Welcome to the first DownInTheFlood.com Publication

DownInTheFlood.com was established in 2001 as one of many a website featuring news items on Bob Dylan, performing artist, so named by Paul Williams, author of a series of books titled "Bob Dylan: Performing Artist", perhaps the most interesting of biographies ever written about Bob Dylan as an artist by any author. meanwhile, the artist has begun to publish his own account of how life felt "way back when" in his book Chronicles, Volume 1, a book written with as much feeling as we know from songs like "Girl from the North Country", "North Country Blues", "Boots of Spanish Leather", any of these early songs, compassion felt in lots of his early work. ... and in this first autobiography. his other books include "Tarantula", his Lyrics have been published on various occasions; the first volume in 1973, then again in 1985, and at the end of last year covering the words to his music from 1962-2001. also in 1973 a book titled "Writings and Drawings of Bob Dylan" was published by Alfred A. Knopf. latest releases include authors like Greil Marcus & Dave Van Ronk who maintains that Bob Dylan stole the version of "House of the Rising Sun" from him; the song appears on Bob Dylan's self-titled first album. a remastered version of this album has just been released on CD.

the works of the following authors may be equally worthwhile mentioning: Clinton Heylin's "Bob Dylan:Behind the Shades Revisited", Howard Sounes' "Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan" and David Hajdu's "Positively 4th Street", Oliver Trager's "Keys to the Rain" serves as a comprehensive encyclopedia on Bob Dylan.

surely the last words on Bob Dylan have not yet been spoken ... or written.

perhaps the best resource website besides bobdylan.com is expectingrain.com, which recently turned 10 (even Rolling Stone responded to the occasion). the tour aficionados visit Bill Pagel's Pages.

as for DownInTheFlood.com: the site has grown in size and content over the years. the further development of the internet has encouraged experiments with ever new possibilities in the applications of scripts and codes beyond HTML. so this is the first attempt to try out the latest craze named "RSS-Feed".

there is also a wide range of interesting items gathered into a range of stores to support DownInTheFlood.com, the latest being the "Africa Store".

a range of page templates has been developed to support MrRat's "Amazon Products Feed" script, which extracts information through the Amazon.com Webservice, now named "E-Commerce Service", in short, ECS.

however, one of the first and still strong inspirations to the graphical development of DownInTheFlood.com come from artsandmusicpa.com. you may also wish to check some of her other sites: blues101.org, milfordmusic.net, nepablues.org.

until at last you come home to my own blues page.

the idea to start this project off has been inspired by a link in an article published in the New York Times, headlined: "In New Jersey, Blog Carnival Is WWWeird", the site: Carnival of the New Jersey Bloggers.

... and that rounds off this article for today.