Heylin also wrote the most comprehensive and accurate biography of Dylan, Behind the Shades. Information on Woody Guthrie comes from Ramblin’ Man: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie by Ed Cray.Ĭhronicles Volume 1 by Bob Dylan is a partial, highly inaccurate, but thoroughly readable autobiography.īob Dylan: All The Songs by Phillipe Margotin and Jean-Michel Guesdon is a song-by-song look at every song Dylan ever wrote, as is Revolution in the Air, by Clinton Heylin. The Mayor of MacDougal Street by Dave Van Ronk and Elijah Wald is the fascinating and funny autobiography of Dylan’s mentor in his Greenwich Village period.Įscaping the Delta by Elijah Wald is the definitive book on Robert Johnson. I have used *many* books for this episode, most of which I will also be using for future episodes on Dylan: The Harry Smith Anthology is also now public domain, and can be freely downloaded from. An interesting and cheap one is this, which pairs it (and a non-album single by Dylan) with two Carolyn Hester albums which give a snapshot of the Greenwich Village scene, on one of which Dylan plays harmonica. This might not be available in the US, due to the number of Woody Guthrie songs in a row.ĭylan’s first album is in the public domain in Europe, so a variety of reissues of it exist. Check out Tilt’s irregular podcasts at and Īs always, I’ve created a Mixcloud streaming playlist with full versions of all the songs in the episode. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Patreon backers also have a ten-minute bonus episode available, on “ Sherry” by the Four Seasons. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Download file | Play in new window | Recorded on September 10, 2020Įpisode ninety-seven of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at “Song To Woody” by Bob Dylan, and at the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early sixties.
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