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  • Paperback: 264 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin (March 15, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312150679
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312150679
  • Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 0.5 x 9.2 inches
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4.0 out of 5 starsDeceptive Title; Informative and Opinionated Text
By A Customer on February 28, 2000
Format: Paperback
This is a must have for Dylan fans and collectors, but there are some drawbacks which potential buyers should be aware of.
First, the title is deceptive. Heylin and his publisher obviously chose it to dupe unsuspecting readers into thinking they are getting a detailed, day-by-day account of Dylan's work in the studio, along the lines of Mark Lewisohn's extraordinary BEATLES RECORDING SESSIONS (Hamlyn, 1988). This is not such a chronicle, as Heylin points out - at length - in his introduction (an introduction that web buyers cannot read; hence, this review). Heylin's self-serving swipes at Lewisohn in the introduction are also unfortunate, and is "Bob-made-better-records-in-six-days-than-the-Beatles-did-in-six-months" rant is simply misguided. Methinks Clinton is jealous because Lewisohn had unprecedented access to the EMI archive, while Sony's gatekeeper - Jeff Rosen - allowed a rival Dylanologist to document the bard's work. Heylin's childish un-dedication to Rosen is surely a first in the history of publishing, and tarnishes an otherwise exemplary book.
If you can get past the petty dedication and bitchy introduction, you will find RECORDING SESSIONS to be a mostly informative, highly opinionated look at Dylan's career in the studio. You will need Michael Krogsgaard's authorised (sorry Clinton!) accounts in fanzines THE TELEGRAPH and THE BRIDGE for the most accurate session information (e.g. musicians and take numbers), but you don't read Clinton Heylin for these dry facts anyway. You read him because he has many insightful, provocative things to say about Bob Dylan, especially with regard to the songs and takes which were left behind, and have only appeared since on bootlegs, or Sony's pseudo-bootlegs. Here, Heylin simply shines.
You may not agree with what he has to say, but you will be entertained by the way he says it. This work deserves a place in your collection, next to Paul Williams's PERFORMING ARTIST I & II.
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4.0 out of 5 starsESSENTIAL SESSION BOOK OF DYLAN RECORDING HISTORY, by Brit Historian
By Howard M. Romaine on June 8, 2015
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THIS IS A TIMELY, SCHOLARLY BOOK, FOCUSING ON THE RECORDING SESSIONS, who was there, which musicians, and what songs were emitted, or omitted, and a basic reference book for working musicians, songwriters and scholarly music writers . It doesn't have 'inside stories' or journalistic takes and comparisons of different critics or music magazines as does the Shelton bio, which lies somewhere In the venue between scholarly journalistic study, and uncritical critical reviews. Heylin has many views about many of the sessions he covers, but each chapter outlines in surgical short form a few pages of songs, times, places, and studio musicians, which, in some ways, is also the methodology being followed at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, whose current exhibit (thru 2016) features how Dylan's recordings of Blonde on Blonde in Nashville, a truly 'revolutionary' two disc set in the mid sixties, utilized the Nashville session men, and opened the doors to many more mainstream rock, blues, country rock events, and artists moving there, or using the Nashville sessionmen. At the informal Nashville school of SRS,(scholarly rock studies) located at Portland Brew on Eastland in Nashville, this is a foundation book for young, on the scene country and alt rock artists, etc. HR
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5.0 out of 5 starsThorough data and wonderful insight on the sessions themselves, a treat for fans.
By Classics Collector on November 11, 2013
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This is a fan's delight, Clinton Heylin is a known Bob Dylan geek and he does the research so we don't have to. Thorough descriptions of the sessions themselves, including info on songs cut that never made it on to record or have ended up on bootlegs, the data on musicians in attendance is entertaining and reflects the recording conditions and Dylan's thinking behind/during them. Its strength or weakness, you decide, is that he also spends a lot of time disputing the opinions of other Dylan reviewers as if they are a club unto themselves and are on competion with each other. And, given the volumes that these handful of critics devote to Bob Dylan, it's no wonder. Nonetheless, being more fond of descriptions of the creative process rather than the soap opera of an artist's life, this book delivers in spades. I look forward to a volume that includes his post '94 work.
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4.0 out of 5 starsFor obsessive fans only
By Bill R. Moore on January 25, 2003
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Clinton Heylin, one of the leading writers on Bob Dylan (and author of, perhaps, the best biography on the man, Behind The Shades), deserves kudos for the exhausting amount of research he put into this book and the information he has presented. It is essential for obsessive Bob Dylan fans - is there any other kind? - who must have every little tidbit of information about the man and what he did in the studio. It is particulary interesting for collectors as it goes into detail about the many, many songs Dylan has recorded throughout the years and not released. It is a chronicle of absolutely everything that Dylan put to tape between the 1960 recordings made in the apartments of friends when he was still in college up to his Good As I Been To You album, as well as soundtracks and appearance on the albums of others, where relevant. Heylin includes not only a list of every song, but also the different takes, and shows what songs are circulating among collectors and which ones still have not seen the light of day. He also includes other relevant information such as what musicians played on the sessions, as well as several appendices such as a list of Dylan compositions, covers he has recorded, and even the session charts from the Desire sessions. The only thing that brings the book down is Heylin's own constant interjected commentary. It is unfortunate that seemingly every commentator on Dylan seems to see it as their duty to critize certain aspects of the man's work and say what he should have done differently - as if they had any right to question the genius of the greatest songwriter of the 20th century. Certainly, Heylin is entitled to his opinion, and never does he make the claim that this book is entirely objective, but, at times, it happens so often as to get in the way. Still, for the true Dylan fan, this book is still a must-have for the priceless information it gives. Casual fans need not bother.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 starsHow can you do without it?

