Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan.(Review) (book review)

Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan, by Howard Sounes. Grove Press, 527 pages, $27.50.

Because folk music in the 1960s was driven by larger-than-life personalities and agendas to match--because it was a scene--it's especially susceptible to grandiose analysis. That's what makes David Hajdu's critical equilibrium in Positively 4th Street so distinctive. Hajdu neither worships nor maligns; he reveals complex insight into the folk movement, particularly into "the lives and times" of four musical artists: Bob Dylan, Richard Farina, Joan Baez, and Joan's sister Mimi. ...

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