Welcome to the website of the pioneer of Dylan Studies: author of the first critical study of Bob Dylan's work, Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan, published in late 1972 in the UK and in 1973 in the USA and Japan.
The massive third and final edition, Song & Dance Man III, was published at the very end of 1999 in Britain and in 2000 in the USA. This was followed by the even larger Bob Dylan Encyclopedia in 2006 and 2008. These were hardbacks and paperbacks and published on both sides of the Atlantic.
Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan is enjoying a revival as a 50th Anniversary Series, this time with the final 2000 text divided into three easier-to-handle volumes, published in New York in 2023 by The FM Press. See the Books page.
His previous book, Outtakes On Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021, was published 3 September 2021 in UK hardback from Route Publishing. It had been available on pre-order direct from Route in June 2021, with the first 550 copies individually numbered & stamped. Now Route is offering a limited number of signed copies of the book, and these can be mailed to anywhere in the world by this UK publisher. For more detail see the Shop page.
A UK paperback edition of Outtakes On Bob Dylan is due to be published in 2025.
Michael Gray has also been a widely-booked public speaker at arts festivals, colleges & universities and arts centres in Europe and North America (see Past Appearances in the History menu). For his live events in 2025 See Live Appearances.
He is also the author of biographies of Frank Zappa (Mother!) and the great pre-war blues enigma Blind Willie McTell (Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes), as well as co-author of The Elvis Atlas: A Journey Through Elvis Presley's America.
His books have been translated into Japanese, Italian and German.
Work by Michael Gray available from the Shop Page includes:
The massive third and final edition, Song & Dance Man III, was published at the very end of 1999 in Britain and in 2000 in the USA. This was followed by the even larger Bob Dylan Encyclopedia in 2006 and 2008. These were hardbacks and paperbacks and published on both sides of the Atlantic.
Song & Dance Man: The Art of Bob Dylan is enjoying a revival as a 50th Anniversary Series, this time with the final 2000 text divided into three easier-to-handle volumes, published in New York in 2023 by The FM Press. See the Books page.
His previous book, Outtakes On Bob Dylan: Selected Writings 1967-2021, was published 3 September 2021 in UK hardback from Route Publishing. It had been available on pre-order direct from Route in June 2021, with the first 550 copies individually numbered & stamped. Now Route is offering a limited number of signed copies of the book, and these can be mailed to anywhere in the world by this UK publisher. For more detail see the Shop page.
A UK paperback edition of Outtakes On Bob Dylan is due to be published in 2025.
Michael Gray has also been a widely-booked public speaker at arts festivals, colleges & universities and arts centres in Europe and North America (see Past Appearances in the History menu). For his live events in 2025 See Live Appearances.
He is also the author of biographies of Frank Zappa (Mother!) and the great pre-war blues enigma Blind Willie McTell (Hand Me My Travelin' Shoes), as well as co-author of The Elvis Atlas: A Journey Through Elvis Presley's America.
His books have been translated into Japanese, Italian and German.
Work by Michael Gray available from the Shop Page includes:
THE AUDIO-BOOK BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA GREATEST HITS
Recorded in a North Yorkshire studio, 2011
Digipak CD offering an hour of readings from the book The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, selected and read by the author
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