Still on the Road: Songs of Bob Dylan, 1974-2008 v. 2: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 1973-2008: The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 2 / 1974-2008 |  | Author: Clinton Heylin
Publisher: Constable
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Publication Date: April 29, 2010
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Presents a survey of the songs of Bob Dylan. This title covers from 'Blood on the Tracks', the album filled with masterworks such as 'Tangled Up in Blue' and 'Simple Twist of Fate' that heralded a watershed in Dylan's creative journey, and up to 2006's 'Modern Times'.
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More of the same August 29, 2010
RL EARTH (Wolverhampton, UK)
Having read Volume 1 - Revolution in the air, I knew pretty much what to expect. Mr Heylin's slightly eccentric, very assured style with his opinions stated at every opportunity, leaving very little room for any else's. However, as a reference work this book is indespensible, a must for the shelf of every true Dylan afficionado. The research and detail included is sometimes overwhelming and I know that having read the book from cover to cover, I will return to return to it many times in future to look up this or that. On the whole a good addition to the long list of Dylan books, a lot of which are not worth the paper they are written on, but this one certainly is.
 just as i thought June 21, 2010
chris the driver (england)
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
how can a book about the greatest rock writer and poet be anything other than brilliant
Essential reading, but don't let it spoil the magic May 20, 2010
D. R. Lee (Leighton Buzzard, England)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
I wouldn't want to be without this and Clinton Heylin's other books, as they are a mine of information, but I would urge you to give your own critical faculties priority over the author as you read these accounts of each song. Take them as a starting point, they will give you some clues and a basis maybe to form your own opinion. You do start to feel at times that Heylin doesn't really like Dylan. Above all, he has overlooked the fact that these songs are music and amazingly, he fails to discuss this aspect in most cases. This is a weakness which several Dylan writers seem to share - they are more interested in words on a page than the elusive feelings you get when you listen to the track. The other thing to be aware of is that Heylin doesn't know what most of the songs mean, any more than anyone else does (Dylan included). But he does give you the facts about when they were written, and under what circumstances. Plus his opinion which you can agree with or disagree with as you see fit. It's great stuff which will provide many hours of entertaining and thought-provoking reading.
A must-read for Dylan fans April 25, 2010
J. H. Bretts
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
As Clinton Heylin points out in his introduction, Bob Dylan wrote his first 300 songs in the space of only 13 years, but it took him 33 years to write the next 300. And it is also the case that far more attention has been paid to those early songs than the one that followed,with many column inches of over-analysis spent on them. So it is great to have a book which which deals fully with the diverse and surprising songs written between 1974-2008, not only because critics up to now have dealt cursorily with them but because, as Heylin shows,so many are real gems.
This book brings out Heylin's strengths, which are that he is a researcher, with a real eye for detail, who finds out new things about Dylan's songs and how they were written (and rewritten!), recorded and transformed in live performance. The book is full of insightful details. On the other hand , it does display Heylin's weaknesses as a writer - particularly a clunky style and an urge to be judgemental when it come to Dylan the human being as opposed to the artist. That said, this is a really fascinating and much needed account of Bob Dylan's ability to continue to develop his art over the last four decades. Recommended.
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