Troubadour - Andrew Muir

A study of Dylan's lyric writing by someone who is both a fan of the performer and schooled in the appreciation of poetic expression, this volume covers everything from the early 'protest' songs to his more mature look at relationships on the album Blood on the Tracks. The latter part of the book examines how the older Dylan created a new song-writing style - a process that began with the nursery-rhyme-drenched Under the Red Sky and evolved via his two nineties cover albums to emerge triumphant in 2001 on Love and Theft.