Robert Shelton - No Direction Home : The Life and Music of Bob Dylan

The author wishes to thank all copyright holders of Bob Dylans songs and poems: Rams Horn Music, Big Sky Music, Dwarf Music, and Special Rider Music. Also, we acknowledge permission to quote from Tarantula from Macmillan Publishing Company. For permission to quote from various writings and lyrics of Woody Guthrie, our thanks to the Woody Guthrie Childrens Trust Fund. Because this book was always designed to reflect many voices commenting on the life and music of its subject, a vast number of people helped me to assemble it. Especial thanks to Liz Thomson, Gabrielle Goodchild, and Roger Ford for being the stalwart trio who helped me most directly. A variety of doors were opened up to me at the Dylan Revisited conventions in Manchester in 1979 and 1980, for which I especially thank its chief organizer, Richard Goodall. The collectors and/or discographers Steven Goldberg, Stephen Pickering, and Jacques von Son were especially helpful. I actively corresponded with a dozen academics, mostly in America, who were carrying forward multidisciplinary Dylan Studies in their own classrooms and research. Among those who helped me the most were Eugene Stelzig, Louis Cantor, W T Lhamon, Jr, Bill King, Jack McDonough, Belle Levenson, Suzanne MacRae, Carolyn Jane Bliss, and Betsy Bowden. I traveled many thousands of miles to research the work, and want to express my thanks for the help extended to me by the subjects mother and brother and late father. Tony Glover was especially conscientious in pulling together the chaotic, stimulating days in Minneapolis-St Paul. In New York, I was given detailed historical/emotional reconstructions by Suze Rotolo and her sister, Carla. Sis and Gordon Friesen were, as ever, generous with their recollections of the heady Broadside days. Special thanks to the author of the first serious book on Dylan, Michael Gray, for strong support over a number of years, and for his work in assembling my material on the Band, the first Australian tour, and the thorny question of bootleg recordings. For technical musical advice, thanks to the singer-guitarists Carol Crist and Barry Tomlinson. Too many editors were all too fleetingly involved on this projecta total of eleven publishers editors and my two personal editors, Gabrielle Goodchild and Liz Thomson. I want to offer a special toast to Diane Matthews and Maggie Pringle, formerly of Doubleday & Co, and to Simon Scott, formerly of New English Library, who kept the wheels turning at crucial times. For endless rush deadlines on the manuscript typing, many thanks to Yvonne Hodson for her punctilious work. For typing and tape transcribing, Alice Robinson in Wadhurst and Emily de Souza in Hampstead. A host of friends made the siege of Sydenham bearable, notably Meg and David Elliott, Michael Davies, Patrick Humphries, Wendy Robin, Cathy Lloyd, Jim, Niall and Heather, Ricky and Arthur. And many thanks also to Gillian Youngs, Claire Simpson, Alison Holt, Jackie Shepcott, Gaby Landau, and Ross MacPherson.

EDITORS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Carole Blake; Mitch Blank, a walking encylopedia of Greenwich Village life and music; Dr Mike Brocken, now of Liverpool Hope, who established the Robert Shelton Archive at the University of Liverpools Institute of Popular Music; Jasen Emmons at Seattles Experience Music Project; David Gutman, for wise counsel; Dave Laing, for advice and guidance and for his research on Sheltons journalism; Hazel Orme; Sue Parr; Rob Strachan of the IPM; Ian Woodward, Dylan oracle. Also to Judy Collins and Janis Ian for their tributes and warm memories of Robert Shelton. Thanks also to Bill Brooke, Eleanor Brooke, Colin and Anita Davies; Jeremy Mason; Dan, Rita and Judy Paul and Marc Garrett at the Washington Square Hotel; and to the many friends and family who encouraged and supported the project. Colin and Pam Webb and the team at Palazzo; Dave Brolan for his knowledgeable photo research; David Costa/Wherefore Art for his elegant design; Charlotte de Grey for her thoughtful copy editing; and to Sonya Newland at Big Blu Books for her patience and expertise. Most of all to Robert Shelton, a friend and mentor to the Editors, who did so much to raise the standard of music journalism and biography. And to his sisters, the late Leona Shapiro and the indomitable Ruth Kadish, for their friendship and trust. Ruth, and her son, David Kadish, gave this project their blessing and, throughout, have engaged with discussion of it but never sought to interfere. We hope they feel their faith was not misplaced and that this revised edition does justice to Roberts life and work.