![]() ![]() No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan was eventually published in 1986, when Dylan’s career was at a low ebb. They chatted for hours in Manhattan in 1971, during Dylan’s withdrawal from public life, and long into the night in London during the 1978 world tour. At the Woody Guthrie memorial in 1968, and the Isle of Wight in 1969. At Newport ’65, when Dylan went electric. ![]() And Shelton was there, a witness to all the crucial moments of Dylan’s formative years: at Newport ’63, and at the celebrated Philharmonic Hall concert of Halloween 1964. He studied all the poets, and seers, and mystics who had influenced Dylan. To the vast coterie of musicians and poets who scuffled for dimes in now legendary Greenwich Village clubs and hung out in Washington Square Park. ![]() Shelton talked to everyone-childhood friends from Hibbing, including Echo Helstrom and Bonnie Beecher, the real “Girl from the North Country.” To fellow students from whom Dylan begged, stole, and borrowed money, records, and songs as he passed briefly through university in Minneapolis. ![]()
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