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SONG & DANCE MAN: The Art of Bob Dylan The 50th Anniversary Series, in three volumes: Vol. 1 - Language & Tradition Vol. 2 - Yonder Comes Sin Vol. 3 - World Gone Right The FM Press (US paperbacks and Kindle, 2023) These are not available from this website, but they are on sale from Amazon and from real and online bookstores. Their ISBNs are: Vol.1 - 979-8-9882887-0-1 Vol.2 - 979-8-9882887-1-8 Vol.3 - 979-8-9882887-2-5 These books combine to offer the exact same text as in the 900+ page "Song & Dance Man III", which has been out of print for over ten years. |
1st edition hardback, UK, published September 3, 2021 and available from bookshops and online booksellers.
Signed copies are available NOW direct from the publisher at £20 + post & packing:
http://www.route-online.com/all-books/outtakes-on-bob-dylan.html
Hardback 1st edition copies are also available at good bookshops and from online retailers in the UK, and if you live anywhere else in the world, you can buy it from:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Outtakes-On-Bob-Dylan/9781901927863
There is also a Kindle edition on sale from any Amazon website at £8.99
Signed copies are available NOW direct from the publisher at £20 + post & packing:
http://www.route-online.com/all-books/outtakes-on-bob-dylan.html
Hardback 1st edition copies are also available at good bookshops and from online retailers in the UK, and if you live anywhere else in the world, you can buy it from:
https://www.bookdepository.com/Outtakes-On-Bob-Dylan/9781901927863
There is also a Kindle edition on sale from any Amazon website at £8.99
HARDBACK 1ST EDITION, SIGNED
Newly available again: these are the last signed copies of this 1st edition hardback, published by Bloomsbury UK - and at a bargain price.
This is the only biography of this great blues singer-songwriter, who recorded from the 1920s to the 1950s and died in obscurity in 1959, just before he would have been rediscovered in the Folk Revival boom in Greenwich Village etc.
His songs have been revived since then by, among others, the Allman Brothers Band, and Bob Dylan wrote his own best song of the 1980s about McTell, with the refrain "No-one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell". The book was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography 2008 - one of tive biographies chosen out of the 90+ read by the judges.
As the sub-title suggests, this is not only the story of McTell and his times but also the story of getting the story. And it was published to great reviews:
JONATHAN LETHEM:
“A superb meditation on a rare American figure…a brilliant exhibition of how musical study becomes cultural study; and an elegant and passionate book that expands until its subjects seem to be time and memory themselves.”
100bookshelf [literary & music blog]
“Michael Gray’s Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes is not just one of my favorite music books, it’s one of my favorite books in general… a beautiful portrait of a time and place – both past and present – as well as a fascinating glimpse into a most mysterious man.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH:
“A vivid social and cultural history of the American South, a colourful account of Gray’s own journeys in McTell’s footsteps, and an absorbing study in the business of biographical detective-work.”
THE OBSERVER:
“Gray’s wonderful book, part travelogue, part musical journey, part social history, is painstakingly researched and frequently illuminating. It brings to light not just an elusive artist but a lost world.”
UNCUT:
“* * * * * Gray, the author of titanic tomes on Dylan, is a fastidious researcher and here presents not just an authoritative portrait of the great bluesman, but also vivid history of the South… Gray is also a sharply observant travel writer and some of the book’s best writing is devoted to brilliantly evocative descriptions of the backwaters he visits and the people he meets.”
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY:
“More than a search for the bluesman Blind Willie McTell, this is an evocation of a whole vanished world… Part biography, part genealogy, part history, part travel writing, this wonderful book is suffused with empathy for its subject.”
MOJO:
“Genealogical detective tale, scrapbook of a musical life, an account of Georgia now and then… At the end of a fascinating journey we know much more not only about McTell, but about the world of intractable otherness that blues musicians of his time had to negotiate. **** ”
RECORD COLLECTOR:
“The blues is the bedrock of popular music, and while its story has been told many times, rarely has it been told as effectively as this.”
BUY NOW AT £39.00 INCL. POSTAGE TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
THIS PRICE INCREASE HAS BEEN MADE NECESSARY BY THE INSANE CATASTROPHE OF BREXIT.
Newly available again: these are the last signed copies of this 1st edition hardback, published by Bloomsbury UK - and at a bargain price.
This is the only biography of this great blues singer-songwriter, who recorded from the 1920s to the 1950s and died in obscurity in 1959, just before he would have been rediscovered in the Folk Revival boom in Greenwich Village etc.
His songs have been revived since then by, among others, the Allman Brothers Band, and Bob Dylan wrote his own best song of the 1980s about McTell, with the refrain "No-one can sing the blues like Blind Willie McTell". The book was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Biography 2008 - one of tive biographies chosen out of the 90+ read by the judges.
As the sub-title suggests, this is not only the story of McTell and his times but also the story of getting the story. And it was published to great reviews:
JONATHAN LETHEM:
“A superb meditation on a rare American figure…a brilliant exhibition of how musical study becomes cultural study; and an elegant and passionate book that expands until its subjects seem to be time and memory themselves.”
