Bob Dylan raised the bar for musician memoirs when he published Chronicles, Volume 1 a couple of years back. Filled with the wit and wordplay of his best song lyrics, he took the concept of memoir and drop kicked it out the window. It wasn’t a tell-all or even a tell-a-lot. It was a literary work that toyed with the concepts of time and memory, and left us eager for more.
As he is on stage, Dylan was a tough act to follow at the bookstore.
But now Rosanne Cash has published Composed (Viking, $26.95) and finally there is a companion worthy of Dylan’s.
This article appears in Sep 30 – Oct 6, 2010.