The philosophy of modern song

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty...

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Main Author: Dylan, Bob, 1941- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
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Table of Contents:
  • Detroit City : Bobby Bare
  • Pump it up : Elvis Costello
  • Without a song : Perry Como
  • Take me from this garden of evil : Jimmy Wages
  • There stands the glass : Webb Pierce
  • Willy the wondering gypsy and me : Billy Joe Shaver
  • Tutti frutti : Little Richard
  • Money honey : Elvis Presley
  • My generation : The Who
  • Poor little fool : Ricky Nelson
  • Pancho and Lefty : Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
  • The Pretender : Jackson Browne
  • Mack the Knife : Bobby Darin
  • Whiffenpoof song : Bing Crosby
  • You don't know me : Eddy Arnold
  • Ball of confusion : The Temptations
  • Poison love : Johnnie and Jack
  • Beyond the sea : Bobby Darin
  • On the road again : Willie Nelson
  • If you don't know me by now : Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
  • The little white cloud that cried : Johnnie Ray
  • El Paso : Marty Robbins
  • Nelly was a lady : Alvin Youngblood Hart
  • Cheaper to keep her : Johnnie Taylor
  • I got a woman : Ray Charles
  • CIA Man : The Fugs
  • On the street where you live : Vic Damone
  • Truckin' : The Grateful Dead
  • Ruby, are you mad? : Osborne Brothers
  • Old violin : Johnny Paycheck
  • Volare : Domenico Modugno
  • London calling : The Clash
  • Your cheatin' heart : Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys
  • Blue Bayou : Roy Orbison
  • Midnight rider : The Allman Brothers
  • Blue suede shoes : Carl Perkins
  • My prayer : The Platters
  • Dirty life and times : Warren Zevon
  • Doesn't hurt anymore : John Trudell
  • Key to the highway : Little Walter
  • Everybody cryin' mercy : Mose Allison
  • War : Edwin Starr
  • Big River : Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two
  • Feel so good : Sonny Burgess
  • Blue moon : Dean Martin
  • Gypsies, tramps & thieves : Cher
  • Keep my skillet good and greasy :: Uncle Dave Macon
  • It's all in the game : Tommy Edwards
  • A certain girl : Ernie K-Doe
  • I've always been crazy : Waylon Jennings
  • Witchy woman : Eagles
  • Big boss man : Jimmy Reed
  • Long Tall Sally : Little Richard
  • Old and only in the way : Charlie Poole
  • Black Magic Woman : Santana
  • By the time I get to Phoenix : Jimmy Webb
  • Come on-a my house : Rosemary Clooney
  • Don't take your guns to town : Johnny Cash
  • Come rain or come shine : Judy Garland
  • Don't le me be misunderstood : Nina Simone
  • Strangers in the night : Frank Sinatra
  • Viva Las Vegas : Elvis Presley
  • Saturday night at the movies : The Drifters
  • Waist deep in the Big Muddy : Pete Seeger
  • Where or when : Dion.