Just Like Bob Zimmerman's Blues: Dylan in Minnesota

By Dave Engel

To the world, he is Bob Dylan, the creative genius who brought poetry to rock music. To the Duluth doctor who filled out the birth certificate on May 24, 1941, he was Robert Allen Zimmerman and so he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0942495616
• ISBN13: 9780942495614
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Amherst Pr
• Length: 219 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.8" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Exhaustive and brilliant

Anyone who considers himself a Dylanophile needs this book. It's incredibly rare, as it was printed in a tiny first printing (about 1,000 copies) and the publisher failed soon after. But a Dylan collection isn't complete without it. Engel writes from a lifetime's research. It's a shame he doesn't reprint his book elsewhere.

Essential Reading For the Dylanologist/Addict!

An excellent guide for a road trip, or pilgrimage to Hibbing. It gives a lot of information on the history of Hibbing and its culture. Also quite a bit more info on Dylan's childhood and family history than I have seen anywhere else, including numerous photos. Picked it up on New year's Eve afternoon last year, devoured it overnight, and on New Year's Day--at 4a.m.--left for Hibbing and felt as if I had been there before when I got there and "watched the sun come rising from that little Minnesota town." Found all of the Dylan sites listed with the help of the book, but should have picked a better day. (Zimmy's was closed, the Dylan museum was closed, and it was rather chilly to be wandering around old Hibbing.) Think of it as a highly detailed tour guide to Dylan's Hibbing, whether or not the reader actually goes. Adds a lot of weight to references in songs like North Country Blues, etc.

THE source for early Dylan info

I grew up on the Mesabi Range within 25 miles of Hibbing, Dylan's boyhood home. I've been a fan of his for 26 years. This is the definitive book on his early years. Full of photographs, some never before published, this book covers all aspects of his youth...his faith, his family, his town, his friends, and how he grew into who he became. Delightful reading for the true Dylan freak!