Anne Margaret Daniel

The music that inspired Bob Dylan

Greil Marcus chooses seven celebrated songs, ranging from the 1960s to the present, to explore the diverse sources of Dylan’s inspiration

Bob Dylan c.1986. [Getty Images]

  • Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs

    Greil Marcus

    Yale University Press, pp. 288, £20

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