Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour

<p>In 1988 Bob Dylan left behind the bands he'd been playing with Tom Petty and The Grateful Dead and launched his own four-piece band beginning a remarkable musical odyssey known as the Never Ending Tour that would last thirty-one years only coming to an end when covid closed the venues at the end of 2019.</p><p></p><p>In this first volume Mike Johnson picks up the story the year before the NET began follows it through its rocking beginnings how it faltered in the early 1990s before hitting a rising curve that would build to the superb performances of 1995 and rising again to 1999 the first of three peak performance years.</p><p></p><p>Johnson discusses the performances and evolution of the songs in performance and provides dozens of sound files so the reader can hear all the versions he highlights.</p>