Straight Arrow Publishers Inc, 1974 edition. Very good condition with dustwrapper
For the best part of a decade, Bob Dylan has been the major influence on popular music: there are few recording stars of recent years who do not owe him an enormous debt, He began in the early sixties as a coffee house folk singer accompanying himself on the guitar, and putting his own words to traditional ballad tunes. With songs like Blowing in the Wind, The Times they are a-Changing, and Mr Tambourine Man, he freed pop music from the restraints and banalities of Tin Pan Alley, and introduced a generation to poetry. In 1965 he almost caused a riot at the Newport Folk Festival by appearing with an electric band, the one which became The Band, and since that time his music has never stopped developing. He has confounded his critics time and again by keeping his own life an enigma and speaking to the world only through his songs. Recently the songs have become gentler, more reflective, and closer to the folk songs he started with. This book is an analysis and an appreciation of one of the most remarkable artists of our time...