Dylan News Event Of The Year #3: The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan

A 2022 Year End Countdown From Seven Days in Dylan

On December 31, 2022 we’ll publish a special Year-End Edition of our ‘Seven Days’ newsletter, highlighting the most interesting Bob Dylan news, blog posts, new releases, podcasts, videos, and more.

Building toward that, M-F this week this series will count down the top five news events in the World of Bob Dylan (in our humble and entirely non-scientific opinion).

Our criteria included the amount of press coverage and Dylan community chatter they inspired, their long term impact, and the amount of ‘Nobody But Bob Dylan’ could pull this off that they contain. (The comments on this post are open for discussion and debate.)

#3: The Philosophy of Modern Song by Bob Dylan

It took nearly 20 years, but Bob Dylan finally delivered - sort of - a sequel to Chronicles. And while it certainly isn’t a straight re-telling of segments of his life (although neither was Vol. 1) we did get a substantial, consequential, interesting, controversial, and revealing new book from Bob Dylan.

Almost 150 reviewe…