The Joker And The Thief: A life in pursuit of Bob Dylan

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by Peter Stone Brown

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“Few Dylan scholars are as experienced, informed and articulate as Peter Stone Brown was.” — Michael Simmons, MOJO "He was a bohemian kind of hipster, he spent his life living his art, living his music - Ray Benson Asleep At The Wheel "One of this country's preeminent "Dylanologists" - The Philadelphia Inquirer This book is a collection of the best writing about Bob Dylan by Peter Stone Brown – a freelance writer, singer-songwriter and renowned Dylanologist. His brother was the bass player on the famous New York sessions for Blood on the Tracks, Peter, a freelance writer, singer-songwriter, DJ, and renowned Dylanologist saw Bob Dylan nearly 200 times in concerts spanning 1963 to 2018. He witnessed Dylan in transition over almost all of his career, attending fabled shows like Philharmonic Hall in 1964, electric Dylan at Forest Hills in August 1965 through tour ’74, the Rolling Thunder Revue, the Gospel shows and up through the Never Ending Tour. Over the years he has contributed writings to bobdylan.com, American Songwriter, CounterPunch, No Depression and many other publications. He had a love for Bob Dylan that would find him attending nearly 200 concerts spanning 1963 to 2018. In 2008 Peter was commissioned to write liner notes for Bob Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs, he spent about a week listening to tracks sent by Dylan’s office, suggesting songs and writing as he listened. In the end his notes didn’t make the final release but were used on Bobdylan.com

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