'Life is about creating yourself': on Bob Dylan: Mixing Up the Medicine | Books
The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself
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The Dylan Center in Tulsa offers a read as endlessly fascinating, as vital to the American story, as its subject himself
Bob Dylan and band at the Beacon Theatre, New York City, December 1, 2019. (Photo by John Hall.) This photo is included in Paul Metsa’s new book. You can walk into an Iron Range bar on the weekend and see any of the five character types imbued in Bob Dylan’s persona: the greaser dressed in
Join Chevalier's Books for a book talk and enactment of THE DYLAN TAPES, written by Anthony Scaduto and edited by Stephanie Trudeau, on Tuesday, August 23.
Just before he died, Tony discovered all his interview tapes in our basement. Scaduto’s ‘basement tapes’ comprise more than thirty-six hours of conversations with Dylan, Joan Baez, Echo Helstrom, Suze Rotolo, John Hammond Sr., Phil Ochs, Izzy Young, Mike Porco, and on and on.
On somewhat of a lark, realizing little by way of epiphany had been revealed about the childhood circumstances that yielded Bob Dylan, Thompson went where few journalists had gone before—poking around the mining town of Hibbing, Minnesota. There he confronted a question: how to reach the essence of a person who is, by his own design, inscrutable?