Bob Dylan photo book out next month

Due out next month is a new photo book called Forever Young - Photographs of Bob Dylan, 1964. The book includes pictures shot by Douglas Gilbert for a Look magazine piece that never ran, including many that have never before been published. The book captures Dylan a full year before "going electric" with his legendary Bringing It All Back Home album. Forever Young includes newly written text by noted rock author Dave Marsh and shows Dylan off stage and relaxed in New York City and upstate in Woodstock with friends, including poet Allen Ginsberg, folksinger Phil Ochs, and the Lovin' Spoonful's John Sebastian, among others.

Forever Young - Photographs of Bob Dylan, 1964 will be released on October 24th and sells for about $30.

Although Dylan didn't start giving serious interviews until the mid '70s, he always allowed photographer friends to chronicle his on- and off-stage life. After Dylan's infamous 1966 motorcycle accident, photographer Elliot Landy had unprecedented access to Dylan as a family man. Landy, who eventually took the cover photo for Dylan's 1969 Nashville Skyline album, told us about a typical visit with Dylan and his young son Jesse in 1968:
[ click here to listen if you have a Backstage Pass] "His son Jesse was on a little tricycle in the house and he was trying to ride around from one room to the other and he got stuck someplace -- between a table and a doorway or something -- and he starts going, 'Oh...,' and I would have gone just to pick up the bicycle and get him out of it. And Bob said, 'C'mon, Jesse, you can do it. You can do it. C'mon, keep trying. That's it -- keep trying,' you know? And he just urged him on until Jesse got free of the obstacle."
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