Bob Dylan's Never Ending Tour

Mike Johnson picks up the story of The Never Ending Tour from Volume 1 with a detailed account of the two peak performance years, 2000 – 2001, and follows Dylan through the most dramatic shift of his career when, in 2002, he largely abandons his guitar and moves to the keyboards.

Johnson then dives right into the most problematic years of the NET, 2006 – 2009, when Dylan’s weird organ playing and barking voice alienated many fans and followers, and uncovers some remarkable performances.

Sensitive critical commentary and, again, loads of sound files.

Author Biography

Mike Johnson, fiction writer and poet, is widely regarded as one of New Zealand’s most innovative writers. He lives on Waiheke Island and has taught creative writing at AUT University and the University of Auckland. In 2002 he received The University of Auckland’s Literary Fellowship, having been Literary Fellow at Canterbury University in 1987. His first novel, Lear, the Shakespeare Company Plays Lear at Babylon was short listed for the New Zealand Book Awards in 1986, his novel Dumb Show won the Buckland Memorial Award for Literary Excellence in 1995, and he won the Frances Kean Award his short story, ‘Magic Strings’ in 1999. His first book of poetry, The Palanquin Ropes, (1983) was co-winner of the John Cowie Reed Memorial Competition. His non-fiction, Angel of Compassion, was shortlisted for the Ashton Whyle Award in 2014, and a poem from Vertical Harp, The selected poems of Li He (2006) has been anthologised in the Essential New Zealand Poems: Facing the Empty Page (Random House, 2015). Mike Johnson is the author of twenty-six books including nine books of poetry, three of shorter fiction, one non fiction, three children’s books, and ten novels.