Chris Gregory’s Minstrel Boy, the second installment in his “trilogy in reverse” Picasso of Song, is a sprawling, 200,000-word immersion in Dylan’s metamorphoses from 1967 to 1990—years Gregory aptly frames as retreat, return, and rebirth. Building on the acclaim of Determined to Stand (his study of post-1990 Dylan), Gregory delivers a song-by-song, performance-by-performance chronicle that […]