At Cassandra Voices we uncover stories behind stories. Just occasionally these accounts reach the mainstream. So it has proved with what is being popularly referred to as ‘the riddle of Ballinalee’. Let’s recall the adventure so far. Last week our then anonymous sleuth advanced a theory as to the origin of the words in the … Read more
Butterflies continue to fly from septuagenarian Bob Dylan’s cocoon. Last week the Bard of Duluth released yet another song ‘I Contain Multitudes’ after his long hiatus. The opening lyrics piqued our curiosity: Today and tomorrow and yesterday, too, The flowers are dyin’ like all things do, Follow me close, I’m going to Ballinalee, I’ll lose my … Read more
I have been to four of Bob Dylan’s concerts in various places around the world, and bar one where Ronnie Wood lightened the misery in Kilkenny, they were uniformly awful. He persists in reinterpreting and mangling his great songs, and hardly engages with the audience. It begs the question: why does he persist with the … Read more