Bob Dylan Book Shelf

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

Bob Dylan: All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Track – Philippe Margotin and Jean-Michael Guesdon

Bob Dylan: Biography – Bob Spitz

Bob Dylan: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and American Song – Larry David Smith

Bob Dylan: Beyond the Shades Revisited – Clinton Heylin

Bob Dylan: Chronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: Classic Bob Dylan: 1962-1969 My Back Pages – Andy Gill

Bob Dylan: Come Ye Masters of War: The Bob Dylan Conspiracy – Robe O’brian

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….”

Bob Dylan: A Descriptive, Critical Discography and Filmography 1961-2007 – John Nogowski

Bob Dylan: The Double Life Of Bob Dylan: A Restless, Hungry Feeling 1941-1966 – Clinton Heylin

Bob Dylan: Down the Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan – Howard Sounes

Bob Dylan: Dream: My Life with Bob – Roy Kelly

Bob Dylan: Dylan’s Vision of Sin – Christopher Ricks

Bob Dylan: The Early Years 1960-1973

Bob Dylan: Essential Bob Dylan – Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews – Jonathan Cott

Bob Dylan: Encyclopedia – Michael Gray

Bob Dylan: Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan and the Night That Split the Sixties – Elijah Wald

Bob Dylan: Grown Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 – Daniel Wolf

Bob Dylan: Hard Rain/Slow Train: Passages About Dylan – Michael Anton Miller

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

I’m Gonna Say It Now: The Writings of Phil Ochs – Phil Ochs

Bob Dylan: An Illustrated History – Michael Gross

Bob Dylan: An Intimate Biography – Anthony Scaduto

Bob Dylan: It Ain’t Me Babe: Bob Dylan and the Performance of Authenticity – Andrea Cossu

Bob Dylan: Light Comes Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan – Andrew McCarron

Bob Dylan: Little Black Songbook – Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: & Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances – David Boucher & Lucy Boucher

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.”

Bob Dylan: Listening to Bob Dylan – Larry Starr

Bob Dylan: in London: Troubadour Tales – Jackie Lees & KG Miles

Bob Dylan: A Man Called Alias – Richard Williams

Bob Dylan: Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band and the Basement Tapes – Sid Griffin

Bob Dylan: No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan – Robert Shelton

Bob Dylan: NYC 1961-1964 – Ted Russell

Bob Dylan: Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes – Greil Marcus

Bob Dylan: On the Road With Bob Dylan – Larry Sloman

Bob Dylan: Once Upon A Time: The Lives Of Bob Dylan – Ian Bell

Bob Dylan: One More Night” Bob Dylan’s Never Ending Tour – Andrew Muir

Bob Dylan: Outlaw Blues – Spencer Leigh

Bob Dylan: Performing Artist the Middle Years: 1974-1986 – Paul Williams

Bob Dylan: Performing Artist 1986-1990 & Beyond: Mind Out of Time – Paul William

Bob Dylan: and Philosophy – Peter Vernezze

Bob Dylan: The Political Art of Bob Dylan – Frank Zollner

Bob Dylan: Political Folk Music in America From Its Origins to Bob Dylan – Lawrence J. Epstein

Bob Dylan: Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Farina and Richard Farina – David Hajdu

Bob Dylan: Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota – Toby Thompson

Bob Dylan: Reforming Artist: The Music of Bob Dylan 1960-1973

Bob Dylan: Refractions of Bob Dylan: Cultural Appropriations Of An American Icon – Eugene Banauch

Bob Dylan: Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan 1957-1973

Bob Dylan: Simple Twist Of Fate: Bob Dylan & the Making of Blood on the Tracks – Andy Gill & Keven Odecard

Bob Dylan: Small Town Talk: Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Joplin, Hendrix and Friends in the Wild Years – Barney Hoskyns

Bob Dylan: Song and Dance Man III: The Art of Bob Dylan – Michael Gray

Bob Dylan: Still On The Road: The Songs Of Bob Dylan 1974-2006 – Clinton Heylin

Bob Dylan: Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader – Benjamin Hedin

Bob Dylan: Tangled Up In the Bible: Bob Dylan and Scripture – Michael Gilmour

Bob Dylan: Tarantula – Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: True Performing Of It: Bob Dylan & William Shakespeare – Greil Marcus

Bob Dylan: Wanted Man: In Search of Bob Dylan – John Bauldie

Bob Dylan: Who Is That Man?: In Search of the Real Bob Dylan – David Dalton

Bob Dylan: Why Bob Dylan Matters – Richard F. Thomas

Bob Dylan: Wicked Messenger: Dylan and the 1960’s Chimes of Freedom – Mike Marqusee

Bob Dylan: The World of Bob Dylan – Sean Latham

Bob Dylan: Writings and Drawings by Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: Writings 1968-2010 by Greil Marcus

Bob Dylan: A Year and A Day: Bob Dylan – Daniel Kramer