Greil Marcus revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan - weaving a brilliant history of their changing times. Marcus follows not only recordings but performances, books, movies, and all manner of highways and byways in which BOB DYLAN has made himself felt in our culture. The pieces collected here comprise a portrait of how BOB DYLAN has drawn upon and reinvented the landscape of American song, its myths and choruses, heroes and villains. They are the result of more than forty years' engagement between an unparalleled artist and a uniquely acute listener.