Out now, ‘Bob Dylan Things Have Changed’ finds Ron Rosenbaum returning to one of music’s most fascinating figures with a deeply personal and searching book-length study. Drawing on decades of reporting and an extraordinary extended interview from the late 1970s, Rosenbaum traces Dylan’s restless evolution through lyrics, belief systems, and creative reinvention, following the thread of an artist who constantly reshapes his own identity.
Moving from Dylan’s childhood and early folk emergence through electric upheaval, country turns, spiritual inquiry, and late-career brilliance, the book treats the songs as a living record of thought and transformation. Rosenbaum’s approach blends close reading with lived experience, offering an intimate portrait of a songwriter whose refusal to stand still has defined both his work and his legacy.