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Bob Dylan on the songs that captivate and define us (nytimes.com)
29 points by tintinnabula on Oct 15, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



The review sounds like someone not interest in song, nor in Dylan, reviewing a book about songs written by Dylan.

They could always go read some Malcolm Gladwell shit or something.


The author of the intro to these Dylan excerpts, Ben Sisario, is a music industry journalist, teaches a course on Rock Music in Historical Context at the Tisch School of the Arts, and was the person The New York Times sent to cover this year's opening of the Bob Dylan Center in Tulsa.

https://archive.ph/iFWGC


He sure managed to make it appear not so. They might as well had the restaurant critic write something so bland and uninterested.




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