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By Daniel Gewertz
At points Greil Marcus&#;s digressive style can seem like nervy brilliance, at others, idle whimsy. What ennobles the book is the critic&#;s love for his underlying subject: the soulful search for a truer America.
Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs, by Greil Marcus. Yale University Press, pages.
Of Greil Marcus&#;s 19 books, four now focus on Bob Dylan. About the esteemed critic&#;s new one, there is much to say. But let us begin with what this book is not about. Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs is certainly not a biography of Bob Dylan. A couple of the chapters treat Dylan as a mere bystander in the author&#;s free-form thought-journeys; moreover, the discussions of the songs are virtually never tied to events in the artist&#;s life. Nor are the songs themselves consistently paramount. In the chapter called &#;Jim Jones,&#; it takes 36 pages before Marcus even mentions the traditional folk song of that title. The chapter on &#;Desolation Row&#; barely mentions the masterpiece; instead, this short, fascinating commentary takes off on the song&#;s first phrase &#; &#;they&#;re selling postcards of the hanging&#; &#; to ruminate on early 20th-century hangings as festive social occasions. What is assumed to be a satir
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Folk Music: A Biography of Bob Dylan in Seven Songs by Greil Marcus. New Haven: Yale University Press, pp. Hardback. $
The Philosophy of Modern Songby Bob Dylan. London: Simon & Schuster, pp. Hardback. $
“I just tried to disguise myself the best I could.”
“I mean, I’m still the same person. You know, like Hank Williams would say, my hair’s still curly, my eyes are still blue. And that’s all I know.”
~ Bob Dylan, interview with Mikal Gilmore, Rolling Stone, December 22,
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The first Bob Dylan album I ever owned was Blood on the Tracks. It was a Christmas gift; I think I was Though I had asked for the CD, I went in cold, no idea what was coming. Listening, I was puzzled: it was nothing like what the title had made me think it would be. I expected fire. What I heard was rain—buckets of it.
At this stage I knew nothing about its putative relation to Dylan’s “real life,” the musical pun in the title, or the possible connection of “Tangled Up in Blue” to Joni Mitchell’s Blue. And yet, for all that–for all my ignorance and misplaced expectations–the more time I spent with the album, the more it changed, and the more I changed with it. Over twenty years on, my opinion of Dylan is the same as Karl Barth’s opinion of John Calvin. He is