Hard Rain: A Dylan Commentary

by Tim Riley

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780307773043
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/29/2010
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	368
File size:	421 KB

About the Author

Tim Riley is the author of Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary, Hard Rain, Fever, and John Ono Lennon: The Music and the Life. He has written for Slate and Newsweek, and reviews music for NPR. A professor of journalism at Emerson College, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts.

Editorial Reviews

"A book that allows us to understand exactly why Bob Dylan is so celebrated . . . Riley ponders the lyrics, arrangements, and delivery of Dylan's work, from his first album in 1962." —Los Angeles Times

"Finally, in Tim Riley, Dylan has a critic who can at once place him in the Woody Guthrie toubadour tradition and probe the music knowingly." —BookPage

"Riley succeeds in making familiar materical seem fresh . . . . He offers many new, thought-provoking interpretations of songs, and his powers of description are potent." —Philadelphia Inquirer

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