Outtakes On Bob Dylan Selected Writings 19672021 1st Edition Michael Gray by Michael Gray 9781901927863, 1901927865 instant download after payment.

Here we have eye-witness accounts of concerts: from a mercurial 1966 show in Liverpool through to bulletins from glorious, and not so glorious, shows on the Never-Ending Tour. Dylan's blues roots are explored in train rides through Mississippi. On a trip to Hibbing, Gray gets to play the same piano in the same school hall where Dylan hammered out Little Richard numbers in the 1950s. Throughout, Gray turns his critical attention to Dylan's work as it appears, from his immediate perceptive take on 1975's Blood On The Tracks up to a new, extended essay on 2020's Rough And Rowdy Ways.

Ever since the pioneering Song & Dance Man in 1972, Michael Gray has been the go-to critic for Dylan fans in search of serious analysis of this most elusive artist's work. In Outtakes On Bob Dylan, we get Gray the man as well as a unique measure of Dylan's long career as it unfolds, not in retrospect but in real time.

'Gray's passionate subjectivity mirrors his subject's wholly idiosyncratic journey through life, as well as the complexities and contradictions that make Dylan who he is.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Gray has read everything remotely related to the subject; he has also listened to everything, and with great care… alert to the fluidity of ideas and associations in Dylan's art and microscopically attentive to his choice and delivery of words.' - The Guardian

'I have always admired Gray's reach, tone, and acuity.' - Greil Marcus