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Article: The Free-Floating Bob Dylan.(Review)
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- Reason
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- November 1, 2001
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The wonderfully inauthentic art of America's most vital singer-songwriter
Dawn the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, by Howard Sounes, New York: Grove Press, 527 pages, $27.50
Positively 4th Street: The Lives and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Farina and Richard Farina, by David Hajdu, New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 328 pages, $25
Bob Dylan turned 60 in May, and his first album of new material in four years, "Love and Theft", came out in September. Those events, along with the recent release of the biographies Down the Highway and Positively 4th Street, have occasioned the most recent wave of ink spilled on the former Mr. Robert ...