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Robert Shelton wrote the rave review of Bob Dylan in the New York Times that is generally credited with being the piece that "discovered" him in 1961. Twenty-five years later, Shelton, who had followed Dylan's career faithfully, published No Direction Home . Here is the "empathetic and... read more

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It's a long way home from the movies.

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Prelude: Lifelessness, the Enemy

1 "Don't Raise Your Voice Around Here!"
2 The Wrong End of the Mississippi
3 Talking Greenwich Village Blues
4 Positively 161 West Fourth Street
5 Not a Puppet Laureate
6 Roll Over, Gutenberg
7 Several Seasons in Hell
8 Orpheus Plugs In
9 Inside the Coliseum
10 One Foot on the Highway...
11 Listening to the Silence
12 Running Free
13 Thunder, Hurricane, and Hard Rain
Coda: Busy Being Born Again

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  1. Robert Shelton (Author)

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