Anne Margaret Daniel

On Halloween eve, the BBC posted a new promotional photo of the current Doctor Who, Peter Capaldi, wearing the Ray-Ban Wayfarers that have become not just an iconic, but a crucially sonic, part of his persona as the Twelfth (or so) Doctor. It struck me just how much Capaldi'

“Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window” is one of my favorite Dylan songs, with its tumbling wild rhymes and the intense, excited, almost-shouted challenges.  It’s a song that never found a home on an album in 1965 or 1966, but works as a bridge – or maybe an escape

Bob Dylan has always liked the spaces in between, dividing lines, and borderlines in his songs. Particularly in the mid-1960s, he liked, lyrically, hanging out in no-man's-lands:  the haunted wild-western, Tex-Mexican border town of "Desolation Row"; wherever it is he has the "Tombstone Blues"

The Bull's Head in Barnes, just upriver from central London, is a lovely riverside pub on a quiet residential street.  The Thames, improbably thinner here than it is just a few miles downstream, flows past the pub on the south side and a school boathouse on the other.

Liverpool graces the banks of a freezing cold River Mersey, just a few miles from Brooklyn. This beautiful area marks the home of a celebrated musician, whose birthplace museum is, most appropriately, in the former railway station. Before you are further confused, let me say I speak of Liverpool and