Olof's Files: A Bob Dylan Performance Guide: 1999-2000 Book

Funny old book this one. Shelton made a deal with Dylan. He could quote any of the lyrics if he refrained from discussing Sara. That didn't stop Shelton mistakenly identifying Sara Lowndes as the ex-wife of Victor Lowndes, Playboy executive. Oops. Shelton lugged this book around for 20 years before he finally got it published, and it's a ragbag - very detailed on the early years, and everything after 1966 written off in a couple of pages. He also tries his hand at song analysis, and that ain't good at all. Dylan has not been well served by his biographers - Clinton Heylin is the most reliable but he can't write; Bob Spitz turns the whole thing into a comedy with awful results; Scaduto - very good actually, I'd forgotten about him. Shelton is really just more source material on the 1960s.