ellis’s Reviews > Folk Music: A Bob Dylan Biography in Seven Songs > Status Update

"the engine of his songs is empathy: the desire and the ability to enter other lives, even to restage and re-enact the dramas others have played out, in search of different endings. that can mean slipping into a situation–historical or invented, or inherited from other songs, especially songs without named authors or knowable provenance" 🙂‍↕️