Bob Dylan: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963

Bob Dylan’s early work and emergence in the Greenwich Village music scene come to life through exclusive and unseen images and revelatory reporting by a bestselling historian and Dylan aficionado. Bob Dylan: Through the Open Window, 1956-1963 is a revelatory journey through Dylan’s early life and meteoric rise, written and conceived by acclaimed historian and Bob Dylan in America author Sean Wilentz. An illustrated account of Dylan and his early work, from his origins in Minnesota to his time in Greenwich Village to the concert at Carnegie Hall that marked the end of the beginning of his career, the book traces his meteoric rise with expert commentary and an astounding collection of rare photographs and ephemera, many never before published. The text is a substantial expansion of Wilentz’s liner notes to Dylan’s bootleg album box set of the same name, which offers a unique aural record-rare outtakes, informal tapes, and the full Carnegie Hall concert.Here the narrative is enriched with