Bob Dylan - Chronicles, volume one

I've just finished reading Chronicles, volume one, by Bob Dylan. It's a maze of a book - he skips around in his life - covers a period from about 1959 to 1989 (I think), but not in chronocological order, so I had to keep looking for dates to see what decade he was writing about.

In Chronicles, Dylan writes about the singers and writers and artists who inspired him. I'll leave it to you to read the book (check 'World Cat search' to the left to find it in a library near you) to find out who most of them were. Some of them were people who I listened to when I was young (Hank Williams), who I found out about later (Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie), and who I'd never heard of before (Red Grooms).

On Dylan's web page you can find lyrics to his songs - a good thing since my copy of Modern Times has no lyrics in the liner notes. Dylan's Wikipedia page is extensive - there are 234 endnotes.