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by ISIS editor Derek Barker
Contains detailed information about 550 songs which Dylan had covered either in the studio or in concert from his early party gigs through to 2008.
Each entry catalogues when and where the song was performed, the year of the tour and the date and venue of the first and most recent performance. Also included is the background to the song, from whom Dylan might have learned it, and a short biography of the artist in question.
Record Collector called “The Songs He Didn’t Write”, “Much more than just another Dylan book.”
Record Collector Review.
“Monumental chronicle of the songs that made Dylan tick; the ultimate Theme Time Radio Hour companion.
This is so much more than just another tome to throw on the ever-growing pile of Dylan books; more a brilliantly-entertaining launch-pad into the sometimes weird and often wonderful canon of wildly-diverse music which has propelled the man into performing a vast number of sometimes unlikely cover versions at studios, shows, soundchecks and even late ’50s front rooms.
This marvellous exercise is testament to Barker’s dedication and knowledge of his subject, born out of … years editing foremost Dylan fanzine, Isis, and years of research, revealing more about its illusive subject’s ways and workings than a shelf-load of variations and theories on the well-trodden story. Though not the intention, Barker has also provided the perfect companion to Dylan’s Theme Time Radio Hour, which has featured many of these songs, giving dates, chart placings and artist backgrounds along with where Dylan covered the songs.
The near-500-page book takes the encyclopaedic format to document hundreds of songs, ranging from expected inclusions such as Woody Guthrie and the basement tapes, to surprises the likes of Mungo Jerry’s ‘In The Summertime’, The Beatles’ ‘Yesterday’, 1992’s return tribute to Hendrix by performing Dolly Dagger in Australia, and the immortal shock encores of The Clash’s London Calling during the November 2005 Brixton Academy residency. Appendix One lists songs which Dylan played at anywhere from gigs and studios, to friends’ apartments during specific years from 1956 onwards, while the frustration of craving to hear inclusions such as the 1990 version of Little Feat’s Willin’ may require bootleg-hunting, so relevant CDs are listed in Appendix Two. Indispensable.”
Reviewed by Kris Needs
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