9 Performing Artist I-III

You say: “Concentrates on Bob’s live work… The depth is staggering.” Philoats Yaza, on Facebook

While flashier critics debated best albums and revolutionary moments – big picture stuff – the Crawdaddy! founder was in the trenches with the Bobcats, glorying in the nuances and discrepancies in Dylan’s performances, journeying deep into his evolving relationship with his own songs. The novelist Jonathan Lethem called the combined trilogy of volumes “one of the monumental accomplishments in music writing per se, bar none.” As richly rewarding as it is formally forbidding: the Proust of Dylanology.