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Ranging over 30 years of Bob Dylan recordings, films, and concerts, this updated edition includes a new epilogue that examines his 30th anniversary celebration and his 1998 Grammy Award comeback.
List of contents
* Introduction * Talking New York * Bob Dylan (1962) * The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963) * The Times They Are A-Changin' (1964) * Down the Highway * Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964) * Bringing It All Back Home (1965) * Don't Look Back (1967) * Highway Revisited (1965) * Mona Lisa's Highway Blues * Blonde on Blonde (1966) * 1 Tour * Clothesline Sagas * The Basement Tapes (recorded 1967-68, released 1975) * Retro Man * John Wesley Harding (1967) * Nashville Skyline (1969) * Sign on the Window * Self-Portait (1970) * Dylan (1973) * New Morning (1970) * Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Volume (1971) * The Concert for Bangla Desh (1971) (1971) * Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973) * Napoleon in Rags * Planet Waves (1974) * Before the Flood (1974) * Back in the Rain * Blood on the Tracks (1975) * Idiot Wind * Desire (1973) * Hard Rain (1976) * Rolling Thunder Revue tour, including the film Ronaldo and Clara (1978) * The Last Waltz (1978) * Temporary Like Achilles * Epilogue: 1992-1 * Discography * Selected Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index
About the author
Tim Riley is a web producer, campus speaker, and pianist. His music criticism has appeared in the Washington Post, in Boston magazine, and on National Public Radio. He is also a music commentator for NPR's "Here and Now." He lives in Boston.
Summary
Hard Rain ranges over thirty years of Bob Dylan's recordings, films, and concerts to deliver astute insights intoand sometimes heretical judgements ofhis prodigious corpus of work. This updated edition includes a new epilogue that examines Dylan's thirtieth anniversary celebration in 1992; his albums Good As I Been to You, World Gone Wrong, and Time Out of Mind; his 1997 performance before the Pope; and his 1998 Grammy Award comeback. The result is unparalleled rock criticism.
