![]() ![]() Even Carol King, who later became famous as a singer songwriter, worked in the Brill Building churning out hit tunes for others.īob Dylan changed all that. However, many of us are fascinated by the iconic singer who made singer-songwriters the only real musicians.īefore Bob Dylan, songwriters, for the most part, worked on Tin Pan Alley and wrote hits for singers. Obviously, casual readers of Dylan’s work are better served by reading the Wikipedia article. ![]() ![]() Weighing in at a hefty 3 lb, 330 dense pages and 290,000 words, No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan is the definitive insider’s view of Bob Dylan’s life and career up to 1978. Shelton wrote up one of those performances for the newspaper and the rest, they say, is history. Dylan was playing in Gerdes, a Greenwich Village folk club, at the time. (Updated) Robert Shelton was the first mainstream, music critic to discover Bob Dylan in 1961. No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan ![]()
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