So many books on Dylan – so many theories – everyone wants Dylan to lead (or have led) the way…. But for me, I turn to “The Chronicles Volume 1” autobiography – Dylan didn’t want to lead anyone – enjoyed Ricky Nelson … Liked Frank Sinatra ….played some rock and roll early on – formed a garage band in high school – played Little Richard and Elvis songs …… and then kicking and screaming became the ‘profit’
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Bob Dylan: Another Side of Bob Dylan: A Personal History On The Road and Off the Tracks – Jacob Maymudes and Victor Maymudes
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Bob Dylan: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track – Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michael Guesdon
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Bob Dylan: Biography – Bob Spitz
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Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and American Song – Larry David Smith
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Bob Dylan: Beyond the Shades Revisited – Clinton Heylin
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Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan: Classic Bob Dylan: 1962-1969 My Back Pages – Andy Gill
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Bob Dylan: Come Ye Masters of War: The Bob Dylan Conspiracy – Robe O’brian
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Bob Dylan: and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll – David Boucher – 2004
“Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen are widely acknowledged as the great pop poets of the 1960s, transforming the popular song into a medium for questionng the personal, social, and political norms of their times. They emerged at a time when the music industry was transforming the revolutionary sound of black music into something bland, homogeneous….”
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Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography 1961-2007 – John Nogowski
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Bob Dylan: The Double Life Of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling 1941-1966 – Clinton Heylin
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Bob Dylan: Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan – Howard Sounes
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Bob Dylan: Dream: My Life with Bob – Roy Kelly
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Bob Dylan: Dylan’s Vision of Sin – Christopher Ricks
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Bob Dylan: The Early Years 1960-1973
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Bob Dylan: Essential Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews – Jonathan Cott
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Bob Dylan: Encyclopedia – Michael Gray
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Bob Dylan: Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties – Elijah Wald
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Bob Dylan: Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 – Daniel Wolf
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Bob Dylan: Hard Rain/Slow Train: Passages About Dylan – Michael Anton Miller
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Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited: Bob Dylan’s Road From Minnesota to the World – Collen Sheehy & Thomas Swiss
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I Hear America Singing: Folk Music and National Identity – Rachel Clare Donaldson
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I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs – Phil Ochs
Bob Dylan: An Illustrated History – Michael Gross
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Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography – Anthony Scaduto
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Bob Dylan: It Ain’t Me Babe: Bob Dylan and the Performance of Authenticity – Andrea Cossu
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Bob Dylan: Light Comes Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan – Andrew McCarron
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Bob Dylan: Little Black Songbook – Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan: & Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances – David Boucher & Lucy Boucher
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Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone – Bob Dylan at the Crossroads – Greil Marcus – 2006
“The preeminent musicologist and prolific author presents a rhapsodic appreciation of his and Bob Dylan’s favorite song–one that defined an era but has, remained timeless in its originality and power.”
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Bob Dylan: Listening to Bob Dylan – Larry Starr
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Bob Dylan: in London: Troubadour Tales – Jackie Lees & KG Miles
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Bob Dylan: A Man Called Alias – Richard Williams
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Bob Dylan: Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band and the Basement Tapes – Sid Griffin
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Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan – Robert Shelton
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Bob Dylan: NYC 1961-1964 – Ted Russell
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Bob Dylan: Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes – Greil Marcus
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Bob Dylan: On the Road With Bob Dylan – Larry Sloman
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Bob Dylan: Once Upon A Time: The Lives Of Bob Dylan – Ian Bell
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Bob Dylan: One More Night” Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour – Andrew Muir
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Bob Dylan: Outlaw Blues – Spencer Leigh
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Bob Dylan: Performing Artist the Middle Years: 1974-1986 – Paul Williams
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Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986-1990 & Beyond: Mind Out of Time – Paul William
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Bob Dylan: and Philosophy – Peter Vernezze
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Bob Dylan: The Political Art of Bob Dylan – Frank Zollner
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Bob Dylan: Political Folk Music in America From Its Origins to Bob Dylan – Lawrence J. Epstein
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Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Farina and Richard Farina – David Hajdu
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Bob Dylan: Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota – Toby Thompson
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Bob Dylan: Reforming Artist: The Music of Bob Dylan 1960-1973
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Bob Dylan: Refractions of Bob Dylan: Cultural Appropriations Of An American Icon – Eugene Banauch
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Bob Dylan: Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973
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Bob Dylan: Simple Twist Of Fate: Bob Dylan & the Making of Blood on the Tracks – Andy Gill & Keven Odecard
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Bob Dylan: Small Town Talk: Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Joplin, Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years – Barney Hoskyns
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Bob Dylan: Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan – Michael Gray
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Bob Dylan: Still On The Road: The Songs Of Bob Dylan 1974-2006 – Clinton Heylin
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Bob Dylan: Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader – Benjamin Hedin
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Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture – Michael Gilmour
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Bob Dylan: Tarantula – Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan: True Performing Of It: Bob Dylan & William Shakespeare – Greil Marcus
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Bob Dylan: Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan – John Bauldie
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Bob Dylan: Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan – David Dalton
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Bob Dylan: Why Bob Dylan Matters – Richard F. Thomas
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Bob Dylan: Wicked Messenger: Dylan and the 1960’s Chimes of Freedom – Mike Marqusee
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Bob Dylan: The World of Bob Dylan – Sean Latham
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Bob Dylan: Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan
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Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus
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Bob Dylan: A Year and A Day: Bob Dylan – Daniel Kramer
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November 4, 2021 at 4:59 pm
Dylan also played piano in Bobby Vee’s band for a short time, back when Robert Thomas Velline was a rockabilly artist.
Can you imagine the weight Dylan must carry just being Bob Dylan?!?
November 4, 2021 at 5:20 pm
A bio I read says he played two or three dates with the Shadows providing mostly some rhythm support (clapping hands)
November 4, 2021 at 7:12 pm
Craig, it was indeed piano: At the time, Dylan was going under the name Elston Gunn.
https://www.needsomefun.net/5-facts-between-bob-dylan-and-bobby-vee/
There’s a YouTube clip in the above post to Bob Dylan in concert in Minnesota playing Bobby Vee’s first hit, “Suzie Baby.” It’s straight concert footage, and it’s good, but I think the same concert is better portrayed in a montage of two different video clips edited and augmented by Vee’s son-in-law:
What’s impressive to me is the respect Dylan shows to Vee and the beauty of his interpretation which really amplifies the soul of the song. My eyes got damp while watching and listening – and Dylan really sings the song, not just “Dylans” it!
November 4, 2021 at 8:11 pm
Did you ever meet Bobby Vee? A music friend of mine did way back when and said he was ‘not real nice’