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(More customer reviews)This book will suffice for those who only want to dabble in Dylan's work, but the hard-core follower would do better to read Paul Williams' extensive two-volume "Performing Artist" set or even Tim Riley's "Hard Rain" instead. Humphries gives a fair sketch of Dylan's career without the level of analysis his work really requires, although the coverage of such lesser albums as "Knocked Out Loaded" and "Good As I Been To You" is more extensive than usual. The main problem with this book is that Humphries disobeys one of Dylan's classic instructions: he criticizes what he doesn't understand. To compare "Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts" to "a Forrest Gump anecdote" or to accuse "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands" of being padded out for length is to expose your own colors more than Dylan's. At times, Humphries also alarmingly misinterprets Dylan's songs; his reviews of "It Ain't Me, Babe" and "Absolutely Sweet Marie" sound like descriptions of different works altogether. The title of this book says it all--it's a guide, not an extensive thesis, and what you see is about what you get.
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A guide to the music of Bob Dylan. The book examines every recorded song in his catalogue to date, and acts as a consumer's critical guide to the music. Shaped like a CD box, it is designed to sit alongside the reader's existing CD collection.
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