Bob Dylan
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes...
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the FM airwaves in the 1960s and '70s with his free-form program Radio unnameable, a cultural hub for music, politics, and audience engagement. For nearly 50 years, he has been heard at midnight on New York City listener-sponsored station WBAI, utilizing the airwaves for mobilization long before today's innovations in social media. Drawing from Fass's extraordinary personal archive of audio recordings,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
If not for you, I’d be sad and blue. If not for you, I just wouldn’t have a clue. If not for you, what would I do? In this inventive interpretation of Bob Dylan’s 1970 song "If Not for You," illustrator David Walker beautifully imagines Dylan’s lyrics as portraying the bottomless love between a parent and a child -- and the magical experiences they might share together.
Author
Series
Bootleg volume 9
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
Features 47 songs recorded by Bob Dylan, accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, harmonica, and occasionally piano, for his first music publisher, Leeds Music, in January 1962, and for his second publisher, M. Witmark & Sons, between 1962 and 1964.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
In the first comprehensive documentary to chronicle the private life and public career of Joan Baez, "How Sweet the Sound" examines her history as a recording artist and performer as well as her remarkable journey as the conscience of a generation. Features interviews with David Crosby, Bob Dylan, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, Roger McGuinn and others, as well as a candid conversation between Joan and ex-husband David Harris. The film is rich in archival...