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Greil Marcus: Maybe Bob Dylan Isn’t a Poet, but He Is One of America’s Greatest Artists

The music writer on how Dylan has changed his songs over the decades.

Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

October 19, 2016

In this special edition of our podcast, Greil Marcus talks about “Highway 61 Revisited,” “Masters of War,” and “Like a Rolling Stone”—and the way Dylan has changed those songs in live performances over the decades.

Start Making Sense is hosted by Jon Wiener and co-produced by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Greil’s 30 years of writings about Dylan have been collected in the book Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus, 1968–2010.

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