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The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan's first book of new writing since 2004's Chronicles: Volume One and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016. Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers a master class on the art and craft of songwriting. He writes over sixty essays fo... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Detroit City : Bobby Bare
- Pump it up : Elvis Costello
- Without a song : Perry Como
- Take me from this garden of evil : Jimmy Wages
- There stands the glass : Webb Pierce
- Willy the wondering gypsy and me : Billy Joe Shaver
- Tutti frutti : Little Richard
- Money honey : Elvis Presley
- My generation : The Who
- Poor little fool : Ricky Nelson
- Pancho and Lefty : Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard
- The Pretender : Jackson Browne
- Mack the Knife : Bobby Darin
- Whiffenpoof song : Bing Crosby
- You don't know me : Eddy Arnold
- Ball of confusion : The Temptations
- Poison love : Johnnie and Jack
- Beyond the sea : Bobby Darin
- On the road again : Willie Nelson
- If you don't know me by now : Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
- The little white cloud that cried : Johnnie Ray
- El Paso : Marty Robbins
- Nelly was a lady : Alvin Youngblood Hart
- Cheaper to keep her : Johnnie Taylor
- I got a woman : Ray Charles
- CIA Man : The Fugs
- On the street where you live : Vic Damone
- Truckin' : The Grateful Dead
- Ruby, are you mad? : Osborne Brothers
- Old violin : Johnny Paycheck
- Volare : Domenico Modugno
- London calling : The Clash
- Your cheatin' heart : Hank Williams with his Drifting Cowboys
- Blue Bayou : Roy Orbison
- Midnight rider : The Allman Brothers
- Blue suede shoes : Carl Perkins
- My prayer : The Platters
- Dirty life and times : Warren Zevon
- Doesn't hurt anymore : John Trudell
- Key to the highway : Little Walter
- Everybody cryin' mercy : Mose Allison
- War : Edwin Starr
- Big River : Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Two
- Feel so good : Sonny Burgess
- Blue moon : Dean Martin
- Gypsies, tramps & thieves : Cher
- Keep my skillet good and greasy :: Uncle Dave Macon
- It's all in the game : Tommy Edwards
- A certain girl : Ernie K-Doe
- I've always been crazy : Waylon Jennings
- Witchy woman : Eagles
- Big boss man : Jimmy Reed
- Long Tall Sally : Little Richard
- Old and only in the way : Charlie Poole
- Black Magic Woman : Santana
- By the time I get to Phoenix : Jimmy Webb
- Come on-a my house : Rosemary Clooney
- Don't take your guns to town : Johnny Cash
- Come rain or come shine : Judy Garland
- Don't le me be misunderstood : Nina Simone
- Strangers in the night : Frank Sinatra
- Viva Las Vegas : Elvis Presley
- Saturday night at the movies : The Drifters
- Waist deep in the Big Muddy : Pete Seeger
- Where or when : Dion.