Until you’ve consumed all of the best Bob Dylan books, can you even claim to be a true fan?
- Chronicles: Volume One (2005)
- Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited (2003)
- 100 Songs (2017)
- Why Bob Dylan Matters (2018)
- Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (2011)
- Dylan: The Biography (2014)
- The Best of Bob Dylan Chord Songbook (2010)
- Bob Dylan Complete (Guitar Chords, Lyrics) (2019)
- Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader (2005)
- Bob Dylan – Easy Guitar: Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab (2014)
- Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969 (2019)
- The Songs of Bob Dylan: From 1966 Through 1975 (1986)
- Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits – Complete: P/V/G Folio (1996)
- The Definitive Bob Dylan Songbook (Small Format) (2003)
Chronicles: Volume One (2005)
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.” So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career.
Bob Dylan: Behind the Shades Revisited (2003)
In 1991 Clinton Heylin published what was considered the most definitive biography of Bob Dylan available. In 2001 he completely revised and reworked this hugely acclaimed book, adding new sections, substantially reworking text, and bringing the story up-to-date with Dylan’s explosive career in 2000.
100 Songs (2017)
Bob Dylan is one of the most important cultural figures of our time, and the first American musician in history to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. 100 Songs is an intimate and carefully curated collection of his most important lyrics that spans from the beginning of his career through the present day.
Why Bob Dylan Matters (2018)
“The coolest class on campus” – The New York TimesWhen the Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan in 2016, a debate raged. Some celebrated, while many others questioned the choice. How could the world’s most prestigious book prize be awarded to a famously cantankerous singer-songwriter who wouldn’t even deign to attend the medal ceremony?In Why Bob Dylan Matters, Harvard Professor Richard F.
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan (2011)
The acclaimed biography substantially updated and revised, Howard Sounes’s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan’s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan.
Dylan: The Biography (2014)
A groundbreaking and vibrant look at the music hero to generations, DYLAN: The Biography digs deep into Bob Dylan lore―including subjects Dylan himself left out of Chronicles: Volume One.DYLAN: The Biography focuses on why this beloved artist has touched so many souls―and on how both Dylan and his audience have changed along the way.
The Best of Bob Dylan Chord Songbook (2010)
(Guitar Chord Songbook). From the folk troubadour to electric iconoclast, born-again preacher to elder statesman, Bob Dylan has sound-tracked the last 50 years in an unparalleled catalog of song. This collection contains 70 Dylan classics from every part of his career. Arrangements are in the same keys as the original recordings and include chord symbols, guitar chord frames, and complete lyrics.
Bob Dylan Complete (Guitar Chords, Lyrics) (2019)
(Guitar Chord Songbook). Singer, songwriter, performer, author, poet, visual artist, and now the first American songwriter to win a Nobel Prize in literature, Bob Dylan is one of the most influential figures in popular culture. In this folio, enjoy every song written and recorded by Bob Dylan to date in chord songbook format. Includes chord symbols, guitar chord shapes and full lyrics.
Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader (2005)
“The most absorbing, wide-ranging and stimulating body of writing about the mighty Bob that’s ever been assembled.”–Salman Rushdie Hailed by Publishers Weekly as “not only the best writing on the ever-changing folk singer, but also some of the best writing about any musician around,” Studio A presents Bob Dylan’s unique literary legacy in a collection that is quintessentially Dylan: mosaic, offbeat, poetic.
Bob Dylan – Easy Guitar: Easy Guitar with Notes & Tab (2014)
(Easy Guitar). A dozen of Dylan’s most popular songs are featured in this collection of easy guitar arrangements in standard notation and tablature. Includes: Blowin’ in the Wind * Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right * Hurricane * It Ain’t Me Babe * Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door * Lay Lady Lay * Like a Rolling Stone * Mr. Tambourine Man * Positively 4th Street * Shelter from the Storm * Tangled up in Blue * The Times They Are A-Changin’.
Bob Dylan at the Isle of Wight Festival 1969 (2019)
2019 marks the golden anniversary of the mass musical gatherings that saw the hippie generation at their 1969 zenith. Two events stand out, staged within days of each other that magical August: in the United States, there was Woodstock, and in the UK the Isle of Wight Festival of Music.
The Songs of Bob Dylan: From 1966 Through 1975 (1986)
(Personality). Focusing on the key decade of Dylan’s prodigious output, this sensational volume includes the classics: Just Like a Woman * I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight * Lay, Lady, Lay * I Shall Be Released * and more. 121 songs in all!
Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits – Complete: P/V/G Folio (1996)
(Music Sales America). Matching folio to Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits albums volumes 1, 2 and 3, in one complete edition. 45 songs including the classic hits: Blowin’ in the Wind * Mr. Tambourine Man * The Mighty Quinn * and more. #1,435,439 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #872 in Folk & Traditional Music (Books) #442 in Folk & Traditional Songbooks #1140 in Jazz Songbooks Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
The Definitive Bob Dylan Songbook (Small Format) (2003)
(Music Sales America). For the first time in one volume, over 325 songs drawn from every period in the unique career of the master songwriter. Each song includes melody, guitar chords, and complete lyrics all in a small format edition (7 x 10 ). #836,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #12013 in Songbooks #12497 in Sheet Music & Scores #642 in Country Music (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
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Hard Rain: Bob Dylan, Oral Cultures, and the Meaning of History
Author(s): Alessandro Portelli
ID: 3323654, Publisher: Columbia University Press, Year: 2022, Size: 566 Kb, Format: pdf
The Dylan Tapes: Friends, Players, and Lovers Talkin' Early Bob Dylan
Author(s): Anthony Scaduto
ID: 3410955, Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, Year: 2022, Size: 638 Kb, Format: epub
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Author(s): Bob Dylan
ID: 3432874, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, Year: 2022, Size: 249 Mb, Format: epub
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