100bookshelf [literary & music blog]
“Michael Gray’s Hand Me My Travelin’ Shoes is not just one of my favorite music books, it’s one of my favorite books in general… a beautiful portrait of a time and place – both past and present – as well as a fascinating glimpse into a most mysterious man.”
DAILY TELEGRAPH:
“A vivid social and cultural history of the American South, a colourful account of Gray’s own journeys in McTell’s footsteps, and an absorbing study in the business of biographical detective-work.”
THE OBSERVER:
“Gray’s wonderful book, part travelogue, part musical journey, part social history, is painstakingly researched and frequently illuminating. It brings to light not just an elusive artist but a lost world.”
UNCUT:
“* * * * * Gray, the author of titanic tomes on Dylan, is a fastidious researcher and here presents not just an authoritative portrait of the great bluesman, but also vivid history of the South… Gray is also a sharply observant travel writer and some of the book’s best writing is devoted to brilliantly evocative descriptions of the backwaters he visits and the people he meets.”
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY:
“More than a search for the bluesman Blind Willie McTell, this is an evocation of a whole vanished world… Part biography, part genealogy, part history, part travel writing, this wonderful book is suffused with empathy for its subject.”
MOJO:
“Genealogical detective tale, scrapbook of a musical life, an account of Georgia now and then… At the end of a fascinating journey we know much more not only about McTell, but about the world of intractable otherness that blues musicians of his time had to negotiate. **** ”
RECORD COLLECTOR:
“The blues is the bedrock of popular music, and while its story has been told many times, rarely has it been told as effectively as this.”
BUY NOW AT £39.00 INCL. POSTAGE TO ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.
THIS PRICE INCREASE HAS BEEN MADE NECESSARY BY THE INSANE CATASTROPHE OF BREXIT.
CD: BOB DYLAN ENCYCLOPEDIA GREATEST HITS - signed by the author
A handsome digipak CD: an hour's worth of readings, by the author, of entries selected from his massive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. The CD was recorded in North Yorkshire in February 2011 & released on lookatmedance Records UK. Readings include 'Blood On The Tracks', 'Eat The Document', 'Frying An Egg On Stage', Dylan in Books Of Quotations, and '"Love and Theft"'. Now almost ten years old, this is becoming a collectors' item.
£15, airmailed anywhere in the world.
A handsome digipak CD: an hour's worth of readings, by the author, of entries selected from his massive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. The CD was recorded in North Yorkshire in February 2011 & released on lookatmedance Records UK. Readings include 'Blood On The Tracks', 'Eat The Document', 'Frying An Egg On Stage', Dylan in Books Of Quotations, and '"Love and Theft"'. Now almost ten years old, this is becoming a collectors' item.
£15, airmailed anywhere in the world.
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PDF: CHRONICLES VOLUME ONE: AN INDEX
compiled by Michael Gray
Bob Dylan's book contained no index, which made it very hard to find things/people within its pages. So here is the index it should have had: 1,384 entries totalling 6,517 words & page numbers. This fits every English-language edition of the book. An invaluable tool for students of Dylan's memoir.
More Info
£8, sent by e-mail as a PDF attachment.
compiled by Michael Gray
Bob Dylan's book contained no index, which made it very hard to find things/people within its pages. So here is the index it should have had: 1,384 entries totalling 6,517 words & page numbers. This fits every English-language edition of the book. An invaluable tool for students of Dylan's memoir.
More Info
£8, sent by e-mail as a PDF attachment.
MOTHER! The Frank Zappa Story
by Michael Gray
Signed 2nd edition UK paperback, Plexus Publishing, London, 1992
Includes a first-hand account of being in court when Zappa sued the Royal Albert Hall, plus an exclusive interview, photos & more.
This edition is long out-of-print and only three copies are now available.
£39, signed copy, mailed anywhere in the world.
by Michael Gray
Signed 2nd edition UK paperback, Plexus Publishing, London, 1992
Includes a first-hand account of being in court when Zappa sued the Royal Albert Hall, plus an exclusive interview, photos & more.
This edition is long out-of-print and only three copies are now available.
£39, signed copy, mailed anywhere in the world.
30 MINUTE VEGETARIAN TURKISH COOKBOOK by SARAH BEATTIE
Unexpectedly re-available, this handy little paperback is packed full of quick recipes for after work suppers, easy weekend lunches, relaxed summery breakfasts and lots more besides. Turkish food gives you the best of the Mediterranean, bridging the MiddleEastern and European traditions. 160 pages. Those of you who have attended any of our Bob Dylan Discussion Weekends will know how truly exceptional Sarah's food is, and this book shares many of her creative recipes and ideas.
£12, signed by the author & mailed anywhere in the world; this price increase reflects the extra cost in time and bureaucracy imposed on us by the madness of Brexit.
Unexpectedly re-available, this handy little paperback is packed full of quick recipes for after work suppers, easy weekend lunches, relaxed summery breakfasts and lots more besides. Turkish food gives you the best of the Mediterranean, bridging the MiddleEastern and European traditions. 160 pages. Those of you who have attended any of our Bob Dylan Discussion Weekends will know how truly exceptional Sarah's food is, and this book shares many of her creative recipes and ideas.
£12, signed by the author & mailed anywhere in the world; this price increase reflects the extra cost in time and bureaucracy imposed on us by the madness of Brexit.