Greetings. Down the Road with DYLAN – Living with the Songs is my latest book, available exclusively online at BookBaby Book Shop. The book connects 100 of Dylan’s most iconic songs, taken from throughout his career, 1962 to present day, with what was happening in the country and in my own life at the same time. For example, with 1963’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” we hear about the song’s use “at the famous August 28 March on Washington, the venue for Martin Luther King’s historic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech,” as well as my own standing on the cusp of teenage adventures- “In the summer of 1963, I was a 12-year-old on the move with my family from suburban Philadelphia in Pennsylvania to a small town in South Jersey. I was about to leave the confining world of Catholic school education behind and venture, for the first time, into public school…I was a timid child who found release listening endlessly to Top-40 radio while drawing painstaking portraits of racing cars, presidents, and favored athletes.”. In addition, we learn a little bit about how the song was written and how it works as a timeless anthem, “a simple, yet profound, meditation on the human condition, with our tragic mix of blind bias, killing oppression, and hopeful longing for deliverance and freedom.”
If I’ve piqued your curiosity, I’d be thrilled and honored if you read my book, and if you do, please consider leaving a brief review on BookBaby, as that sometimes motivates others to pick up a copy. Thanks, Steve