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That Michael Gray "Dylan Encyclopedia" is an over-the-top indulgence. It's fun to flip through occasionally but whenever I do I walk away thinking "I can't believe someone invested so much time to produce something so arcane". I actually bought the book when Gray was going around the country as part of a speaking tour to promote the book.

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A book that's fun but is only sort of a book is The Dylan Scrapbook. As it's name implies, it's put together like an actual scrapbook that features all sorts of pictures and reproductions of things from Dylan's early years. Lots of cool features like handwritten lyrics, photos, and more that were curated by the same guy who oversaw the Music Experience Project in Seattle.

Here's a fun fact: that performance was special enough to be granted the cover of a music textbook!

https://www.amazon.com/Music-Social-Experience-Steven-Cornelius/dp/0136017509#immersive-view_1475024878230

Pretty cool that such a general subject deems Bobby worthy of a cover. Now if only those Norton Anthologies would add more Dylan content!

I was in a tape Bob Dylan tape tree years ago and some very generous member send me a bunch of recordings and this DVD of various Dylan TV performances.

http://www.stellarproducts.info/product_p/605.htm

Some of the quality on the version I have are a bit bootleggy (new verb) but I love this thing. I have volumes one and two and I believe there is a third. I'd pick them all up.

Another item she needs is Clinton Heylin's "Bob Dylan: The Recording Sessions 1960-1994."

http://www.amazon.com/Bob-Dylan-Recording-Sessions-1960-1994/dp/0312150679

Or "The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia" by Michael Gray is a great "bathroom" reader.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0826469337/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_2?pf_rd_p=1944687702&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0312150679&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0GF9NA2VA04JYE6J3526

Check e-Bay for more Dylan memorabilia type stuffs.

Depends on your taste, but for me just about everything on the I’m Not There soundtrack is great:
https://www.amazon.com/Im-Not-There-Various-Artists/dp/B000VS6P9Q

Changing of the Guard by Frank Black and Catholics is also a personal favorite:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CIvw4ncOwGc

But nothing compared to Bob doing Bob. I don’t like when someone tries to cover Dylan and make it a PoP song.

I would go with Chronicles, the book I read (can't recall the name now)really made him out to seem like an real asshole :) Which, though he may have been, is not what we care about.

edit: this book has tons of info about his early life and all the interesting people he crashed on couches with and lies he told journalists and his friends. A pretty good read.

Van Ronk's book is tremendous--The Mayor of MacDougal Street. Maybe my favourite musician memoir, and I went in as a casual admirer of the man at best. The picture he paints of Greenwich Village is captivating. Includes some great insight into young Dylan.

Closest thing you'll find to Dylan is Woody Guthrie. And even that's not entirely accurate. I'd recommend this album. Bob is in a class by himself.

However, if you're feeling that "great songwriter who can't sing a lick" vibe, I'd second the recommendations of Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Townes Van Zant. (I think all those albums are on Spotify, BTW.)

Goddamn, I feel like a little kid, so exited! Didn't expect this.
Does anyone know if this is coming on vinyl as well? /Edit: [Looks like it is] (http://www.amazon.com/Basement-Tapes-Raw-Bootleg-Vinyl/dp/B00MXILUCY/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1409057274&sr=1-3&keywords=the+bootleg+series+vol+11)

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Hmm, so what does this mean for his new album (Shadows In The Night). Wikipedia says it's scheduled for 2014 but two albums in less than 4 months is pretty unusual, isn't it?

I got into dylan just a few years ago. I made a playlist of mp3s on my phone of his top 100 songs in chronological order according to this book (i dont think any of his greatest hits collections are in chronological order, which is important. ) i can scan the list and post it if you'd likem

Source: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H5VTTDD/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1537380728&sr=8-5&keywords=more%20blood%20more%20tracks

Tracklist is on Amazon.

Maybe it's 2 discs of NY session, 2 of Minneapolis sessions and 2 of Rolling Thunder Revue stuff (if so, why all the repeated songs?)

"Spanish Is the Loving Tongue" included??

It's awesome, 100% agree...the movie "the making of Gotta Serve Somebody" is incredible as well

http://www.amazon.com/Gotta-Serve-Somebody-Gospel-Songs/dp/B000C20VK0/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1324734090&sr=1-1

Yeah it's the radio broadcast of the 1976 fort collins gig, a publisher called "bad joker" did a run of 500 of them on 180 gram vinyl. Found it new in a record store for a very reasonable price. Most of the gig is on "Hard Rain" but in my opinion it's missing the best parts (eg "I pity the poor immigrant" and a blistering version of "Mozambique").

This recording has a much better atmosphere and with the missing songs put back it really does the fort collins gig the justice it deserves. Here it is although I picked it up for half the price they're asking for it on amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Collins-Stadium-Radio-Broadcastcolo-VINYL/dp/B074BNP9NS

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Deluxe/dp/B07H5VTTDD/ref=sr_1_3?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1537460778&sr=1-3