Outtakes on Bob Dylan Selected Writings 1967-2021

Alongside his groundbreaking Song & Dance Man trilogy and the massive Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, Michael Gray has been bringing his acuity to Dylan’s career for newspapers, magazines and journals from the 1960s to the present day. Here we have eye-witness accounts of concerts: from a mercurial 1966 show in Liverpool through to bulletins from glorious, and not so glorious, shows on the Never-Ending Tour. Throughout, Gray turns his critical attention to Dylan’s work as it appears, from his immediate perceptive take on 1975’s Blood On The Tracks up to a new, extended essay on 2020’s Rough And Rowdy Ways. Michael Gray is the go-to critic for Dylan fans in search of serious analysis of this most elusive artist’s work. In Outtakes On Bob Dylan, we get Gray the man as well as a unique measure of Dylan’s long career as it unfolds, not in retrospect but in real time. ‘A unique blend of fan passion and clear-eyed, objective critical judgement.’ Popmatters, Book of the Year 'A multidimensional and eminently readable exploration of what it means to be a follower of Bob Dylan.' Dylan Review ‘Gray’s passionate subjectivity mirrors his subject’s wholly idiosyncratic journey through life, as well as the complexities and contradictions that make Dylan who he is.’ Times Literary Supplement