{"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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Dylan's concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e That is not this story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here, instead, is Dylan's \u003cem\u003esecond\u003c\/em\u003e thirty years. Across an abecedarium of chapters surveying his albums, performances, films, and books since 1991--since that rainy February night in New York City when Dylan, then forty-nine, accepted a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, signaling in effect that his extraordinary vocation as a vital and indispensable creative force had ended, was over--\u003cem\u003eAfter the Flood\u003c\/em\u003e reveals Dylan's creative output during the last three decades as his most ambitious and accomplished yet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Drawing on thousands of pages from Dylan's newly opened archive in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and anatomizing hundreds of published and unpublished lyrics, liner notes, and more, celebrated poet and biographer Robert Polito demonstrates how Dylan evolved a late musical style that has equally embodied and resisted its era, interweaving folk process and American and world history, and transforming spectral cultural memory into devastating inspiration. 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Looking back on his long career, we can trace multiple styles, a variety of songs, and many musical forms. We can trace a life in which numerous friends and musical collaborators have contributed to his artistry. The influences are legion, and commentators have pressed the case for the impact of literary, philosophical and musical forerunners on his development. Some see Dylan as a philosopher, others relate him to classic literature, and biographers relate his songs to the ins and outs of his life. In this book we take Dylan himself to be a good guide to how he is to be taken. He is neither a philosopher nor, despite the Nobel Prize, primarily a literary figure. Dylan himself speaks of the influence of folk, blues and rock'n'roll predecessors. While his songs reflect literary, philosophical, political and biographical influences, he is primarily a musician and song writer. 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While Sergeant Pepper converts the rest of the music scene to sitar, trumpets, sound experiments, strings, studio effects and psychedelics at all, Dylan and The Band sit for months in the countryside in a big house, playing antique folk and country songs in the basement of the Big Pink. In between, he tinkers and fools around with the band on about seventy of new songs that sound fresh and old-fashioned at the same time. Some of them are gratefully picked up by others. Manfred Mann scores with \"The Mighty Quinn\", Julie Driscoll has a hit with \"This Wheel's On Fire\", The Byrds throw themselves on \"You Ain't Going Nowhere\" and half the music world is happy with \"I Shall Be Released\", to name but a few. As for the originals: the world has to make do with sneaky bootleg recordings - especially The Great White Wonder achieves mythical status. 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And when he does, he remarkably often announces them with a somewhat sour introduction, even when announcing the album's highlight, on December 9, 1978 in Columbia, the last time Dylan will perform the song: \"Thank you. We'd like to do a song from the new album called Street Legal. This was a single. I know it sold about 100 copies. Anyway, I think it just sold 25, but I guess that we can play it anyway.\"That's not true. \"Where Are You Tonight?\" did not sell a hundred copies. Not even twenty-five. The song, one of the Very Great Songs in Dylan's oeuvre, has never been released as a single at all. Anyway, after December 9, 1978, Dylan will never look back at this monumental song, the song that belongs in the lineup \"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall\", \"Desolation Row\", \"Visions Of Johanna\", \"Tangled Up In Blue\", \"Blind Willie McTell\", \"Not Dark Yet\" and \"Murder Most Foul\", the songs that justify Dylan's Nobel Prize for Literature. 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