Younger Than That Now: The Collected Interviews with Bob Dylan [Paperback]

Jim Ellison (Editor), James Ellison (Author), Bob Dylan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 2004

Bob Dylan, enigma and superstar, has intrigued millions of fans over the past five decades. His life, music, and influences have been explored through numerous mediums and the market for Dylan-related products continues to grow. Nonetheless, the oral records of his career—his interviews—have been unavailable until now. Gathered here are the most revealing and personal of Dylan's interviews. As a group they show a brilliant, adored, and eclectic musician, unsettled and angered by the fame and reverence surrounding him. In one interview with Time magazine he denigrates his newfound celebrity status, belligerently attacking the interviewer, pushing him nearly to tears. In a later Rolling Stone interview Dylan announces that the archangel Gabriel has visited him, and that he is a born again Christian. Collected from small publications and zines like Positively Tie Dream, Trouser Press, and New Music Express as well as mainstream outlets as disparate as Seventeen, Playboy, Spin, and the New York Times, Dylan's interviews illuminate his journey from ornery folksinger to acclaimed Grammy-winner. Included are interviews by Pete Seeger, Nora Ephron, Susan Edmiston, Studs Terkel, Jon Pareles, Nat Hentoff, Kurt Loder, Steve Allen, Ron Rosenbaum, Bono, Jonathon Cott, Jann Wenner, Robert Shelton, and many others.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Da Capo Press (May 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560255900
• ISBN-13: 978-1560255901
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #381,394 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This review is from: Younger Than That Now: The Collected Interviews with Bob Dylan (Paperback)

"Younger Than That Now" is subtitled "The Collected Interviews with Bob Dylan," which implies you'll find every interview Dylan has given through the years. That may be an impossible task, but certainly it would be practical to collect the interviews he gave to major publications in one thick volume.

"Younger Than That Now" doesn't do that. Notably absent are the interviews I was hoping to find, particularly Dylan's hilariously elusive conversation with Jann Wenner in a 1969 issue of Rolling Stone in which Wenner tries and fails to get Dylan to acknowledge that he's a "youth leader" and a spokesman for someone other than himself. Then there's the 1978 interview with Jonathan Cott, also in Rolling Stone, that, in hindsight, hinted at his conversion to Christianity while also demonstrating his sense of humor.

So, "Younger Than That Now" isn't definitive. As long as you know that before you dive in, it's a worthwhile read collecting many memorable exchanges Dylan had with the press through the years.

Brian W. Fairbanks