The Old, Weird America: The World Of Bob Dylans Basement Tapes-new,New

Previously Published As Invisible Republic And Already Considered A Classic Of Modern American Cultural Criticism, The Old, Weird America Is Greil Marcuss Widely Acclaimed Book On The Secret Music (The Socalled 'Basement Tapes') Made By Bob Dylan And The Band While In Seclusion In Woodstock, New York, In 1967A Folksy Yet Funky, Furious Yet Hilarious Music That Remains As Seductive And Baffling Today As It Was More Than Thirty Years Ago.As Mark Sinker Observed In The Wire: 'Marcuss Contention Is That There Can Be Found In American Folk A Community As Deep, As Electric, As Perverse, And As Conflicted As All America, And That The Songs Dylan Recorded Out Of The Public Eye, In A Basement In Woodstock, Are Where That Community As A Whole Gets To Speak.' But The Country Mapped Out In This Book, As Bruce Shapiro Wrote In The Nation, 'Is Not Woody Guthries Land For Made For You And Me . . . Its What Marcus Calls The Old, Weird America.' This Odd Terrain, This Strange Yet Familiar Backdrop To Our Common Cultural Historywhich Luc Sante (In New York Magazine) Termed The 'Playground Of God, Satan, Tricksters, Puritans, Confidence Men, Illuminati, Braggarts, Preachers, Anonymous Poets Of All Stripes'Is The Territory That Marcus Has Discovered In Dylans Most Mysterious Music. And His Analysis Of That Territory 'Reads Like A Thriller' (Ken Tucker, Entertainment Weekly) And Exhibits 'A Mad, Sparkling Brilliance' (David Remnick, The New Yorker) Throughout. This New Edition Of The Old, Weird America Includes An Updated Discography.