6      NEW BOOKS. 2

7      REFERENCES & SOURCES. 3

8      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 4

 

 

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6       NEW BOOKS

Here's a, no doubt incomplete, list from the never-ending flood of new Dylan books:

 

Katu Suzuki: Dylan’s Beat
Shinko Music, 1997.
Hardback, 432 pages.
The book with all text in Japanese, looks upon Suzuki’s 1994 Japanese short-wave radio program “Bob Dylan Club”. The book also contains a list of all Dylan’s Japanese concerts.

Mike Wyvill and John Wraith: Rolling Down The Road. Bob Dylan's 1996 Concerts
Two Riders, 1997. 56 pages.
Concert listings and comments plus a lot of pictures.

Greil Marcus: Invisible Republic. Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes
Henry Holt And Company, New York 1997. Hardback, 284 pages.
A detailed discussion of the songs covered during the famous sessions with The Bans in the basement of their house, “Big Pink”.

Walter van der Paelt: Bob Dylan And The Cards
Desolation Row Promotions 1997. 32 pages.
Examines the use of both Tarot and standard deck playing cards in Dylan’s lyrics.

Geoffrey Saxby: Bob Dylan Astrology and Numerology
Desolation Row Promotions. 64 pages.
The many mysteries of Bob Dylan is explained through his birth chart!

 

7       REFERENCES & SOURCES

[1]    Reviews and other postings on rec.music.dylan.

[2]    Bill Pagel's excellent tour reports on his Bob Links page.
(http://www.execpc.com/~billp61/boblink.html).

[3]    Karl Erik Andersen's fabulous Expecting Rain page.

[4]    The Wicked Messenger column in Isis 1997.

[5]    Articles and columns in The Telegraph, On The Tracks, Series Of Dreams 1997.

[6]    My own tape collection.

 

8       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

 

I would like very much to thank Jörgen Lindström for many of the BobTalk transcriptions and all the hours of discussions of concert tapes and Bob and life in the nineties.

Finally I would like to thank David Baldwin for all the information in private e-mail communication December 18, 1997.