Bob Dylan FAQ : All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man

Bob Dylan FAQ : All That's Left to Know About the Song and Dance Man
ISBN: 9781617136078
Publication Date: 8 August 2017

Combining the exhaustive research of an encyclopedia with the narrative drive of creative nonfiction, Bruce Pollock's Bob Dylan FAQ delves deeply into the life and expanding discography of rock's most gifted and prolific songwriter and performer. Chapters assessing individual songs and albums, concert tours, and periods of inactivity are matched with sections on best Dylan websites, covers, bootlegs, his memoir, novel, boutique record label, output as a painter, and touring bands.

An award-winning journalist, Pollock rates Dylan's "10 Benchmark Songs" and "Best 25 Songs Since Blonde on Blonde ," as well as Dylan's Top 10 TV, Video, and movie performances. In the chapter "Hey Hey Woody Guthrie," the five artists that formed Bob Dylan and the one album (Harry Smith's Anthology of Folk Music ) that transformed him are revealed. In the chapter "Positively Bleecker & MacDougal Street," the Greenwich Village men's club Dylan joined in the '60s is discussed, including that generation's luminaries from Dave Van Ronk to David Blue to Phil Ochs.

Later on, in "Leave Your Stepping Stones Behind," Dylan's influence on the musicians of his and future generations is analyzed, from Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen to Dan Bern and Conor Oberst.

About the Author

Bruce Pollock (Fairfield, CT) is a Deems Taylor Award winning music journalist and the author of 14 books on rock music, 17 reference books, and three novels. He is the founding editor in chief of the magazine Guitar for the Practicing Musician. He was a columnist at Entertainment Weekly, USA Today , the Gannett-Westchester Newspapers , and Viva magazine , and a record producer at Sony/BMG for 12 years. Currently, he is an adjunct professor of rock history a...