A review by gsatori
Bob Dylan in America by Sean Wilentz

3.0

Sometimes it felt the book would never end and other times the author took you some surprising places. This unconventional book is a fascinating look at Dylan, his influences, and American folk music. It rambles through topics like the blues around the turn of last century, Aaron Coplan and his music and politics; the real people behind songs like Frankie and Arnold, and Hattie Carroll; the best poets and the craziness of the village in New York in the sixties.; and all the time it ties these threads about Bob Dylan.

No ordinary biography. However its excess and hero worship keeps more from eating it higher.