicily's southeast has always been one of the island's wealthiest and most turbulently historic regions. In Siracusa's Parco Arc...

After climbing the steep cliffs near the sea, one reaches two summits connected by a half-circle. Whatever shape it may have had originally,...

For a post which blends photography, Bob Dylan, Pablo Picasso, the personal, the subliminal - and fish trucks (!) - in such a satisfying way...

For the loser now will be later to win / For the times they are a-changin' BOB DYLAN If we look around it isn't hard to see that we...

Tolling for the searching ones, on their speechless, seeking trail / For the lonesome-hearted lovers with too personal a tale / And for each...