The Philosophy Of Modern Song is the long-awaited new book from Bob Dylan, his first since his memoir Chronicles was published in 2004 and his first since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
Though that memoir was teasingly subtitled "Volume One", we'll have to wait a bit longer for a follow up, as this new work finds Dylan, who played Dublin’s 3Arena on Monday night, examining the songs of others.
Across sixty-six short essays, Dylan tackles everyone from Stephen Foster and Hank Williams to Cher and Elvis Costello, offering both his interpretation of the songs in question and some deeper background.
THE PHILOSOPHY OF MODERN SONG by BOB DYLAN coming 11/8/22
— Jokermen (@JokermenPodcast) March 8, 2022
60+ essays
150+ photos
350+ pages
the man is simply unstoppable pic.twitter.com/0sheWWgsQd
On last Friday night’s Arena on RTÉ Radio 1, host Sean Rocks was joined by lifelong Dylan watcher Glen Hansard of The Frames, who has spent a week digesting the book, and picked out some of his favourite moments.
Glen has toured with Dylan and was eagerly anticipating some profound insights and wise words from the ultimate songwriter’s songwriter. Was it everything he hoped for? Take a listen and find out for yourselves . . .
