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Issue Date:  February 11, 2005

CHRONICLES, VOLUME ONE

By Bob Dylan

Simon & Schuster, 293 pages, $24

Dylan, he was a-changin’

Reviewed by MATT STOULIL

Bob Dylan paints landscapes with words, which he proves again in the pages of his recent autobiography. His lyrical oeuvre speaks for itself, and the way he crafted his chapters for Chronicles, Volume One is similar to his songwriting style -- full of imagery, open windows and fluidity. He lets us in from the stage door to get a glimpse behind the scenes of his eventful existence: from his youth in Minnesota, to showing up in New York with his suitcase and guitar, on to recording in Nashville and New Orleans. But he does not give the store away; there are two subsequent volumes in the making.

The book has garnered much attention from many critics, and Dylan even made a rare appearance on “60 Minutes” with Ed Bradley Dec. 5. His book is nominated for a National Book Critics Circle award.

Read more here:

http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives...5/ss021105l.php

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re: 'his early years in the seemingly magical Greenwich Village fold of performers and bohemians.'

i caught this time like twice, once when i was 9 (and used to take the subway to the village instead of going to the library after school) and then when i was 14, just before the Village turned into the crass carnival tourist-trap bullshit place it is today. and yeah, it was a magic time: very creative people and everyone thought the pendulum of the greater US culture was going to swing that same way. *mirthless laughter* how naive we all were.

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