Bob Dylan FAQ

All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man

Bruce Pollock

• Publisher: Backbeat
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781617136962
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Medien & darstellende Kunst
• Subtopic: Musik

In October 2016, the Swedish Academy finally conceded to a quarter-century's worth of clamorous petitions and sustained lobbying enacted by a chorus of poets, novelists, songwriters, and academics. At long last, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, his vast corpus spread out like Highway 61 behind him. How is a Dylan debutante to make sense of the song and dance man's six decade career? How might a diehard Dylan fanatic stumble upon something they didn't know they didn't know? Why, with award-winning journalist Bruce Pollock's Bob Dylan FAQ, of course!

Bob Dylan FAQ, the latest installment in Backbeat's FAQ series, condenses the life and times of America's premier songster into an addictively vivacious 400-page brick jam-packed with critical analysis, minutiae, photographs, ephemera, and period history. Every aspect of Dylan's life and career, from his ever-expanding discography, touring history, fallow periods, literary and visual artistic efforts, peers, influences, and legacy to his devoted fanbase is explored. Best of all, the book's structure invites perusing at any random point, as each chapter serves as a freestanding article on its subject. Dive into Dylanana with Bob Dylan FAQ!

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1 He Fought with His Twin: Becoming Bob Dylan
• 2 Woody and Bob: Five Artists That Formed Bob Dylan and One Album That Transformed Him
• 3 Once Upon a Time: Eight Benchmark Songs
• 4 He Was Young When He Left Home: Dylan in Dinkytown
• 5 Hard Times in the City: Bob Dylan’s Surrogate Families
• 6 Positively Bleecker and MacDougal Street: Three Defining Greenwich Village Gigs, One Chance Meeting
• 7 The Great American Folk Scare: The Village Scene Goes National
• 8 The Could-Be Dream Lover: Dylan Meets His Muse
• 9 He Knew His Song Well: Bob Dylan’s First Album
• 10 One More Chance: The Make-Or-Break Second Album
• 11 Adventures on the Day Shift: Bob Dylan the Staff Songwriter
• 12 No, No, No: Another Side of Bob Dylan
• 13 The Electric Bard: Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited
• 14 We Said We Loved Him: The Reluctant Interview Subject
• 15 Stuck Inside of Nashville: Blonde on Blonde
• 16 One Man with a Guitar: Seven Defining Concerts of the Sixties
• 17 Howling in the Wind: Dylan’s Ten Most Played Songs in Concert . . . and Twenty Forgotten Gems
• 18 Subject to Interpretation: Covering Dylan, Dylan Tributes, In-Concert Covers
• 19 Killing Him with Salvation: The Recovery Albums
• 20 A Poet with a Beat: Dylan on Songwriting
• 21 I Might Have a Few Songs Left: Dylan’s Twenty-Five Best Songs Since (at Least) Blonde on Blonde
• 22 A Troubled Mind: Deconstructing Dylan’s Major Themes
• 23 What Was Delivered: The Writer’s Block Albums
• 24 Put Some Bleachers in the Sun: Back on the Road
• 25 Living Outside the Law: Seven Famous Bootlegs
• 26 The Idiot’s Revenge: The Breakup Tapes
• 27 The Holy Trinity: Dylan’s Christian Period
• 28 His Career in the Balance: A Troubled Decade
• 29 A Falling Star: A New Recording Low
• 30 I and I: Collaborating with Dylan
• 31 The Back Pages: Unearthing the Outtakes
• 32 Can You Repeat the Past? The Acoustic Sets
• 33 He’s Very Well Read: Dylan, the Renaissance Man
• 34 Song and Dance Man: Top Ten TV Performances and Music Videos
• 35 Information Highway 61: Best Websites
• 36 He’s Been Around the World: The Never Ending Tour
• 37 Gentlemen, Don’t Get Up: Songs of the Endgame
• 38 His Cowboy Bands: Road Bands, Opening Acts, Guest Stars
• 39 A Generation’s Stepping Stone: Under the Influence of Dylan
• Selected Discography
• Singles and B-Sides
• Selected Bibliography