Heylin's study of Dylan's recording sessions starts in 1960 with the period immediately preceding his signing with Columbia and ends in 1993 with World Gone Wrong (clearly an... Read more

Published on December 30, 2006 by R. Sohi
2.0 out of 5 starsGood Information, Badly Written

If, like me, you want to know as much as you can about Dylan's recordings, you have to get a copy of this. Read more

Published on June 25, 2001 by K. French
3.0 out of 5 starsDylan Good, Heylin Bad

I must give it to Mr Heylin. He appears to have a wealth of knowledge concerning Bob Dylan. In this book he lays out that knowledge in a straight-forward, understandable way. Read more

Published on June 23, 2001 by Joel Thornton
5.0 out of 5 starsInteresting and Useful

Dylan fans love to read about the recording sessions; especially the songs left off the original albums, and this book gives the relevant and fascinating information wanted... Read more

Published on June 16, 2001
5.0 out of 5 starsAlthough....

I really can't understand what all of you are talking about. I liked the introduction. Just what the hell did the Beatles do w/all of that time in Abbey Road ? Read more

Published on April 17, 2001 by Craig
5.0 out of 5 starsDeceptive title - great book.

OK, so it's not the comprehensive account of all of Bob's studio work that Lewisohn's Beatles book is, and maybe Heylin should have called it BOB DYLAN: THE OUT-TAKES 1960-1994,... Read more

Published on April 6, 2000 by Jules
3.0 out of 5 starsClinton Heylin shares his opinions...

Well, I am intrigued by the review that posits Heylin as a charlatan posing as a pundit- a turn of phrase associated with The Marquess of Queensbury... Read more

Published on August 1, 1998
3.0 out of 5 starsgood as he's been to you

The recording sessions is undoubtedly an interesting book, but it doesn't really reach its potential. Read more

Published on April 14, 1998 by tcbwalsh@greydirect.com
4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent Book

Thr Recording Sessions is a great piece of work, very detailed & with some real insight. Dylan's many states of mind are captured along with the anti-methodology he employs in... Read more

Published on March 7, 1998

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