Sid Griffin

This book was quite different from what I normally read, and quite fascinating. Dylan, having in many ways spearheaded the civil rights and protest movements of the 1960's took a step back, long before the rest of the country did. The Basement Tapes music and this book show his attraction to domesticity, his American roots and the roots of American music. He teemed together with mostly Canadian musicians and retreated from the electric music and psychodelia then popular with most of the audience. Other forward-looking musicians such as Eric Clapton admired and joined this move.

The book will have an appeal mostly to Band or Dylan cognocenti. I read it both as a lover of those groups and a history buff.… (more)