{"product_id":"hard-rain-isbn-9780679745273","title":"Hard Rain","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn in-depth look at over thirty years of Nobel Prize winner Bob Dylan's recordings including analysis of \"The Times They Are A-Changing,\" \"Like a Rolling Stone,\" and \"Tangled Up in Blue.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExaminging over thirty years of Dylan's recordings, films, and live concerts to deliver fresh, and sometimes heretical, judgements of his work, Tim Riley persuasively demonstrates that Bob Dylan is the most important American rock 'n' roller since Elvis. He charts the mercurial shifts of the Dylan persona, from acoustic to electric, and assesses the singer's debt to earlier muscians aw well as his influence on such performers as the Byrds, Bruce Springsteen, and Elvis Costello.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes a new epilogue that examines Dylan's 30th anniversary celebration and his 1998 Grammy Award comeback.\"A book that allows us to understand exactly why Bob Dylan is so celebrated . . . Riley ponders the lyrics, arrangements, and delivery of Dylan's work, from his first album in 1962.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Finally, in Tim Riley, Dylan has a critic who can at once place him in the Woody Guthrie toubadour tradition \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e probe the music knowingly.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riley succeeds in making familiar materical seem fresh . . . . He offers many new, thought-provoking interpretations of songs, and his powers of description are potent.\" --\u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Riley\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eTell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary, Hard Rain, Fever,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e John Ono Lennon: The Music and the Life.\u003c\/i\u003e He has written for \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e, and reviews music for NPR. A professor of journalism at Emerson College, he lives in Concord, Massachusetts.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300923560165,"sku":"NP9780679745273","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679745273.jpg?v=1767728707","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/hard-rain-isbn-9780679745273","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}