By: Henry Stone
A new map of Dylan’s shifting terrain is almost here. In October 2025, literary and cultural commentator Chris Gregory releases Minstrel Boy: The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan — Volume Two of his ambitious Picasso of Song trilogy. Framed by Leonard Cohen’s tag for Dylan as the “Picasso of Song,” Gregory dives into the long middle stretch of 1967–1990, when the artist stepped back, roared back, and then changed course yet again.










