Jochen Markhorst

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.

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My Rough And Rowdy Ways part 2 (final):
The spirit of Jimmie Rodgers

The Singing Brakeman, Warren Smith, and Merle Haggard

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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.

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My Own Version Of You part 22 (final):
From the chord fairy

Blake Mills, Blake Mills and more Blake Mills

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My own version of You 21:
Here sit I, forming mortals after my image

What's in a name?

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My Own Version Of You (part 20):
If you’re okay, say something

Frankenstein, 'lectricity and Pulp Fiction

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My Own Version Of You 19:
The striding of the gods

Tommy, G-d, and Measure For Measure

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My Own Version Of You part 18:
“It is strange what people discover in my work”

Tom Jones, John Lee Hooker & Freudo-Marxism

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My Own Version Of You 17:
They seemed to have an ancient presence

Homer, Nettie Moore & Alexander The Great

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My Own Version Of You 16:
Your writings and rotten plagiarisings ill-gotten

Truth, Hesse & Mozart

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My Own Version Of You part 15:
“And Mick can write!”

Stones go Dylan and Dylan goes Stones; Moonlight Mile & Mother's Little Helper

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My Own Version Of You (2020) part 14:
Carrying a noose on a silver tray

Cat Stevens and William "Brother Bill" Burroughs

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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

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My Own Version Of You part 12:
The dismalest tavern of them all

Tie A Yellow Ribbon, Pete Hamill, and the Black Horse Tavern

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My Own Version Of You (2020) part 11:
Just extending the line

Robert Johnson, his sister, and Rollin' And Tumblin'

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I'll be there!

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)

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My Own Version Of You part 9:
You take things and you make them your own

Dylan the crowd pleaser & Caesar

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My Own Version Of You part 8:

A truly fascinating song

Willow (don't) weep for me

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So, only six more songs to go: a love affair with Highway 61 Revisited

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So, only six more songs to go: a love affair with Highway 61 Revisited

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It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry b/w Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues: Bob Dylan’s melancholy blues (The Songs Of Bob Dylan) It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry b/w Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues: Bob Dylan’s melancholy blues (The Songs Of Bob Dylan) [Markhorst, Jochen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry b/w Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues: Bob Dylan’s melancholy blues (The Songs Of Bob Dylan)

"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.
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My Own Version Of You part 7 “Although I did not mean myself when I said ‘I’…”

My Own Version Of You, part 7:

“Although I did not mean myself when I said ‘I’…”

Karl May & the benefit of all mankind

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recorded 16 June 1965:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LIKE A ROLLING STONE!

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My Own Version Of You part 6 They saw, yet they did not see

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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
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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

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Beautiful song, chapeau. And great sound. Love the organ & the guitar (George Harrison is not dead). Keep on keepin' on!

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

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