Tangled Up in America: Hey, hey, Bob Dylan, I wrote you a letter—about seein’ your world of people and things

[...]the accounts of these performances stand out as some of the best parts of the book. In the midst of the lengthy, well-researched biographical discussion of this little-known bluesman, the author admits that your song could have been about any number of folks: “Dylan might have been expected to write a song that honored Muddy Waters, Big Joe Williams, Mance Lipscomb, Robert Johnson, Sleepy John Estes or any other of his obvious and long-acknowledged influences, but choosing McTell seemed a little odd. [...]you might want to skip the book’s final section altogether.