On the Road with Bob Dylan: Rolling with the Thunder

New York, NY: Bantam Books. Very Good-. 1978. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Mass Market Paperback. First Edition Thus (1978) , not directly stated, but First Printing indicated by the lack of subsequent printings noted, in accordance with Bantam's customary practice at the time of publication. A Paperback Original. Very Good- In Wraps: shows just a touch of wear to the extremities; mild rubbing to the panels; fairly heavy spine lean with numerous stress creases at the backstrip; a single faint crease near the upper rear corner; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of underlining, hi-lighting, notations, or marginalia. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A copy that has clearly been read, showing remarkably mild wear but with the noted flaws. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. (7 x 4.15 x 1.1 inches) . Sixteen-page section of duotone photographs.. Language: English. Weight: 8.9 ounces. Mass Market Paperback. Larry Sloman's "On the Road with Bob Dylan" is one of the best books about both Dylan, and what it's like to be a reporter, on the road, trying to cover one of the biggest rock stars. Sloman Dylan the man and his art, and that comes through on every page. He isn't just a reporter out covering a tour. He knows Dylan, and he knows most of the other musicians who were on the Rolling Thunder Review with Dylan including Joan Baez, Roger McGuinn and Ramblin' Jack Elliott, so he is able to provide perspectives that you won't get anywhere else. His vivid descriptions of the concerts moved me to seek out bootlegs of the shows so I could hear fro myself the music he enthuses about. I wasn't disappointed. There are many scenes in which Sloman interacts with Dylan and Dylan's former wife Sara. The reader gets a real sense of what they're like. At one point we find him talking to Michael Bloomfield on the telephone about Bloomfield's relationship to Dylan, and gets Bloomfield's take on Dylan and that alone is worth the price of the book. Dylan himself called Sloman's book, "The War and Peace of rock `n' roll." Quite a compliment. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; xiii, 412 pages .