Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan
“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.”
So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles, Volume I, his remarkable, book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities - smokey, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac…
Bob Dylan
When we last left the ever-confounding saga that is Bob Dylan’s now-superhuman recording career, he’d reunited with producer Daniel Lanois, with whom he cut 1997’s Time Out of Mind, his most coherent and appealing collection in nearly a decade. Now the still-reigning prince of musical contrariety and potent wordplay is back with his most focused, well-played collection since 1989’s Oh Mercy, another Lanois production. One listen to the fade-in of the opener “Tweedle Dee & Tweedle Dum” and it’s clear that all Dylan’s roadwork has shaped him and his…
