{"title":"Bob Dylan Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eBob Dylan books — biographies, critical studies, and deep-dive histories covering six decades of the most written-about songwriter in American music. From the Newport folk years through the Never Ending Tour, this is the shelf for readers who want the story behind the songs, not just the songs themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHighlights include \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine\u003c\/strong\u003e, drawn from the Bob Dylan Center's archives, \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan All the Songs\u003c\/strong\u003e, a track-by-track history of the catalog, and \u003cstrong\u003eAfter the Flood: Inside Bob Dylan's Memory Palace\u003c\/strong\u003e, a close read of the man behind the myth. For the harder-to-find angles: \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan's Hibbing\u003c\/strong\u003e traces his Minnesota roots, \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances\u003c\/strong\u003e pairs him with his closest songwriting peer, and \u003cstrong\u003eBob Dylan and Philosophy\u003c\/strong\u003e takes the academic approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhy buy from Relix\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRelix has covered the folk and rock scenes Dylan helped define since 1974. This shelf is curated the way the magazine always has — for readers who want the real history, not the shortest path to checkout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking for more? Browse the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/music-books\"\u003efull music books collection\u003c\/a\u003e, or check out \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/grateful-dead-books\"\u003eGrateful Dead Books\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/neil-young-books\"\u003eNeil Young Books\u003c\/a\u003e if your reading list runs deeper into the folk-rock family tree.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"where-the-music-had-to-go-how-bob-dylan-and-the-beatles-changed-each-other-and-the-world-hardcover","title":"Where the Music Had to Go: How Bob Dylan and the Beatles Changed Each Other--And the World - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJim Windolf\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"exquisite\" (\u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"astonishing\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) dual biography by acclaimed journalist Jim Windolf dives into the surprisingly supportive, occasionally rivalrous, and always fertile relationship between Bob Dylan and the Beatles, uncovering how they inspired and transformed each other as songwriters, recording artists, and cultural icons.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Dylan's initial dismissal of the Beatles as being for \"teenyboppers\" to his realization that they were \"pointing the direction where music had to go\"--and from the Beatles' obsessive spinning of early Dylan records to their impromptu renditions of fifteen Dylan songs during the 1969 \u003ci\u003eGet Back\u003c\/i\u003e sessions--the book captures the moments that pushed Dylan to \"go electric\" and inspired the Beatles to deepen their lyrics. 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