Listening to Bob Dylan: by Larry Starr, Urbana, U of Illinois P, 2021, 160 pp., $19.95 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-252-08602-1.

One of Starr's insights concerns Dylan's "delayed" harmonica entrances, as on "Desolation Row", where, Starr explains, "this remarkably verbal song ends up bottom-heavy, so to speak, with harmonica music" (42). A curious feature of I Listening to Bob Dylan i is the frequency with which Larry Starr says that one of the sub-topics he's about to tackle or that he has just finished tackling, such as Dylan and the blues, deserves further study. [Extracted from the article]

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