Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour

Volume I The Eighties and Nineties

By: Mike Johnson

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Paperback | 15 September 2025

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In 1988 Bob Dylan left behind the bands he'd been playing with, Tom Petty and The Grateful Dead, and launched his own four-piece band, beginning a remarkable musical odyssey known as the Never Ending Tour that would last thirty-one years, only coming to an end when covid closed the venues at the end of 2019.

In this first volume, Mike Johnson picks up the story the year before the NET began, follows it through its rocking beginnings, how it faltered in the early 1990s before hitting a rising curve that would build to the superb performances of 1995, and rising again to 1999, the first of three peak performance years.

Johnson discusses the performances, and evolution of the songs in performance, and provides dozens of sound files so the reader can hear all the versions he highlights.

Industry Reviews

'The definitive study of the Never Ending Tour,'

Tony Attwood, Editor, Untold Dylan.

'Perhaps the best Dylan book there is.'

Jochen Markhorst

Author of Time Out Of Mind: The Rising of an Old Master

'The definitive study of the Never Ending Tour,'

Tony Attwood, Editor, Untold Dylan

Mike Johnson picks up the story of The Never Ending Tour from Volume 1 with a detailed account of the two peak performance years, 2000 - 2001, and follows Dylan through the most dramatic shift of his career when, in 2002, he largely abandons his guitar and moves to the keyboards.

Johnson then dives right into the most problematic years of the NET, 2006 - 2009, when Dylan's weird organ playing and barking voice alienated many fans and followers, and uncovers some remarkable performances.

Sensitive critical commentary and, again, loads of sound files.

'For years and years, miner Mike Johnson hacked his way through mighty mountains of live performances, endlessly and tirelessly sifting through the ore, bringing the precious stone to the surface and crafting it into sparkling jewellery.'

Jochen Markhorst

Author of Time Out Of Mind: The Rising of an Old Master

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