The Dylan Companion

By: David Gutman, Elizabeth Thomson

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Paperback | 8 June 2005 | Edition Number 1

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Just in time for Bob Dylan's 60th birthday in May 2001-a multifaceted look at the man, his music, and his influence. "To this day, wherever great rock music is being made, there is the shadow of Bob Dylan," said Bruce Springsteen at the induction of Dylan into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988. Or to quote John Rockwell, "Anyone who didn't live through the sixties simply cannot realize how important his albums seemed then; they defined a community." Dylan is a musical, literary, political, and religious icon whose lyrics and mystique have spawned countless articles and books. The Dylan Companion is a generous helping of the best, most pungent, and most insightful commentary on Dylan from all phases of his career right up to the present: personal recollections and professional assessments from the likes of Ken Kesey, Greil Marcus, Joan Baez, Andrew Motion, Lester Bangs, Kurt Loder, Allen Ginsberg, Pauline Kael, Geoff Dyer, Simon Winchester, and Robert Christgauover fifty pieces celebrating the sixty-year-old performer who somehow manages to stay forever young.

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Editors' Note
Acknowledgements
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Introduction
North Country Blues	p. 1
Dr. Z. Agonistes: an appreciation	p. 3
The folk music of the 1960s: its rise and fall	p. 4
Bob Dylan	p. 18
Is your love in vain - dialectical dilemmas in Bob Dylan's recent love-songs	p. 33
Tears of Rage	p. 57
Bob Dylan	p. 59
Bob Dylan - a new voice singing new songs	p. 62
Bob Dylan in the Madhouse	p. 66
Bob Dylan	p. 71
Baez and Dylan: a generation singing out	p. 81
Don't look back	p. 88
Most Likely You Go Your Way (and I'll Go Mine)	p. 93
Beat and ballad	p. 95
Highway 61 revisited	p. 98
The blessing of the damned	p. 102
All these people that you mention ...	p. 117
Just like the night	p. 122
Time Passes Slowly	p. 125
Pop festival blast-off	p. 127
A feir feld ful of folk	p. 129
Dylan at Old Nassau (from Rolling Stone)	p. 134
Dylan's new morning	p. 137
Tarantula	p. 139
Summing up the '60s, sizing up the '70s	p. 143
Three poems	p. 145
Bob Dylan and Billy the Kid	p. 148
Winterlude	p. 153
The metaphor at the end of the funnel	p. 155
Cliches and American English	p. 163
The Prince	p. 172
Bob Dylan's stories about men	p. 183
On the Road Again	p. 191
Blowin' in the Windy City	p. 193
A cut above	p. 195
Bob Dylan and friends on the bus - like a Rolling Thunder	p. 198
Adolescence now	p. 205
Bob Dylan's dalliance with Mafia chic	p. 210
Bob Dylan's trajectory	p. 222
The Calvary gig	p. 224
I Threw It All Away	p. 231
Born-again Bob: four theories	p. 233
Amazing chutzpah	p. 237
Bob Dylan finds his source	p. 240
Sorry, Bobby	p. 242
God and man at Columbia	p. 243
God, mode and meaning in some recent songs of Bob Dylan	p. 247
Talking about licence to kill	p. 260
Too Much of Nothing	p. 267
Renaldo and who?	p. 269
Bob Dylan beyond Thunderdome	p. 275
Figured I'd lost you anyway	p. 279
The Dead and Dylan	p. 282
Dylan at Wembley	p. 285
Speech at the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame	p. 286
The calm after the storm	p. 288
Trust yourself	p. 291
Not Dark Yet	p. 297
Minnesota harmonica man	p. 299
Aboard the never-ending tour bus	p. 301
Ruminations on mortality	p. 306
The times may be a-changin' but the songs are still the same	p. 309
When the times a-changed	p. 312
Afterword 2000	p. 317
Selective Bibliography	p. 321
Discography	p. 342
Index	p. 355
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