Deemed by the new yorker as "the most readable and reliable" of all Dylan biographies, this book will give fans what they have always wanted -- a chance to get to know the man behind the shades. In 1991 clinton heylin published what was considered the most definitive biography of Bob Dylan available. In the succeeding eighteen months, dylan released highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde, and embarked on the legendary 1966 World Tour that culminated with an unforgettable concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
Bob dylan: behind the shades revisited follows the story of dylan from his humble beginnings in Minnesota to his arrival in New York in 1961, his subsequent rise in the folk pantheon of Greenwich Village in the early '60s, and his cataclysmic folk-rock metamorphosis at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965.
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Travelin' Thru, 1967 - 1969: The Bootleg Series, Vol. 15
Disc 3 closes with tracks recorded on may 17, 1970 with grammy award-winning bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs for the PBS television special, "Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends" originally aired January 1971. Discs 2 and 3 are centered around dylan's collaborations with american music icon johnny cash including the much sought-after Columbia Studio A sessions and on-stage performances at the Ryman Auditorium May 1, 1969 for the recording of the premiere episode of The Johnny Cash Show originally broadcast on ABC-TV on June 7, 1969.
Disc 1 finds dylan in columbia's studio a in nashville recording alternate versions of compositions written for John Wesley Harding October 17 and November 6, 1967 and Nashville Skyline February 13-14, 1969 while introducing a new song "Western Road" a Nashville Skyline outtake.
Dylan's Visions of Sin
Chronicles: Volume One
Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.
So writes bob dylan in chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. Simon Schuster. Dylan’s new york is a magical city of possibilities—smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships.
With the book’s side trips to new orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, fanciful, engaged, and rhythmic. By turns revealing, passionate, and witty, poetical, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences.
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The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings
The collection also provides the listener with an intimate insider's seat for recently unearthed rehearsals at New York's S. I. R. Shrink-wrapped.
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan
Candid and refreshing, down the highway is a sincere tribute to Dylan’s seminal place in postwar American cultural history, and remains an essential book for the millions of people who have enjoyed Dylan’s music over the years. The acclaimed biography substantially updated and revised, Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan.
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Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews
This edition includes three additional pieces from Rolling Stone that update the volume to the present day. Simon Schuster. Among the highlights are the seminal rolling stone interviews—anthologized here for the first time—by Jann Wenner, Douglas Brinkley, Jonathan Cott, Mikal Gilmore, Kurt Loder, and Jonathan Lethem—as well as Nat Hentoff’s legendary 1966 Playboy interview.
Introduced by rolling stone editor jonathan cott, these intimate conversations from America’s most celebrated street poet is a “priceless collection with honest, open, and thoughtful musings…a fascinating window into his one-of-a-kind mind” Publishers Weekly. Surprises include studs terkel’s radio interview in 1963 on wfmt in chicago, the interview Dylan gave to screenwriter Jay Cocks when he was a student at Kenyon College in 1964, a 1965 interview with director Nora Ephron, and an interview Sam Shepard turned into a one-act play for Esquire in 1987.
Grove Press. Shrink-wrapped. First published in 2006, cultural, this acclaimed collection brought together the best interviews and encounters with Bob Dylan to create a multi-faceted, and journalistic portrait of the artist and his legacy.
Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader
With sam shepard, johnny cash, rick moody, barry hannah, greil marcus, and dylan himself on the list of contributors, Joyce Carol Oates, Gary Giddins, Allen Ginsberg, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Piazza, Studio A is truly "a vital document" New York Times for all fans. Individually, these pieces offer insight into the man and his time, but collectively they reveal the coming-of-age of American cultural criticism in their "sweeping view of both Dylan and the changing times he so eloquently captured in his music" Publishers Weekly.
This "astutely chosen and intelligently annotated" collection Time Out London gathers over fifty articles, poems, literary criticisms, speeches, essays, and interviews; many previously unpublished. Simon Schuster.
the Story Behind Every Track - Bob Dylan: All the Songs
Packed with stories, many unfamiliar even to his most fervent fans, Bob Dylan All the Songs profiles his 492 released songs. All the songs is the most comprehensive exploration of Bob Dylan's Nobel Prize-winning music and lyrics yet, with the behind-the-scenes look at the studio recording session, album, and every single released during his remarkable 50+ year career.
This new york times-bestselling, definitive book captures in words and photos Dylan's creative process and his organic, unencumbered style of recording. Simon Schuster. Organized chronologically by album, margotin and Guesdon recount the inspiration behind Dylan's recorded songs, what instruments he used, what went on in the recording studio, and behind-the-scenes account of the great artists who worked with Dylan.
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The Lyrics: 1961-2012
Winner of the nobel prize in literature a beautiful, comprehensive volume of dylan’s lyrics, from the beginning of his career through the present day—with the songwriter’s edits to dozens of songs, appearing here for the first time. Bob dylan is one of the most important songwriters of our time, responsible for modern classics such as “Like a Rolling Stone, ” “Mr.
Simon Schuster. The lyrics 1961 2012. Black dog Leventhal Publishers.
Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life
Tracking an american original―from his jewish roots to his controversial embrace of Jesus to his enduring legacy as the composer of the Tempest album―Bob Dylan: A Spiritual Life delivers the story of a man in dogged pursuit of redemption. Based on years of research and original interviews, this book sorts through the myths and misunderstandings and reveals Dylan to be both traditional and radical in the way he expresses his spiritual quest for purpose and meaning.
. This is what I was put on earth to do. Shrink-wrapped. The lyrics 1961 2012. Call dylan whatever you want, but the name won’t stick, " said foreword writer and film director Scott Derrickson. Simon Schuster.