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About Bob Dylan's Hibbing
Product Description Bob Dylan's Hibbing is an EDLIS Café Press book on Hibbing and the mythical figure Bob Dylan who grew up there. Contributions to the EDLIS Café and related places over many decades are compiled here to give an overview of what the many people in EDLIS have thought about Bob Dylan and Hibbing. The illustrations are the structure of the story. What is true? What is a myth? What is history? What is imagination? The mix is much the same as you might find in a Bob Dylan song, painting, gate, book, poem or interview. — Franz Dietrich von Ahlen Review "EDLIS books captivate me, indeed it is in the spirit of Stockholm Syndrome that I say that." -- Bob Dylan Best Dylan book I've read this year! This is the best Bob Dylan book I have ever seen. Why? Because it is different, it shows the Hibbing roots of Bob Dylan which echo through so much of his work, in songs most obviously but also in paintings, sculpture, prose and films.Cars, motorbikes, mining, labour politics, unions, small town America, weather extremes, films, films and films again. The film theatres in this book evoke a time in the past when taking a date to a film was magical. Especially with access to a crying room!And to see the seeds of Bob's fashion sense, I love the pic of Gus Hall in his hat and the similar hats of Bob Dylan in the images to each side. And Curly's Bar, you can picture Bob there, underage, listening to the poetry, with friends all drinking, thinking that they've got it made... The Finnish club and the Finns he befriended at a time when there was bizarre racial prejudice against Finns.This book is not an analysis of songs and meanings. It is not an exposé of anyone's personal life. It is not a remake of the many predictable books on Bob Dylan. It is instead about the origins, the myths, the speculation that in the final end shows you why Bob Dylan came out of that little Minnesota town. When you next share a room with Bob Dylan and see him onstage you may be surprised how many of the images in this book you still have in your mind as they are shown to you in his performance. You will see them shine.A large book. Lavishly illustrated. Buy it. You won't regret it.-- Stub Bob Dylan's Hibbing from EDLIS Cafe: book review / Tony Attwood I'll come straight out and say I love this book. But you need to be aware... Books from EDLIS Cafe are different - for they are taken from the EDLIS projects on the internet. So if you want to get a flavour of what this is all about go and visit their Facebook group - it is one of the very few Bob Dylan Facebook pages I would ever recommend other than our own. And the point here is there is such a rich variety of information and material collected on their Facebook pages that having all that information it in book form is essential, allowing easier reading of the article and much better surveillance of the pictures than you can get on the internet. In fact the book is worth its cost just for the Robert Shelton interview with Dylan's "mom and dad". Since my copy arrived each time I have been working I have had the book open on my desk, just below the computer screen, turning the picture pages over and over to get what I hope is an ever deeper awareness of the town in which Bob grew up. Of course I know about it from other volumes - but here I feel I am brought much closer to the world Bob knew as a kid. Maybe it is because I am English and thus have no background in the American traditions and histories that are included in these pictures and stories that the impact on me is so great, but I am looking at a world that is quite alien to me, and yet it is one which I have glimpsed through occasional lines in Bob's songs. But there is also the fact that with this volume I can look at the store that Bob worked in as a youngster, and my mind drifts into thinking about whether other young lads of his sort of age meandered into the shop and bought stu
