News & Notes: Dylan’s birthday brings three noteworthy titles
May 21st, 2008, 4:58 pm by Jaime Galvan
By Jon Bream/Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
May 24 is fast approaching, and music fans know what that means: Bob Dylan’s birthday (he’ll turn 67).
This May also brings three new books to the Dylan library - well, actually two new titles and a reissue. One is the most anticipated Dylan book since his own 2004 memoir: Suze Rotolo, his pre-Joan Baez girlfriend and early muse, reflects on 1960s Greenwich Village - and her boy Bobby. The Pulitzer-winning legend himself contributes a coffee-table book of paintings. And the reissue explores Dylan’s Minnesota roots.
All three merit attention for even casual fans of Minnesota’s most revered musical icon.
“Positively Main Street: Bob Dylan’s Minnesota” by Toby Thompson; University of Minnesota Press ($15.95)
Toby Thompson was - not necessarily in this order - a Dylan fan, an aspiring journalist and one crazy dude from Washington, D.C. In 1968, the 25-year-old set out to discover Dylan’s roots, so he drove his VW all the way to Hibbing - twice.
