Bob Dylan Too Much of Nothing is a brand new book that takes a fresh
look at Dylan's restless search for a meaning to his life and for a
musical way forward too. Written by acknowledged Dylan expert Derek
Barker (editor of the best selling Dylan magazine) it contains a wealth
of new interviews and previously unknown information. It also joins the
dots of what is known to paint a picture of an exceptional artist
searching for answers. The book starts with Dylan's retreat to Woodstock
after the bruising 1966 World Tour which saw him exhausted and needing
to find some inner peace. He largely disappeared from view until he
toured with The Band before attempting to find his 'roots' with the
Rolling Thunder Review. It wasn't until he found Christianity that his
seemed sated. During this period Dylan's struggles saw him create some
of his most memorable and haunting albums. His search took him back to
the roots of American music and his is widely credited with starting the
Americana music and leading The Band to discover its roots through the
basement tapes and Dylan's own rediscovery of folk through the Self
Portrait sessions. It also includes John Wesley Harding which is full of
biblical allusions and the astonishing Blood on The Tracks and Desire.
The book includes 16 colour pages of pictures including rare images. The
book makes sense of a period that was not previously seen as having a
common thread and links his post bike-crash seclusion right through to
his finding Christianity on stage in the late Seventies.
