title: Million Dollar Bash: Bob Dylan, The Band and the Basement Tapes. Revised and updated edition
author: Sid Griffin
description: Sid Griffin is ringleader of the acoustic folk/bluegrass band The Coal Porters. He is also the 'resident musicologist' on BBC 6 Music's Radcliffe &amp; Maconie show, a freelance writer, and a solo performer whose latest album is The Trick Is To Breathe. He led alt.country pioneers The Long Ryders in the 1980s. His first book was Gram Parsons: A Music Biography (1985), and he co-wrote the 2004 BBC TV documentary Gram Parsons, Fallen Angel. He is the co-author of Bluegrass Guitar: Know The Players, Play The Music (2005) and the author of Shelter From The Storm: Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Years (2009). Griffin has written BBC Radio 2 specials and annotated over 50 reissues for labels such as Sony, Rhino, PolyGram, Universal, Mercury, EMI, A&amp;M, and Warner Bros. A native of Kentucky, he is a graduate of the University Of South Carolina. He lives in London, England, with his daughter Esther Mae, his son Noah, his fantastic wife Rhiannon, and his pet turtle Herman Franks.
zlib_text: **HEART OF DARKNESS**
  
  BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’S
  
   **NEBRASKA**
  
   **DAVID BURKE**
  
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  > > > > > > > > > > > _For Dylan – May you always carry the fire._
  
  **ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS**
  
  Thanks a million to Richard Anderson at Cherry Red, Mike Appel, Jo Ashbridge
  at Wrasse Records, Eric Bachmann, Dan Bern, Tom Bridgewater at Loose Music,
  Tommaso Buzzi, Anna Canoni at the Woody Guthrie Foundation, Laura Cantrell,
  Robert Cantwell, Peter Case, Rosanne Cash, Andrew and Peter Cash, Rob Chute,
  Norm Cohen, Judy Collins, Kevin Coyne, Bob Crawford, Katherine DePaul, Aymi
  Derham, Steve Earle, Mark Eitzel, Glyn Emmerson, Simon Felice, Paul Fenn, Jeff
  Finlin, Paddy Forwood, Jeffrey Foucault, Bryan Garman, Howe Gelb, Thea
  Gilmore, David Gray, Gaby Green at GreenGab-PR, Kenneth Green, Sid Griffin,
  Nora Guthrie, John Wesley Harding, Melissa Haycraft, Claire Horton at Richard
  Wootton Publicity, Brian Hultgren at Maine Road Management, Bill Hurley,
  Tennessee Jones, Robert Earl Keen, David Mich