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Bob Dylan: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize

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A retitled/repackaged/reissue of "Tales From A Golden Age" (Chrome Dreams 2004). Okay content, but unless a completist, second one is superfluous.

While this video is interesting and has extensive interviews with Dylan's "friends" and former band mates in Minnesota, it's mostly a bunch of talking heads and no music by Dylan himself.

Perhaps, the value of this DVD may be judged by the title. Look at the above scan. The title is misspelled!!

There's some good stuff in this film - some excellent contributors such as Martin Carthy, CP Lee, Derek Barker. Also, some really interesting insight into Bob's childhood, schooling and college years, and his first steps into music, which I haven't heard about before. It also goes over the early period of his career when he became such a big personality and star in both the New York folk scene and beyond.

It does look at the familiar ground of the 1966 electrified tour, but does so with some more depth than other things I've seen.

All in all, an entertaining film about this great artist, which gave me some food for thought about his origins and earlier part of his career.

I'll be honest... I haven't seen this, so I can't critique the DVD's content... but one look at the DVD artwork and one must wonder how accurate the documentary is when the front photo features a reversed photograph. (At last look, I don't think Dylan was a left-handed guitarist.)