How Many Roads

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Exploring Bob Dylan's career, recordings, and life to the present day, a portrait of an artist constantly seeking freedom and artistic control.

How Many Roads chronicles Bob Dylan's rise from apprenticeships in Minneapolis cafes and Greenwich Village folk clubs to international stardom as a breathtakingly original songwriter and singer. Scott Peeples follows Dylan through decades of radical shifts in his writing, recording and performing styles, from the intimate lo-fi Basement Tapes to the musical collage art and apocalyptic blues of the twenty-first century. Spanning Dylan's entire career, How Many Roads illuminates Dylan's deep respect for tradition alongside his artistic restlessness, a combination that extends into his prose writing, filmmaking and visual art. Weaving lucid analyses of Dylan's major albums and live performances into a briskly paced biographical narrative, Peeples offers newcomers and Dylan die-hards alike a fresh perspective on the most compelling and challenging popular performer of our time.

'This is one of the best Dylan biographies I've read. Peeples avoids pitfalls and overreaches in scaling the elusive peak of Mount Dylan - his book is neither hagiography nor hatchet job. This is a fair and balanced account, and Peeples should be commended for his impressive research, perceptive analysis, and well-paced road story about the unlikely odyssey of America's greatest living artist. Bob Dylan gathers no moss, and neither does How Many Roads.' - Graley Herren, professor of English at Xavier University, Cincinnati, and author of Dreams and Dialogues in Dylan's 'Time Out of Mind'

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781836392590
Published: August 2026

Number of pages: 368
Width: 156 mm
Height: 234 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Reaktion Books