Chronicles Volume One
(Bob Dylan)
Bob Dylan's book starts roughly, quite appropriately so, from the time he found his way to New York and started to meet the people that would soon help him out. It ends at the point when it becomes clear that he is seeing the way out by drifting away from folk music: 'The folk music scene had been like a paradise that I had to leave, like Adam had to leave the garden. It was just too perfect. In a few years' time a shit storm would be unleashed.'
I love the fact that there is a lot of Bob Dylan in this book; he is not writing with his immortality in mind. I hate the fact that there is a lot of Bob Dylan in this book; he is writing with his highly personal concept of immortality in his mind. Or maybe it's the other way round.
No, this is probably not the main point I want to make. The main thing is that there is a genuinely humble, insecure and audacious side to an extraordinary personality of 20th century music, that comes up on the surface unexpectedly and counter-intuitively. On his own real words, whatever the word 'real' means in this context.
Read it!
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