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Dylan Reworks Old Songs Into New Meaning
Coverage from Untold Dylan, Wix, and others
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09/05
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Executive Summary
Jochen Markhorst reads My Own Version of You as Dylan's method of remaking older songs, images, and lines into evolving new work
- Dylan links My Own Version of You to older songs by Bo Diddley and Jerome Green
- Bring It To Jerome is traced to Keith Richards, the Stones, and Paul McCartney
- Sixteen Tons and St Peter recur as source points for Dylan's lyrics and imagery
- The willow verse is connected to Sinatra, Alec Wilder, and Joan Armatrading
- The 2025 Tulsa performance strips the song to near-recitative with sparse backing
- The article argues Dylan prizes imperfect renewal over repeating finished originals
- Rushdie, Stravinsky, and Burroughs are used to frame Dylan's reuse of prior art
Quick Facts
- What: Interprets My Own Version of You through musical reuse
- Where: Rough and Rowdy Ways and a Tulsa performance
- Why: To show Dylan builds new songs from older material
- Who: Bob Dylan and essayist Jochen Markhorst
- When: 2020 song and 2025 live rendition
Coverage Timeline: 4638 Days
Featured Article
In an Untold Dylan blog essay, Jochen Markhorst analyzes Bob Dylan's 2020 song My Own Version Of You and its torch-song references.
Additional Articles
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In this blog post, a Dylan commentator analyzes Bob Dylan's 2020 song My Own Version of You from Rough and Rowdy Ways in philosophical detail.
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In a 2020s Untold Dylan article, Jochen analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You through its references to Bo Diddley, Jerome Green, and Sixteen Tons.
On 25 March 2025 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bob Dylan performed My Own Version of You in a radically stripped-down recitative arrangement.
In a bob-dylan.org.uk article published in the 2020s, Jochen Markhorst analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You.
In a bob-dylan.org.uk article, Jochen Markhorst analyzes Bob Dylan's 2020 song My Own Version of You through literary and musical comparisons.
On the Bob Dylan site Untold Dylan, writer Jochen analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You and its 2020 lyric about Leon Russell, Liberace, and St. John the Apostle.
In an essay on the Untold Dylan website, Jochen analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You and its dense literary and visual allusions.
In an article on bob-dylan.org.uk, a critic analyzes Bob Dylan's My Own Version Of You bridge verse through musical, literary, and philosophical references.
In an online blog post on keesdegraaf.com, Kees de Graaf analyzes Bob Dylan's song 'My Own Version of You' through extensive biblical and literary parallels.
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On the Bob-Dylan.org.uk website, a critic analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You in relation to Frankenstein films and Pulp Fiction.
Jochen Markhorst examines Bob Dylan's 2020 song My Own Version of You, focusing on Freud and Marx imagery and musical influences, published on bob-dylan.org.uk.
Jochen Markhorst analyzes Dylan's Chronicles in an Untold article published in 2020 on bob-dylan.org.uk, focusing on Jerome Green's influence on Bo Diddley and Dylan.
In an online article on Keesdegraaf.com, the author analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You through extensive biblical and literary comparisons.
On the website Keesdegraaf.com, an undated blog post analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You through theological and literary references.
In an online essay on keesdegraaf.com, the author analyzes Bob Dylan's song My Own Version of You through biblical, literary, and cultural references.
On 2022-09-03 a Darmstadt Dylan Days blog post analyzes Dylan's My Own Version of You through Frankenstein imagery citing Juli Zeh and E.T.A. Hoffmann.
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Bob Dylan’s song My Own Version Of You from the 2020 album Rough And Rowdy Ways is analyzed in an article on bob-dylan.org.uk.