Graham Anderson’s Reviews > On the Road with Bob Dylan > Status Update

Utter garbage, I'm afraid to say - but bonus points are awarded for nice sections on Mike Bloomfield and Joni Mitchell, as well as some interesting details of the wrongfully imprisoned boxer, Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter.

So far the book's ok as a document of Bob's mid 70s folkadelic tour thru small town america. All Bob's pal's are in the band, playing songs from the Desire album and some old classics...but frankly, the book's dull. Boring and yabbering, needy. And the casual use of racial slurs and such like is ridiculous, really off putting - (why not edit for the reissue ffs). But I'm gonna finish it and 113 is my lucky number

To begin this book seems ok as a ringside seat on Bob's mid 70s folkadelic traips through small town America. The narrator drives at the creative energy drawn from chaos and charged by performance. But the writing grates like adolescent whining and the casual use of racial slurs is foul and unforgiving(why not edit for the reissue ffs). So far, not my cuppa tea.