Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968–2010

500 Pages·2010·2.58 MB·English

by  Greil Marcus

Table of Contents

ALSO BY GREIL MARCUS
Title Page
Dedication
WHERE I CAME IN
PROLOGUE

PART ONE - Breath Control, 1970-1974
SELF PORTRAIT NO. 25
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)
(14, 15, 16)
(17)
(18)
(19)
(20)
(21, 22)
(23)
(24)
(25)
NEW MORNING
WATCHING THE RIVER FLOW
BANGLA DESH
DOUG SAHM AND BAND
HEAVY BREATHING
HIGHWAY 61 REVISITED REVISITED
A MOMENT OF PANIC

PART TWO - Seven Years of This, 1975-1981
AN ALBUM OF WOUNDS
from LINER NOTES
DYLAN GETS NASTY
THAT TRAIN DON’T STOP HERE ANYMORE
SAVE THE LAST WALTZ FOR ME
STREET LEGAL
MORE OR LESS LIKE A MOVING STONE
AMAZING CHUTZPAH
from LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS
from THEMES FROM SUMMER PLACES
from SONGS OF RANDOM TERROR—REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10, 1980

PART THREE - And Eight Years of That, 1985-1993
NUMBER ONE WITH A BULLET
OVER THE EDGE
COMEBACK TIME AGAIN
SPEAKER TO SPEAKER
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
BOB SPITZ, DYLAN: A BIOGRAPHY
THE MYTH OF THE OPEN ROAD
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
DYLAN AS HISTORIAN
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
PART FOUR - New Land Sighted, 1993-1997
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
WHAT’S NEW IN THE CEMETERY
THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT CELEBRATION
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
“LIKE A ROLLING STONE” AFTER TWENTY-NINE YEARS
DOCK BOGGS
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
BOB DYLAN AFTER THE 1994 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTIONS
FREE SPEECH AND FALSE SPEECH
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
ALL THIS USELESS BEAUTY

PART FIVE - New Land Found, 1997-1999
PREEMPTIVE OBITUARIES
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
A MAP YOU CAN THROW AWAY
ONE STEP BACK
THIRTY RECORDS ABOUT AMERICA
TABLE SCRAPS
FOLK MUSIC TODAY—THE HORROR
OLD SONGS IN NEW SKINS

PART SIX - Hopscotch, 2000-2001
THE MAN ON THE LEFT
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
WHERE IS DESOLATION ROW?
HOPSCOTCH REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
TOMBSTONE BLUES
WHEN FIRST UNTO THIS COUNTRY
LIVE 1961-2000— THIRTY-NINE YEARS OF GREAT CONCERT
PERFORMANCES
HANDSOME MOLLY
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
SOMETIMES HE TALKS CRAZY, CRAZY LIKE A SONG
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
HIGH WATER EVERYWHERE

PART SEVEN - Find a Grave, 2001-2004
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
NOT SINGING TOO FAST
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
HOW GOOD CAN IT GET
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
THE LOST WALTZ
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10

PART EIGHT - Beat the Clock, 2004-2010
CHRONICLES
CHRONICLES
THE WORLD PREMIERE OF NO DIRECTION HOME
BOOKSHELVES—PAUL NELSON, 1936-2006
FOLK MUSIC TODAY-RAPTURE
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10 THE TRAIL OF DEAD
A TRIP TO HIBBING HIGH
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
I’M NOT THERE
VISIONS AND VISIONS OF JOHANNA
THE BEGINNING AND THE END
THE DRAWN BLANK SERIES
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10
TELL TALE SIGNS: Rare and Unreleased, 1989-2006—The Bootleg Series
Volume 8 ...
SAM MCGEE’S “RAILROAD BLUES” AND OTHER VERSIONS OF THE
REPUBLIC
STORIES OF A BAD SONG
REAL LIFE ROCK TOP 10

EPILOGUE
CODA
Acknowledgements
LYRIC AND ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
INDEX
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Copyright Page
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(1975, 2008)

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In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-92
(1993, originally published as Ranters & Crowd Pleasers)

The Dustbin of History (1995)

The Old, Weird America: The World of Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes (2000,
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Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley
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“The Manchurian Candidate” (2002)

Like a Rolling Stone: Bob Dylan at the Crossroads (2005)
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice (2006)

When That Rough God Goes Riding: Listening to Van Morrison (2010)
As Editor

Stranded (1979, 2007)

Psychotic Reactions & Carburetor Dung, by Lester Bangs (1987)

The Rose & the Briar: Death, Love and Liberty in the
American Ballad (2004, with Sean Wilentz)

A New Literary History of America (2009, with Werner Sollors)