Perhaps my favorite example of the degree to which so-called experts failed at predicting a Dylan win comes in an article by Alex Shephard of the New Republic. Posted just days before the Swedish Academy's announcement, Shephard goes out of his way to remind his readers that "Bob Dylan 100 percent is not going to win. Stop saying Bob Dylan should win the Nobel Prize." One week later, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize. You may be similarly astonished by the Osborne Brothers’ unearthly bluegrass song, Ruby, Are You Mad?, the high-pitched vocal delivered over frenetic banjo and guitar playing that propels it at a momentum more suited to hardcore punk. Dylan cites it approvingly as “a song to drive your car over a cliff to with the radio still on… and you won’t feel a thing”. Not exactly a deeply philosophical analysis, but you get the picture.

I'll Be Your Baby Tonight (vocals completely buried and barely audible) (rehearsal: 1976-04-12: Bellevue Biltmore Hotel, Clearwater, FL, USA)

Books

Dylan, Bob (November 2022). The Philosophy of Modern Song. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9781451648706 . Retrieved November 3, 2022. Nelson, Elizabeth (October 31, 2022). "Bob Dylan takes us on a wide-ranging tour of songs he admires". The Washington Post . Retrieved November 3, 2022. It’s certainly not a chronological book - that’s best left to some of biographies above. Instead, we get snippets in time such as New York in 1961, New Orleans in 1989. Talking about Minnesota and growing up, you begin to get a sense of the influences that shaped him. I don't remember when exactly I stumbled across this book but it was on a reduced-to-move table in a chain, book-and-mortar store many years ago when I was starting to teach myself to play guitar as well (and so the date finished for this book should be considered a date somewhere in the future when I am dead though hopefully this is one of those things that you can take with you) ... Dylan was one of the reasons I took up guitar and though I got many of the chords incorrect guessing at them myself (Dylan uses many, many strange chords that you don't hear correctly by just listening and guessing at them), I got to know a huge number of lyrics from one of the three best songwriters that America has ever produced (and knew them correctly as with his chords, his lyrics can be just as easily misunderstood) and was provided the opportunity to correct others when they quoted or sang the wrong lyrics (though many of the mistaken lyrics can often be as provocative as the correct lyrics) ... I have used this book so often over the years that now the binding has become broken and brittle and the cover serves more as a loose-leaf binder than the original hardcover ...

Poor Lazarus (Recorded Live At Riverside Church for 'Hootenanny Special' - WRVR-FM Radio 29th July 1961) As two of the most revolutionary artists in the history of music, they were bound to be influenced by each other at some point in their careers. The Philosophy of Modern Song is a book by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, published on November 1, 2022, by Simon & Schuster. The book contains Dylan's commentary on 66 songs by other artists. [1] [2] It is the first book Dylan has published since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. [3] Summary [ edit ] This book was published in 1972, so it's amazing to think there are another fifty years of Bob to come (yet). But this is an exceptional account of his life and work up to then, written in the lingo of the times. And because it only covers his life up until just after 'New Morning', there's plenty of focus on his roots and influences, and the years in Greenwich Village are particularly evocative. He also talks to absolutely everyone, including Joan Baez. This is a collection of three books by Paul Williams - 1960-63, 74-86, and 86 and beyond (takes you up as far as ‘Love and Theft). To make it easier, I'm grouping these three books together.

Bob Dylan Albums

The book features hundreds of photographs and illustrations, licensed from many different sources, the overall design of which is credited to Coco Shinomiya (who also designed several of Dylan's 21st century albums). When asked to discuss the "significance" of the images by Jeff Slate, Dylan responded, "They’re running mates to the text, involved in the same way, share the same outcome. They portray ideas and associations that you might not notice otherwise, visual interaction". [25] Anne Margaret Daniel wrote that the illustrations "deserve both mention and praise. They are copious, and they comment on, enrich and complicate every song". Daniel cites a film still of Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? used to illustrate the divorce song "Cheaper to Keep Her" as "the perfect gimme" while noting that her favorites are the images of a flat sea, a whale hunt gone wrong and a still of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing on the beach in From Here to Eternity, which more obliquely comment on Bobby Darin's " Beyond the Sea". [26] Audiobook [ edit ] My own favourite chapter is probably the one onBlind WillieMcTell (Graywent on to write anexcellent book on the same man) butI find somethinginteresting every time I lift it. He also has a morerecent book called‘Outtakes on bobDylan’which I will read and most likely add to this list at a later stage. Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (November 2, 2022). "The Philosophy of Modern Song — Bob Dylan's world of sound". Financial Times . Retrieved November 3, 2022. Author and Xavier University English Professor Graley Herren wrote an essay arguing that Dylan's commentary on Bing Crosby's "The Whiffenpoof Song" is actually a veiled critique of Yale University's secretive Skull and Bones society. Herren sees this critique as being in subtextual dialogue with the book's chapters on Edwin Starr's "War" and John Trudell's "Doesn't Hurt Anymore". [22] Throughout the archive, we see Bob writing on whatever is at hand, whether it’s a matchbook cover, hotel notepads, a bank deposit slip, lots of small notebooks,” says Davidson.