Bob Dylan mentions Dave Stewart’s Songbook Volume 1 book as one of his favourite books by a musician.

In a feature with Far Out Magazine, Dave Stewart’s epic tome Songbook Volume 1 is mentioned as one of Bob Dylan’s favourite books written by a musician.

Although none of DAve’s work with Bob Dylan is featured in the book, Bob Dylan wrote the forward where he said :

Captain Dave is a dreamer and a fearless innovator, a visionary of high order, very delicately tractable on the surface but beneath that, he’s a slamming, thumoing, battering ram, very mystical but rational and sensitive when it comes to the hot irons of art forms

Here’s the full list of books :

Bob Dylan’s favourite books by musicians:

Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and “Inventor of Jazz”‘ by Alan Lomax
The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax
Backstage Passes and Backstabbing Bastards by Al Kooper
Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues by Arnold Shaw
The Dave Stewart Songbook: The Stories Behind The Songs by Dave Stewart
Jerry Garcia: The Collected Artwork by Jerry Garcia
Deep Blues: A Musical and Cultural History of the Mississippi Delta by Robert Palmer
Bound for Glory by Woody Guthrie