No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan

by Shelton, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780306812873
• ISBN10: 0306812878
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-07-09
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Robert Shelton wrote the rave review of Bob Dylan in theNew York Timesthat is generally credited with being the piece that "discovered" him in 1961. Twenty-five years later, Shelton, who had followed Dylan's career faithfully, publishedNo Direction Home. Here is the "empathetic and rather magnificent" (Washington Post Book World) story of Dylan, musician and phenomenon.

Author Biography

Robert Shelton (1926-95) wrote about music for the New York Times until the end of the '60s.

Table of Contents

Prelude Lifelessness, the Enemy	13	(8)
1 "Don't Raise Your Voice Around Here!"	21	(41)
2 The Wrong End of the Mississippi	62	(25)
3 Talking Greenwich Village Blues	87	(40)
4 Positively 161 West Fourth Street	127	(32)
5 Not a Puppet Laureate	159	(50)
6 Roll Over, Gutenberg	209	(30)
7 Several Seasons in Hell	239	(27)
8 Orpheus Plugs In	266	(39)
9 Inside the Coliseum	305	(35)
10 One Foot on the Highway...	340	(33)
11 Listening to the Silence	373	(37)
12 Running Free	410	(40)
13 Thunder, Hurricane, and Hard Rain	450	(26)
Coda: Busy Being Born Again	476	(23)
Acknowledgments	499	(2)
Copyright Citations and Notes to Text	501	(10)
Select Bibliography	511	(6)
Song Index	517	(30)
Discography	547	(12)
Index	559