Bob Dylan FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man
400Bob Dylan FAQ: All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781617136078 |
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Publisher: | Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 05/01/2017 |
Series: | FAQ |
Pages: | 400 |
Sales rank: | 1,049,042 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
1 He Fought with His Twin: Becoming Bob Dylan 1
2 Woody and Bob: Five Artists That Formed Bob Dylan and One Album That Transformed Him 8
3 Once Upon a Time: Eight Benchmark Songs 17
4 He Was Young When He Left Home: Dylan in Dinkytown 30
5 Hard Times in the City: Bob Dylan's Surrogate Families 36
6 Positively Bleecker and MacDougal Street: Three Denning Greenwich Village Gigs, One Chance Meeting 42
7 The Great American Folk Scare: The Village Scene Goes National 51
8 The Could-Be Dream Lover: Dylan Meets His Muse 66
9 He Knew His Song Well: Bob Dylan's First Album 70
10 One More Chance: The Make-Or-Break Second Album 73
11 Adventures on the Day Shift: Bob Dylan the Staff Songwriter 78
12 No, No, No: Another Side of Bob Dylan 83
13 The Electric Bard: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited 86
14 We Said We Loved Him: The Reluctant Interview Subject 92
15 Stuck Inside of Nashville: Blonde on Blonde 95
16 One Man with a Guitar: Seven Defining Concerts of the Sixties 99
17 Howling in the Wind: Dylan's Ten Most Played Songs in Concert … and Twenty Forgotten Gems 111
18 Subject to Interpretation: Covering Dylan, Dylan Tributes, In-Concert Covers 120
19 Killing Him with Salvation: The Recovery Albums 133
20 A Poet with a Beat: Dylan on Songwriting 144
21 I Might Have a Few Songs Left: Dylan's Twenty-Five Best Songs Since (at Least) Blonde on Blonde 151
22 A Troubled Mind: Deconstructing Dylan's Major Themes 155
23 What Was Delivered: The Writer's Block Albums 168
24 Put Some Bleachers in the Sun: Back on the Road 178
25 Living Outside the Law: Seven Famous Bootlegs 193
26 The Idiot's Revenge: The Breakup Tapes 198
27 The Holy Trinity: Dylan's Christian Period 209
28 His Career in the Balance: A Troubled Decade 213
29 A Falling Star: A New Recording Low 220
30 I and I: Collaborating with Dylan 226
31 The Back Pages: Unearthing the Outtakes 232
32 Can You Repeat the Past? The Acoustic Sets 236
33 He's Very Well Read: Dylan, the Renaissance Man 242
34 Song and Dance Man: Top Ten TV Performances and Music Videos 259
35 Information Highway 61: Best Websites 277
36 He's Been Around the World: The Never Ending Tour 282
37 Gentlemen, Don't Get Up: Songs of the Endgame 291
38 His Cowboy Bands: Road Bands, Opening Acts, Guest Stars 300
39 A Generation's Stepping Stone: Under the Influence of Dylan 307
Selected Discography 323
Singles and B-Sides 339
Selected Bibliography 343
Index 347