title: Revolution in the Air: The Songs of Bob Dylan, 1957-1973 (Cappella Books (Hardcover))
author:  Clinton Heylin 
description: Prolific Dylanologist Heylin makes his arguably greatest contribution with a painstakingly researched consideration of every song Dylan is known to have written, some 600, all told. Drawing from manuscripts, studio logs, concert recordings, and other sources, Heylin traces Dylans career by listing the songs in order of writing rather than public presentation. This first of two volumes collects everything from juvenilia predating his 1961 arrival in New York to his 1974 comeback album, Planet Waves. Even songs that were never recorded or performed are noted, but the major ones receive multipage write-ups that are, in essence, insightful, revelatory mini-essays. Documenting the mercurial performers transitions from Guthrie-influenced folkie to raging rocker to laid-back country singer, Heylin, who appears to have heard virtually all of the concerts Dylan has performed during the past 20 years of what has come to be known as the Neverending Tour, reveals how vintage songs take on new meanings as theyre recast by their author on stage decades later. --Gordon Flagg
zlib_text: ![](Images/image00411.jpeg)
  
  **REVOLUTION IN THE AIR**
  
  **REVOLUTION IN THE AIR**
  
   **{ The Songs of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: 1957–73 }**
  
   **CLINTON HEYLIN**
  
  Constable • London
  
  **To Sean Body, a gentleman-editor of the old school**
  
    
  
  Constable & Robinson Ltd  
  3 The Lanchesters  
  162 Fulham Palace Road  
  London W6 9ER  
  www.constablerobinson.com
  
  First published in the USA 2009 by Chicago Review Press Inc,  
  814 North Franklin Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610
  
  This edition published by Constable  
  an imprint of Constable & Robinson Ltd, 2009
  
  Copyright © Clinton Heylin 2009
  
  The right of Clinton Heylin to be identified as the author of this work has
  been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents
  Act, 1988.
  
  All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall
  not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise
  circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is
  published and without a simil